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MIDI and audio overdubbing

MIDI and audio overdubbing - Ableton Live Tutorial

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MIDI and audio overdubbing

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- [Instructor] One of the most useful of the looper's features is its unique ability to overdub audio. This is great for parts that are intended to always go together, stacked harmonies or tripled-tracked violins or what have you. Live's MIDI clips, of course, can overdub notes very easily and in fact do so by default in session view, which is perfect for building up beat loops, for example. And the great advantage of keeping loops in MIDI rather than committing them to audio is that you can freely manipulate the sound of the instruments. Bringing these two worlds together in a seamless multi-track looping and overdubbing situation seems worthwhile, so let's figure out how to do that. I'm starting with a rack of three instruments that I'll use for the MIDI parts. We'll need three MIDI tracks. Command or control, shift T to create one, select command or control, D to duplicate. We'll rely on session record to create MIDI clips in all three tracks at the same time. So they should all be…

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