The Music Producer’s Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11: Level up your music recording, arranging, editing, and mixing skills and workflow techniques

Length: 468 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2023-03-31
ISBN-10: 1801817634
ISBN-13: 9781801817639
Sales Rank: #347692 (See Top 100 Books)

Expert guidance on enhancing your live music production skills with MIDI, audio sequencing and arrangement techniques, automation, modulation, MPE, and external instruments from an Ableton Certified Trainer

Key Features

Make the most of Ableton Live 11 tools and processes to create, record and edit your own music
Engage with non-linear workflow for both music production and live performance
Unveil the best solutions to common pitfalls and mistakes committed by Ableton Live users
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Understand the concept of Live, the workflow of recording and editing audio and MIDI, and warping
Use Groove, MIDI effects, and Live 11’s new workflow enhancements to create innovative music
Use audio to MIDI conversion tools to translate and generate ideas quickly
Employ Live’s automation and modulation capabilities and project organization techniques to speed up your workflow
Utilize MIDI Polyphonic Expression to create evolving sounds and textures
Adopt advanced techniques for production and discover the capabilities of live performance

Who this book is for

If you are a music producer, enthusiast, or hobbyist with a basic understanding of using Ableton Live for simple projects, this Ableton Live 11 book will help you improve your skills to employ the best features and techniques in your projects. This book is also for producers familiar with other DAWs looking to leverage their transferable skills to learn Ableton Live.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credit
Dedicated
Foreword
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: The Live Concept and Workflow
Chapter 1: Taking a Quick Tour of Ableton Live
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to Live concepts
	Setting up the preferences
	Tour of the interface
		The browser
		Groove Pool
		Help View
		Clip View/Device View
		Control Bar
	Session View versus Arrangement View
		Session View
		Arrangement View
	Getting your work out
		Exporting audio
		Saving your work
	Saving templates
	Summary
Chapter 2: Recording Audio in Ableton Live
	Technical requirements
	Setting up Live for recording
		Routing and monitoring
	Importing and recording audio in Session View
	Importing and recording audio in Arrangement View
		Recording with punch-in or punch-out
	Using Take Lanes in Live
	Summary
Chapter 3: Editing Audio and Warping
	Technical requirements
	Exploring the Clip View
		The Clip View tabs
	Audio editing functions in Live
		Editing audio in the Session View
		Editing audio in the Arrangement View
	The world of audio warping in Live
		The different Warp modes in Live
		Tempo leader and Follower
		The Seg. BPM
		Working with transients
		Other Warp commands in Live
		Saving your warped audio for future use
	Summary
Chapter 4: Exploring MIDI Sequencing Techniques
	Technical requirements
	Importing and exporting MIDI Into Live
	Programming MIDI – drawing notes and step input
	The grid settings in the MIDI editor
	Drawing MIDI notes in Arrangement View
	Real-time recording
		Recording MIDI notes in real time in Session View
		Recording in real time in Arrangement View
		The benefits of using and setting up a MIDI controller
	How to use Overdub and Take Lanes in Arrangement View
		MIDI Arrangement Overdub
		Loop recording and Take Lanes
	Exploring Capture MIDI
	Discovering Scale Mode and Scale Settings in Ableton Live
	Summary
Chapter 5: MIDI Editing and MIDI Effects
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the basic MIDI editing functions
	Exploring Quantize, velocity, and note chance in Live
		Quantize
		Velocity
		Note chance
	Diving into the Groove Pool
		Applying different grooves to individual drum sounds
		Extracting grooves
	Utilizing the MIDI transform tools
	An introduction to multi-clip editing
	Exploring Live’s MIDI effects
		Arpeggiator
		Chord
		Note Length
		Pitch
		Random
		Scale
		Velocity
	Summary
Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live
