Live 12.2 is here and it finally introduces Bounce to New Track. If you’re a longtime Live user, you might not be familiar with some techniques more commonly used in other DAWs. We’ve broken down six tips to help you get started with this long-overdue (and seriously helpful) new feature.
Sometimes the most boring-sounding features can be the most exciting. Which means that of all the new features announced for Ableton Live’s 12.2 update (Expressive chords, new device updates, additional Push features etc.), the most exciting might well be Bounce to New Track.
Why? Well, here are six of the coolest bounce-in-place-based production tricks that this new feature makes much quicker and easier.
Give them a try, and let us know in the comments which you use, which you’d never heard of before, and which we’ve missed.
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Essential reverse reverb
Reverse reverb creates a magical swelling of echo that can be used to add interest to grooves, fill gaps, introduce new vocal / musical parts, and loads more.
It’s really easy and quick (45-60 seconds when you know what you’re doing) but requires a number of simple steps.
Done right, it sounds amazing (most people miss an important step), so you’ll often find yourself using it on many elements in the same project. And Bounce in Place makes it quicker than ever before.
By the way, while following these steps, say a prayer for the guy who invented reverse reverb (Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, if legend is to be believed), using actual strips of magnetic audio tape!
Without reverse reverb:
With reverse reverb:
- HIghlight one bar of the audio section you want to use and Bounce to New Track.
- Un-mute (called ‘Activate’ in Live) the original audio clip that Live has automatically muted.
- Reverse the freshly bounced audio (the step most people overlook!) and move it one bar to the left
- Add a reverb (plate types sound great), fully wet, and set the reverb time to about 15 seconds.
- Highlight the bar of reversed audio, plus the next eight bars, then Bounce to New track
- Delete the bar of reversed audio (but leave the channel and plugin in place if you want to use the same reverb device again in the same project).
- On the new channel delete the first bar, leaving only the eight bars of reverb tail and reverse the audio. This is our reversed reverb.
- Add a bit of low cut EQ / filtering and raise the level of the reverse reverb if you like/ Some kind of pumping effect can sound great too.
- Tailor the length of the build with a Clip Fade. Shorter is usually better but the full eightworks in breakdown builds.
Top Tip: When using reverse reverb on different sounds in a project, you can save a lot of time at Step 4 by dragging in the same reverb device each time.
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