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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)
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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
15
Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Audio editing functions in Live 11

There are different ways to how you should approach editing in the Session and Arrangement Views. It is important to understand what the two views are focusing on.

As we previously discussed, the Session View is good for laying down ideas in a non-linear fashion, which can speed up your workflow tremendously; however, eventually, you will move into the Arrangement View to define your arrangement and, therefore, the majority of your editing work as well.

This is reflected in the editing capabilities of the two views.

Editing audio in the Session View

It is a fact that the editing possibilities are rather limited in the Session View. But if we really reflect on what the Session View is used for and its music-making nature, it is quite understandable. This is not where you will be carrying out all your micro edits and getting really bogged down on refining these.

In fact, the only slicing and dicing you can do here is crop a sample. Let...