#TURN PIANO INTO BAR HOW TO#

Make sure this button with a dot inside (called вЂ Arm вЂ™ button) is red. To hear its sound you can use your computers keyboard (or if you have a MIDI keyboard, but that вЂ™ s entirely optional). Now, to drag any instrument onto a track, you can just double click its name and it should open automatically. You can type in вЂћGrand Piano into the search bar at the top - when you click вЂћInstrumentsвЂќ it should show up. YouвЂ™ll find a lot of instruments under вЂћInstrumentsвЂќ - if youвЂ™ve got Ableton Suite, then check out the Grand Piano. To load up an instrument onto the track, we need to find it. But before we can hear any sound, we have to load up an instrument. You can use the MIDI track to play any instrument you like - for example the piano, a synthesizer (like SERUM), or even drums. Another way to do this is to right click there and simply choose Delete

We will cover the Audio type of tracks later, so you can delete it by selecting it (clicking its name - Audio) and pressing delete (mac) / backspace (win). Thats because everyВ single sound in Ableton is either coming from one type of those tracks. Now if you look on the right side you should have two tracks - one MIDI and one Audio. The first Session View is for collecting ideas and performing live, the actual production side of things always happens in the horizontal view. This second view is called Arrangement View. What I want you to do is to press the Tab key on your keyboard - it will take you to a second view, in which weвЂ™re going to be working in. When you load it up for the first time, this screen should show up. Let me start at the default screen of Ableton. LetвЂ™s get started!Д«y the way - if you'd like to learn more about making music in Ableton feel free to check out our new course where we're explaining all the basics you need to get started.

#TURN PIANO INTO BAR HOW TO#

Today I will show you how to work with MIDI in Ableton.

Turn piano into bar