Ableton Live Tutorial | Keyboard Shortcuts Pt 1 - Midi Editing

Watch Dubspot instructor Michael Hatsis break down the key commands in Ableton Live's piano roll editor and share some great tips and tricks for speeding up your work flow. If you are interested in how to make beats or how to create your own melodies or basslines you will find a lot of great techniques in this tutorial.

Check out more Ableton video tutorials by Mike on the Dubspot blog:

[TheSunCityAnthem]

This is one of the most useful Ableton videos I've seen on youtube! Thank you for making this!

[dag]

When you have the loop brace selected you can also use ctrl/cmnd down to halve the it's length, and then up again to return back to normal. It's good for create drum rolls etc on the fly.

[loganlaub]

Awesome man. Thank you for this Dubspot.

[sacredgeometry]

i love how most tutorials only cover stuff thats in the manual, yet people act as if its information thats been hidden from them haha. Great video keep up the great work.

peace

Brian

[eeksta]

Cool, this is great stuff.Looking forward to the next post!

[idrob]

My favorite is moving the note off the grid!

[MrTesla]

Thank you for video, it's help me unerstnd how to make the beat!!!)))

[cyrusjentzen]

thanks for the video :)
it helped out a lot :)

[sheltersonic]

thank you, how to split long note, where is the scieser option

[hacccper]

Thank you this is very useful. Is there a way to get preview on the notes you input when inputting them? Like cubase, sonar, etc?

[Invertedzero]

Is there a way to change the colour of the bars? I want to be able to group notes according to colour to make it easier to see which are grouped together. Alternately something like a colour spectrum for the keys on the piano. A mode or plugin like this would be great

[philladams]

ive searched every where to find out how to make the grid line thicker how do you do please

[japadogi]

How to get back like in most of programs when you did someting wrong? I often close something or delate it by mistake, and i can't go back to it :x

[obeest]

don't forget the standard command a to select all, and command x to cut

[jmartells]

so there no way to change the note length without changing the grid?, Id rather be able to change the note to a 1/32 while keeping the gride at 1/16th just dont feel the whole having to change the grid

[CuddleOscar]

@DubSpot oh wow, thanks a lot :]
I always was wondering how would I get rid of some dots in automation, sometimes theres just so many that idk how to get rid of a good handful of them

[dhanushadithiya]

Duplicating note thing does not work in ableton 9 for me help please

[BusJACKTV]

@Rheckler3 double click one of the empty boxes in your midi track :]

[CuddleOscar]

so I draw in my bass drum pattern, but for some reason the notes are the color pink(making the bass softer hitting) than the red ones....anybody have any clue why this is?

[Chicken_Shawarma]

I can't figure out how to get into the Piano roll in ableton. I don't know what to do! Any help would be appreciated bruv, cheers!