Make Generative Music with FOLLOW ACTIONS in Ableton Live 11
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- Опубліковано 8 бер 2022
- Today, or should I say tonight, we explore a less known feature of Ableton Live: FOLLOW ACTIONS and use it to create Generative Music. Generative Music is music that plays endlessly with unpredictable and random results. Follow Actions has been updated for Ableton Live 11 with extra functionality as we will see. Become amazed at all the sound possibilities you know wield with this new technique. Later, we will revisit Generative Music and will see another way we can achieve this sort of effect using a completely different method. As always thanks for the support and please like, comment, and subscribe if you found this video useful to you.
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This is such an incredible technique. Please make more videos about this!
just discovered this channel, I istantly fell in love with your mood and your calmness, please never stop making videos
Thank you for the kind words and encouragement! I needed to see this right now. I just got my first couple of negative comments and it really threw me for a curve ball. Your message was very timely and thanks! Btw, if you like this Generative music technique, well, the new video that I'm almost finished editing will give you yet another powerful technique for creating generative ambient music. In this new video that will most likely be uploaded tomorrow, we get a similar result but we use a whole chain of MIDI FX. I show two different techniques and I honestly think it might be my favorite Ableton hidden gem technique. You will love it!!!! ❤️🤟🏼🤓😎
Great Video
i love making generative music in my DAW, because it goes on forever and ever. I'll hit that LIVE button and walk away for hours sometimes the whole day and just let it run and play for the world to listen. I like your methods.
I'm absolutely amazed. I knew this follow actions technique but never thought it could be useful to make generative music, so glad I found your channel!
Thats so nice to hear! Tbh, I didn't even know follow actions could do this until it just "happened" one day. I wanted to explore Follow Actions bc I knew that Live 11 updated the section with extra features so I wanted to play around and learn more. I knew that part of Generative Music was to set conditions and allow for the computer to randomly select from a set of choices. So I had two ideas in my mind and then I sat down and the technique just went into full bloom! I'm glad I was able to share it with you all and I'd like to do another tutorial on it after I've had the chance to play around with it some more. Thanks for the continued support!!!
This is just awesome…
I just subscribed your channel😊
I would never know this kinda technique without your video.
I just starting using Ableton this week after years of using FL. Your videos are so helpful! you show me all the stuff I wanted to learn that I couldn't really do in FL. Thank you so much!
that's amazing to hear! Keep watching! Some great stuff in the SDHOs as well! Cheers!
Really really love this video! ! Thank you for your help with my sequence adventure. ..
soooo amazing video fxxking love it !!! may the force be with u !!!!
This is awesome, yes please make them all day 🔥
indeed amazing ahah, great vid, enjoyed a lot the melody, actually that c and d one octave higher with the other and again percents just made a really coherent and beautiful melody.. thanks for sharing :)
YES! Loved this video. Knew about follow actions but haven´t looked much into it. That needs to change. Thanks for this! :-D
YESSSSS!!! Such a powerful technique that almost never gets used. In fact, I think the Follow Actions panel is hidden by default. Ableton is just so damn nice!!! 🤟🏼😎🤓☺️🤤
Great video into the wave table, nice tricks with recording the audio and midi straight into other tracks 🙌🏽 started Ableton couple weeks ago :)
Thank you for the great comment! If you recently started Ableton only a few weeks ago and you were able to follow along when I recorded the audio and MIDI into their own Audio and MIDI tracks and didn't get confused, then you are certainly on your way to Ableton glory my friend! It appears you're ableton adventure is off to a great start, I'm sure this was meant for you!! I think you may also like my "Generative Ambient Music technique with MIDI FX" video I just uploaded as it gives a similar technique but using MIDI FX. You are on your way to greatness!!
awesome stuff !
Great Video!!!!
Insane !
Good technique. I'll try it. Thanks
Thank you for sharing, absolutely awesome
That was amazing 👏
Fav vid of yours so far…luv the calculated randomization into resampling then manipulating the audio afterwards.
Been weird and haven’t opened Ableton for almost a year but this is knocking me back into a confident space.
