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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)
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

Troubleshooting and File Management

Now that we have looked at some useful and creative mixing techniques, we have arrived at the last chapter of this book. In this chapter, we are going to look at some troubleshooting techniques. We are going to explore how to replace missing files, which is super important if we might have made a mistake during our file management process, and now, we are facing missing samples. Sometimes, we also can end up with an unnecessarily large project that takes up loads of disk space because we have piled up some unused files. This can be aided easily by removing these unused files.

And finally, if you are looking to use third-party plug-ins, you will find out how to manage them properly.

These topics might not be the most exciting ones; however, they are a crucial part of maintaining a fluid and stress free workflow and being able to troubleshoot with ease when needed.

The chapter will consist of the following topics:

  • Missing samples
  • ...