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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By : Lakatos
Book Image

The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By: 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

MIDI mapping in Live

MIDI mapping parameters in Live are actually really simple. In this section, I will walk you through how to set this up.

Important note

Remember what we learned at the end of the previous section; for MIDI mapping to work, you need to have Remote selected for at least the In port of the device under the MIDI Ports section in the Preferences | Link Tempo MIDI tabs!

If your controller has a screen or lights that can display MIDI controls set to Live, then you should also have Remote ticked for the Out port of the device.

Follow these steps to set up MIDI mapping parameters in Live:

  1. Navigate to the PAD track in the Chapter 14 project file.
  2. Display the Device View (which is, in this case, an Instrument Rack).
  3. Now, press the MIDI button shown in Figure 14.7 or hit Cmd + M (Ctrl + M on Windows):
Figure 14.7 –  MIDI map mode switch

Figure 14.7 – MIDI map mode switch

Now, you will notice that loads of parameters, buttons, knobs, and faders...