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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By : Anna Lakatos
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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
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Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
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Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

In the final part of the book, you will gain insight into techniques that are both practical for production and relevant for live performance. The focus will gradually shift towards live performance capabilities, teaching you how to sync your session tempo with external audio signals, understand Follow Action, control Live’s device parameters using external MIDI controllers, and integrate external synthesizers into your software for a more hands-on experience. The book will also delve into the world of Max for Live and show you how to incorporate video into your Live sessions, sparking new creative ideas. Additionally, we’ll discover the new music-making iOS app, Ableton Note, and learn how to synchronize projects between Note and Live via Ableton Cloud. Finally, you will be introduced to various mixing techniques and learn how to apply them within Live.

This part comprises the following chapters: