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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)
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Part 1: The Live Concept and Workflow
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Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
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Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Recording Audio in Ableton Live 11

Recording audio is a crucial part of music production. We all know the importance of capturing the magic of musical performances, which could be vocals or any instruments being played by a human that will translate a lot of emotions and energy and add a lot to your track. However, there is more to it than just that.

We can also approach this with a more creative mindset and think about sampling old records, recording Foley sounds and working these into our music, or recording analog synthesizers.

It is crucial that the recorded material is captured appropriately and of great quality. Therefore, this chapter will be important for gaining an understanding of the technical aspects of recording in Live, as well as developing a seamless workflow.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to set up Live to record audio. You will also develop an understanding of how to record in both Session View and Arrangement View.

Furthermore, the Live...