Shows you the note that is currently being played, showing what note and how de-tuned that sound is (scale of -50 to 50 cents). Shows you a visual representation of your sound, for example showing you what frequencies hit the hardest. Simple DelayĪnother delay effect, allowing you to adjust the delay for each channel separately. SaturatorĪdds a bit of warmth and color to the track. ReverbĪ super common audio effect, adding an echo to the track for certain frequency ranges, allowing you to also add a chorus layer. ResonatorsĪdds a certain tone/note to your track at certain frequencies. Ping Pong Delayĭelays a sound at a certain frequency range. PhaserĪdds a phase shift to your sound at a certain frequency, adding multiple layers to your sound. OverdriveĪllows you to distort your sound and add drive to it for a certain frequency range. One useful feature is solo-ing the high/mid/low and working on it by itself. Multiband DynamicsĪlter the dynamic ranges of certain frequencies, similar to EQ Three/Eight. Recognizes the BPM of a sound, and loops the sound over your track. LimiterĬap off the sound at a certain volume, good for preventing unwanted peaks. You can control the delay time, spray and frequency characteristics and pitch, random pitch and feedback. Grain DelayĬhops up audio into small grains, and randomly delays certain bits. Lets you glue multiple tracks together by fitting them to a certain frequency curve. Gateįilter sounds that pass a certain loudness threshold letting you filter out loud or quite sounds. It separates the frequency control into coarse and fine. Frequency ShifterĬhange the frequency of your sound. You can set the delay time, feedback and frequencies on which it operates. It adds flanging to your sound, modulating frequencies and rasising the pitch. Filter DelayĪdd a small delay with a certain width to your track on a certain frequency range (up to 3) to left or right or stereo, with the ability to control the feedback length. External Audio EffectĪllows you to route your audio to a hardware unit. sine wave) at a certain frequency with a certain width. ErosionĪ way of degrading your sound by adding a noise to your sound, by picking a noise sound (ex. EQ Threeĭoes the same thing as EQ Eight, but fewer parameters. Dynamic TubeĪllows you to isolate, remove or amplify certain frequencies in your track. CorpusĪnother effect to create an authentic sound - comes with some good presets. You can select various ratios, attacks and release values and enable side-chaining, which lets you force your sound to duck anytime another track is peaking. This lets you create a louder, punchier sound. CompressorĬhange the gains of your track, modifying the peaks of your sound. ChorusĪllows you to add voices to your track to make it thicker, letting you to adjust modulation and the rate, and feedback. Similar to Amp, createes an authentic guitar sound by allowing you to specify how many speakers are in a room and placement of the mic. Repeats the sound of a track, letting you adjust the interval of repetition, offset, and a few other parameters. Auto FilterĪ great way to automate a simple filter for a track (+ LFO) Auto PanĪllows you to bounce sound from left to right, adjusting the rate, phase and amount of panning. Super useful way of organizing effects - allows you to create multiple chains of effects that you can run a track’s output through in parallel, and create macros that control parameters from multiple effects. Replicate the sound of a guitar amp - contains a few parameters (gain, bass, treble, etc.) that you can adjust to get the sound you like. For the sake of completeness, I’m going to go through all effects that come with Ableton Live Suite (as opposed to the Intro or Standard editions). Over time, as I learn how to use them more effectively, I’ll likely continue to add notes to this post. In this post, I’ll list them and give a brief description of what each one does and in what situations one should look into using them. There are ton of third-party audio effect plug-ins that you can find on the internet, costing anywhere from free to thousands of dollars but one slightly underappreciated collection is the effects that come with Ableton Live.
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