Ableton guides
Ableton Live guides, tips and tricks
Clear walkthroughs of Live's features and the production tricks worth knowing, each paired with a video.
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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