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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

Exploring Tempo Follower, Follow Action, Max for Live, Working with Video, and Ableton Note

After looking at the amazing world of MPE that was introduced in Live 11, in this chapter, we are going to start off with another exciting new feature that is called Tempo Follower and will allow us to sync our session tempo with an external incoming signal. We will also look at Follow Action and the updates added to this feature with the release of Live 11, which is fun to use for both the studio and stage.

After Follow Action, we will take a small tour of the world of Max for Live (M4L), which is a truly unique feature for Ableton Live users. To close off an exciting and informative chapter of fun music-making features and ways of playing music, we will also quickly explore how we can work with video in Live to compose sound for a motion picture.

Furthermore, we will discover the new addition of the Ableton family - the Ableton Note app, and we will discover how to use Ableton Cloud...