important patreon update & how to make a melody generator in ableton
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- get the free pack here (no subscription needed) / virtualriot
currently in the process of setting up the store page there :)
00:00 - preview
00:22 - intro
03:33 - basic arp setup
07:20 - 8-notes melody
13:26 - 16-notes melody
16:48 - adding velocity
19:00 - note range control
21:41 - smart scaling
25:01 - multiple parallel patterns
29:39 - simple arpeggiator fun
32:07 - batch-exporting loops
41:23 - example 1: beautiful chords & melody generator
47:45 - example 2: polymeter static loop generator
51:04 - use case example
54:30 - outtro
Ableton definitely needs to pay attention to Virtual Riot because it uses all the functionality of the program 100%. He would make a great demo track of Ableton Live for the next version.
Saying "This is still a rather basic setup" 30 minutes into an hour long video that has more effects than I use in a normal project shows the amount of knowledge you have lol.
Randomisation with arpeggiators and velocity is rather basic, the main premise of racks like these is just a lot of duplication, chain selection and mapping
I love these videos so much because if you are used to VR just being a genius you start to notice that he just genuinely enjoys talking about nerdy shit like this
- What is your favorite programming language?
- Virtual Riot: Ableton Live.
“B# is a C” VR HAS CONFIRMED HIS STANCE ON THE DRAKE BEEF
Ask a violinst: b# is not c!
@@annijoshle-th8kp yes it is, youre thinking of a microtone and not b#
As someone who has struggled with writing chord progs/melodies automating MIDI parameter is such a god send. While online generators are great I 100% agree programming your own provide infinite flexibility. The only downside is the amount of time it takes to build these types of generators, but I guess you can't have you're cake and it it too :b
xDDD @@wasabi333
This is god tier Ableton user engineering!
omg, a 1 hour long video! let's goooo, thank you, Val!
This is cool. You can also add MIDI note length as well as instead of rendering it to wav, render it to MIDI notes instead. Then just drop in any sound you wish
Bless you Val, thank you for maintaining internet's purpose alive
I love your personality you’re so kind and humble
Yes! More content from you, right before my birthday month too! I’m so happy to hear you’re working on an album, just cranking out tunes. Take your time with that stuff, will be patiently waiting and supporting your craft!! Hoping to hear some of the insane generative stuff you’ve been doing in full with that album / singles! Also, question if you read this VR, will new merch be coming soon…? 👀
Mans just like fuck ai i will generate melodies myself lol this is absolutely insane man, hope you have fun making your new album and these patreon drops have been nuts ive been messing with them over the past week now and feel like ive barely scratched the surface of the stuff in there but gonna give this a go now this blew my mind!!!
you are the most helpful yet incredibly talented music artist
Amazing content as always bro!
You're unbelievable. Seriously man, you're truly something special.
never stop inspiring val!
Wow, pretty cool and creative way to use the tools in Live!
This was an awesome rabbit hole!
Thank you🤘✨🤘
Ich bekomm jedes mal bock Musik zu machen,
wenn ich deine Videos sehe :)
Kanns kaum erwarten, deine neuen Tracks zu hören :D
Danke für deine Tutorials, sie machen nen Unterschied
Thank you so much!!!!!
This is so helpful for people like me who have a hard time learning theory 🙏🙏❤️
dude this is so wild, on top of that also that nice jam ;_; how do you always come up with these amazing thins
omg, the end, OMG HUGE STUFF COMING
You are so great at showing the power of Ableton. They should have you on retainer. 😊
Amazing video as always Val! I love how you mentioned that the loop sounded like Satisfactory's OST. The game has a great soundtrack.
Congrats on the album
This is absolutely stunning~~ Upgrading to Live 12 tonight 😅
Thank you sir, I hope you have an awesome time creating the new album. please remember to take some breaks, much love brutha
thank you so much for the devices.❤ i am glad i don't need to do them from scratch and can have starting templates.
little addition from my side and in case you are not aware:
if you want to use the midi for another instrument instead of exporting a audio loop, you can actually capture the midi on a empty midi channel and save the midi information. so you can customize the note lenght or pitch and velocity even further to your taste or apply midi clip automation to it and use a completely different instrument.
btw additionally you can change the scale and hit fit to scale and hear what happens.
Good Luck with making new stuff for the next album 🥰
I'm just waiting for that day when Virtual Riot builds an entire song generator in Ableton and starts pumping out infinite albums, each one corresponding to a different "breed" of random seeds xD
Big salute from nepal🇳🇵 to German producer virtual riot. Huge fan of your music sir. Thanks for making such kinda pretty tune for this world💯👽🖤
This is peak German Engineering
Wow.. This is crazy, endless inspiration
I wish i could genius like you...Good luck with the album!!!
i swear, you do not miss, lately you've been like my only friend❤
saw the title and cleared my schedule. Thank you Val!
Sounds a lot like Kubbi at the end there. Lovely.
OMG ILY VRRRR
If this man isn't the Lord of EDM, I will never know who is. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
hell yeah long vid, time to activate my longer than 5-min attention span for this lol. also the basic shapes knuckle tats are dope dude, that's a great idea
Let's gooo :D new vid
Thank you so much
Swear this guy will be able to build an entire daw theough his effects thing st the bottom
I need to join this Patreon. I will soon enough. I have some other stuff on my plate to fix. I did some stuff with your boy Modestep tho. That riddim rack was amazing for generating patterns for basses and hi hats: unfortunately I did nothing and for some reason it broke. I might have to re-build it hahah
This is crazy interesting
😭 when you realize that theres many thing exist to learn all u need to do is to watch, learn and improve urself
Dont just watch. Put it in to practice.
