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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

Creative comping in Live 11

For this example, we are going to create a drum break out of multiple drum breaks to come up with something unique and interesting in no time:

  1. Create a new audio track.
  2. Ctrl + click (right-click on Windows) on the track header and choose Insert New Take Lane in the context menu or use the Shift + Option + T (Shift + Alt + T for Windows) key command.
  3. Repeat this until you have inserted four Take Lanes.
  4. Now, fill these Take Lanes with drum loops (make sure all of these drum loops are warped correctly).
  5. Re-color the different drum loops on the Take Lanes (see Figure 6.12):
Figure 6.12 – Re-colored clips in the Take Lanes

Figure 6.12 – Re-colored clips in the Take Lanes

  1. Loop the area on these clips on the timeline and begin playback.

Notice that there will be nothing playing back from this track at this point, as we haven’t selected any clips yet to go into the main take.

  1. Enable the Pencil Tool and start painting over...