Ableton Live 12 Tools for Chopping + Joining MIDI Notes
Composer + author Dennis DeSantis (Making Music Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers) shared this in-depth tutorial on using the new tools in Ableton Live 12 to chop and join notes to create complex rhythms.
Video Summary:
“This video introduces Live 12’s new tools for chopping and joining MIDI notes.
You can use this to create very complex rhythms, which I demo by transcribing a few bars of Brian Fernyhough’s ‘Bone Alphabet’ for solo percussion.”
Topics Covered
0:00 Intro
1:49 How to chop notes
2:47 How to join notes
4:17 Bone Alphabet – the 1st bar
11:08 Bone Alphabet – the 2nd bar
14:37 Nested tuplets
16:20 Bone Alphabet – the 3rd bar
24:01 Wrapping up
