From the course: Ableton Live: Producing Electronic Music
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Programming leads with instrument racks - Ableton Live Tutorial
From the course: Ableton Live: Producing Electronic Music
Programming leads with instrument racks
- [Instructor] Okay, now we're gonna dive into another one of my absolute favorite features of Ableton Live. Live allows you to create really complex instruments by building instrument racks, which are essentially groups of instruments and effects that you can chain together, and you can add what are called macro controls which we covered earlier in some of the drum programming techniques, that allow you to easily access and manipulate parameters of your new instruments. So we have a default set open and, I'm just gonna go ahead and delete these audio tracks and this one MIDI track because we're not gonna need them, Let's go ahead and open our browser, and I'm gonna select instruments first and, I'm gonna load up an instance of, Let's go to Analog first, if we're gonna build a nice lead. Let's start with an instance of Analog, (extended synth note) And, maybe I wanna give it a little bit of a. (synth notes) Mess with the pitch envelope here. (synthesized music) Let's change the wave…
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