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⏰ Chapters:

Intro 00:00
Save Time by Grouping Your Tracks in Ableton Live 01:34
Save CPU by Grouping Your Tracks in Ableton Live 02:41
Stay Organized, Finish More Songs 03:00
Sound Cohesiveness With Ableton Live's Groups 03:48
Finding Mix Problems With Ease 05:03
Sidechaining Whole Groups 05:50
Exporting Mastering Stems 06:50
How to Group Tracks in Ableton Live 07:37
Frequently Asked Questions 8:26

📝 Video Transcription:

Do you often find yourself overwhelmed when you're making music in you DAW because you have so many audio and MIDI tracks, maybe 50, may 100 tracks, and the whole thing starts to look like a mess, and you can't even find stuff anymore, you waste a long time looking for that one synthesizer sound that's bothering you, and on top of that, your CPU can't handle the amount of plugins and effects you have loaded? If you do, maybe it's time to start grouping your tracks.

In this video I'll show you 7 reasons why grouping your tracks in Ableton Live will make your life so much easier and in the end I'll show you how to do it, in cause you don't know already.

Hey, how's it going? I'm Thales, a pop music producer, and grouping your tracks means taking the multiple audio outputs of different tracks and sending them to one special track to mix them together. So whenever it makes sense to process two or more tracks together, you can group them up.

For example, I usually have a drums group, with a bunch of drum tracks, a vocals group, a backvocals group with many backvocal tracks, instruments group, bass group if I have more than one bass layer, and so on. I even have groups inside of groups like the snare group for all my snare layers inside of my drums group. Also, my strings group inside of my instruments group.

And I group my tracks for 7 reasons. Let's start with the most important reason then go one by one.

Reason number one: it saves me time. As a music producer, time saving is the most important thing.

So if I have instruments that play a similar role in my arrangement, like a guitar, a piano, some synthesizers, I will probably apply effects to these instruments together in almost every song I make. There's probably going to be a compressor that compresses just the drums, another compressor that compresses just those instruments I mentioned, then another compressor that compresses just the vocals.

So if you notice that you'll be adding the same equalizer, or whatever effect on a bunch of individual tracks, like making copies of that equalizer, why not just group them together, and throw just one effect that applies to all of them at once? Makes sense, right?

You can even use a single fader to adjust the levels of all those tracks together, without changing their internal balance. For example, if you notice the drums are too loud at some point, you can just lower your kick track, snare track, hi hats track, cymbals track, all that with just one fader.

That not only saves you time, but also CPU, that's reason number two. Your computer won't have to run multiple copies of an effect on several instruments. Instead it will just run one instance of that effect, which will require less CPU power, and you'll be able to keep working at a smaller buffer size, which introduces less latency. So it's win-win.

Reason number three is also very important and also overlooked. Organization. If you have trouble finishing your tracks, it could simply be lack of organization.

A messy project tires you up and discourages you from finishing. Look at this arrangement view with over 90 tracks. This can be scary. Managing lots of tracks can get overwhelming quick.

If you don't have a system to stay organized, there's a big chance you'll find so many obstacles you'll give up and never finish what you started.

Notice that when you group tracks, that allows you to fold and unfold to hide and reveal the contents of the group which helps a lot with staying organized. It saves visual space and I definitely don't want to have all those 90 tracks on my screen at all times.

Reason number four is a fantastic reason. If I had to present just one reason, this would a good candidate. Sound cohesiveness.

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