Thank you
This comment made my day. Ableton can be such a source of happiness and joy. I'm glad this video got you excited about making music. I will be making another tut exploring a similar Generative music technique that involves MIDI fx. Homework: see if you can go crazy adding MIDI fx to achieve a similar result. Hint: you will definitely be using the Arpregiator and the Chord MIDI effects. Stay tuned to the channel for new videos and thanks for the love and support!!
Amazing, so creative and straightforward!
thank you kind sir!
Loved this as it was really inspiring so subbed
thanks thats great to hear! you're exactly who i make this video for!! 🙌🏼
Niceee, thanks for sharing
It’s drone at the end 🎉 brilliant
Very good, thank you
Thank you!
great one as well!!! thanks
Thanks for the support- on both platforms. Also happy to meet a fellow light worker bringing in the new golden age!! Ascension and 5D is here. so glad we connected!
@@Jemeneye7 aho brother!!! what you do is really inspiring also the 3D animation with the light codes! full resonance
joooooo this is siiickk 🔥🔥🔥
Great stuff - thanks
THANK you! I'm cranking out the tuts so please feel free to check back for additional content.
intresting tricks
Best thumbnails in the game you should have more subscribers
haha thanks, you are too kind! I may start teaching digital art techniques soon
Wow very nicee. this is a really different approach to it! tho i wanna know, how is this different than using an Arpeggiator? or rather why not use the Ableton ARP plugin?
Tbh, there very similar. However, I've found (for me) that the Follow Actions can allow you to customize the output greater to your personal needs. This is bc you can set the dual follow action controls to restrict it to what it will play next. for instance, if we're jammin in Dorian, the sound comes from the 6 and the b7. so if you prefer it every time it plays the 6 in the scale it play the next (the b7) then you can really hone in on the dorian mode feel. Tbh, I'm almost going to use follow actions more now bc this may give me even better results. in any event, always good to explore with as many options as possible. Sometimes great music just wants to come out one way on a particular day! sorry for the delay in responding my friend, Brilliant question!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
This is great,really interesting.i have used and understand the majority of the techniques here but it's the magical missing 5% and a great approach that's refreshing and new.just as an aside,I guess you are aware of Paulxstretch? If not you'll love it.keep up the good work.
Ahh yes, the magical missing 5%! I know what you mean... You can be working on something in Ableton and nothing sounds good or particularly interesting, and then all of a sudden you turn one knob or add something and then all of a sudden MAGIC happens and its like the music is coming to life. I actually didn't know the technique would work so well especially with just a simple sine wave which shows just how powerful these techniques can be. Thanks for the support! more tuts in the pipeline
@@Jemeneye7 excellent! Look forward to seeing them.ive adapted your (superb) approach with a few generative tricks of my own,adding some random to the velocity and others.
Or you could just use random and scale with a string of midi notes and an arpeggiator
yes sir! in fact, watch me do it here: ua-cam.com/video/jVMm4INdDJ0/v-deo.html . So you may ask, why do it here with follow actions? Well, the way I've come to now view it is you do it when you know after certain notes, you want to then hit other notes right afterward. So you'll set the probabilities in the follow actions to play the next clip with more probability when you know you want to (lets say) go to the b7 from the 6 if you're in dorian to capture that dorian feel. I don't use this technique all the time but its cool and fun. thanks for watching!!
I just have a single clip playing a single note, then use the "random" midi effect with a "scale" midi effect after it to have it spit out what notes I want instead of completely random ones. Whats more, you can then take the midi output of that track, link it to another midi track, then record the output as midi tracks.
Wondeful! Yessss, that is the other way in ableton to creative generative music. I cover that technique in my "Generative Ambient Music Technique with MIDI FX" tutorial. Give it a watch if you'd like.
@@Jemeneye7 I shall! Thanks for the useful tips.
This works great with drum patterns, breaks, etc
Half speed is best speed ...
Indeed interesting information, thank you for sharing this. Of course, there are several tutorials covering "follow actions" ( e.g. ua-cam.com/video/f9tZtbYF-A8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=dBsInstitute )and on how to create generative music in Ableton (it's not Eurorack, but still interesting possibilities). Be sure to connect a midi controller to Ableton in combination with VCV Rack or one of the synths: then you can go crazy in modular/generative music! ---- And yes, this IS fun ;)