The BEST Way To Arrange Your Tracks - Ableton Session View Tutorial

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2022
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    In this tutorial Josh Baker takes you through arrangement and shares his thought process when laying tracks out in Ableton's session view.
    This is a really great way to get your loops laid out without over thinking them.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 62

  • @Keugre19
    @Keugre19 6 місяців тому

    What I love about this way of working, is that it allows you to later use your tracks to play live gigs. Thats awesome, thank you.
    Nice track btw.

  • @davidcarter3976
    @davidcarter3976 10 місяців тому +3

    Make sure you support this amazing teacher, by liking sharing and subscribing with each and every person you think this video would resonate with, and donate to him directly. Make sure you support one of the best music production teachers on UA-cam!!!

    • @synthohubeducation
      @synthohubeducation  10 місяців тому

      Cheers David! Check out our website for more.

    • @davidcarter3976
      @davidcarter3976 10 місяців тому

      @@synthohubeducation yes I sure will brother, you are greatly appreciated!

  • @whostroubled
    @whostroubled Рік тому +11

    Here goes the start of my Ableton journey….🎉

    • @synthohubeducation
      @synthohubeducation  Рік тому

      we have a beginners course if you're interested! check out our app.synthohub.com

  • @Wadepenn_
    @Wadepenn_ Місяць тому

    thanks for these videos bro, learning Ableton has been made easy thanks to u

  • @RosannaONeill
    @RosannaONeill 11 місяців тому +3

    Thanks, this is perfect for where I'm up to at the moment I've been playing around and making full sounds and wanted to know how to separate them out and make an intro, a drop and other parts. So this is exactly what I need to see. Subscribing to your channel, you can be my tutor. Definitely keen to see part 2 after I've gone away and put this to practice.

    • @synthohubeducation
      @synthohubeducation  10 місяців тому

      Thanks Rosanna! If you want to see more in-depth stuff, head over to the SYNTHO website!

  • @mwalaa94
    @mwalaa94 Рік тому +1

    A joy to watch ❤

  • @joeydomhof6480
    @joeydomhof6480 Рік тому +5

    Brilliant @Josh, much more inspiring than starting an arrangement with an empty canvas. Will put this to the test straight away. Thanks a million 🙏🏻

    • @synthohubeducation
      @synthohubeducation  Рік тому

      Thank you! Glad you like the tutorial - let us know how you get on!

  • @Intergalacticjack
    @Intergalacticjack Рік тому +1

    Really helpful! Nice pace to the video dude, good to follow along with.. Big ups from Cornwall!

  • @Hefee25
    @Hefee25 Рік тому +2

    Great one, really clear, Josh!!🎉

  • @plantificationpodcast
    @plantificationpodcast 8 місяців тому +1

    Great vid, great style of teaching and great tune. Had fun packing the microgreens and learning from you today. B back soon mate. Thanks.
    Jay 😉🌱

  • @ItsWesSmithYo
    @ItsWesSmithYo 10 місяців тому +1

    Dope, I revisit this a few times, expanding my commitment to Session view, thanks G, linked up 🍭🍬🖤

  • @cesarochoa9642
    @cesarochoa9642 Рік тому +1

    Love this😊

  • @manucastaneira
    @manucastaneira 10 місяців тому +1

    Great Process!

  • @alexvirr
    @alexvirr 7 місяців тому

    This is cool thank you!

  • @MindofMeech
    @MindofMeech 5 місяців тому

    As someone entirey new to Ableton, coming from Logic years ago, this was sick to watch you build out a song in real time using session view. Most tutorials just show how to swap between the two and briefly touch on Session but this shows the power of it. Sick!

    • @synthohubeducation
      @synthohubeducation  4 місяці тому

      Cheers mate! We have a full beginners course on our website.

  • @frostwise87
    @frostwise87 11 місяців тому +1

    great vid and love your music,

  • @Diego_Estes
    @Diego_Estes Рік тому +1

    This one was solid. Much appreciated!!

    • @Diego_Estes
      @Diego_Estes Рік тому

      Just switched form logic to ableton. Supper helpful!

    • @synthohubeducation
      @synthohubeducation  Рік тому

      @@Diego_Estes Great, glad you found it useful!

  • @PaatoCaceres__
    @PaatoCaceres__ Рік тому

    Hahahha i loved your workflow. Thanks for the knowledge!

  • @MrMallum
    @MrMallum Рік тому +3

    I remember discovering Ableton over 10 years ago and realising how amazing the session view is for building tunes in a non linear fashion; blew my mind. Do you feel more people should be making beats this way? I still see a lot of people start their tunes in the Arrange view - for me, you're not using Live as it was made to be is you do that.
    Now that I've got off my soapbox, good vid! good luck with the channel mate.....

    • @synthohubeducation
      @synthohubeducation  Рік тому +1

      Hey mate - I prefer session view for sure! but I no a lot do it in arrangement...

