15 Ableton Automation Secrets You Need To Try

amazing video brother. ripped a blinker in the local walmart when i saw this one live!!! automate a way

Ableton automation is fun unlike Logics....

This video just saved me....
I'm a newbie to Ableton and while trying to make my first track (which is sounding WAY better than I could have hoped) certain tracks kept muting themselves while in playback and I was sooooo effin confused, well it turns out that I had somehow automated them to mute off and on throughout the entire song.... I didn't know how to automate before watching your video, but I have now been able to fix the issue. Many thanks =)

My shit froze the moment i opened the video and the first frame of the video is the corner of your neckbeard so i just eyed that down for like 10 seconds while i waited for the video to load

Hands down the best, most thorough Automation tutorial I've seen, thanks!

Also I’d love to be able to automate the “Transient Envelope“, “Formants”, “Envelope”, “Grain Size” and “Flux” values in Warp mode. Especially in Beats mode on One Shots. Dynamically adjust the audio clip decay with automation to make Hi-Hats feel more “real” would be a dream. Those values aren’t even MIDI mappable let alone automatable. I can tweak them in real time using the mouse but that’s no fun.

I wish you could change the color of the automation. At times it gets fairly difficult to see. If I could change the line color from red to say… yellow it would be much more helpful.

besto tutorial !!

The focus during the clicking in #14 haha

amazing!!!! especially 14 and 15 changes everything for me. I‘m so glad you showed how to lock the fucking automation. this used to drive me so crazy, when I’ve for example wanted to duplicate just one sound without the automation…
massive time saver!!!
thanks a lot 🫶🏻

Awesome tutorial. Everything you need to now about automation. Thx!

I thought I knew everything about automation in Ableton, and then I saw your video. 😅 Excellent tips! Thanks!!

Also, if like in #14 you don't want to randomise all macros (eg Volume), you can right click and select 'Exclude macro from Random'; then any time you hit random that macro will remain unchanged.

Anyone ever found a work-around to record automation of parameters when they are mapped to the LFO device?

these are some awesome tips, appreciate this!