About This Course

Simon goes through his Push 2 set up and shares valuable information on how to incorporate it with Ableton Live seamlessly.

 You will learn: 

• How to set up and load sounds in a Push 2
• Adding drum tracks and saving/editing patterns
• Drawing or playing bass notes
• Recording automation
• Warping and slicing audio samples

Lessons: 

1. Introduction: 

The Push 2 is basically Ableton software put into a hardware controller, Simon shows us how to load in sounds, set your scales and capture notes. 

• What is the Push  
• Loading in sounds 
• Finding notes and setting scales
• Wavetables and note repeats
• Changing octaves, pitch bending and modulation
• Capturing notes from the push

2. Working with Drums:

Simon demonstrates how to add a new drum track and browse through drum packs, tips on easy quantization, editing patterns and organising the hits with colour. 

• Adding a new track
• Drum Racks
• Duplicating drum patterns
• Recording drum patterns
• Quantizing drums
• Editing the pattern
• Working with Hi Hats, velocity and repeat functions
• Changing colours of individual sounds 
• Organising patterns in Ableton Live and Push

3. Drawing in Bass Notes:

Simon shows us how to browse through bass sounds, record notes and overdub. 

• Drawing and deleting bass
• Recording and overdubbing bass patterns

4. Variations, Automation and Scales: 

Simon explains how to automate in the Push 2. He then explains how to easily work in key and how to design sounds using Wavetable.

• Automation
• Working with Scenes
• Working in key and playing chords
• Designing keys in wavetable
• Effecting and recording keys and chords     
• Adding an arpeggiator

5. Slicing Samples:

An important lesson on loading full samples into the Push and how to slice them up. He touches on warping functions for drums, vocals and melodic instruments.

• Loading samples into Push. 
• Warping and slicing drum samples
• Warping and slicing a vocal
• Warping and Slicing a melodic instrument
• Fusing melodic slice to drums. 

• Q/A: Is it easy to send samples from Splice to the Push?
• Q/A: Can you change formants on Simpler?