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Discover some of Ableton Lives hidden secrets.
Although I work in various digital audio workstations, I do most of my work in Ableton Live as it is an interface that suites me and simply works quickly and very well.
There are a few hidden secrets to Live and they can be uncovered by right clicking on some of the audio effects plugins. EQ Eight, Dynamic Tube, Flanger and Saturator all have a “high quality” algorithm, Chorus offers a “crisp” option and three delay effects (Ping Pong, Simple Delay and Filter Delay) have 3 different options to chose from.
If you find you select a particular option regularly, you might want to select it, right click again and select “save as default preset”. That way it will always load up as your default setting.
Rob Payne (aka Rob Gonzo and member of Gokon Rave) and I run the Electronic Music Production in Ableton Live course at SAE in Cape Town. Checkout those for more info on the course.
