Ableton Tutorial: Adding Life to Short Loops

In the world of loop-based music, it can be easy to create music that sounds repetitive and redundant, and at worst, boring.  If you happen to be dealing an extremely short loop, a listener's interest can be lost fast.  

Fortunately Live allows you program automation that is longer than your loop.  So you can take a one bar loop and have a filter sweep from high to low over the course of four bars.  This will make your one bar loop sound like a four bar one.  Things get really exciting when you combine many different layers of automation of a variety of different lengths.  

This tutorial will show you how you can create complex automation on short loops, which makes those short loops come alive! Visit my site for more stuff like this, including Live Instrument downloads, tutorials and music! http://www.afrodjmac.com AfroDJMac http://www.facebook.com/afrodjmac http://www.twitter.com/afrodjmac http://www.afrodjmac.tumblr.com