Free Ableton template - Startup

Startup work with free Ableton template by DAW LibrarY.

Our concept's signal routing of this Ableton template is as close to an analog studio mixing console as possible.

This scheme is used to create all of our Ableton templates by DAW LibrarY. A diagram of our start-up template's signal routing is included in the readme PDF file.

Several folders with channels for various purposes are created in our Ableton template "Startup."

Ableton startup Audio folder

The template has an audio folder - there are about 20 tracks that I specifically left empty and they are intended for recording vocals or acoustic instruments. Audio effects can also be placed on these tracks.

Ableton startup Drums folder

The "Drums" folder can contain a Drum Machine, Quick Sampler, Drum Synth or Sampler, audio channels for individual drum samples, apple loops, and midi tracks for each drum sample. These audio channels are the same as the channels in an analog mixing console - there you can process each drum sound with an equalizer, compressor, and so on. There you can also send the signal to master effects such as reverb, chorus or delay.

Ableton startup Instruments folder

Below the "Drums" folder are all the virtual instruments used in our free Logic template "Startup". These tracks combine midi and an audio channel which is all the functions of a normal mixing console audio channel.

Ableton startup Audio Bus Group folder

At the bottom are the "Audio Bus Group" folders. Just like in a studio mixing console, these busses are fed signals from various instruments. For example: all tracks of drums and percussion are fed to drum bus, all guitars to guitar bus and so on. In this folder, there is a bus called master buss, to which all instrumental buses are routed, and the output is connected to „Master Out”. Its purpose is to control the overall volume of the mix before it arrives the “Master Out”.

Ableton startup Master FX folder

The effect channels folder contains all the master send effects (reverb, chorus, delay, etc.). These effect channels can be fed from any virtual instrument or audio track.

Ableton startup Master out folder

All audio busses are connected to the last channel called "Stereo out" or "Master out". This channel is used for final mix processing. It includes all the plugins necessary for mastering (compressor, equalizer, limiter, etc.)

Trigger track

This Free Ableton template contains a track called „Trigger”. This track contains a "rimstick" type sound that beats like a metronome every quarter of a measure. The audio output of this track is muted. This channel serves as a trigger to connect a so-called "sidechannel" to compressors on other audio and instrument tracks as needed. The template includes a short demonstration of signal routing.