These beginner courses were awesome, thanks so much! The production beast is feeling a lot less scary now.
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Iâm an FL user and just getting started with Ableton. I learned so much through both of the courses you put together. You made the experience really enjoyable with a lot of great information about Ableton. The time and effort you put into making these courses is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!!
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Glad it was useful⌠welcome to the community.
We also have a discord if you want to chat with Sonic tutors or other users
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Great tutorial, both volumes. Clear explanations, excellent pacing.
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Brilliant thanks. I was losing hope in being able to make music after watching other tutorials but yours is really clear and easy to understand while actually making musing instead of twiddling knobs. Thanks
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I am really happy to learn that DAW
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Hey @Paul_L . After finishing this tutorial, Iâm now working through your older tutorials and trying to figure out how to translate the vol/vel parameter change in Simpler for v12. In your older tutorials when youâre using the earlier versions of Ableton, the parameter is Vel > Vol and defaults to 25%. In v12 the parameter is now Vol < Vel and defaults to 45%. As I read the parameter, itâs the same for both, velocity is greater than volume by the percentage, however when Iâm using v12 and I import the samples in the earlier tutorials, my levels are lower than what Iâm seeing you are getting in the tutorial.
Not sure which older course youâre watching ( might help to get a course name, video title and time frame as a reference ) but as the Info Text mentions inside Live :
Volume < Vel
Simplerâs volume can be modulated by the velocity of incoming MIDI notes. This determines the depth of modulation.
So when different than 0% â Midi Notes velocity will modulate the volume ( So at 0% thereâs no Velocity Response at all and youâll get the same output level whatever your Midi Notes Velocity values are ( i.e : 75 or 127 ), the max output level from Simpler is based on the Volume and also the Sample Gain value youâve set inside Simpler. And at 100% it will fully respond to Midi Notes Velocity ( i.e with a Midi note at full velocity 127 youâll get the maximum output level from Simpler, again based on the Volume and sample gain values ).
So you may want to check the Velocity values for the Midi notes triggering Simpler in the course youâre watching.
Appreciate the response. In the HTM Deep House 2018 with P-Lask tutorial 4 at 8:50 is when he brings up checking the Vel>Vol parameter and thatâs when I noticed that it has been changed for Ableton v12 compared to the version he is using in the video. Since they reworded the name of the parameter in the new version and changed the default values, I wasnât sure if adjustments were being applied the same between the different versions. Thank you for explaining how this parameter works.
I now see that the discrepancy in levels between my build of the track vs Paulâs is due to the output volume on Simpler. When he opens a new instance of drum rack and loads the samples, the output volume appears to default to -6db. When I open an instance of drum rack in v12 and load the samples, the output volume is -12 db.
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Yes, the default output Volume for Simpler is -12dB with Live 12, so hopefully just this.
The Vel>Vol parameter works the same as in the older version 
Should be all sorted then 
Do not hesitate to ask any further question ( each course has itâs own forumâs post were you can leave comments )
Cheers 
Hey there, it looks like this has been sorted out, but yes, those Vel>Vol and Vol<Vel parameters are exactly the same, Ableton just changed the order in the control text for some reason. As I recall, in Live 11 and earlier, I had a default setting I used with Simpler that automatically set that parameter to 25%. I stopped using that default setting in Live 12, since I teach so much, and it was confusing students why their values were different than mine (sounds like exactly what happened here, so case in point!).
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Thanks @Paul_L . After I completed the Ableton 12 for Beginners, I did your HTM House 2024 course and you did a detailed breakdown of adding drum sounds into Simpler and the Vel>Vol along with Volume adjustments while using Classic Mode. In the HTM Deep House 2018 course, I didnât realize that after I dropped the drum samples into drum rack, I was working in 1-shot mode while you were working in Classic mode, hence my confusion about the labeling of the different Vel>Vol parameter in the Controls section of Simpler. Really appreciate your tutorials as well as assistance from @Tekalight.
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