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Have you ever wondered what your sampled piano might sound like inside a cavern? Or, how about playing a drum machine in the middle of an old church? Using convolution reverb, you can apply the characteristics of real-world spaces to any audio material, all without the the cost of travel or having to find a power outlet for your synth inside an ancient stone tower.
50+ videos Play all Mix - Ableton Live Tutorial - Reverb and Convolution Reverb YouTube Ableton Live Tips - Moving From Session To Arrangement View - Duration: 19:39. MusicTech 805 views. When the download of the Live 9 dmg is complete, double-click on that file and a mounted disk named 'Ableton Live 9' will appear on your desktop and open automatically. As shown, drag the application Ableton Live 9 in the Applications folder at the root of your Mac OS X drive.
The crux of convolution reverb is an impulse response, or “IR” - a sample taken from a space to capture its character. Using a convolution reverb, you can apply the character of any number of real-world spaces, vintage pieces of hardware, and more, to your sound. In fact, any audio file can serve as an IR - want to convolve a guitar with a cat’s meow? Nothing’s stopping you.
In Live 9, the Max for Live Essentials Pack comes with the basic Convolution Reverb and the robust Convolution Reverb Pro, two premium Max for Live effects that use convolution.
A short phrase dry, then run through Live 9’s Convolution Reverb on with the “Large Wood Room” IR.
Live 9’s Convolution Reverb comes with a selection of IRs from natural spaces, classic hardware reverbs, and more. There’s also a treasure trove of free IRs available from a diverse community of sound designers online. Ever wanted to capture the sound of the actual batcave? The EchoThief collection includes an IR from the original location of the batcave from the 1960s TV version of Batman. We’ve collected some of our favorite IR resources at the end of this article.
Collecting IRs can be tricky business - to learn more about it, we interviewed Ableton sound designers Matt Jackson and Christian Kleine. “For pro work in the field,” says Matt, “it’s best to a) work at night when there is the littlest street noise possible; b) use really good signal path (loud and clean monitors, high quality sound card and measurement mics;) and c) use a long sweep (a sine wave that moves smoothly from a low to a high frequency).” Sampling from plug-ins or hardware reverb is a bit simpler - here, Matt recommends using a DC click - a short, one-sample sound impulse that provides a very “clean” sound source.
If you want to collect your own IRs, you can use the IR Measurement Device (included with the Max for Live Essentials Pack). With adjustable settings for capturing audio and generating either impulses or sweeps, the IR Measurement Device makes it easy to make an IR out of anything in your studio.
Matt takes an IR at Kraftwerk Berlin.
While a sweep might be ideal for large rooms, it’s also more difficult to set up. Another great tool for taking IRs is a gas starter pistol (the type used to start athletics races) - as used by Matt in the video above. Relating the story of this IR, Matt explains:
“I used a starter pistol because I can hit record on my laptop and walk around a space firing off at different locations and I don’t need to haul big heavy speakers anywhere (it’s also the most fun). A starter pistol will also color the IR a lot (and limit the bandwidth) but often that’s ok.
“When we were scouting locations for the Convolution Reverb movie we were looking for interesting places in Berlin that were large and quiet. This led us to a bunch of old abandoned hospitals, ice factories and military buildings. It was incredible, you really start to feel the history of berlin when you go to these places. Not only was I shocked by the number of unused spaces in such a popular city, but because of the history of Berlin, and the way these places were somehow left in a state of disrepair but stuck in the time they were abandoned, it was like traveling in time.
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“For the video, we got in touch with the owners of Tresor who also own Kraftwerk Berlin, an abandoned power plant. It’s the same place that a month later was used for Atonal festival. It was the best place we could have imagined! Huge. Reverberant. Incredibly interesting. And no outside sounds.”
After traveling to unique spaces and unearthing rare gear, we wanted to know if there were any particular IRs that really stuck out to Christian and Matt. “Very special to me are some of the vintage hardware units, like the Stocktronics RX-4000 Plate reverb, The SwissEcho 2000 or some very old Farfisa Spring reverbs,” says Christian. “The Ursa Major Spacestation and some of the 'real spaces' are also favorites.”
“Real places are great because they sound so special and they come with this association,” says Matt. “I use Drum Booth Real, St Andrews Church, Amazing Stereo Spring, and the ABCLR M2S ones a lot. People often are drawn to the huge ones, but in practice I often use about 5 tiny short ones for stereo imaging for every big space. Unless it’s pads or dub music (of which I love both) big spaces can cloud up a mix real quickly. The convolution pro has some great tools for making the IR much shorter so sometimes I start big and then pull it down a lot as well as EQ out big chunks on the ends.”
