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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

Cue Out and output routing

In this section, we will investigate how you can take advantage of the Cue Out function to, for example, be able to hear the metronome in your headphones without your audience hearing it.

We are also going to have a look at how you can set up an external mix and a separate mix for you in your headphones, which can be extremely helpful when you are singing or playing an instrument during your performance, as you might want to hear yourself singing or playing louder than you want your audience to hear you in order to nail all the notes.

This is all possible within Live if you know your routing options.

We already briefly talked about what Cue Out does in Live and how you can turn the Solo buttons into Cue buttons. You can recap this in the I/O on Master Track section of Chapter 1, Taking a Quick Tour of Ableton Live 11.

What I really want to talk about here is using Cue Out to send the metronome into your headphone mix without your audience hearing...