Ableton Live Racks EXPLAINED!
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
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Hey friends! Today I'm going to be demystifying racks in Ableton Live. They are one of the absolute best things about Live, but really they can be super confusing beasts.
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⏰ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:18 WTF is a Rack?
1:10 Audio Effect Rack Example
1:47 Making a Rack From Scratch
2:41 Adding Another Effect
3:58 Macros!
4:39 Mapping a Macro
5:50 Macro Ranges
7:02 Organising Macros
7:55 Randomise!
8:21 Macro Variations
9:10 Creating Chains
10:36 Chain Controls
11:27 Chain Editor
12:59 Fading Between Chains
14:11 Other Chain Zone Features
14:59 MIDI effect Rack Example
15:34 Instrument Rack Example
16:15 Creating an Instrument Rack
16:51 Select Chain With Note
17:46 Select Chain With Velocity
18:12 Instrument Racks in Session View
18:26 Why Racks Are Amazing
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i've been procrastinating on learning about this for so long. thank you for making that learning process painless lol
Thanks for watching!! I'm glad the video made the learning process easy for you. :)
I’ve been looking for how to video on this subject!!!thank you 🙏🏾
You're very welcome! Thank you for watching. 😁
Really comprehensive guide, everything I needed to know in one video! Liked and subscribed. Thank you so much!
Really glad you found the video useful! Thanks for the like and subscribe and thank you for watching! :)
Thanks dude, thats range macro exactly that i was looking for
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching. :)
wow i learned more from this vid than from all the reading on abletons own site lmao thanks
Haha, amazing!
Thanks for watching. 😁
great video mate! checking out the rest of your channel now!
Very cool! I like how you go into detail with the chains, because I think that is where the real power comes from. Great stuff!
Thanks Chris! Yep, chains are absolutely one of the most powerful and coolest parts about racks! :D
This was such a good video bro! Thanks for sharing your knowledge
You really explain it well... thank you!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching! :)
Oh, amazing video! Thanks so much for all the visual detail and the effort you’ve made to make it easy for us to see what you’re doing, and which feature you’re discussing as you go!
Thank you so much Rose! I really appreciate the kind words. :)
Great stuff! Very clear yet profound. You have my sub!
Thanks a heap!! Welcome. :D
Instant subscribe. Great lesson!
Thank you! Really glad you liked it! 😊
Besides the phenomenal tutorial, your Tutoring method is unmatched. That I have to give it to you.
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate it and glad you enjoy the tutorial and the teaching style. :)
Thank you, spend like an hour or so taking notes of everything you said, and all I can say is Thank you very much for sharing this!!
You're so very welcome! ☺️
Thank you. This was very helpful!
You're welcome! :)
Super helpful, thank you !
You're welcome! Thanks for watching. :)
I really needed this thanks
You're welcome! :D
Condensed and quality learning here, thank you!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching. :)
Great Video Learned a Bunch! TY
You're welcome! Thanks for watching. :)
Dang. This was a real eye opener!!! Subscribed!
Thank you! :)
Crossfading chains with a macro is a great tip, thanks for the knowledge share!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching. :)
Excellent. Thank you.
You're welcome! :)
Great explanation! Thanks. Subscribed
You're welcome! Thanks for watching and for the sub! :D
Great video!
Thanks! Glad you liked it! :D
Thanks man!
this helped alot thanks!
Glad to hear it! :)
subbed... That's exactly the video I needed... 👍👍👍
Will check the "parallel processing" as well because it is another concept I need to familiarize myself with ...
Thanks for watching!! Really glad you found the video useful. ☺️
Probably the only video that has helped me understand this, your teaching feels so right and well explained. I really appreciate the video, thank you 🙏
So glad to hear this!! Thank you for watching. ☺️
@@matttinklermusic Definitely subscribed as well. Looking forward to learning more from you!
Thanks. This helped
You're welcome, thanks for watching! :)
Useful! Subbed.
Thank you!
This was great. Thanks so much. You definitely earned a coffee ;)
You're so welcome and thank you for the coffee! :)
You are great ✨
Thank you!!
Stumbled across this vid through a search exactly for racks and this vid did not disappoint, fantastic information. Like and sub from me, about to binge some more of your content. great job.
So glad to hear! Please let me know if there's any other topics or concepts you'd like me to cover this in depth. :)
Thanks great video 👍🦘
You're very welcome! Thank you for watching. :)
Great video! Thanks! Subscribed and will check definitely check those other videos of yours. Quick question: do the racks work with some 3rd party plugins/vsts?
No worries, thank you for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed! :D
Yep, racks work with 3rd-party plugins, the only thing is that you can't map a parameter to a macro if it's not an automatable parameter in the plugin. Some plugins don't let you automate certain parameters, and those parameters can't be mapped, other than that they work entirely the same as Ableton Live native devices. :)
Good video man
Thank you! :)
You sunk my battleship with your knowledge bombs good sir
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Blimey!
Yup!
Good stuff. Hope I figure out how to name and save a rack on my own now.