Now, it’s your turn - go out there and find your own special spaces! Want some more IR collections to get going and get inspired? Here’s some of our favorites:
Echo Thief - IRs from out-of-the-way spaces from all over North America.
Echochamber - a selection of hardware and DSP IRs from a mixing/mastering studio.
Fokke van Saane - an eclectic IR collection spanning from classic hardware reverb units to the engine of a Mercedes.
Dubbhism - as the name implies, these IRs are tailored to dub. Featuring vintage spring, plate, hall, and other reverb units.
FFS Percussive Echoes - a free selection of IRs designed specifically for drums, from sound designer Diego Stocco.
Do you have some of your own IRs that you’d like to share with the Ableton community? Let us know on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+, and don’t forget to use #MadeWithLive.
Max for Live, potentially offers endless new MIDI and Audio Effects, Instruments and Video Devices .
Since Ableton Live 9. Max for Live is bundled with the Suite version of Live.
If you are not already using Max for Live you should first check out the Max for Live Essentials Pack which includes very useful tools for your production including a the brand new Convolution Reverb.
Max is a visual programming language designed for media artists. You can start building your own devices and edit other’s
Shortly after Max for Live was introduces maxforlive.com started. There you can find hundreds of free and paid M4L devices and library is growing everyday!
I always love finding new Max for Live devices and I’ll start posting the ones that stand out which I find myself using more regularly.
Palmas
I’ve been using Palmas for a while now. It makes a very realistic clap sounds. It’s really simple and just works. It allows you do decide how many people are clapping and even automate it.
So you can go from one person clapping to a big group of 32 people clapping.
You can even change how accurately timed the claps are. You can change the pitch and even the sound across the stereo field.
If you’re looking for more live sounding organic claps, Look no further.
Download Palmas (Free)
Palmas is part of a pack of devices created by Beyond-Digital. The included instruments are more focused on ethnic scales called Maqams. All the devices share a very unique and beautiful design.
J74 Harmotools
I’ve always envied Logic‘s built-in chord detector you can find in the global transport bar. Finally you can have one just like that with Max for Live.
J74 Harmotools are a collection of Max MIDI effects to help you with your compositions. Inside the pack you can find the HarmoChord J74. Simply load it into a MIDI track and start playing, it will tell you which chord you playing or which chord is being played from the MIDI clip.
Download J74 Harmotools (Free)
Stereo Imager
You can achieve stereo widening effect in various ways in Ableton Live (Utility, Frequency Shifter, Filter Delay etc.) but this Stereo Imager from Calvin Lanz just works straight out of the box. Drop it on any track and you’ll instantly hear the sounds completely spread across the stereo field. Really great on Pads, Noise, Textures, Arpeggios and Backing Vocals.
Download Stereo Imager (Free)
Track Stereo Pan Enabler
Ableton’s lack of a true stereo panning is hardly talked about. In Live the Pan knobs only function as a Stereo Balance. Meaning that they only turn down one side as much as you turn the Pan knob.
To get true stereo panning you can use Faint Response – Track Stereo Pan Enabler a free Max Audio Effect from Marc Sprecher.
Place the device on any Audio track and instantly it will take over that Track’s panning. Now using the regular Pan knob you used all along you can achieve true stereo panning that will more naturally change the perceived sonic angel of the sound and not just turn down the left or the right channel. Valuable on the stereo sounds of your tune. It might even solve you some mixing problems.
Download Track Stereo Pan Enabler (Free)
For more details on the panning limitation in Live check out the very informative video from Urple Eeple.
One
Might be the most simple yet useful Max for Live device out there. Created by Certified Trainer Yehezkel Raz out of Israel.
This Device has only one knob. You map this knob to one of the knobs/faders on your MIDI controller. Then every parameter in Live that you click with your mouse will be controller by that one knob/fader on your MIDI controller! So you can basically use one knob to control any parameter in Ableton Live!
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You can get a lot more free and useful Max for Live devices like this on Yehezkel’s blog 4live.me
Max Devices Installation
Drag the downloaded file to:
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Max Instruments: User Library -> Presets -> Instruments -> Max Instruments
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Max MIDI Effects: User Library -> Presets -> MIDI Effects -> Max MIDI Effects
Max Audio Effects: User Library -> Presets -> Audio Effects -> Max Audio Effects
Do you know of any must have Max for Live devices? Let me know, Would love to check them out.