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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)
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

Clip envelopes

In Live, all clips have clip envelopes. These envelopes can control anything from MIDI controller data to automation and modulation. Clip envelopes can be set to control the mixer, the clip itself (for example, transposition and gain), and device parameters.

As we know now, in the Arrangement View, automation is stored in track-based envelopes (they show up on the timeline). The Session View automation will be stored within clip envelopes. You can access these through the Envelopes tab in the Clip View.

Figure 11.31 – The Envelopes tab in the Clip View

Figure 11.31 – The Envelopes tab in the Clip View

Note

You can apply all the drawing and editing features within the clip envelopes in the Session View (besides, of course, the locking clip envelopes function, as that’s related to the Arrangement View’s timeline.)

While discovering earlier in this chapter how to record automation in the Session View, we also established that automation stored in clip envelopes...