If you right click on the device title bar of the rack you can rename it, then if you click on the little 'save' icon in the top right you can save the rack to your user library. :)
@@matttinklermusic Thanks
fuck i really feel like i need to buy this guy a cup of coffee now.
what an excellent video.
Thank you!! Really glad you liked the video.
The link to buy me a coffee is in the description. 😉
This is super helpful, thank you. Very well explained and easy to follow - I paid for an ableton course by a well known producer and ended up ditching it (for now) because he did a poor job explaining the material. Have found your channel to be more enlightening.
You're welcome, thanks for watching! :)
Sometimes a great producer doesn't necessarily translate to a great teacher, unfortunately. IMO it's always best to seek out a good teacher. :)
Do you mind if I asked what course you ditched?
Ok, head exploding...but in a good way. In one 20 minute vid you answered more questions than I can count. Your explanations and demonstrations are perfect....binge worthy for sure. Thank you! I'm new to Live coming from S1, and this level of creative functionality is exactly what I was looking for. Q.Q.Q: Are the Chain zones just an arbitrary "setting" value that can be controlled bYour explanations and demonstrations are perfect....binge worthy for sure. Thank you! y macros and devices? Is it possible to utilize a "key switch" setup to trigger chains via a single midi note? Subbed and hearted.
Glad you like the video!!
Yes the chain zone is mostly an arbitrary value to be controlled with macros. Although it doesn't directly allow for keyswitching, you could use the expression control max for live device to have incoming MIDI notes control the chain selector!
Very well explained except how do you save a rack after you’ve built it to use in other projects?
That's a great question! There are two ways: 1. there is a little save icon in the top right of the rack that you can click to save 2. You can click and drag the rack into a folder in your browser to save it in that location. If your rack uses any samples or max for live devices, it will create a project folder for you that contains all of the samples and M4L devices in it for you. Hope that's helpful and thank you for watching! :)
@@matttinklermusic cool thanks. New subscriber 👍🏼
Excellent mate. Incredibly informative. That breakbeat sample you had, what is that from? That was a RAD beat :)
Thanks Drew! Glad you liked it. :D
The breakbeat sample is actually one that I made. I like to make breaks on occasion using some drum sample libraries that I've got. I might put a little pack together as a download! :)
@@matttinklermusic That would be wicked. Please keep me informed.
What's your fave drum sample library? (or the one that came off?)
@@drewgermaine5935 For sure!
Hm, I use a bunch of different ones! The Slate Drums are great, but they don't have M1 compatibly yet, which is annoying, so I've been using some of the ones that come with Komplete as well as MODO Drum from IK Multimedia. :) I don't know which library this particular break came from, but it was probably one of those!
At least you tried, unlike Ableton, who just issues packs and devices without any explanation of how they work
Most of the time the user manual has a bunch of good stuff in it, although I'm disappointed they still haven't finished the manual for Live 12...
@@matttinklermusic Don’t get me started on the packs! Once again, Ableton just dumps instruments, racks, effects and samples with no explanation of what they are and how they work. I guess they really want you to hire a certified teacher to tell you how it works.
Looks like a great learning video, but just got Ableton standard having used logic pro and have got third party effects like FabFilter, so not sure if you can use these third party in rack for macros etc. Did load TAL chorus and Fabs Timeless together but seems no chance of using macros. I sure there is a way, took me ages to work out automation with third party stuff and Ableton. (20 minutes later) Ahhh looks like i need to do it bit like automation, 'configure,' lots of clicking to get the effects third party in the box then it came up in macro with one of the third partys name listed instead of Macro 1 hopefully I can get used to it, and not so much guessing going on.
Yep, it's all under the configure menu! Some plugins don't allow you to automate or map certain parameters, it all depends on the plugin, but provided the parameter can be mapped it'll work in exactly the same way in a rack! :)
@@matttinklermusic thanks for that Martin, I think I am trying to run before learning to walk, thanks for the update that some plugins might not configure. I think it was a case of should I have gone for the 'Suite' version as it was a lot cheaper to go from my lite version to suite than get the upgrade from standard to suite through Ableton, some reason can't find the standard to suite version in shops. Don't panic, no more silly comments from me, I will get my head down and learn Ableton. Cheers
I’m having trouble with Instrument Rack automation. Everytime I save one and import it again, the automation in the rack is gone. What am I doing wrong?
Automation is saved with the Ableton Live session, not with a preset or rack. You could create a clip to save modulation data, but the only way to save automation is in the Live session itself.
@@matttinklermusic So no way at all to export and import automation data? I think I was able to do that in Logic by saving midi data?
@@UmaRecordings I did some testing and turns out I was wrong! You can save automation in a clip (.alc file). All you need to do is select the clip and click and drag it into the browser, which will save it as a .alc file. Then when you import that clip into the session it will import the automation data as well as instrument and effects data. You can of course also have MIDI modulation data in the clips too. :)
@@matttinklermusic got it now. Thank you so much for your time.
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