Learn how to modulate your sounds in Ableton Live
Liam O’Mullane walks you through Ableton Live’s powerful stock Audio Effects and how to get creative with them.
Ableton Live is endowed with a host of powerful audio effects that can add flair and nuance to your audio. In our new Ableton Live Tutorials video, MT Expert Liam O’Mullane breaks down Live’s Chorus, Flanger and Phaser. Learn as he explains the mechanics behind each one and shows how each parameter affects the sound.
In the final part of the video, Liam shows a practical demonstration of how these Audio Effects can be used to modulate instruments and add depth to a track. If you’ve checked out our automation lessons, you may start getting inspired with the progression you can create in your music with these modulation tools.
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Other lessons in our Ableton Live Tutorials series so far include:
- MIDI clip programming
- Understanding Warp Modes
- Learn insert effects
- Slicing audio clips to MIDI
- Programming Automation
- Gating and sidechaining
- Auxiliary effects understood
- Using EQ
- Creative Sidechaining
- Saving CPU
- Converting audio to MIDI
- Using Drum Rack
- Instrument, MIDI and Audio Racks
- Understanding Reverb and Convolution Reverb
Those of you who already know Live inside and out, but are looking to explore other DAWs may want to check out our Logic Tips Series, following a similar pattern to this course.
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