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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
7
Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
15
Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Editing your arrangement

We already looked at how we can trim, split, fade, move, duplicate, and consolidate clips in the Arrangement View in Chapter 3, Editing Audio and Warping. Most of these also apply to MIDI clips.

In this section, we will explore the Cut/Copy, Paste, and Duplicate Time commands and Insert Silence!

Cut, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate Time commands

Let’s start with the Cut, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate Time commands:

  1. The first thing that needs to be done is to make a selection in the timeline. It can be a bunch of clips, or just one, as we will be working with the chunk of time that the clip(s) occupy (not just the one clip) and affect the overall arrangement!
  2. Once the clip(s) are selected, as in my example (Figure 10.10), we can visit the Edit menu (Figure 10.11).
Figure 10.10 – Clip/Time is selected to perform the Time command

Figure 10.10 – Clip/Time is selected to perform the Time command

Figure 10.11 – The Edit menu

Figure 10.11 – The Edit menu

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