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How to Use the Sylenth One Plugin on a MIDI Track in Ableton Live

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to call and use the Silent One plugin on a MIDI track. Learn how to make parameter changes within the plugin and play sounds using an external keyboard.

By School of Sound

In this guide, we'll learn how to call a third-party plugin, specifically the Silent One plugin, onto a MIDI track. The process involves selecting the AU version of the Silent One plugin, placing it on a track, exploring its functions, playing notes on the keyboard, making parameter adjustments within the plugin interface, manipulating envelopes, and finally, closing the plugin window, adding a new clip, inserting notes, and playing back the sound. Let's get started.

Let's get started.

In this article, I will show you how to call a third-party plugin.

In this case, I will drag in a plugin called Silent One onto a MIDI track. It's the Silent One plugin, and I have three versions, and I choose the AU plugin.

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Click "►Sylenth1"
Step #1: Click "►Sylenth1"
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Drag "A Sylenth1"
Step #2: Drag "A Sylenth1"

I place it on a track, let it drop, and then I have an overview of the functions of this synth.

I can play on the keyboard here or, of course, I can also play with an external keyboard.

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Click here
Step #3: Click here

When I want to make parameter changes, I can do so directly within the plugin by turning up and down, for example, the cutoff of this synthesizer or the resonance of this synthesizer.

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Drag here
Step #4: Drag here
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Click here
Step #5: Click here

I can, for example, easily rotate the envelopes up and down as desired.

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Click here
Step #6: Click here

Finally, I can close the plugin window, add a new clip by double-clicking here, and then insert my notes.

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Click "Fu"
Step #7: Click "Fu"
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Double-click here
Step #8: Double-click here

To play the sound, I can press the play button on this clip to listen to these notes and, of course, stop them again.

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Double-click here
Step #9: Double-click here
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Click here
Step #10: Click here
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Click here
Step #11: Click here
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That's it.

How to Use the Sylenth One Plugin on a MIDI Track in Ableton Live