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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By : Anna Lakatos
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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

Discovering Some of Live 11’s Creative Audio Effects

In the previous chapter, we learned how we can use Take Lanes and comping in various ways to speed up our workflow and boost creativity. We also looked at the Track Linking feature, which enables us to record and edit multiple tracks simultaneously.

In this chapter, we will take a look at some of Live’s creative effects, which were released with the Live 11 software update.

We will also discover the difference between using effects inserted directly onto a track versus those inserted onto a return track.

Furthermore, we are going to explore various sidechaining techniques with multiple devices that Live has to offer.

We are going to cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Hybrid Reverb
  • Other new and updated effect devices in Live 11
  • Understanding the differences between insert effect chains and return tracks
  • Looking into sidechaining techniques