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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By : Anna Lakatos
Book Image

The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By: Anna 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
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Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Creating Audio Effect Racks

Loads of things will feel similar in this section; after completing the previous section with me, you should feel more comfortable with Device Racks.

As mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, one of the points of Audio Effect Racks is to group effects into a Rack to be able to save the effect chain as a preset, or to bypass all the effects inside the Rack at once by bypassing the Rack itself, which contains the effects.

We can also carry out parallel processing by having multiple device (in this case, effect) chains on the same track.

Audio Effect Racks work much like Instrument Racks. However, they don’t have the Key and Velocity Zone Editors; they only have the Chain Select Editor.

In this section, we are going to create an Audio Effect Rack for vocal processing.

There is a track in the provided project called VOCALS that we are going to use to create our Rack.

Follow these steps:

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