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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
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Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
15
Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Editing Audio and Warping

Working with audio can bring a lot of joy to music production. It can involve your own recorded material, pre-made loops, and re-sampled material; it doesn’t really matter. Live can provide you with many tools to make the most of your experience of audio editing in a corrective and creative way.

Getting audio into Live is one thing, but knowing how to fit the audio into the track, re-work pre-made loops by slicing and dicing, making sure that unwanted noise and breaths are properly edited out of vocals, and fading out a guitar chord, for example, is another.

These are all crucial skills that a music producer needs to have to be able to create efficiently.

In this chapter we are going to cover the following key topics:

  • Exploring the Clip View, Sample Box, and the loop
  • Audio editing functions
  • Understanding warping in Live