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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

Syncing with Ableton Link and MIDI

There are multiple reasons why you might want to synchronize multiple devices and applications. It could be for collaborative purposes, to share the workload between multiple computers, to use multiple applications for creative purposes, or just for fun. In this section of the chapter, we will have a look at a few options to do this.

Synchronizing via Ableton Link

Ableton Link is a technology that enables you to keep multiple devices in sync with each other. This is super useful if you are playing with someone else or you are sharing the workload of your set over multiple devices, such as computers, iPads, and so on.

Link comes built into Live and there is also a growing list of applications from other manufacturers that are Link-enabled.

Link can be used over wireless or wired networks. Yes, it is that simple; you can use two computers, for example, yours and your collaborator’s, run Live on both, join the same WiFi network, configure...