Effects Processing In Ableton Live - Using The Grain Delay - Loop+ Quick Tip Certified Ableton trainer Rob Jones introduces a new series of tutorials for Ableton on effects processing. In this video Rob looks at Ableton’s Grain Delay and demos each of the parameters on a percussion loop. Simple Delay and Ping Pong Delay missing after update to 10.1. Live Versions: 10.1 and later Operating system: All In Live 10.1 and later, Simple Delay and Ping Pong Delay have been replaced by a unified device called Delay. Although, the goal is to have everything set up to be ready to use immediately after download. Today’s effect is a grain delay with a little nice-n-bright reverb. Also, we will add an auto filter to the beginning of the chain in order to roll off the sub of the track so we don’t get any sub frequency panning going on form the delay line.

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Here is a percussion kit and loops filled with organic forest sounds. All royalty free and free to download. There are sounds from dry leaves being crunched, twig snaps, dragging my feet along a stoney pathway and more. I think there is about 500 one shots and loops in total. Grain delay is an effect which chops up the audio signal into small chunks called grains. You can control the grain size & amount with the Frequency knob - higher frequencies mean more and smaller grains. All controls are on the left of the device. The XY display controls two selected parametres (yellow when selected). Spray (top-left) is actually a delay setting, but its effect is to add jitter to the grain spacing, so I think of it as a grain setting. The numerical box next to Grain Delay's Sync/Time button has different functions and separate mapping assignments in Sync and Time modes, and I've dedicated a knob to each. Live Sets, Racks, presets, Max for Live devices, and anything else you can download and use in Ableton Live. To download your free trial of Ableton Live visit Try Live for free. Downloads Matmos Present More Sounds from the Polish Radio Experimental Studio. Downloads Download.

One of these would be the Grain Delay, which is possibly one of the most understated. Its plain packaging hides the fact that it is able to create some amazing textures and sounds from anything that you throw at it. In fact, I've used it to randomly generate sounds that have left people scratching their heads later in terms of how I actually did create them.

One technique that I love would be using the Grain Delay to randomize various drum hits in realtime, and record this process from within Ableton using the Resampling function, then edit the randomly generated sounds for a whole new set.

Let me show you what I mean:

Step 1 - Find a Starting Synth Patch

I'm going to start off with a simple, self-made drum loop that I made in Ableton Live with a Drum Rack. Feel free to use my loop as an audio file, or try recreating it, if you like, with your own drums.

Don't feel like you need to spend a lot of time on the beat, because we're going to be tearing it up!

Step 2 - Add a Grain Delay

Alright, now we'll drop a Grain delay onto our drum loop track. This is where the fun begins. The Grain Delay is basically a realtime tool kit for destruction.

In this exercise, we're going to have the Dry/Wet knob all the way up. Normally, you wouldn't do this, because when you run anything through a Delay in full wet mode, you get serious latency. However, we're only recording what we're doing, and farming the recording for sounds; we don't need to be accurate!

Step 3 - Set up a Resample Track

Press Control-T to create an Audio track, and then from the Audio From drop-down menu, select Resampling. This routes all of Ableton's audio back into this one track, so that you can record its main output in realtime. This will allow you to record your tweaks in Grain Delay in realtime, too.

Step 4 - Record your Grain Delay Tweaks

Record enable your Resample track, and then start playing your drum beat. When you are ready, start recording on your Resample track. /audio-device-on-high-definition-audio-bus-driver-download-hp.html.

Note: Personally, I like to go at a low tempo so that I have a possibility of getting individual sounds processed with some space in between. This makes it easy for editing later!

While recording, here are some navigational controls on the Grain Delay that really make this session almost like driving:

• Spray: Adds random delay changes and can be used for smearing and noise. Between this, Frequency and Random Pitch, I rely on this function for creating textures and distorted beats. At low levels with Frequency, this will slow down the speed of your signal to some degree..very cool.
• Random Pitch: At low levels, adds a slight pitch randomization. At higher levels it produces random destruction. I sprinkle this in here and there as I tweak.
• Frequency: The higher you increase this setting, the faster the spray and Random Pitch begin to modulate. Experiment with these three for textures, dirty beats and sounds.
• Pitch: Not to be confused with Random Pitch! This setting changes the complete pitch of your incoming signal. I usually oscillate around with this.

Keep in mind, there are no perfect settings on this. Just tweak and have fun!

Step 5 - Finish up and Chop, Chop!

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Once you're finished with your recording session, stop recording and copy your work into the Arrangement View. From here, it's easy to either copy pieces of your recording to their own clips, drag segments into Impulse or Simpler , or export your recording and chop it up with your favorite wave editor.

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Here are two sounds I got for my new kit!

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