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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By : Anna Lakatos
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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)
1
Part 1: The Live Concept and Workflow
7
Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
15
Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Introduction to audio-to-MIDI conversion

Audio-to-MIDI conversion is one of Live’s most exciting features.

Have you ever found an audio loop of chord progressions, for example, in which you absolutely loved the chords, but you didn’t really like the sound of the instrument that the chords were playing?

Or have you wished that you could modify some of these chords to your taste in terms of notation?

If you answered yes, it can go two ways… one is that you have fairly advanced music theory knowledge and you can play the chords yourself and pick a different instrument to play other than what the audio loop played.

The second reality is that you are struggling to play or recognize the chords from the audio loop. In this case, you would probably leave the audio loop and find another one in which you liked the chords and the sound too, and would settle on that. You don’t have to!

You can convert the audio loop into MIDI, which will enable you to...