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In this Ableton Live tutorial, Dubspot’s Rory PQ takes us through the steps for building transparent Multiband Phase Inversion Racks and shares his insight into multiband processing. Included is a FREE Ableton Live Audio Effect Rack. Check out our Music Production course with Ableton Live to learn more. Classes start soon,See Dates and Register!

Shape your sounds. Featuring the lowest possible latency, 7.1 multichannel support, and unique features to control and shape your sound with precision, Pro Multiband Dynamics is a powerful Pro Series 64-bit AAX plugin that will help you deliver master-quality productions with ease. Try these processing tricks out in your future Ableton projects. Here is my Live Pack of my Multiband Distortion Unit. Open this in Live and then drag any synth instrument before the Audio Rack. Download the Multiband Distortion Unit Live Pack. Take a look at the following tutorials to get further techniques with Ableton: Live 8 207: Hooked On. Everything else is stock ableton FX to increase compatibility with your computer! Also included are the raw presets for users on other DAW’s! External Plugin: Serum. Ableton FX: Saturator, Glue Compressor, Multiband Dynamics, Utility. External Plugin: Serum. Ableton FX: Multiband Dynamics, EQ Eight.

The Power of Racks in Live

One of the most powerful features in Ableton Live that sets it apart from other DAW’s is its ability to create custom Racks for various purposes. A Rack is a flexible tool for working with effects, instruments, samples, and third-party plugins in a track’s device chain. They can be used to build complex signal processors, stack instruments and effects, create dynamic performance instruments, separate frequency bands, and so much more. Racks also streamline your device chain by bringing together your most essential controls using Macros. In short, Racks excel at handling multiple devices, signal paths, and control relationships between multiple parameters.

In this tutorial, we will look at using the power of Racks, clever Macro mapping, and phase inversion to build transparent Multiband Effect Racks that split the input signal into separate frequency bands for applying parallel processing. In addition, we have included a FREE download that includes four different Multiband Effect Racks.

What’s included:

2 Band Frequency Phase Inversion Rack
3 Band Frequency Phase Inversion Rack
4 Band Frequency Phase Inversion Rack
5 Band Frequency Phase Inversion Rack

Multiband Processing in Live

Multiband processing is an essential technique used in sound design, mixing and mastering, and live performance. Many plugins and DAWs have multiband features that allow us to separate sounds into different frequency bands so that each band can be processed independently. Ableton Live’s Instrument and Audio Effect Racks have the unique ability to create multiple device chains that allow us to separate the input signal into different channels that operate in parallel. This marvelous feature gives us the power to create multiple frequency bands that can be loaded with their own custom device chains. Splitting the frequency spectrum into fully adjustable and independent bands gives us the ability to process different parts of the sound separately. This flexibility allows us to have more control over the sound. For example, you could split a bass sound into Low, Mid, and High frequency bands. On the Low band, you could mono the sound to keep your sub frequencies tight and clean. For the Mid band, you could add some saturation to bring out the body of the bass, while adding some stereo imaging and reverb to the High band to create a fat bass sound that is more powerful than a bass sound without multiband processing.

Building Multiband Phase Inversion Effect Racks in Live

There are a few different approaches to building a Multiband Effect Racks in Ableton Live. The simplest way is to create an Audio Effect Rack that has three device chains each loaded with an EQ Eight or EQ Three. On the Low-frequency band set the EQ filter to lowpass, Mid-frequency band to a bandpass filter, and the High-frequency band to a highpass filter. The problem with this approach is that the frequency overlap at the crossover points could potentially cause some phasing issues. Also, there are small gaps where two bands meet causing a dip in frequency at the crossover points. In other words, this approach is the least transparent way of building a Multiband Effect Rack.

Another approach to building a Multiband Effect Rack in Live is to load a Multiband Dynamics device on three separate device chains in an Audio Effect Rack, and then enable the Solo button for each independent frequency band. This method sounds more transparent than using separate EQ filters and works well. However, the sound seems colored and is not 100% transparent. What is transparent you may ask? In this example, a transparent sounding Audio Effect Rack will sound the same when enabled or disabled. There is no audible change in the sound when toggling the rack on and off.

The best way to build a Multiband Effect Rack in Live that is the most transparent is to use a phase inversion technique I learned from Mr. Bill that requires a clever combination of EQ frequency Macro mappings and control over the phase of a channel using Live’s Utility device. This approach is a bit more complicated to set up, but the result is worth the hassle. Better yet, we did the work for you. Download the free racks above and you’re ready to go.

Let’s dive deeper into this approach and build a Multiband Phase Inversion Rack from scratch so you can get a better understanding how this concept works.

Step 1 | Creating an Audio Effect Rack

In this first step, we will create an Audio Effect Rack that will contain multiple devices and chains for our different frequency bands.

Create a new Audio track and load an EQ Eight.
Create an Audio Effect Rack by selecting the EQ Eight and clicking CMD+G [MAC] or CTRL+G [PC].

Step 2 | Duplicating Device Chains

For this step, we will duplicate chains rather than creating new chains and loading the devices again. This approach will save time.

Duplicate the device chain twice so there are three chains total by clicking CMD+D [MAC] or CTRL+D [PC].
Rename the three chains Low, Mid, and High.

