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Hi there and welcome to this video, where we're going to continue looking at the basics of Ableton Live 11.
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So we've shown you the session view and arrangement view, and now we're going to have a look at
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creating clips.
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Firstly, let's create an audio clip, you can record audio directly into a clip, but to keep things
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simple for now, I'm going to choose a sample from the browser.
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So let's go over to the browser and choose a sample.
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So here we have samples and this is where audio files are stored in the browser. We can listen to the
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different samples that are available by clicking with the mouse once or scrolling down with the arrow keys
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on the keyboard.
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To stop the audition playing back, just press the spacebar.
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I want to choose a shaker sample though, so I'm going to type in shaker in the search up here.
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Now, once you find a sample that you like, all you have to do is drag the sample over to an audio track
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and drop it into an empty clip slot, and this will create an audio clip.
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Let's now have a look at the clip view. To access it, just double click on a clip.
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And the clip view is this area down here.
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In here we can see the audio waveform of the clip that's been selected.
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Okay, let's now find another audio clip and the browser. I'm going to now type in the word bouncy beats
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as I know the sample that I want to use.
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Okay, I'm going to let this drum loop and let's drag it over onto an empty clip slot onto the other
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audio track.
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Okay, so now we have a couple of clips,
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let's now play them back.
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I'm just going to turn these down as they were quite loud.
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Okay, so now let's create another type of clip, and this time we're going to use a MIDI track. When working
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with MIDI, we need to do things a little differently.
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So what I'm going to do is double click on an empty clip slot on the MIDI track.
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This will open up the MIDI note editor,
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in the clip for you at the bottom here, the MIDI note editor is where we can write and edit MIDI.
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MIDI allows us to write musical information to be played back by Ableton Live.
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You can record in MIDI using either a MIDI device or your computer keyboard, but we'll be going over this
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in detail later on in this course.
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Okay, I'm just going to quickly draw in a chord.
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I'll do so by double clicking to draw in some notes.
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I'm just going to drag to resize these, so they are one bar in length.
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Okay, so now let's try and play back this MIDI clip, I'll press the play button on this clip.
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Notice how we cannot actually hear anything while the clip is being played back.
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This is because MIDI tracks need an instrument to create sound.
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So I just quickly show you how to load an instrument onto a MIDI track.
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To do so, go over to your browser and then find an instrument.
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So let's click on instruments here in the browser.
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Notice how we don't see anything at the moment and that's because our search is still active.
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So I'm just going to hit this X in the search bar at the top to reset the search.
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Okay, so here we have our different instruments.
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We can look at the different preset sounds that are available for each instrument by clicking on the
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small triangle next to each instrument.
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See here we have a number of different instrument sounds.
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I'm just going to use Simpler as this is available on all editions of Ableton Live.
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Just like with audio, you can audition sounds by clicking once or scrolling down with the arrow keys.
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Once you found the sound that you like, you can simply click and drag the instrument onto your MIDI
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track.
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At the bottom here, you'll notice now that we see a different window.
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This is called the device view.
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The device view shows us the instrument that's loaded onto our MIDI track.
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Here we can make changes to how our instrument sounds.
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You can swap between the device view and the clip view with this tab at the bottom here.
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This allows you to jump between the MIDI note editor and the instrument that is loaded on the track.
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When I play this clip back once again, you'll notice we will now be able to hear the MIDI information
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that we previously wrote in.
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This is because this MIDI track now has an instrument loaded onto it.
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Audio track simply play audio samples, so they don't need an instrument.
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Right,
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so let's create another MIDI clip on this track now.
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So I'll double click on an empty clip slot.
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And now in the MIDI
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note editor, I'm going to draw in a few notes.
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So same again,
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I'm going to double click to draw in some notes.
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Then select these notes and extend them so they are one bar.
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Okay, so now we've got a few clips.
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Let's play back some of them and start making a rough arrangement.
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So as you can see there it's really quick and easy to start building up a song idea, using the clips
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in the session view. Right
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so now let's add a bass part to this groove.
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So I'm going to look in the browser again and find another sound.
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Let's use the Simpler instrument again.
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And this time I'm going to open up the bass folder.
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I'm going to use this one here called B Bass
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Let's drag this over to MIDI track one. Let's now double click on an empty clip slot to create a new
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clip and to open up the MIDI note editor.
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Let's now write in a note.
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I'm just going to move this clip down now to the third clip slot. Right,
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let's play these parts back.
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I'll start off by playing about this first scene.
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Right now, I've got a few different tracks, and we've come up with a very basic arrangement.
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Now I'll show you how to get this into the arrangement view.
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So all we have to do is click on this arrangement record button at the top here and then start playing
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back our clips. Before you press record,
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I'd recommend pressing the stop all clips button.
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Now, when we hit record, we should have a one bar count in and we'll be able to record our ideas into
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the arrangement view.
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So let's hit record and record this into the arrangement view.
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So once you finish playing the arrangement, just press the spacebar.
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Now, if we go back to the arrangement, we'll be able to see the clips that we just recorded.
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To listen back to what you recorded, make sure you press the button arrangement button, which is this
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orange button here.
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So as you can see there we can start editing and building upon these ideas to turn them into a song.
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In the next video, I'm going to take you through a few more things before we start diving deep into
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making music in Ableton Live.
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I'll see you there.
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