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As many of you know, I've been using the "Utility" Template for Ableton Live since 2013 and it's been an absolute game changer for me personally. In this Patreon early access video, I go over the history of the Utility Template, how it works, and how I use it so hopefully it answers any question you might have. Even if you don't use Ableton, it's still a great workflow and you might pick up a couple things. 

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Cheers, enjoy, and thanks for supporting me on Patreon!

Chris | S1gns Of L1fe 

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GAME CHANGER: The "Utility" Template for Ableton Live 🔊🚨

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orbit

Hi - is this only useful if we have the Ableton Live Suite version?

MachineWerks Design

Any chance for an updated version of this for those that purchased it?

Criamon

Nice. Will replace the stock effects with the valhalla effects this afternoon :) (this is answers some questions I had for quite some time 👍

Phil Baumann

I use FL Studio as DAW, but I will revise my template after watching this. Really great things happens there. THX Chris! Maybe you could tell non Abelton Users something about the Frequencies at the EQ? How much reduction and which exact frequencies you drop down?

Mykal23

I bought the template and began, just a little, this weekend in creating a like template for Bitwig (before watching this vid). This video helps a lot. Some of the Ableton features port over by opening the template with Bitwig. Bitwig allows for this and it works pretty well on a fuller musical project. With the blank template however, the track-buss-premaster routing was lost(but that is easy to recreate). And, of course, some of the Ableton-to-Bitwig utilities substitutions are a bit off. But this video should allow me to fix that. Nice!

Oblique

I wonder if we could use the same EQ frequencies on the Octatrack for hardware ambient music.

Oblique

also what is a good glue-compressor alternative for bitwig?

Sky Ortiz

As a complete beginner and just recently joining the community here I really appreciate you creating a video around this template, especially given it is used in so many of your videos and tutorials! Thank you so much!

Oblique

So the Fx returns go into the master not the "pre-master" and therefore do not benefit from any compression/glue is that correct?

Oblique

Would it be possible to have a Followup video on how to use this template with the "pink noise" mixing technique? I ask because it is unclear how each channel's fader works with the -18db compressor goal. If I can here -18db pink noise above my track so I increase the utility gain or fader? I think you alluded to using the "utility" plug-in to boost reduce gain? Or do I misunderstand!

Oblique

Ok thanks for the reply - can I ask how loud should the pink noise be (when routed to master / no limiter etc)

Chandro Ji

Great Utility! Just downloaded and installed! Tomorrow I will have a first run to check and figure out the features. It looks very useful! I really like the two Berlin Delays! 👍😊