Ableton Live 12 for Composers - MIDI Transformation Tools Deep Dive | Side Brain

This is a fantastic and inspiring tutorial my dude! THANKS!!!!

What I like about Ableton 12 is I’m getting a TB 303 vibes from it.
By that I mean , there are opportunities to have many happy accidents just from messing around with it.

Excellent video thank you! Just got very into hybrid orchestral composition for film recently, and its great to see you demo these tools in a way that translates to that kinda thing! My brain was already stirring up ideas and your examples just made me even more excited to try em out :)

Damn dude, thankyou, best breakdown of actual new compositional MIDI features I've seen. The onament and strum features alone are amazing, no more manually staggering notes 😆

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Great vid!

Wow... That's a lot to take in over 16mins. LOL

One thing I was hoping they'd finally add was a midi version of the beat repeat tool..... In amongst all these new midi menus is there anything that would do that job? ..........Alternatively does anyone know of a M4L device for that purpose?

So insane. Thanks for the detailed walkthrough!

this is the best video I've seen on these new Live 12 tools !

IMHO it's a stretch to call this type of thing a composition tool, more like a randomizer, which IME isn't how you improve your compositions. Modern producers and song-writers seem to think the only way to achieve something good is by throwing as many random things at the wall as possible and seeing what sticks. It's not, and it's an inefficient way to work. It also keeps you from learning and improving on actual compositional techniques. Theory isn't as hard as everyone makes it out to be, and all these modern crutches trying to replace actual acuity are making producers dumber. Just IMHO.

I only hate ableton bcs of delay compensation issues (it messes up beat-synced plugins)

Man, this updated is godlike. You know how many hours I spend on doing all this stuff by hand?

Awesome video.
tnx for showing these tools in action.

Alright I wasn't that interested in 12, but now.... (thanks for the video!)

Wow great stuff - just found your channel. Subscribed! Just wondering about something not related to this video exactly, but you might be the person to ask - is it possible to randomise the start-time and length of notes? I'd quite like to be able to specify this for each note in the same way you can set the randomised velocity range for each note, but don't think it's possible or ever likely to exist..

your face when you find a good midi selection is really how it this video feels! super cool content got me really excited for whats coming

hey. just found your vids. and um. i really want your parallel mirrors verb preset. it looks like its a custom ir. any chance you'll let me have it? hahaha its very nice

Really good, still far away from what Cubase offers for Orchestral Scoring Composing. Mr. Hans Zimmer (thumbnail) for sure will stay a Cubase user :D

Is there a way to get this now? Or is this just a hype train?

Hans Zimmer uses Cubase LOL

I agree, this is the biggest Live update in years. Fantastic stuff. And fantastic videos, I must say. Keep 'em coming!

Ableton is still trash for composers compared to Cubase. Just basic ass MIDI editing capability is missing. Cannot edit multiple clips and select playback points. What's the point of adding the bells and whistles if the basics aren't even there?

Schönberg would have loved these tools 😊

didn't orion by synapse audio also have a midi arp generator thing? that was 20 years ago!

Total game changer for sure❤

Wow I was just getting used to live 11 and now they gone and done this! Damn!!!

This is stunning. You still need to be able to lay down a decent chord but the little varieties this creates are really subtle and usable!

Wow, Thanks for this video. Subscribed to your channel.

Wow, I would love to assign midi velocity to the rate grid, this new update is like the Web 2.0 of music production. GR8 overview

Dude, Ableton needed to hire you for the Live 12 announcement.

Understanding this makes me realize what a seismic shift this update is (and what a strategic advantage it will be for ableton media composers)

Fantastic video

Are all these functions accessible on the Push (2)? I was hoping for Ableton 12 to have most features also available on Push like Maschine, now they have a standalone version. I don't like working with a mouse at all. These generative tools don't sound musical to me, Ableton is going in the wrong direction for me. Was hoping for more Live tools like DJ effects (like Shaperbox), pitch correction and harmonizing tools. For this update the price should be under $100.

Fantastic demo

I love how the notes will visually change in real time. Good demonstration and the videos only just started.

So ableton is trying to get a shot at the fl studio piano roll and features...not a bad approach from a marketing perspective

Oh man I’ve been really curious about the midi transformation max for live tools so thanks for pointing that one out. There’s a Euclidean paid device I bought in the past that’s already integrated as a generation tool so that’s cool.

Excellent material very instructive. I like when you turn the arpeggios up to 128. I enjoyed a good laugh.

So awesome but also so conflicting. With AI able to bust out music on demand and instantly, tools like this feel like they’re making beat making like painting by numbers - like where is the human input? Don’t get me wrong I love this stuff but what’s the role of the composer in the future?

Maybe people were saying this in the 90s about digital 😂

thanks for going through these! I've been holding off upgrading since Live 9, these are the first new features that have made me want to upgrade. Hope even more composition tools like these are added in 12.

Thanks for the vid! I think that there are many workflows involving these transformers and generators that will be discovered/invented over the next few months. I like using the Random Once mode in the Arpeggiator transformer to generate melodies from chords, for example.

It would be amazing to have a transformer/generator that would snap notes to a chord track, for example.

Black MIDI is intense.

This is insane. 🔥

I just got my beta copy and this tutorial is super appreciated. I'll ask you because I'm struggling to find that info but in the session view, I don't see the scroll left-right under the clip section - it's gone! I can't find how to navigate my session view anymore. Keep those composition tutorial coming!