Ableton Live - MPE

Jonas Barsten plays drums with Alan Walker and is Norways only Ableton Certified Trainer.

In collaboration with Ableton, Jonas brings you a series of in depth videos about the new features in Live 11 – and how to use them.

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MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) in Ableton Live.

MPE is short for MIDI Polyphonic Expression. It allows you to edit pitch bend, and other expressions per note, as opposed to normal MIDI expressions that affect all notes at once.

For example, with a normal pitch bend, if you play a chord on a keyboard, all the notes in the chord are bendt at the same time. With MPE we can have pitch bend for individual notes in the chord.

There are 3 dimensions of MPE: slide (x axis), pitch (y axis) and pressure (z axis).

Most MIDI instruments and MIDI controllers do not support MPE yet, but we can still use the power of MPE for all MIDI instruments in Live.

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November 10th 2020: Teasers on YouTube

November 27th 2020: Live webinar with secret guest discussing all the new features with Q&A

November 28th 2020: Recording of webinar available at VIERLIVE

November 30th 2020: In-depth videos available at VIERLIVE

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Thanks to:

Alan Walker and MER for letting us use Alan's songs

Blå for lending us their club for a day.

Anders Opdahl: Keyboards

Martin Bremnes: Film director

Isak Jenssen: Foto and lights

Sondre Rosseland Sandhaug: Sound engineer

Haakon Mathisen: Video editing, boom operator and creative direction

Håvard Kværne Hansen: Lights assistant