Step 3 | Assigning EQ Frequency Crossover Macro Controls

For this step, we will set up the EQ filters for the High and Low bands as well as assign Macro Controls for the filter crossover points.

Select the Low chain and set the EQ Eight filter type to lowpass.
Right-click the filters Frequency control and assign it to Macro 1
Rename Macro 1 to Low X-Over.
Select the High chain and set the EQ Eight filter type to highpass.
Right-click the filters Frequency control and assign it to Macro 2.
Rename Macro 2 to High X-Over.

Step 4 | Phase Inversion

In this final step, we will create another Audio Effect Rack on the Mid band with three additional chains. Two chains will use EQ Eight and Utility to phase invert low and high frequencies, which will cancel out those bands and leave us with only the mid frequencies for the Mid band. The third chain will allow only the mid frequencies to pass through.

Select the Mid chain and drop in a Utility device after EQ Eight.
Enable the Left and Right Phase switches on Utility.
Group the EQ Eight and Utility in another Audio Effect Rack by clicking CMD+G [MAC] or CTRL+G [PC].
Duplicate the device chain so there are two chains total by clicking CMD+D [MAC] or CTRL+D [PC].
Create a third chain that will not contain any devices.
Rename the empty chain ‘Dry,’ and the other two chains ‘Low Phase’ and ‘High Phase.’

Select the ‘Low Phase’ chain and set the EQ Eight filter type to lowpass.
Right-click the filters Frequency control and assign it to Macro 1.
Select the ‘High Phase’ chain and set the EQ Eight filter type to highpass.
Right-click the filters Frequency control and assign it to Macro 2.
Assign Macro 1 to Low X-Over and Macro 2 to High X-Over.

Adding Additional Effects

Using the steps above, you can create Multiband Effect Racks with as many frequency bands as you like. Once you have your racks built, try loading different Audio Effects or your favorite third-party plugins on each band to create more interesting sounds. Think of these racks as the foundation for building more complex Audio Effect Racks. For example, you could load a Compressor or Saturator to each band and instantly have a powerful Multiband Compressor or Multiband Saturator. The possibilities are up to you, we encourage everyone to experiment and come up with truly unique Multiband Effect Racks for all types of musical purposes.

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So you want a free Ableton Live rack that features a multiband mid/side compressor ideal for mastering? You're in the right place. Here's how to use it, build it... and you can download it for free!

In this tutorial I will show you how to set up your own multiband mid/side compressor mastering racks. The one we will make will have full control over 3 frequency bands for the middle audio and 3 frequency bands for the side audio—though you can easily add more or less bands. This setup will deliver an incredible amount of control over your final sound!

Watch the Mid/Side Mastering rack in action:

I have also provided two racks for you to download. One uses the regular Compressor and the other uses the Glue Compressor. I did this for two reasons. First, so that Live Intro users can have access to at least one great sounding rack. The second reason is that the compressors work and sound differently and it is a good thing to have both setups available!

Download the Mid/Side Mastering Rack for Ableton Live here.

The racks themselves only use devices native to Ableton Live.

Compressor Rack *available in Live intro package and up

Audio Effect Rack
EQ 8
Compressor
Limiter

Glue Compressor Rack *available in Live standard package and up

Audio Effect Rack
EQ 8
Glue Compressor
Limiter

Building the Racks

The first thing you should learn how to do is set up your frequency splitting racks. I won’t be covering that part here, but I have done so here on Ask.Audio already. So, go learn how to do that—recommended—or download the finished rack from the bottom of that page. Then come back to this one.

Next, place a new audio effect rack onto a channel. Then add two EQ 8s on their own chains. Rename the chains—Mid, SIDE. It might be a good idea to rename each of the EQ 8s as well to avoid confusion later on.

The audio on the channel will now be split up and sent to both EQs equally. We want to filter the MID chain to just output the central audio and the SIDE chain to output just the stereo field audio. To do that we need to switch the mode of the EQs to M/S. That stands for MID and SIDE.

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M/S mode by itself it means that you can EQ the mid band and the side bands differently. However, we want to do much more than that. So we are just going to filter out all of the side audio for the MID chain and all of the mid audio for the SIDE chain.

For the MID chain make the following changes to its EQ 8.

For the SIDE chain make the following changes to its EQ 8.

Now when the audio passes through the two filtering chains and comes out the other end it will sound exactly the same. This is where the fun begins.

Get the 3-band filtering rack we made in the other tutorial and drop one on after the MID chain’s EQ 8 and one after the SIDE chain’s. It will look like this.

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Now we can add a compressor to each of the bands. You can add the regular Compressor or the Glue Compressor, or mix and match. Also, feel free to use some of the presets as starting points if you would like.

I added 6 total compressors. One to each band.

The last thing you can do is add a limiter to the end of the MID and the SIDE chains, after the Audio Effect Racks used to split up the frequencies. Be careful to add it to both the entire MID and SIDE chains and not the individual frequency bands.

Now you can set out mapping any frequently used parameters to macros. I left most of the compressor parameters unmapped, because I knew I would need to get into each one for each track later anyway. Feel free to use my racks as road maps in terms of macro mappings.

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I also placed one final limiter outside the entire rack to catch any audio peaks caused by the filter crossings.