How To make Ableton's Stock Piano Sound Great (For Ballads)

In this video, we are going to transform Ableton's stock piano sound into a rich piano sound perfect for playing ballads ***** 🔴 For excellent piano presets, check out the Pro Piano FX Collection: https://livekeyboardist.com/propianof...

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📖 Show Notes 📖
Ableton's stock piano tends to be a little bassy and doesn't stay super present, so to make this piano work for a pop ballad we will want to do three things:

1. Use compression to create sustain and add color
2. Use saturation to add higher frequency Harmonics
3. Use EQ to remove trouble frequencies and accentuate warm tones
4. Use Reverb for Long Warm sustain

The first EQ can be used to remove frequencies below 90 Hz, since we don't need the information in that frequency range. It's also nice to boost a little bit around 300 Hz, since there are some nice warm frequencies in that range

I prefer the Glue Compressor because it is a little bit more colorful than Ableton's regular compressor. Both can be used depending on what you have access to. It is okay to be a little bit aggressive with this effect because it is stylistically correct, especially for a ballad.

The saturator is helpful in adding extra harmonics. If you want a little more color, you choose a soft sine instead of analog clip.


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