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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

Ableton Note app

Ableton has created a new iOS application called Note, which is the ideal tool for recording your musical ideas when you are on the move or away from your computer. This app is user friendly and easily accessible, making it effortless to capture your creative impulses.

With Note, you can generate beats, record melodies, and sample sounds from your surroundings, among other capabilities.

If you are using other devices, you can synchronize Note with them using Ableton Link. In Chapter 15, Playing Live, you will learn more about Ableton Link. Check out the Ableton website at https://www.ableton.com/en/note/ for further instructions on using the Note app.

You may be wondering whether it’s possible to transfer your Note projects to your computer and finish them in Ableton Live, especially since you are using an app developed by the same company. The answer is a resounding “yes”!

You can conveniently transfer your Note projects to Ableton...