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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

Managing unused files

As I mentioned before, it is not unlikely that we end up with unused files eventually in our project that can take up unnecessary space, increasing our project’s file size.

This can be especially annoying and something to look out for when you are collaborating with someone and you are transferring the project folder back and forth online.

To see whether you have unused files that you would like to remove, do the following:

  1. Go to View | File Manager.
  2. Click on Manage Project.
  3. Navigate to the middle of the File Manager to Unused Files (Figure 17.6):
Figure 17.6 – Unused Files in the File Manager

Figure 17.6 – Unused Files in the File Manager

As Figure 17.6 shows, there are two unused files.

  1. Click on Show to view them in the browser (Figure 17.7):
Figure 17.7 – A list of unused files displayed in the browser

Figure 17.7 – A list of unused files displayed in the browser

  1. Once you see the list of unused files in the browser, you can simply decide to select...