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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

Summary

In this chapter, we had a look at some of the awesome new and updated effect devices that arrived with the Live 11 software update to spark our creativity and discover new possibilities.

We also explored the differences between using effects inserted directly onto tracks in serial or using effects with Return Tracks for parallel processing, which is super important for a more efficient mixing workflow, as well as managing our CPU usage.

Last but not least, we also had a look at what sidechaining is and how we can use this technique with various devices to achieve different effects, as well as learning how to have more control over our sidechaining by using a ghost sidechain track.

In the next chapter, we will further explore parallel processing on a track basis and learn more interesting and complex techniques by discovering Racks and the new improvements to them that Live 11 brought.