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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By : Anna Lakatos
Book Image

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)
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

Mid-side EQing

Mid-side EQing enables us to equalize an audio signal’s mid and side components independently. This provides us with much greater control of the stereo image and can clear up mixes super quickly.

In this example, we will apply this technique to our Master track.

In Live, it is actually super simple to set up; let me show you how in the following steps:

  1. In the Chapter 16 project, launch the Mid-side EQ scene.
  2. Apply the EQ Eight device on the Master track.
  3. Now, it’s time to turn our old EQ Eight device into a mid-side EQ.
  4. Under Mode choose the M/S option instead of Stereo.
  5. Under the Edit section, you can choose between M (mid) and S (side) (Figure 16.17).
Figure 16.17 – Switching between mid and side under the Edit section of the EQ Eight device

Figure 16.17 – Switching between mid and side under the Edit section of the EQ Eight device

  1. Now, we will take the opportunity to ensure that there is no low-frequency bleed into our side/stereo signal. Simply switch to S (side) under...