Make Generative Music with FOLLOW ACTIONS in Ableton Live 11

Today, or should I say tonight, we explore a less known feature of Ableton Live: FOLLOW ACTIONS and use it to create Generative Music. Generative Music is music that plays endlessly with unpredictable and random results. Follow Actions has been updated for Ableton Live 11 with extra functionality as we will see. Become amazed at all the sound possibilities you know wield with this new technique. Later, we will revisit Generative Music and will see another way we can achieve this sort of effect using a completely different method. As always thanks for the support and please like, comment, and subscribe if you found this video useful to you.
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  • @pauldraper2598
    @pauldraper25982 ай бұрын

    This is such an incredible technique. Please make more videos about this!

  • @user-bw2fw5nj3o
    @user-bw2fw5nj3o2 ай бұрын

    Great Video!!!!

  • @felixando7492
    @felixando74923 ай бұрын

    awesome stuff !

  • @TheRealTeebz
    @TheRealTeebz Жыл бұрын

    i love making generative music in my DAW, because it goes on forever and ever. I'll hit that LIVE button and walk away for hours sometimes the whole day and just let it run and play for the world to listen. I like your methods.

  • @Alfdc
    @Alfdc3 ай бұрын

    Insane !

  • @markopeja6827
    @markopeja68272 жыл бұрын

    just discovered this channel, I istantly fell in love with your mood and your calmness, please never stop making videos

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the kind words and encouragement! I needed to see this right now. I just got my first couple of negative comments and it really threw me for a curve ball. Your message was very timely and thanks! Btw, if you like this Generative music technique, well, the new video that I'm almost finished editing will give you yet another powerful technique for creating generative ambient music. In this new video that will most likely be uploaded tomorrow, we get a similar result but we use a whole chain of MIDI FX. I show two different techniques and I honestly think it might be my favorite Ableton hidden gem technique. You will love it!!!! ❤️🤟🏼🤓😎

  • @moondogbeats
    @moondogbeats6 ай бұрын

    Dude I love your videos and techniques. Keep posting, they are full of value 🙏

  • @user-ve4uw4sl4j
    @user-ve4uw4sl4j Жыл бұрын

    This is just awesome… I just subscribed your channel😊 I would never know this kinda technique without your video.

  • @Repayola
    @Repayola2 жыл бұрын

    I'm absolutely amazed. I knew this follow actions technique but never thought it could be useful to make generative music, so glad I found your channel!

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thats so nice to hear! Tbh, I didn't even know follow actions could do this until it just "happened" one day. I wanted to explore Follow Actions bc I knew that Live 11 updated the section with extra features so I wanted to play around and learn more. I knew that part of Generative Music was to set conditions and allow for the computer to randomly select from a set of choices. So I had two ideas in my mind and then I sat down and the technique just went into full bloom! I'm glad I was able to share it with you all and I'd like to do another tutorial on it after I've had the chance to play around with it some more. Thanks for the continued support!!!

  • @jamiemundo4649
    @jamiemundo4649 Жыл бұрын

    Really really love this video! ! Thank you for your help with my sequence adventure. ..

  • @josephxu1188
    @josephxu11888 ай бұрын

    soooo amazing video fxxking love it !!! may the force be with u !!!!

  • @w.i.s.-worldinfosharing8189
    @w.i.s.-worldinfosharing8189 Жыл бұрын

    Niceee, thanks for sharing

  • @Assis4
    @Assis410 ай бұрын

    Good technique. I'll try it. Thanks

  • @suntrekkerthompson8741
    @suntrekkerthompson87414 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing, absolutely awesome

  • @Anirog
    @Anirog10 ай бұрын

    This is awesome, yes please make them all day 🔥

  • @thewolfgirlliberation
    @thewolfgirlliberation Жыл бұрын

    That was amazing 👏

  • @gavinhewitt5814
    @gavinhewitt58149 ай бұрын

    I just starting using Ableton this week after years of using FL. Your videos are so helpful! you show me all the stuff I wanted to learn that I couldn't really do in FL. Thank you so much!

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    9 ай бұрын

    that's amazing to hear! Keep watching! Some great stuff in the SDHOs as well! Cheers!

  • @playamaqui
    @playamaqui18 күн бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @shmurflHD
    @shmurflHD9 ай бұрын

    indeed amazing ahah, great vid, enjoyed a lot the melody, actually that c and d one octave higher with the other and again percents just made a really coherent and beautiful melody.. thanks for sharing :)

  • @pblondeel5707
    @pblondeel57072 жыл бұрын

    Very good, thank you

  • @clivecarter7913
    @clivecarter79139 ай бұрын

    It’s drone at the end 🎉 brilliant

  • @sawd1
    @sawd12 жыл бұрын

    Great video into the wave table, nice tricks with recording the audio and midi straight into other tracks 🙌🏽 started Ableton couple weeks ago :)

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the great comment! If you recently started Ableton only a few weeks ago and you were able to follow along when I recorded the audio and MIDI into their own Audio and MIDI tracks and didn't get confused, then you are certainly on your way to Ableton glory my friend! It appears you're ableton adventure is off to a great start, I'm sure this was meant for you!! I think you may also like my "Generative Ambient Music technique with MIDI FX" video I just uploaded as it gives a similar technique but using MIDI FX. You are on your way to greatness!!

