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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)
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

Introduction to M4L

M4L allows you to build and modify devices for Live. This is super-useful if you have an idea for a device that you really wish existed or if there is an already existing M4L device that you’d like to modify to suit your needs better.

Most of these M4L devices can even look like “standard” Live devices. If you are not into development and learning to code, then you can download loads of M4L devices already developed by users for free or at very cheap prices from https://maxforlive.com/.

Max itself is a programming language and it connects to Ableton Live via M4L.

You can connect “objects.” You can think of objects as modules of a modular synth. These objects process digital data, which can be audio, MIDI, video, and more. These objects are connected through “patch cables.” This programming style implements a visual programming language (VPL) as you patch objects, and you can see the flow of data rather than...