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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

Track grouping

Track grouping is important for organizing your tracks for a more fluid arrangement, but it is also super important for mixing purposes as once tracks are grouped they can all be processed together. This is common practice to group tracks with similar dynamic and tonal characteristics.

Let’s see how to group tracks:

  1. Select multiple tracks while holding down the Shift key. In this example, I am looking to group all the synth tracks (Figure 10.21).
Figure 10.21 – Selected tracks for grouping

Figure 10.21 – Selected tracks for grouping

  1. Now you can Ctrl + click (right-click on Windows) on one of the selected tracks and choose Group Tracks from the contextual menu or use Cmd + G (Ctrl + G for Windows).
  2. Now, you will see the tracks are grouped. You can solo and mute all the grouped tracks and also adjust sends, volume, and panning.
Figure 10.22 – Grouped tracks

Figure 10.22 – Grouped tracks

  1. You can, of course, rename and recolor this...