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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

Getting Started with MPE in Ableton Live 11

In the previous chapter, we had a look at how we can utilize automation and modulation in Live in order to add some more movement, expression, and interest to some of the elements of our track and enhance our arrangement.

In this chapter, we are going to discover another fantastic tool that will allow us to create further movement and more expressive sounds.

Live 11 introduced us to the easily accessible and exciting world of MPE, and in this chapter, we are going to take a look at how we can easily get started on using MPE for our music.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • An introduction to MPE
  • MPE in Wavetable and editing MPE data
  • MPE control
  • Expression control
  • MPE with a controller