Chapter 6: Comping and Track Linking
	Technical requirements
	Track linking in Live
	Comping in Live
	Creative comping in Live
	Summary
Chapter 7: Discovering Some of Live 11’s Creative Audio Effects
	Technical requirements
	Hybrid Reverb
	Other new and updated effect devices in Live
		Spectral Resonator
		Spectral Time
		Chorus-Ensemble
		Phaser-Flanger
	Understanding the differences between Insert Effect Chains and Return Tracks
	Looking into sidechaining techniques
		Sidechaining with compressors
		Sidechaining with the Gate device
		Sidechaining with Auto Filter
		Using a Ghost Sidechain Trigger
	Summary
Chapter 8: Exploring Device Racks in Live
	Technical requirements
	An introduction to Device Racks in Live
	Exploring Instrument Racks
		Macros
	Creating Audio Effect Racks
		Setting up the Chain Selector as our dry/wet controller
	Exploring Drum Racks
	Summary
Chapter 9: Audio to MIDI Conversion, Slicing to MIDI, and the Simpler Device
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to audio-to-MIDI conversion
	Converting melody, harmony, and drums into MIDI
		Convert Melody to New MIDI Track
		Convert Harmony to New MIDI Track
		Convert Drums to New MIDI Track
	Converting MIDI into audio with Freeze and Flatten
	Slice to New MIDI Track
	The Simpler device
		Simpler inspiration material
	Summary
Chapter 10: Utilizing Arrangement and Organization Techniques in our Ableton Live Project
	Technical requirements
	Preparing to arrange – session organization techniques
	From Session View to the Arrangement View
	Editing your arrangement
		Cut, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate Time commands
		Inserting silence
	Locators and Info Text
	Track grouping
	Summary
Chapter 11: Implementing Automation and Modulation
	Technical requirements
	Tempo and time signature changes
		Implementing tempo changes
		Implementing time signature changes
	Recording automation in the Arrangement View
		Disabling, re-enabling, and deleting automation
	Recording automation in the Session View
	Drawing and editing automation
		Drawing automation
		Locking envelopes in the Arrangement View
	Clip envelopes
		Automation versus modulation
	Summary
Chapter 12: Getting Started with MPE in Ableton Live
	Technical requirements
	An introduction to MPE
	Using MPE with the Wavetable device
	MPE Control
	Expression Control
	MPE with a controller
	Summary
Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live
Chapter 13: Exploring Tempo Follower, Follow Action, Max for Live, Working with Video, and Ableton Note
	Technical requirements
	Exploring Tempo Follower in Live
	Follow Action
		Clip quantization with Follow Action
		Follow Action applied to Scenes
		Disabling and deleting Follow Action
	Introduction to M4L
	Working with video in Live
		Editing audio and video
		Exporting your work
		Saving the project with video
	Ableton Note app
	Summary
Chapter 14: Exploring MIDI Mapping, External Instrument, and MIDI CCs
	Technical requirements
	MIDI controllers
		Control surfaces
		Generic MIDI controllers
	MIDI mapping in Live
		MIDI mapping third-party plugins
		Takeover modes
		Key Mapping
	Using hardware synths with Live
		Configuring Live’s audio and MIDI preferences
		Setting up External Instrument in Live
		Recording audio from the hardware synth into Ableton Live
	MIDI CCs
	Summary
Chapter 15: Playing Live
	Technical requirements
	Playing live with Ableton Live
	Clip Launch options
		Clip Launch modes for individual clips in the Session View
	Setting up dummy clips
	Syncing with Ableton Link and MIDI
		Synchronizing via Ableton Link
		Synchronizing via MIDI
	Cue Out and output routing
	Ableton Push and other controller considerations
	Summary
Chapter 16: Interesting Mixing Techniques in Live
	Technical requirements
	Approaching a track mixdown
		Volume balance
		Panning
		Subtractive EQing
		Compression
		Additive EQing
		Creative effects
	Split-band processing in Live
	Sidechained reverb
	Parallel Compression
	Mid-side EQing
	Preparing your mix for mastering
	Summary
Chapter 17: Troubleshooting and File Management
	Technical requirements
	Managing missing files
	Managing unused files
	Managing third-party plug-ins
	Summary
Index
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