Here is a link to help you wrap your head around them, from our friends at Ableton.
If these effects are foreign to you, don’t worry, effects can be confusing to use and difficult to understand. There are a lot of different effects to play around with, but for this sound I’ll just add some delay, some subtle stereo panning, and a little EQing. If you want to add effects go back to your browser and find the Audio Effects tab. The last thing I’ll do just to round out the sound is to add a couple effects. These are all typical parameters on synthesizers, which is cool! because this is a sampler! Ableton gives you a lot of creative options in a pretty small and easy to use sampler. I made some changes by adding Portamento to the sound, adding voices, velocity, spread, and resonance. Just try out different buttons and settings to find out what they do, have a little fun experimenting and see what you come up with. You can see below that I didn’t change that many settings to design this sound, and considering it only took me a few minutes to make from start to finish, it sounds pretty good so far! From here on out get creative with the settings in Simpler. To make this sound I want to make sure that my “Loop” button is on, that way the sound will loop and sustain like an organ would. I’ll be making an synth organ type sound out of this sample. Now my sample is loaded up and honed in on the length that I want. This is a sample we found, so the wave shape is one specifically original to the sound. Some of the most recognizable ones being a sine wave, a square wave, and a sawtooth wave. There are different waveforms that synthesizers and electronic instruments use to create sound. Put simply this is the sound at its most basic level, expressed in the shape of a wave. If you zoom in far enough on the sample you will see what we call a waveform clearly. You can select whatever size area you want, but personally to try and capture a more smooth and sustaining sound I will grab two cycles (waveform) of the sound. If you want to get a closer look at where your sample is playing, you can zoom in easily by clicking on the sample (a magnifying glass icon should appear) then dragging downwards (with your mouse) to zoom in or upwards to zoom out. Note that the green area is the area of your sample that will play, and the black area will not play. So try that out and attempt to find an area of the sample that you’d like to use. You can click and drag on those arrows to change the start and endpoints of the sample.
Note the two grey areas on the sides of the sample. Make sure the circular dot at the bottom of a track button is red! And you should be hearing your sample played on different keys as you press them. You can play the sample on your keyboard by pressing the middle row of letter keys (A-L). Now you can see the sample, but it’s too long right now, and it isn’t starting where I want it to. Now drag and drop the sample in (either from your browser or your desktop, both work).! You can see the “Drop Sample Here” space on the top of the Simpler. Now, find your sample and get it ready to drop. You should see the Simpler instrument show up on the bottom left of your screen. So double click on the Simpler to make a Simpler track. You may have guessed this by the name, but it’s pretty simple to use. Within the instruments tab, find an instrument called “Simpler.” Simpler is one of a couple samplers that’s offered with Ableton Live. Go find your browser/library on the left of Ableton Live and select the Instruments tab. I have chosen a peacock squawk as my sample material. Wav files are not only Ableton compatible, but they are of a higher sound quality. Mine is not, so I’ll use itunes to re-import it as a. So find some recorded sound that you wanna use. NOTE: this does not have to be a bird noise, I’m just using one to demonstrate for this tutorial. First thing’s first, select some sample material.
#Ableton live sampler how to
Tired of using preset sounds? Searching through a bank for something boring that somebody’s already used? This tutorial will show you how to make a totally original sounding instrument without having to synthesize it using a program outside of Ableton Live.įor this example we are going to use one of my favorite sounds…a bird squawking. Simpler is a very powerful sampler that you can use to get super creative with your productions when sampling audio.
#Ableton live sampler software
In this short how to I will show you how to turn a sound into an instrument using Ableton’s built in software sampler called, Simpler. Would you believe me? Well…you probably should, because I’m about to show you how! BOOM! What would you say if I told you that you can turn a bird noise into an electronic instrument?
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