Everything About Automation in Ableton Live!

Hey friends! Today I'm going to be breaking down basically everything you need to know about automation in Ableton Live. There are a few things missing from here, but I'll probably cover them in a future video. Enjoy! :)

Hey, my name's Matt, AKA Martiln, and I'm an electronic music producer, educator and Ableton Certified Trainer from Australia. I love making music and crazy sounds, and I love helping other people learn how to do both of those things too! I also am the creator of a crazy sci-fantasy world and musical storytelling universe call REALMS. If you like what I do, you can support me in all the usual ways or by shouting me a coffee over on my Buy Me A Coffee page.

Much love! 🥰

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⏰ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:01 Automation in Arrangement
1:26 Recording Automation - Arrangement
3:05 Automation Mode
5:26 Automation Lanes
6:05 Manual Automation - Arrangement
8:09 Editing Automation
10:31 Draw Tool
11:03 Advanced Automation Editing
14:27 Re-Enable Automation
16:09 Delete Automation
17:22 Lock Automation
18:08 Recording Automation - Session
21:16 Manual Automation - Session
22:39 Linked and Unlinked Automation
23:55 Moving from Session to Arrangement

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[TDC]

So much information, and so clearly delivered, thank you!

[rikuwaves]

Thank you for this video. A friend asked me about automation and I found out of 3 other vids I watched, yours is very beginner friendly, and talking about manual automation part was great!

[herschoolcolors]

Best tutorial on ableton’s automation functions on yt thxx

[thepanicroommastering]

Martiln, you deserve at least couple of 100ks Subscribers….thank you for teaching me Live‘s Automation in a straight and very likeable way. 👍

[bek-original]

This is really helpful and just what I was looking for. Thank you!

[martzicianproductions]

I have watched multiple videos on this subject. Yours is the best. Thanks for this.

[StabilAmboss]

13:40 Was looking for this feature for a while lol thank you!

[nimagholamimusic]

Wow your tutorials are very complete and distict👌🏻

[ClectaSkiMusic]

Take a drink every time he says 'Automation' lol. Great video thanks.

[natefialkoff]

This was so helpful! Thank you man!! Bless you

[erikm]

I didn't see what I was looking for here, but found out by being here and trying some things...I had a short loop that runs for a long time, and I wanted to automate that short loop over the course of that long time, not just the short loop length as most of this video shows. To automate volume of the loop over the course of a song, not just the loop segment, arrangement not session view was the key.

[candioco]

Conteúdo de muitissima qualidade! Valeu demais

[djGreenALERT]

You covered a heck of lot regarding automation and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I wonder though if you could elaborate on adding automation with a midi controller? I'm really stuck. When I try and add automation using my 8 channel device, and then move the sliders further in the track, all the settings have changed too meaning I lose all that has gone before.

[eli-shulga]

at 19:52 in the Envelope tab I don't have Automation and Modulation buttons.
All the rest is the same. In Ableton's docs they have example with v10 so I thought they removed it for 11 or something. But I see you have it here.
Any ideas?

I tried on a audio and midi clips in session and arrangement views. Cant see these..

Super informative video really closed some corners about intermediate to advance automation stuff
Thank you

[joonasautero]

Is there a way to record clip pitch automation? I mean record that by turning knob on my midi controller, not painting that envelope. Thanks for the info! :)

[louislafontaine]

My problem is when I assign a MIDI mapping from an external MIDI controller button or slider to a parameter inside Ableton. I'm losing my automation lane on each loop of a clip in Session view. As soon as I delete the MIDI mapping, I can reinstate the automation by clicking the Re-Enable Automation in that given parameter. Any preference setting would solve this behaviour?

[thespacekyd]

Is there a way to show automations from inside an audio clip for example when I automate the Mixer Gain inside the audio clip when in arrangement view like sometimes editing automation inside the clip is just more convenient other than the fact that it wont show in automation lanes which is what Im hoping you can help answer... I cannot find a way to do this without literally copy pasting and then adjusting because it usually doesn't copy past the exact values. Please help this would make my workflow so much better!

[Bum_Cuddle]

Just got Ableton, how do you record mixer channels volumes into arrangement view? I'm jamming in session view and want to record all the automation but all it is doing in arrangement mode is recording the audio clips and repeating them but no fader or mute actions that I am doing, the arrangement window is greyed out?? All I've read and watched is 'arm the little button, press record and tweak away' but it just isn't happening??
How do you record fader actions? Please help.