Thanks so much for the video, is there a way to do this in ableton 11? i notice the pitch midi device does not have the fold/block option, thanks!!
You could also use the Arp with Rando, scale aware , 7 steps +1 sd and play with retriever amounts to limit the range. You could then add a Pitch device and randomize the octave. No need for 8 chains I think.
How to make sure though that the Arp on Random plays the notes in the same random order every time though, I think this rack with 8 (or 16) chains method is the only way to “store” and recall randomized patterns.
I'm confident VR just is AI at this point, so smart and innovative
thank you for the lesson my lecture
Hi, My name Virtual Riot & Today we're gonna make abelton make melodies for us🎹
52:41 “That sounds kinda cute-I’m gonna write that down” in other words, saving so it can go on the album 🙏🥰
12:56
I KNEW THERE WAS A WAY TO LIMIT MIDI INPUT TO A SINGLE NOTE!
I JUST NEVER KNEW HOW.
Is the pitch module mode function new in the new in Ableton 12. I can't find it in 11. Anyone know of a good workaround?
Fucking genious, thanks dude!
0:36 there’s actually one more thing! one of the synth loops that came from the bridge of “The Darkest Night” is categorized as being 140 bpm, but the thing is it speeds up as it goes on just like it does in the song, so the loop doesn’t actually line up with the grid! i personally find it super fascinating especially because there is a variation of this specific loop under the 150 bpm category which lines up perfectly to the grid! so that’s a tiny little thing i noticed while browsing through the samples, it absolutely doesn’t matter though you still did an amazing job! love ur stuff man!!
holy sheesh dude didnt realize i wrote a whole ass paragraph lol
this is insane.
VR is going to randomize an entire album by 2025
are you still planning on putting the simulation stems on patreon now that the remix LP is out?
Can somebody explain what the difference is between using the transpose knob on the Scale device vs the transpose knob on the pitch device after the Scale device? reference 16:00
File this under: "Galaxy brain usage of MIDI racks"
future grandpa : "back in my day we used to have to write our own melodies, uphill both ways"
long val videos are theraputic for me
LETS GOOO
b sharp ❤
hahaha
52:14 is the closest thing we have to an Au5 & Virtual Riot collab
Actually listening to it again it kinda sounds like it came from Bridges
Virtual Riot remix of Au5's Bridges when
42:32 can someone explain how does it randomly pick sound, cause i cant make it pick at random
Subscribing now...
do this but for basses and basslines next :0
But how you make your ableton look like that in live 12?
If I have a midi track that contains harmony, but I just want to create sounds only in the same harmony that I have ?? How
Seems like ppl don't give midi fx enough consideration. ESPECIALLY generative stuff!
You should document your album and post it
This is the embodiment of "spending 11 hours sharpening your ax to spend 1 hour cutting down the tree."
Haha I haven’t heard that one before but I love that phrase. The reward here is that if you’ve sharpened it good enough (which does take some time) you’ll be able to cut a lot of trees in that one hour.
The Jacob collier of EDM.
31:13 ummm I feel a little bit of a Bossfight Afterparty vibe here :::)
VR OP!
13:16 B# is a C 🙂
Oppenheimer of the daw
virual rior :))
❤
Hey Val, I dunno if I'm stupid, but I can't download the free pack unless I subscribe to your Patreon :/
Let me have a look at that real quick! It's the 3rd post from the top and its set to "public" and available to everybody, subscribed or not. How does it show up on your end?
@@VirtualRiotah yes, I got it. Thank you :)
letsgo
hi vr 😊
holly molly virtual self x virtual riot collab when? 0:10
im at 14:14 and im pretty sure ive done everything right. it does not play two notes next to each other. HELP
nm i have no idea what i did but it works now lol
HI VIRTUL RITO
Ayyyyyyyy
💯
When are the shaperbox 3 presets coming out?
Posting them on my Patreon today :)
Sweet I will cop@@VirtualRiot
Is it okay to make songs completely out of one pack? Like people will probably tell me something like "did you just plagiarize VR"😂
virual rior :)
37:03 scrolling through the ringtones on your Nokia
🤯
Watched 5 times, still trying to get it
Meow Wolf!
Anyone know what Ableton Theme setup he has going?
I'm begging you pls make a video where you use synplant2 pleeaaaseeee
Dude these racks are great but I think you’re at the point where you ought to give max for live a shot. Some of the things you’re doing could be better done in that environment imo! Not to mention the CPU you’ll save that way. Just a thought :)
He might enjoy doing it this way, he’s building it up.
nothing wrong with that! Nothing wrong with sharing my opinion from the other side of the fence either 😊
I've been thinking the same thing for awhile too. The way this guy thinks and his creativity designing racks would be dangerously powerful with MFL.
@@Audiomuscle For real! I'm actually super impressed when I see someone commit to making these racks in Live. But i'm also aware of how limited they can be when working on such a big idea. Would just love to see how far he can take his ideas without the limitations posed by racks.