Ableton Live Ultimate Course 35 - Freezing; Flattening & Consolidating

there's no guys in this video I'm gonna
be going over freezing flattening and
consolidating that's what I need to do
is make a MIDI track here I'll make it
there I'm gonna drop in diva because
it's awesome just do that
Hey look who's me so now I'm going to
find somewhat of a note and go to my
pencil tool there you go all right so we
have something here it's gonna be
totally off-key but doesn't matter
duplicate why am i wide it slow down all
right so I have a diva there and I have
very neat little bass line no transpose
it down 24 maybe Oh negative 24
what am i doing all right so we have a
bass line there so I want to put that
below all right kick and that way it's
in that group now I'm going to switch
our little parallel channel around that
we did before I'm gonna drop it in here
and go Auto and receiving MIDI from
nothing all right so now we have very
neat little oops yeah okay so we have a
we have a neat little groove here so the
first thing is freezing so say if I have
a very complicated synth patch here now
I'm gonna go I'm gonna go consolidate
first actually except that make a lot of
sense so consolidate will take clips and
MIDI and make it the same length that
you select so if I want to make turn if
I want to turn these four kicks into a
loop I can select all of them right
click at the top and then consolidate
show fade smooth that over right and now
I have this as a loop as a new piece of
audio and I have it forever and I can I
can select loop and I can drag it
forever right same thing with MIDI so I
have these little MIDI sections what I
can do
is consolidate then I can consolidate
this I can copy/paste that this is
already put together I'll move this over
there
consolidated I can consolidate this
holiday so now I have things that are
very easy to work with loops very fun
all right so now we're gonna go freezing
alright so this is this is a very
complicated patch and it's you know
bogging everything down and I want to
kind of render it and have it there and
have it still playing what I can do is I
can click here and go freeze freeze
track and what this does is it renders
it in place it renders it as audio and
it just plays that audio right and I can
unfreeze track and then make my edits to
the data and then once I'm done that I
can freeze again and it'll rerender and
we have it here and all that it's kind
of uh
it's kind of like that what we can do
now is we can flatten a flattened works
the same way in Photoshop we want to
render it out like absolutely we can
flatten it and then render it out and
then here we have it as audio with our
tail and all that and of course it's
automatically looped which is fine and
now we have it as audio but now we can't
go back and edit it right but this is a
way to kind of commit things to audio
once you're done so say if you have
something that has a lot of processing
on it and this is bogging your CPU down
you know you know mine's at 3% when you
get the idea if it's bogging it down you
can render a particular piece of audio
or flatten it and then you have it
forever generally yeah we can go back
and we have it as audio again if we undo
but then we don't have it so yeah freeze
and flatten basically the same thing the
reason why you want to consolidate these
loops is because if you have like your
project full of these little one shots
it'll really bog your system down
especially if you have each of these
being
loaded into your Ram it's just a lot of
clips for able to keep track of you have
very large file sizes and you'll get an
out of memory error in Ableton and it's
not fun but if you have it like this you
have you know things that are very easy
to work with and yeah this is the basis
the basis of a very basic track that we
built and you know hope you like it
alright well that's a bad example but
anyway over there stuff we'll be back
with some more things very soon