  • @philippdoublep5041
    @philippdoublep5041 Рік тому +1

    Thank you very much!!

  • @hitsounds
    @hitsounds Рік тому +2

    Not seen this idea on UA-cam but it's totally a powerful use of.ableton functionality. Took me a while to work this way myself but it's the future! It's easy to get confused in Ableton because of the possibilities but one thing this approach does is let you go mad with experimentation and then make sense of it later. I can have multiple ideas in one channel and multiple tracks that I can then play with and discover happy accidents with combinations of track sounds and clips. Not sure you covered it but a key part of my workflow these days is playing with all kinds of mixtures of clips to discover arrangements that feel good and then use the 'capture and insert scene' to create that mix in one scene with all the relevant clips aligned horizontally. This way I can start another set of scenes below all the madness of my experimentation that form the arrangement in a sort of progressive way. That way it's just a case of progressing through the arrangement scene by scene. Once that's done, like you I'll get into the fairy dust and automation in the arrange page. You could even export groups at this point for some self-imposed limitations to keep you focussed on mixing or mastering duties. With a good workflow I think Ableton can give you maximum creativity and functionality. Great vid and probably saved some people a ton of pain!

    • @Anorectic.Bumblebee
      @Anorectic.Bumblebee 9 місяців тому

      would you be willed to explain this concept to me in an anydesk skype session further?

    • @Username_Invalid
      @Username_Invalid 9 місяців тому

      Basically if your are playing random clips in session mode, and even if they are in different 'scenes' or 'vertical space', no matter what is muted or playing if you hit 'Ctrl+ Shift+ I" or the mac equivalent it will create a new scene with only the playing clips. Soo say you have a bunch of clips and not sure what might create a good section of the track or sound good you can play clips from any part of the session view and hit the shortcut and it combines into a new scene 'horizontal line' ready to trigger. @@Anorectic.Bumblebee

  • @712beckv8
    @712beckv8 Рік тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @user-rw2jo1fz2p
    @user-rw2jo1fz2p 2 місяці тому

    So the best way for arrangement is not using arrangement view but session view. How does the rest of ableton work, to make melodies you need the drum kit and for synt sounds you select a drumcomputer?

  • @scottwaterman8837
    @scottwaterman8837 9 місяців тому

    Great vid on doing the arrangement in session view. This would be amazing with push 2. Have you tried it?.

  • @RealLyfeTV365
    @RealLyfeTV365 Місяць тому

    Subscribed

  • @williamwalsh8591
    @williamwalsh8591 Рік тому +6

    thank you so much! helps so fucking much bro

  • @RealLyfeTV365
    @RealLyfeTV365 Місяць тому

    That's how i make my Hip-Hop Beats on Ableton

  • @emilianoibarra3537
    @emilianoibarra3537 Місяць тому

    is there a way, on session view, to scroll through tracks individually and launch different clips in different positions?

  • @joshbakermusic
    @joshbakermusic Рік тому +1

    🎉🎉

  • @davidharpproduction3893
    @davidharpproduction3893 Рік тому

    IS it possible to create a song from session view?
    Thanks man

    • @synthohubeducation
      @synthohubeducation  Рік тому

      100% mate! You can see me do more of this inside the SYNTHO app.

  • @wrigna1
    @wrigna1 Рік тому

    Is there a way to tell ableton to sequentially play each scene for a specific amount of bars automatically?

    • @synthohubeducation
      @synthohubeducation  Рік тому

      no, but you could easily just count the bars yourself. this would be a pretty boring arrangement though and defeat the hole object of this technique imo

    • @classwar2000
      @classwar2000 Рік тому +2

      ye man, its one of the foundations of the software - check out 'follow actions'. You can set it up to do a few different types of 'action' (such as play next, play previous etc...as well as some chance/random settings too) per 'scene' or 'clip' and when those actions should happen i.e. specify bars or just after a clip has played its full length for example. Its cool as you can have it just auto playing through your scenes OR you might just have it play through a bunch of loop variations just on one channel. Hope that helps...

  • @warminstrel2284
    @warminstrel2284 10 місяців тому +1

    I do the same but literally use one clip for each element then use a launchpad to trigger and record the result. Means you can instantly and spontaneously record the track rather than create an arrangement in session. I use this method to play live sets at gigs. I condense the elements into 8 groups to fit the midi controllers paradigm with a beat repeat and filter on each.
    First group kicks n snares, second other percs and so on... means each time to play your session, it's different. Check my page for examples.

  • @drewfasa
    @drewfasa 4 місяці тому

    So, when you're arranging, you want to use session view. Got it.

  • @charlesmaclelland891
    @charlesmaclelland891 Рік тому

    🤯

  • @DAYTON_off
    @DAYTON_off 10 місяців тому +1

    Can't understand that heavy British accent. Skipping.

  • @bwah9481
    @bwah9481 10 місяців тому

    terrible tutorial, please demo from the start next time