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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By : Lakatos
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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By: Lakatos

Overview of this book

The Music Producer's Guide to Ableton Live will help you sharpen your production skills and gain a deeper understanding of the Live workflow. If you are a music maker working with other digital audios workstations (DAWs) or experienced in Ableton Live, perhaps earlier versions, you’ll be able to put your newfound knowledge to use right away with this book. You’ll start with some basic features and workflows that are more suitable for producers from another DAW looking to transfer their skills to Ableton Live 11.2. As you explore the Live concept, you’ll learn to create expressive music using Groove and MIDI effects and demystify Live 11’s new workflow improvements, such as Note Chance and Velocity Randomization. The book then introduces the Scale Mode, MIDI Transform tools, and other key features that can make composition and coming up with melodic elements easier than ever before. It will also guide you in implementing Live 11's new and updated effects into your current workflow. By the end of this Ableton Live book, you’ll be able to implement advanced production and workflow techniques and amplify live performance capabilities with what the Live 11 workflow has to offer.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part 1: The Live Concept and Workflow
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Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
15
Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Exploring Instrument Racks

In this section, we will build a few Instrument Racks for different scenarios and uses!

First up, let’s design a multi-layered instrument! Follow these steps with me:

  1. Head to the browser, navigate to Instruments, and drag and drop Instrument Rack onto an empty MIDI track (Figure 8.2).
  2. Now, you will see the Rack in the device area at the bottom.
Figure 8.2 – The empty Instrument Rack dropped onto an empty MIDI track

Figure 8.2 – The empty Instrument Rack dropped onto an empty MIDI track

  1. The Instrument Rack at the bottom of the screen in the device area is already instructing you to Drop an Instrument or Sample Here.

You can go back into the browser and pick a pad sound from Sounds, under Categories in the browser. Drag and drop it onto the Instrument Rack.

  1. Now, make sure you display the chain list by pressing the Show/Hide button:
Figure 8.3 – Using the chain list Show/Hide button to display the chain list

Figure 8.3 – Using the chain list Show/Hide button to display the chain list

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