Ableton Live Ultimate Course 34 - Parallel Channels; Groups & Sends Video Lecture | Become the Master of Music Production: Ableton (English)

sup guys let's go over parallel channels
groups and since we're going to make a
little bit of a groove here we pop open
our kick another another tip is kind of
important is showing fades because
you'll notice that that sounds much
different than this so what it's doing
is its fading so you're right click and
show fades and you just move that over
and then you get the click of your kick
and then you're all good alright alright
so we have our kick there and we will a
lot of clap why not
alright so we have a clap here and that
sounds fine alright leave that so I'm
going to set up a parallel channel so
I'll have another MIDI track or another
audio track here external in from audio
3 oops audio 3 will have it input right
so we have it will go pre effects yeah
right so we have audio 3 going into
audio 4 and it's before the effects
chain so it's completely dry signal so
we're going to do is we're going to do
some New York compression and that is
drop in a compressor will go I will go
go compressor here just regular
compressor for now and that's setting it
to a very high ratio right and
compressing it quite a bit so we'll do
is we will bring the volume down and
then we mix them together alright so we
have the dynamics of this clap and the
harshness of this one and that works out
to make it sound a bit more fuller
alright cool let's let's add something
else here let's go
to our samples we'll just drop in a loop
just for the sake of time right wait we
have that oops shouldn't be putting that
in there alright we'll put that in there
that's what I want to do now is I want
to group this I want to group all of
these so what you do is you shift select
all and then group and this is a good
way we'll color code it I like purple
we'll color code it well we have our
group here and this is everything in
this group so the kick the clap the
other clap and the loop we have here we
have it all grouped together so what
we'll do now is we'll add a glue
compressor to kind of compress this all
together and that way the ABCs there we
go this is a glue compressor and it's a
already went over it it's a nice
compressor threads clipping a little bit
so I'll turn on soft clip now this is a
very rich harmonic clip that we're using
right and this will glue the entire mix
together on and off right okay we have
that alright let's add what's ahead let
a synth cut we'll find one okay perfect
so we'll drop this guy in here and this
will be our city part and we'll do that
all right so we have this so what I want
to do is you know a lot of people into
this and they use return tracks which is
fine
so we have our return track down here we
can right click and then create one if
we want but we'll just have a a return 1
return here this will do we'll drop in a
reverb dropped it will set the wet to a
hundred percent so that way you know we
don't get like the original signal it's
all wet
when we send things to it you'll notice
that on each of our channels we have the
ability to send a bit of the audio to
the send so we're sending our or synth
lead part whatever it is right we're
sending it to that well on solo alright
and it's a very subtle way of adding you
know reverb overall to certain elements
and a saves on CPU usage too right so we
can have a reverb just for our our new
your compressed clap here right okay now
what is more GM yeah okay yeah so it's
basically parallel channels groups and
sends groups are grouping everything
sends our what we send things to
parallel channels are ways to do some
fancy new your compression there's
another way you can do new your
compression and that is with the same
compressor you'll notice that if we very
high threshold here we can adjust the
wet/dry or the dry/wet we have the dry
signal mixed with the heavily compressed
signal and this is another way to do
that but if you do it this way you don't
have necessarily control so say if we
want to add a delay a very fast delay to
our parallel channel we can do that um
yeah yeah that's a parallel channel
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