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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

Expression Control

The Max for Live device called Expression Control has actually been around for a while, and since the release of Live 11, it lives in the main MIDI effects category in the browser, as it is MPE-compatible. Even before MPE, this device was really great to push the modulation skills to the next level!

Expression Control is a very simple device that allows you to modulate parameters, which you can map yourself, so it gives you a great deal of flexibility. You can get started with it straight away with ease.

Let’s take a quick tour of it!

Figure 12.21 – The Expression Control MIDI effect device

Figure 12.21 – The Expression Control MIDI effect device

You can select a MIDI parameter under MIDI In, which then can be mapped to a target parameter in Live with the Map buttons underneath Mapping. You can see in Figure 12.21 that I mapped Random to Filter 1 Frequency of the Wavetable device (on the Wavetable track within the Chapter 12 project).

Next to the Mapping tab, you can...