Ableton
Air
“I don't have the DP4 here, so I put an Ableton Live delay.”
Arlo Parks
“we're just chopping things up with the Ableton sampler”
“For the most part, we're just chopping things up with the Ableton sampler.”
Barry Cant Swim
“And you're using Ableton, is that right? Ableton, yeah.”
“People are going to watch this and be like, what the fuck, he's using this Ableton EQ”
“There's this preset on Ableton which I got from my friend O'Flynn. It's called Prehistoric VHS, a great little thing that adds some texture”
“There's quite an interesting thing going on with the Ableton granulator, we've got a harp loop in the granulator”
“That's why I'm still using the Ableton stock EQs and things and compressors, because anything that's not a hindrance to my fluidity is important”
Bob Vylan
“I'll often use Ableton's overdrive to give a little crunch and distortion to the vocal”
“That overdrive on Ableton was just a comfort thing for me. I don't know how my voice sounds if it's not distorted on punk music”
Bonobo
“This is actually from the actual Ableton session, so hopefully all the parts are there.”
“I just kind of sat at the kitchen table with Ableton and then this tune just sort of popped out.”
“Oh, that's Operator. That's just Ableton Operator with a little bit of tape wobble.”
“Actually, no, there is a sub bass here that's Operator.”
“This one's actually Ableton reverb, but I really like Valhalla.”
“Ableton 9 happened and Logic 10 happened, and I saw Ableton 9 and I was like, okay, this is the path now.”
Bring Me The Horizon
“He chops up and pitch shifts and stuff in Ableton with his guitar, and it's just super sick.”
Clean Bandit
“It's the same kind of sound that we used in Rather Be and Rockabye... this is the most exposed pure incarnation because it opens with just the Operator on its own.”
“This is that Ableton stock operator, just sine wave with a bit of Ableton reverb.”
“The original demo was using that same Operator synth in the verse.”
“There's just an Ableton project called Just Cry Baby. March '21.”
“The Operator. It's just an Ableton preset. Not even a preset. If you just load an Operator in Ableton, you just have to turn like 2 knobs”
“If you just load an Operator in Ableton, which is like one of their default synths”
“it came out how it did because you wrote it on that QWERTY keyboard... I'm just using the middle row of the keys, like A to L”
“all it is is a sine wave, but it's got an LFO... you just turn on the LFO... then we turn the release up”
“I think it might be an operator as well... you can see down here, it is also an operator”
“we tend to get it to a certain level in Ableton, and then once we start getting the final vocals, take it to Mark and then mix it down”
“I think this is so boring, but just Ableton. I don't know.”
Djo
“I usually use Ableton, so sorry to anyone watching me struggle.”
“We did some of this in Ableton, where we get a little freakier with production stuff.”
Four Tet
“I had a folder of acapellas and the very first one was 3LW, No More. And so I got that and I just dragged it into Ableton”
“Sonny's just insane. Watching him use Ableton is the highest level I've ever seen”
“I don't know what Ableton does. The new version just came out. I haven't bothered to try any of the new things”
IDLES
“when Bowen comes to me with these batshit insane Ableton sessions or crazy concepts, I just say, I'm going to trust this”
“I really like the Ableton stock saturator and just engage soft clip... put that on your drums right now”
“And DrumBus. DrumBus is sick as well. — Yeah, I'm off DrumBus now. I hate plugins that you don't know what they do.”
Imogen Heap
“Because I did go to my lighter setup, I'm using quite a lot of just basic Ableton effects, but I really love this kind of phasey effect”
“they're actually just off the Ableton shelf... that's what I love about Ableton, you could just quickly chuck things in. I use it live as well”
“I'm pretty sure I just used the Ableton, like, pitch it down, change the performance, so it didn't sound like it was trying to sound like me”
Kae Tempest
“It would have been the piano, so I'm gonna open up the Ableton session... with Ableton, you put the audio in and then it feels like putty.”
“Added crashes and some sounds from a drum rack that I had in Ableton.”
Maribou State
“it's on this sort of stretched format called Beats, so it slightly glitches... Oh, this one's on Re-Pitch”
“it's the layering and it's pitching within Ableton... using the different algorithms like Complex Pro and Beats and Re-Pitch”
“we really got more into out-of-the-box EQ stuff for the first time, whereas previously we were quite happy with the Ableton EQs”
“It's the wonderful thing about Ableton. We'll chop certain notes and we'll pitch them and we'll change the part”
Pomplamoose
“when I got to the studio, I created a drum loop on Ableton, ran it through some filters so it sounded old and crusty”
Porter Robinson
“I've tried using Ableton and other sequencers, and this one is just, I'm so married to the way that it moves.”
“It's basically Operator. It's the most simple one.”
RDS
“But yeah, so this is all done in Ableton? Yes.”
“I really like using texture mode, or tone mode I think... like that old jungle time stretch effect”
“being received by the gate, this Ableton gate plugin. There's a bit of an attack, bit of a hold, the floor is -8”
“basically using expression control in Ableton, so it's a random input, each note gets panned slightly differently”
“this Dynamic Tube saturator, so it's just becoming more crunched and crunched”
Rex
“It was kind of a good insight for both of us, as far as production and Ableton and Teo's techniques”
Sam Gellaitry
“I've tried Ableton and I can't really get anything good out of it”
“Ableton is better for solos and this is way better for chords, because you can jump up and down octaves”
Tomora
“Usually I use Ableton as like a kind of playground, it's so easy to throw things around, different pitch, different speed”
“Steve is allergic to Ableton”
“Recording the vocals in Ableton, I like doing that because it's so fluid... the whole thing is running all the time”
“It's me playing the bass guitar into this Ableton sampler and playing around with the resonance to the velocity... just the Ableton stock sampler”
“There's incredible granulator, Granulator Three, which I've used a lot of... I love using Aurora's voice”
d4vd
“I was literally sending them emails like, can you add this feature and add more tracks and add more plugins? And I saw this on Ableton.”
“What is the difference between a reverb on FL Studio between Ableton and different plugins.”