#Ableton simple delay beat divisions how to#

One reason to choose a delay instead of reverb, as illustrated in the second and third panels of screen 1, is to separate the effect from the source. Click the Lo Cut and/or Hi Cut buttons and then use the handle in the graphic display or the numerical readouts to adjust the filter’s frequency and resonance. The filter in the Input Processing section of Live’s Reverb device can also work wonders in keeping the reverb out of the way, and it does not affect the dry portion of Reverb’s output. (Applying reverb to individual kit pieces is most easily done when you place the reverb in one of the Drum Rack’s Return Chains.) More generally, look for individual tracks or parts where reverb really helps and then remove or reduce it on the other parts. For example, when you have a drum track with a strong back beat, try applying the reverb to the back beat and turning it off for the rest of the kit pieces. The control-panel graphics show the send levels to the delay (A) and reverb (B).Turning the reverb off on a track or submix doesn’t need to be as ham-handed as it sounds. But first, here’s a quick look at the other two ways of taming reverb.ġ: The six panels show the effect of applying reverb, a quarter-note delay or various combinations of the two to a short piano chord. This month we’ll investigate ways to use Live’s various delay effects alone as well as with other effects to either replace or augment reverb. You’ll find a lot of creative ways to use delay along with or instead of reverb in Geoff Smith’s Recording Techniques column ‘ Creating & Using Custom Delay Effects’ in SOS May 2012 issue. When reverb is gumming things up you have three ways of taming it: turn the reverb off, reduce its bandwidth or try delay instead.

#Ableton simple delay beat divisions how to#

We show you how to use Live’s delays as a replacement for reverb and as an effect in their own right.