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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

MPE Control

MPE Control is a Max for Live MIDI effect, which we will talk about in the next chapter! For now, let’s just see what this device does.

Figure 12.15 – The MPE Control MIDI effect

Figure 12.15 – The MPE Control MIDI effect

MPE Control will enable you to shape the incoming MPE modulation signals (Pressure, Slide, etc.). This can provide some really fun, additional controlled movement to the modulation.

This is a super fun device to use when you are recording with an MPE hardware controller; however, you can still try it out even if you do not own one.

Follow these steps:

  1. In the Chapter 12 project, navigate to the Wavetable track, where we have already set up and applied some MPE.
  2. Load MPE Control from the browser. You can find it under the MIDI Effects tab.
  3. Once it’s on the track, we are going to go ahead and choose the MPE modulation source (Pressure, Slide, or Pitch) (Figure 12.16).
Figure 12.16 – MPE modulation sources

Figure 12.16 – MPE modulation...