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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)
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

Exploring the Clip View

This is the place where we can adjust clip properties. We can display this by double-clicking on a clip in the Session or Arrangement View, or alternatively, we can click on the Clip Overview (Figure 3.1).

Figure 3.1 – Clip Overview

Figure 3.1 – Clip Overview

By doing this, we will also display the Sample Editor in the case of an audio clip (Figure 3.2).

Figure 3.2 – Clip View and Sample Editor

Figure 3.2 – Clip View and Sample Editor

If we are working in the Session View, we can further display Follow Action (which we will cover in Chapter 13, Exploring Tempo Follower, Follow Action, Max for Live, Working with Video, and Ableton Note), Launch Modes, and Clip Quantization (which will be covered in Chapter 15, Playing Live) by clicking on the triangular toggle button (Figure 3.3).

Figure 3.3 – Displaying Follow Action, the Launch modes, and clip Quantize options

Figure 3.3 – Displaying Follow Action, the Launch modes, and clip Quantize options

Let’s see what we can set up in the Clip View and...