One of them contains a beat and bass, and the other contains a very expected performance of claps. This can be especially handy for getting a word or two replaced in a vocal performance, or improving a one- or two-bar instrumental phrase. (*The below video has audio so make sure your volume is on.) Watch the video below to see this working in real time. When it reaches the out point, Live will stop recording and resume playback of the existing clips on that track, so you don’t have to worry about recording over what was previously there. Next, click somewhere before the punch-in point that’s before the element we want to re-perform, and click the Arrangement Record button.Īs we play along, when we reach the punch-in point, Live will start recording.

Next, enable punching by clicking the Punch-In and Punch-Out switches surrounding the Loop switch. If you don’t want the punch-in and -out points to loop, disable the Loop switch now. Within the Arrangement View, we can set our in and out points, the same way we set our loop brace. Start by arming the track you want to punch to record. And feel free to check out this course in its entirety to learn pretty much everything you need to get started producing music in Ableton Live. So below, we’ll show you exactly how to set that up, courtesy of Ableton Certified Trainer Claire Marie Lim’s course on Soundfly. And in Ableton Live 10, we don’t have to worry about physically punching a button on the fly, we can set it up in advance and let the track catch up automatically. Nowadays, obviously it’s much more simple than that. This could be accomplished on one or several tracks simultaneously and allowed the mixer to seamlessly blend two sections together as if they’d played them that way the first time. The term “punching in and out” goes back to the days of recording on tape, where the band would play along to their previous take, and then, the engineer would punch the record button as they played along to replay a part or phrase.

That’s exactly what punching in and out can help with. Let’s say you’ve recorded a new part, but there are just a few notes you wish were better.

To access the rest of this lesson, plus hundreds more videos and tutorials on production, songwriting, composing, arranging, beat making, and mixing, subscribe here. + This is an excerpt from Soundfly’s Intro to Music Production in Ableton Live course.

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