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Ableton Live guides, tips and tricks
Clear walkthroughs of Live's features and the production tricks worth knowing, each paired with a video.
Project management
How to Back Up Ableton Projects and Test a Restore
Build an Ableton backup routine around complete project folders, named milestones, separate copies, and a restore test that checks the actual audio.
Project management
How to Collaborate in Ableton Without Losing the Handoff
Prepare an Ableton collaboration handoff with collected media, clear ownership, compatible software, reference audio, and a checked opening version.
Project management
Ableton Freeze and Flatten: The Current Bounce Workflow
Choose Freeze Track or Bounce in Ableton Live, understand the Live 12.2 naming change, and keep an editable source before committing a sound to audio.
Project management
How to Find Missing Samples in Ableton Live
Fix offline samples in Ableton Live with a focused File Manager search, resolve duplicate candidates, and collect the repaired files before sharing.
Project management
Ableton Project Folders: What to Keep and How to Move Them
Understand the difference between an Ableton Set and its project folder, keep shared media together, and move a song without breaking its sample links.
Live 12 features
Ableton Extensions, Explained (and How to Build One)
What Ableton Extensions are, what they can and can't do, how to install one, and how to build your own with the free Extensions SDK or with Tunesfork Build.
Live 12 features
Granulator III in Ableton Live 12, Explained
What Granulator III is, which Live edition has it, its three playback modes, MPE control and real-time audio capture, explained.
Live 12 features
Meld Synth in Ableton Live 12, Explained
What Meld is, which Live edition has it, and how its two macro-oscillator engines, scale-aware filters and Matrix modulation fit together.
Live 12 features
Ableton Live 12's MIDI Generators, Explained
How Rhythm, Seed, Shape, Stacks and the Euclidean generator create new MIDI notes in Live 12, which edition has them, and how to use each one.
Live 12 features
Ableton Live 12's MIDI Transformations, Explained
How Arpeggiate, Connect, Ornament, Strum and Live 12's other MIDI Transformations reshape existing notes, and which Live edition has each one.
Live 12 features
Roar in Ableton Live 12, Explained
What Roar is, which Live edition has it, its seven routing modes, and how to use it for saturation, EQ, drum width and feedback effects.
Techniques
How to Convert Audio to MIDI in Ableton Live 12
Turn chords, melodies and drum loops into MIDI in Ableton Live 12. The four convert commands, which editions have them, and tips for accurate results.
Project management
Collect All and Save in Ableton Live (and Fix Missing Samples)
What Collect All and Save does in Ableton Live, which options to tick, and how to find missing samples with the File Manager when a Set opens silent.
Project management
How to Recover a Crashed Ableton Live Project
Ableton crashed? Recover your Set from the crash dialog, the Crash folder or the Backup folder, and rescue a Live 12 Set that won't open.
Mixing
How to Sidechain Compress in Ableton Live 12
Set up sidechain compression in Ableton Live 12. Route the kick into Compressor, dial in pumping settings, use a ghost trigger, or skip the compressor.
Live 12 features
How to Use Stem Separation in Ableton Live 12
Split any track into vocals, drums, bass and other stems inside Ableton Live 12 Suite. Step-by-step guide, quality settings and sampling ideas.
Techniques
How to Make Vocal Chops in Ableton Live
Make vocal chops in Ableton Live 12 with Simpler's Slicing mode, Slice to New MIDI Track, the Seed generator and Granulator III. Steps and settings.
Live 12 features
Ableton Extensions, Explained (and How to Build One)
What Ableton Extensions are, what they can and can't do, how to install one, and how to build your own with the free Extensions SDK or with Tunesfork Build.
Live 12 features
Granulator III in Ableton Live 12, Explained
What Granulator III is, which Live edition has it, its three playback modes, MPE control and real-time audio capture, explained.
Live 12 features
Meld Synth in Ableton Live 12, Explained
What Meld is, which Live edition has it, and how its two macro-oscillator engines, scale-aware filters and Matrix modulation fit together.
Live 12 features
Ableton Live 12's MIDI Generators, Explained
How Rhythm, Seed, Shape, Stacks and the Euclidean generator create new MIDI notes in Live 12, which edition has them, and how to use each one.
Live 12 features
Ableton Live 12's MIDI Transformations, Explained
How Arpeggiate, Connect, Ornament, Strum and Live 12's other MIDI Transformations reshape existing notes, and which Live edition has each one.
Live 12 features
Roar in Ableton Live 12, Explained
What Roar is, which Live edition has it, its seven routing modes, and how to use it for saturation, EQ, drum width and feedback effects.
Techniques
How to Convert Audio to MIDI in Ableton Live 12
Turn chords, melodies and drum loops into MIDI in Ableton Live 12. The four convert commands, which editions have them, and tips for accurate results.
Project management
Collect All and Save in Ableton Live (and Fix Missing Samples)
What Collect All and Save does in Ableton Live, which options to tick, and how to find missing samples with the File Manager when a Set opens silent.
Project management
How to Recover a Crashed Ableton Live Project
Ableton crashed? Recover your Set from the crash dialog, the Crash folder or the Backup folder, and rescue a Live 12 Set that won't open.
Mixing
How to Sidechain Compress in Ableton Live 12
Set up sidechain compression in Ableton Live 12. Route the kick into Compressor, dial in pumping settings, use a ghost trigger, or skip the compressor.
Live 12 features
How to Use Stem Separation in Ableton Live 12
Split any track into vocals, drums, bass and other stems inside Ableton Live 12 Suite. Step-by-step guide, quality settings and sampling ideas.
Techniques
How to Make Vocal Chops in Ableton Live
Make vocal chops in Ableton Live 12 with Simpler's Slicing mode, Slice to New MIDI Track, the Seed generator and Granulator III. Steps and settings.
TunesFork for Ableton Live
Every save, versioned.
Every collaborator, in sync.
- Auto-save to the cloud. Each time you save in Live, the whole project folder, samples and stems included, becomes a new version.
- Go back to any version. Restore the mix from before you broke it, or fork an old idea into a new track.
- Share one link. Collaborators get the files, the versions and the feedback in one place.
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