Ableton simple delay review full#
Ableton simple delay review software#

Multiple virtual synths, samplers, drum machines and effects are a mere drag and drop away (although the full extent of Live's provision of these is dependent on the version that you own) and the software's famed time-stretching ('warping') ability is now virtually seamless in operation. It feels solid, mature and reliable, with a wealth of audio and MIDI tools that cover almost any and every eventuality. We've spent a couple of highly productive and creatively rewarding months with Ableton Live 11 Suite and we can categorically state that this is easily the best version of Live to date. Live effectively blurs the lines between a simple recording capture application - which it can do perfectly well - and a live instrument, which can be 'played' in real time either to generate new ideas or to perform (using both existing material and new ideas generated on the fly) before an audience. At any point, dropping a plug-in onto a section of recorded music could not only transform that piece, it might inspire an entirely new piece of work. There's always a sense when playing around with audio in Live that your horizons are limitless.

Ableton simple delay review software#

Over the last 20 years (!), Live has found its niche as the preferred software tool of the more experimental artist, those genre-bending musicians, DJs, sound designers and turntablists who want to make music in an almost collaborative fashion with their computer - throwing multiple ideas in, from myriad sources treating, manipulating and shaping the raw material then looping the results and reacting to new ideas that this blend inspires to take the music even further. Rather than perfunctorily toss out annual incremental point updates, Ableton prefers to take its time in developing a signficant new version, gathering critical input and feedback from its active and passionate user base and beta testers. The gap between new versions has lengthened as Live's core offering stabilised (it's been three years since Live 10). This writer first entered the Abletonverse around version 2 and consequently followed Live's evolution through several rapid iterations, as the company broadened the application's remit to cover all music recording bases. It was, in its own way, quietly revolutionary. Live also introduced the concept of 'elastic audio', whereby disparate recordings and samples could be stretched or compressed as necessary to all sync to the same tempo. Ableton's Live music production software caused a seismic change in the thinking of musicians and music producers when it first appeared in 2001.Д«reaking away from the prevailing idea that recording music on a computer should essentially still look, and feel, like recording music on a physical mixing desk, Live focused on the more freeform concept of jamming on musical ideas, based around capturing and looping 'clips' of recorded audio. I have this nasty feeling that there is a simple solution that I am missing. You are certainly encouraging me to think about the problem! If this would work and there was a way to start and offsets at the track level, then that would solve the problem, although it does seem somewhat convoluted.Д«y the way, thank you very much for your suggestions. So moving the start marker would result in empty clips?ДЇollowing on from your suggestion though, I could place 2 identical 2 beat patterns in each clip and then use the start and end markers to select the first part of the clip in the first track and the second half of the clip in the second track. Well, I want to use the identical clips on both tracks, and all the clips have midi notes only in the first 2 beats-the second two beats are empty. (Have you tried moving the start marker - the small 'triangle' - of the MIDI Clip?) I still think that if you offset the start marker of the second MIDI clip, it should work as you want to. Let me also say that I set this as an exercise for myself as part of learning Live I was then going to do the same with snare and Hi Hat. But I want to do it in midi so that I output the midi from both tracks to a third track containing the drum kit.

I was able to achieve this by placing the same drum kit on both tracks and including an Audio Simple Delay on the second track. So I wanted to create the 2 beat clips once and place them in two adjacent tracks (each track then contains the same clips), and delay the second track by 2 beats, thereby able to easily try out different combinations. Now there are over twenty thousand ways in which such pairs of 2 beat bass drum clips can be combined into a 4/4 bar.

I have a Drum Groove practice book that lists 149 Bass drum variations possible in 2 beats using up to 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 notes. Let me explain what I am trying to achieve. GilJ wrote:Have you tried moving the start marker of the MIDI clip by 1/2 bar?