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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 Live’s MIDI effects

There are a great number of MIDI effects that we can access in the browser:

Figure 5.36 – MIDI effects in the browser

Figure 5.36 – MIDI effects in the browser

Note

Some of the MIDI effects in Figure 5.36 are from Packs and Max for Live devices. If you are an owner of a Live Suite license, you can download these from Packs under Places in the browser.

MIDI effects will only work on MIDI tracks, since they will be manipulating the MIDI data before it hits the inserted instrument on the track, which will convert this MIDI data into an audio signal.

We can simply drag and drop MIDI effects onto MIDI tracks. They will be inserted before the instrument that the MIDI notes are triggering.

We can load multiple MIDI effects onto a track, and we can also load the same MIDI effects onto the same track multiple times.

Let’s dive in now and take a look at what these MIDI effects can do!

Arpeggiator

The Arpeggiator device will create a...