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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

Approaching a track mixdown

Let’s start by covering the basics and how you could approach mixing down your track. The order of these processes can be quite important to achieve a fast and fluid workflow.

Volume balance

The first thing that is super important and a significant part of mixing down a track is to balance the volume between each element of your track. At this stage, you can identify, for example, whether there is further need for volume automation for certain parts or elements of your track, as well as make sure that you have enough headroom at your Master track’s meter and ensure that each element of your track is audible at all times.

If you are working on a track that you started a fairly long time ago and are revisiting it weeks later to do the final mixdown, it can be a good idea to rebalance the volume mix from scratch. If you are hired to mix someone’s song, and you are being sent the stems of their track, you will need to balance the...