  • @stickytentaclesmusic
    @stickytentaclesmusic2 жыл бұрын

    YES! Loved this video. Knew about follow actions but haven´t looked much into it. That needs to change. Thanks for this! :-D

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    YESSSSS!!! Such a powerful technique that almost never gets used. In fact, I think the Follow Actions panel is hidden by default. Ableton is just so damn nice!!! 🤟🏼😎🤓☺️🤤

  • @Serge_Era
    @Serge_Era Жыл бұрын

    intresting tricks

  • @marksargeant1019
    @marksargeant101911 ай бұрын

    Loved this as it was really inspiring so subbed

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    11 ай бұрын

    thanks thats great to hear! you're exactly who i make this video for!! 🙌🏼

  • @sebastianrussell
    @sebastianrussell8 ай бұрын

    Amazing, so creative and straightforward!

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    7 ай бұрын

    thank you kind sir!

  • @theUbiq
    @theUbiq2 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff - thanks

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    THANK you! I'm cranking out the tuts so please feel free to check back for additional content.

  • @mizzori
    @mizzori6 ай бұрын

    joooooo this is siiickk 🔥🔥🔥

  • @june21_
    @june21_2 жыл бұрын

    Fav vid of yours so far…luv the calculated randomization into resampling then manipulating the audio afterwards. Been weird and haven’t opened Ableton for almost a year but this is knocking me back into a confident space. Thank you

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    This comment made my day. Ableton can be such a source of happiness and joy. I'm glad this video got you excited about making music. I will be making another tut exploring a similar Generative music technique that involves MIDI fx. Homework: see if you can go crazy adding MIDI fx to achieve a similar result. Hint: you will definitely be using the Arpregiator and the Chord MIDI effects. Stay tuned to the channel for new videos and thanks for the love and support!!

  • @steffenkisonicalchemy
    @steffenkisonicalchemy2 жыл бұрын

    great one as well!!! thanks

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the support- on both platforms. Also happy to meet a fellow light worker bringing in the new golden age!! Ascension and 5D is here. so glad we connected!

  • @steffenkisonicalchemy

    @steffenkisonicalchemy

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Jemeneye7 aho brother!!! what you do is really inspiring also the 3D animation with the light codes! full resonance

  • @E_Dolla_Sign
    @E_Dolla_Sign9 ай бұрын

    Best thumbnails in the game you should have more subscribers

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    9 ай бұрын

    haha thanks, you are too kind! I may start teaching digital art techniques soon

  • @AnmolGor
    @AnmolGor2 жыл бұрын

    Wow very nicee. this is a really different approach to it! tho i wanna know, how is this different than using an Arpeggiator? or rather why not use the Ableton ARP plugin?

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Tbh, there very similar. However, I've found (for me) that the Follow Actions can allow you to customize the output greater to your personal needs. This is bc you can set the dual follow action controls to restrict it to what it will play next. for instance, if we're jammin in Dorian, the sound comes from the 6 and the b7. so if you prefer it every time it plays the 6 in the scale it play the next (the b7) then you can really hone in on the dorian mode feel. Tbh, I'm almost going to use follow actions more now bc this may give me even better results. in any event, always good to explore with as many options as possible. Sometimes great music just wants to come out one way on a particular day! sorry for the delay in responding my friend, Brilliant question!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

  • @jonbrayford1
    @jonbrayford12 жыл бұрын

    This is great,really interesting.i have used and understand the majority of the techniques here but it's the magical missing 5% and a great approach that's refreshing and new.just as an aside,I guess you are aware of Paulxstretch? If not you'll love it.keep up the good work.

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ahh yes, the magical missing 5%! I know what you mean... You can be working on something in Ableton and nothing sounds good or particularly interesting, and then all of a sudden you turn one knob or add something and then all of a sudden MAGIC happens and its like the music is coming to life. I actually didn't know the technique would work so well especially with just a simple sine wave which shows just how powerful these techniques can be. Thanks for the support! more tuts in the pipeline

  • @jonbrayford1

    @jonbrayford1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Jemeneye7 excellent! Look forward to seeing them.ive adapted your (superb) approach with a few generative tricks of my own,adding some random to the velocity and others.

  • @genericname2284
    @genericname2284 Жыл бұрын

    Or you could just use random and scale with a string of midi notes and an arpeggiator

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    Жыл бұрын

    yes sir! in fact, watch me do it here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nIqBz5aCfseqepM.html . So you may ask, why do it here with follow actions? Well, the way I've come to now view it is you do it when you know after certain notes, you want to then hit other notes right afterward. So you'll set the probabilities in the follow actions to play the next clip with more probability when you know you want to (lets say) go to the b7 from the 6 if you're in dorian to capture that dorian feel. I don't use this technique all the time but its cool and fun. thanks for watching!!

  • @krnflks
    @krnflks2 жыл бұрын

    I just have a single clip playing a single note, then use the "random" midi effect with a "scale" midi effect after it to have it spit out what notes I want instead of completely random ones. Whats more, you can then take the midi output of that track, link it to another midi track, then record the output as midi tracks.

  • @Jemeneye7

    @Jemeneye7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wondeful! Yessss, that is the other way in ableton to creative generative music. I cover that technique in my "Generative Ambient Music Technique with MIDI FX" tutorial. Give it a watch if you'd like.

  • @krnflks

    @krnflks

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Jemeneye7 I shall! Thanks for the useful tips.

  • @mark81953

    @mark81953

    6 ай бұрын

    This works great with drum patterns, breaks, etc

  • @Sevetamryn
    @Sevetamryn9 ай бұрын

    Half speed is best speed ...

  • @ModuSpaSm
    @ModuSpaSm11 ай бұрын

    Indeed interesting information, thank you for sharing this. Of course, there are several tutorials covering "follow actions" ( e.g. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mG2ovNabiamTcZs.html&ab_channel=dBsInstitute )and on how to create generative music in Ableton (it's not Eurorack, but still interesting possibilities). Be sure to connect a midi controller to Ableton in combination with VCV Rack or one of the synths: then you can go crazy in modular/generative music! ---- And yes, this IS fun ;)