Creating your own Synth with Instrument Racks - Ableton Live 9 Tutorial

Creating your own Synth with Instrument Racks - Ableton Live 9 Tutorial
Creating your own custom sampler instrument like San Holo did for the melody of One Thing (San Holo)

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Description:
Ableton is a great tool for many things, for example creating your own „synth“. If you combine several Simpler or Sampler devices through Instrument Racks, plug in recorded synth audios and add some audio effects, you essentially create your very own basic „synth“.

Steps:

- Find a great sound, take off all effects and modulations, making sure you get the raw sound and record it on several octaves (C1, C2, C3, C4 for example).
- Plug the C1 recording into a simpler device on a new MIDI channel.
- Set your sampler device on Loop mode (optional) - adjusting the fades for smooth transitions
- Create an Instrument group with this simpler
- Map your Volume, Velocity and ADSR curves to the Instrument group macros.
- Duplicate this Simpler and by that adding simpler devices for the other recordings (C2,C3,C4) inside the chain of the group.
- Adjust the transposition of each simpler in perspective to the C3 note (C1: +24 st; C2: + 12 st, etc..)
- Add an Autofilter, Chorus, Reverb and Sidechain Compressor in the effect chain behind your instrument/effect group.
- Select the entire set of devices and group them into another instrument rack
- Map Filter Cutoff, Reverb Dry/Wet, Chorus Dry/Wet and Sidechain Compression Threshold to the Macros of the parent instrument rack.
- You’ve just created your own simple synth out of a couple of simpler devices.

Purposes:

- Saving CPU power at your live performances
- Capturing the best sounds out of a Demo Vst Plugin
- Sharing unfinished project files with friends who don’t have the exact same setup / vsts you have.

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[FloydPinkFan]

you are one of the best educators ive seen on youtube in a long time. complete with shortcuts in the comments! A plus my man thank you very much.

[ProductionMusicLive]

Creating your own Synth with Instrument Racks - Ableton Live 9 Tutorial - If you want to skip introductory explanations, go to 2:22. Listen to the result: 21:49.

[ryanc]

Very nice tutorial, thank you. I am actually using this technique to bring sounds on-board from my old Roland synth. It's a very versatile tool that lets you really expand your in-the-box sounds.

[Red-glcb]

This is awesome. I work at a music store. I sample all the basic waveforms from high end synths. I literally made a rack that sounds like a moog, with moog samples In the rack. I also own some great uad plugins so i used uad moog filter, and it has some other moog emulation things like lfo, and i use all my fave reverbs and delays. Im always changing it. But what ableton have done with instrument racks is something special i think. Logic have tried to copy in a way, and logics gui looks nicer. But i just love the simplicity of ableton. Anyone can make their own samp, er instrument, or, their own actual instrument. Its awesome. The possibility are really endless.

[ThePierre]

Very good tutorial, I learn a lot, thank you for this sir !

[GarrettMusic]

This is very nice, I use ableton as well! :)

[Bibliothekaresse]

Great tutorial! I learned a great deal, but the synths are really loud compared to your voice-over 😅 Thank you for the info anyway!

[Killwillc]

I need to achieve a smooth fade in of each sound, for live purposes and blending. Right now, It's not doing that it just comes in at 1 volume. Any advice?

[kmicrox]

Hi. thanks for your video...I have learnt a lot. However, I tried this using a hardware sound, which seemed to work, but in each section say the C3 clip, it will only play mono. Is there away to play more than one note at a time? I have Ableton 10. thanks.

[davidspringer]

okay so, first off, very helpful! thanks! now this is moderately unrelated but i still need to know. How do you manually jump midi notes up and down octaves when in the midi note editor? For as long as I've been using ableton, i manually click and drag the notes up and down octaves, but it would be super nice if i could figure out the key to jump them up and down rather than using the mouse.

[TPTE]

Hey, just wondering what setup is? Well, computer specs, monitors and any controllers etc? Just found your channel today and I love it! Many thanks.

[the]

What I didn't understand is why did you stop at F. (15:40). I thought you extended it to C. eg C3 to C4, then C4 to C5.

[Albertmars]

hey bro is there a reason why you use compressor sidechain instead of kickstart or lfo tool?

[jamieso]

Why not show it sounds again at the end?

[jaysummers]

Dafuq?


Okay, I understand the process I think, but do you really think this is LESS complicated than just learning music theory and putting the notes in the midi grid in 5 measures?


I am not trying to be disrespectful really, I am just completely confused by this process.


Would you recommend a beginning course in synth creation?