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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
7
Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
15
Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Summary

We have approached the end of this chapter.

Here, we have learned crucial MIDI sequencing techniques in both Session View and Arrangement View while we also discovered some helpful creative tools such as Scale and Capture.

We also discovered how to input MIDI notes with our mouse and the Pencil Tool, how to change the grid resolution while inputting notes, and how to record in real time while playing notes with our computer keyboard, as well as a MIDI controller.

We established the importance of the use of Overdub in Arrangement View as well as how to use Take Lanes with MIDI tracks as well.

Working with MIDI opens up a super fun world of possibilities and space for our creativity to bloom. It also allows us to work super fast and efficiently to come up with new musical elements for our composition.

In the next chapter, we are going to take a look at how we can edit MIDI information in a corrective and creative way and use some of Live 11’s MIDI effects...