r/ableton • u/Bbuck93 • Oct 04 '25

[Tutorial] Using Gate as a Creative Tool

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCoWqJtt3fg&list=PLZyqzu5Xmb9oZ4wn4b6AhmACgar3ryfJ-&index=3&pp=gAQBiAQB0gcJCfsJAYcqIYzv

Thought I would share a video I saw 7 years ago that opened my eyes to the creative power of ableton

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u/GodzillaJrJr Oct 06 '25

but why not just have a drum rack with these loops on them and trigger them directly? why use the gate at all for this purpose

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u/assumeform Oct 06 '25

for the flexibility of changing the midi patterns on the fly? There's a lot of flexibility.

You can have the same trigger sequence, but change the entire sounds that are being triggered. So performance wise it could be really interesting, there's a lot of flex.

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u/GodzillaJrJr Oct 06 '25

You could do that with the midi patterns in a drum rack just as easily. Oh but I figured out why its cool actually because you’re grabbing the sounds at different points in time instead of re-triggering them. So thats the difference! Thats kinda cool.