Nice glitch Ableton Live tutorial
May 20, 2010 · Posted in Uncategorized
Ableton Live guru Tom Cosm explains his approach to creating “a glitching effect that compliments whatever you want to glitch. I have named this effect Clitch”.
This is the latest in a series of very nicely done videos by Cosm – see his site for more info and his YouTube channel for earlier videos.
In this tutorial video I explain a unique way of glitch up your audio, be it synths, drums or vocals.
The technique works like this
- Add an audio effect rack after what you want to glitch, and give it 128 chains
- Give each chain a unique effect (beat repeat, filter etc)
- Midi asign a range of 128 keys (C-2:G8) to the Chain Selection Ruler
- Create a new “trigger” midi track
- Send the MIDI of that trigger track out to the IAC driver
- Either duplicate the MIDI clip for your synthline, or extract a groove from a sample and drag it from the groove pool onto the new trigger clip
- Add MIDI effects to the trigger track so that the new notes in the MIDI clip do new and intersting things.
This is probably the most advanced tutorial I have made, so I encourage you to watch the video as I feel I do a much better job explaining it than I do writing it down!

