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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)
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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
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Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Exploring Quantize, velocity, and note chance in Live 11

First, we are going to correct the timing issues of some of the instruments in our project.

Quantize

If you decide to utilize real-time recording more in your production, you have probably already realized that it comes with certain pros and cons.

One of the pros is that you are able to capture the human feel of playing in terms of timing and velocity, being able to implement natural groove. However, this can be a drawback as well if the timing of your playing is not the greatest, as you could be way too late or early playing the notes, which results in greater timing errors.

These timing errors can be easily fixed by using the Quantize settings.

Quantize allows us to correct timing issues by snapping notes to the grid that are too late or too early (off the grid). This occurs according to our Quantize settings. These settings allow us to fine-tune the amount of quantization that we are looking to apply, as we...