Welcome back. I'm really excited about what I'm going to show you in this video about launching and triggering. Let's get right into it. I'm going to open my template here. And I'm just going to quick review a few things about how you can launch and trigger audio. So once again, the general setup the orange is for the name.

So let's title this new song One, like my demo song I've been using for all these and the blue is really the important stuff that we need. So I'm going to get our click and countians out of the way. And let's take eighth note accented, I'm going to copy that paste up here. I made a guide. I'm going to bring that in some pre made MIDI and then I'm also going to bring in my track. New Song Instrumental 93 BPM.

So here is everything lined up on the scene. I know this was recorded at 93 BPM. So I'm gonna double click it Got my global set to 93, I'm just going to confirm it because yellow and warp. And there we have it, I got to go to negative one leave room for the guide, putting 93 BPM for for the color of this arrow changes, so I know it's in effect. And let's test it out one, two. Let me put this in the center.

All right here, let's test it 1234. Cool. So at this point, we're good to go for our song, we could use this and trigger it, we would just need to change our outputs based on the situation and so on. So once again, launching a scene. This play button right here triggers everything in the entire row. And these stop buttons function as stop buttons for the vertical track on it.

So anything playing here, if I hit the stop button, it's going to stop and we can remove those if we want by just right clicking. What I want to show you is how you You can go wherever you want. In a song, it takes a little bit of prep, but you can trigger from section to section seamlessly check this out. So what I typically do just for my visual aesthetic on my Ableton set, because I'd like it to be like pretty imperfect and spacious and easy to look at, I duplicate a bunch of these scenes, which you can do by hitting Command D, or just right click and duplicate like so. From there, I'm going to take the guide and track Hold OPTION and then drag it here. So I just made a duplicate.

So let's make a chorus section just in case they wanted to loop the chorus a bunch of times, we can actually take this audio and let's find out where the course is. I'm just going to cheat by using the guide here and look for the chorus q here's a chorus cue looks like the chorus is measure 16 to 24 So it's as simple as this double click the guide 16 to 24. And I'm going to turn oh boy that could have been interesting loop is currently on and we want to turn loop off. That means the guide would keep looping over and over and over. If we didn't turn that off, yikes. So 16 to 24.

And then let's change that same thing on the track. Oh 16 to 24. So this started at negative one, though, so we're actually going to have to put 15 to 23. Let's test that out. There we go. So now we have our guide.

And our track, we can trigger both at the same time. So there's a few different ways to do this. I'll show you how I do it. One option is to have your global quantization to one bar and you could just duplicate this click and have this scene, you could even just call it chorus. And that way quantization will allow you to trigger this anytime within one bar for this one bar setting. So here's quantization.

Anytime within one bar if you trigger it, which is essentially hitting the play button, it will start playing on beat one of the next bar. I'll just break this down and make it really easy. I'm going to start the CLICK HERE 1234. And I'm going to trigger this core scene right here, anytime within one bar, so I'm going to trigger it on v2 341234. And it goes straight back to the course. So rad.

So let's trigger it on v3 now, but it's always going to come back in on B 1230. I missed it. But I still got it with me for 234 For it's as easy as that, as you can see, it flashes when you trigger it when it's waiting to engage. So that's one way to do it. I honestly like my global quantization on none, because I found sometimes when I'm triggering the next song, like if I have this plane, and I want to go to song to it has to wait a second until the bar is done. And honestly, when I'm starting songs, I want them to go right when I hit it one, so that way I can hit and it goes instant, hit two, hit three, and so on.

Here's how I run it that that way works great. I know a lot of people do that and have their quantization at one bar. And I think Ableton is like that on defaults. Here's how I do it. You can change quantization based on the individual clip in this L tab right here. This is the launch tab.

And if we want launch mode on trigger and quantization on one bar we're going to do that for both of these quantization, one bar, see how it's default set to global, which is just going to do whatever set up here. So let's put one bar. And this way, I'm not going to launch the scene anymore. So I'm going to get rid of this. I'll show you how I do this. I'll have to manually click them for now, but I can keymap them or MIDI map them.

So I can trigger it to my convenience using my keyboard or a MIDI controller. So I'm going to hit play here 1234234 There we go. I made it. So that's one way to do it to just click it. But honestly, the convenient way is key mapping. So check this out.

I this is a little bit review. I showed this once I believe earlier in the course if you hit key up here, or it's command K, you can let's use the letter A on both of these slots. Now I'm going to hit key again. And let's use the letter A on the keyboard to trigger this 2341234 There goes, I couldn't keep doing that. So I could do that as many times as I want. It's super fun triggering, you can break up your song from like chorus bridge and just map them to a bunch of different spots in your keyboard, when it gets really fun is mapping them to a MIDI controller.

