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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

Drawing MIDI notes in Arrangement View

Everything is going to be pretty similar to what we covered in the previous section, besides the environment where we are going to do it, and how to get started with it. So, follow along:

  1. Navigate to Arrangement View.

Important note

Because in this practical example, we already have content and launched clip(s) in Session View, we are going to hit the Back to Arrangement button (see Figure 4.13):

Figure 4.13 – The Back to Arrangement button

Figure 4.13 – The Back to Arrangement button

  1. Double-click on where in the timeline you would like to insert the empty MIDI clip – that’s where we are going to input our MIDI notes (for example, the first bar).

Now, we see an empty MIDI clip created. In order to make our MIDI clip longer, we will do the same as we did in Session View.

  1. Head to the Clip View and change the loop Length value, but you will also need to drag out the clip edge on the timeline after you amended...