#ABLETON SIMPLE DELAY BEAT DIVISIONS HOW TO#
You can watch how to make one of these here. This Ableton tutorial makes use of the Sample Auditioner Rack. Consolidating theses final edits into a one bar loops makes it easy to drag them around the arrangement as the track progresses.
This freshly recorded file can then be dragged onto the arrange page for further editing to make sure it fits nicely with the groove of the drum loop. (Note that if you select time on a single Arrangement clip, the Clip View display ( see 8.2.5) will zoom in on that selected time.) You can revert back to the previous zoom state by pressing the X key. To take the glitch idea one step further the output of the Beat Repeat track can be recorded into a new audio track. To zoom in the current selection completely, press Z or use the View menu’s Zoom to Arrangement Time Selection command. This cuts out all of the dry signal and only plays back the repeated sound. For glitch effects the gate setting on Beat Repeat works well. To make the repeats less predictable turn down the chance setting and try introducing some random repeat sizes by turning up the variation control.
Try altering the pitch decay, volume decay and filter settings for interesting repeats. An EQ8 follows the drum rack is used to cut the low end ‘muddy’ frequencies from the loop.Īny loop with stuttered feel is excellent fodder for Ableton’s Beat Repeat effect. In this tutorial we stick with a basic preset and use this to roll off the attack portion of each new slice, creating a stuttered feel to the loop.
This allows for individual control over each slice and some interesting possibilities also arise when using the various slice presets that come with Ableton. The tutorial starts by explaining how to use the slice to midi function in order to split up an audio loop into slices and then spreads them out across the pads of a drum rack. You use the numerical tab to the right of the Sync button to increase or decrease the selected time by as much as 33.3 percent. In sync mode (left of screen) the number tabs indicate the delay time in 16th notes. In this Ableton Live tutorial (part 3 of the drum loop series) we take a look at using Ableton’s Beat Repeat effect to create glitchy sounds from a random audio loop. Simple Delay, Ping Pong Delay and Filter Delay all use the same system for selecting the delay time.