At this point, I'm going to show you how you can utilize MIDI controllers to control Ableton super freaking awesome and this is how I honestly use it basically every week. I'm a drummer myself, so I don't like to have to drop my sticks while I'm playing and I have it currently set up via Ableton. If I prepare it a certain way, I never have to drop my sticks while I'm playing and this is how I do it. I MIDI map a scene to my top left pad, my drum pad. So you map it just the same way you go into mini map mode. And you hit your pad.

There we go. We see it's MIDI channel one is the first number. The first number is the MIDI channel, and the second number is the MIDI note. So it's a G sharp negative two, I can just hit my pad to start this 123. It's so awesome. So we also want a stop.

So I'm going to use my middle right pad to stop. That's just what I prefer. So I'm going to hit stop right here, this stop button stops all clips. So I want like a master stop to stop everything. And then I'm going to map it to this stop button up here, which stops the clock. So I'm like double for sure stopping you can see that stuff flash when I hit this pad.

So now I can start 1234 and stop. Boom. And since my quantization is on none, it stops right when I hit it if I had my quantum global quantization on one bar, it would wait one bar to stop That makes this so fun. The possibilities are just endless. You can map anything with this. And if you want to map I have two knobs on my Roland SPD s x here, I can map the volume of the track.

As you see, I just turned the wheel my knob here to three or trek three. And now when I spin this knob, the track volume goes up and down. It's just so rad, the possibilities are really endless. So that's just one way I do it. I'm not gonna go super in depth per MIDI controller because it's so situational and that'll take forever. But here are some ideas with a keyboard as well.

If you have a MIDI keyboard or even launch pads, which this one has both, you could map your different sections to different launch pads on your keyboard. I know quite a few music directors who music directs they're banned from keys and trigger tracks that way and they just hit a little lunch. Head up there, it makes it so convenient. It's just nice not having to even have your computer on stage or not have to have your computer right next to you. And a very popular way that many people map this is using like, like this keyboard is using faders. Many people have like this keyboard has nine faders and nine buttons.

So I could just map which is command M for mini map, map this fader to this one this fader, this one, this fader, this one, and so on. That way I have control of them from like a physical fader. So tons of options, just basically remember that anything that's blue here, you can map to a MIDI controller, it's just so rad. So that will give you so many creative ways and options to run your Ableton set. One other pretty important thing that a lot of people ask and are wondering is how they can play just little parts of audio like like samples or a drum drum sounds like a kick and snare whatever. So I'm just gonna quickly To show you the way that I've been using it through Ableton, there's, of course, so many ways there's not a right or wrong way, but this way it has worked great for me.

So I just make a MIDI track. And I drag Ableton plugin. This comes with all versions of Ableton called drum rack. Let's drag on this MIDI track. And we have all these slots here. So at this point, we just hit a pad.

Oh, so there's one important thing here, I'm hooked up this pad via USB to my computer. It's showing up up here. This lets me know this little dot right here lets me know that I'm receiving MIDI. You can see it flashing every time I hit. So I need to put monitor on in if I want to play it live. Or if I want to record I need to put monitor on auto and arm the track both will work and you can see looks like this pad is a C sharp two, this one's a F or C sharp negative two.

This is the F negative to this pad that e minus two You get the point, I keep mine monitor on in when I play live that way I don't have to, like worry about accidentally recording something it's as simple as this. I've changed my MIDI notes in my drum pad to match Ableton Drum Rack my kit, one on my sample pad matches the bottom nine slots in the drum rack. So that's up to you to go in your it depends on the MIDI controller to go change that but it's as simple as this. Watch this. I'm just going to grab some samples. I got a beautiful round kick, crunch clap, that must be really good.

And a door slam. Okay. Boom, simple as that. rad. It's so awesome. So that's how I'll set it up.

And you got to be careful because sometimes you can accidentally if you're using too many controllers at the same time, you can go right here, and here we go. SPD sx there's my Novation impulse. That's my keyboard. Here's my SPD sx, I want to select that. So this track is only receiving MIDI from the SPD sx. And one thing to note about this is latency.

This can be a pain and depends on your computer. Let's go to preferences and see our latency, live preferences. And as you see here, we have overall latency is seven. That's pretty good. I usually keep mine on 128 samples, it keeps my latency low, basically under like 12 or 10 is good and you won't notice a change. I just recommend make sure you have a computer that can handle it.

And use this latency tab which is an audio tab to to your advantage and that's where you can can figure out that latency. Okay. One last thing keyboard sounds, I'm going to backspace this let's insert a MIDI track for a keyboard sound as simple as this dragon a sound. Let's do breast sinky. I'm going to put in Boom that is pumping loud. Simple as that you just drag a MIDI sound on there.

It is so easy. Gotta love it. Okay, you now are super equipped to run this Ableton set you got this. Thanks so much for watching this I will see you in the next video peace