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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By : Lakatos
Book Image

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)
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

The Simpler device

The Simpler device is one of the best devices, in my opinion, that Live has to offer!

It is a MIDI instrument with a simple sampler and subtractive synth features. What makes it special is that you can slice and dice loops easily and play audio files back as an instrument with just a few clicks, so it is definitely one to get creative with.

Let’s take a look at it:

  1. You can find the Simpler devicein in the browser under the Instruments category.
  2. Once you have loaded the empty Simpler device, you can insert an audio sample where it says Drop Sample Here.
  3. You can also bring this device up by dropping an audio file into a new empty MIDI track’s device area. This will place the audio automatically in the Simpler device.

I have already loaded a Simpler device with a sample in it onto the track called SIMPLER in the Chapter 9 project.

Figure 9.11 – The Simpler device with a vocal loop loaded in it, displaying the Sample area

Figure 9.11 – The Simpler device with a vocal loop loaded in...