Using Envelopes and Loops
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Isaac CotecIsaac Cotec shows how to use clip envelopes in Ableton Live to automate volume, pitch bend, and instrument parameters, plus setting loop length and start.
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Envelopes and Automating Instrument Effects
Great. Next, we're going to look at envelopes and automating our instrument effects.
Envelopes
Within envelopes, I can choose all sorts of different controls.
- MIDI controls will be pitch bend.
- So I can do something like this: let's pitch this one down.
But then I also have things to control the instruments.
- If I press smooth synth lead, I have all these different parameters found within this instrument.
- So let's just shift + tab to look at that.
Right here, I have all these different things, and what I can do, for instance, is right-click and show automation on that filter and just draw things in.
So now we see that automation happening within the instrument.
This is just touching on using envelopes.
Loop Length and Start
Finally, we have the loop length and start.
- This is just like an audio sample in the way that I can move this.
- This is the loop brace; I can move it over here.
- But if I don't have this looped, we can move the start point, and this is the end point.
So now let's play. It's going to play through here and stop.
- You can tell because it grays out where it's not going to play.
That's the loop brace up here at the top. All you have to do is press loop.
We also have our start and end length, and we have our start and end amount.
That's a very basic look at editing MIDI within Live. Some of the cool tools that we have, like Legato Invert, those are super fun to play with.
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Isaac Cotec is, arguably, one of the best Ableton trainers in the world! While working on his own music, he began teaching recording techniques, sound design, and Ableton Live to private students, and since earning his certification as an official Ableton Certified Trainer he has helped thousands of producers step up their game and succeed as musicians.
Isaac started producing electronic music in 2005 with Psyche Sonics, an experimental group working with the science and research of binaural beats and altering consciousness through sound. After touring, he continued writing music under the alias Cotec and later emerged as the artist Subaqueous, blending his electronic past with both future and organic production techniques. To date, he has released 3 albums and 4 EPs.
Isaac is also the founder and manager of the record label Invibe Music, which represents some of the Pacific Northwest's best electronic music and specialises in midtempo dance music.
In his Ableton Live courses, Isaac shares the production, sound design and songwriting techniques he has spent years refining - the very skills he uses to turn a spark of an idea into a finished track.
