Music Production Courses

During the post-NAMM period which we are currently in there is often a lack of adequate music production technology news as everyone is busy playing with all the toys showcased at the event. However, I recently came across this pretty interesting demonstration of a technique in Ableton that has a great deal of potential and is not often used to a great extent.

Ableton Live has constantly been noted for its extreme versatility and its ability to be manipulated to the user’s way of working, due to this we often find new displays of ways to utilise this software and new techniques within the platform- regular readers may remember a previous post on Ski Beatz using Ableton in a unique way.

This quick video demonstrates how to manually chop samples in Ableton and then assign them to a drum rack, thus giving you a pretty quick way to slice samples and still have control over your sections. There is also another video which demonstrates how to automate chopping and to thus use Ableton to chop samples like and Akai MPC, check out that vid here.

So this video demonstrates how to have more control over your chops before you slice and assign them to the drum rack. So by utilising this technique you’ve got your very own MPC built into Ableton and ready to go loaded up with your samples!