Ableton Live 101

Ableton Live 101 and the included online media files will guide you through the fundamentals of music production. Its intuitive interface allows beginners to make music right away, while offering deep functionality to satisfy even the most advanced user.

Ableton Live 101 and the included online media files will guide you through the fundamentals of music production. Its intuitive interface allows beginners to make music right away, while offering deep functionality to satisfy even the most advanced user.

This book teaches the basics of recording, editing, mixing, and processing audio and MIDI using Ableton Live Software. It also provides plenty of power tips to take you beyond the basics and unleash the true power of using Live as a creative tool.

Ableton Live is a specialist music software program designed to work as a live performance tool, as well as meet a composer / songwriter’s needs for recording, arranging, mixing and mastering. Because of its origins as a live instrument, it gives the performer unparalleled beatmatching and crossfading capabilities, with all the techniques used by a traditional DJ or turnablist, and more. This new essential guide takes a step-by-step approach to the program, with projects, tips and examples throughout. Part of Flame Tree’s successful Everyday Guides Made Easy series on a range of computing and app titles.

(Quick Pro Guides). Ableton Live whose unique, groundbreaking, incredibly flexible features set it far apart from all other digital audio applications is equally at home with making beats, remixing, live recording, DJing, live looping, sound design, electronic music, hip-hop, and much more. Unlike other books about Ableton Live that read like a second manual, this book walks you through all the features you need to make an actual track from start to finish. In addition to his over 20 years of making electronic music, certified Ableton trainer Jake Perrine has taught audio production for more than a decade, so not only does he know what he's talking about, but he knows how to make sure you know what he's talking about! Whether you want to DJ, make mashups and remixes, play with a band, or build epic dance anthems from scratch, Perrine provides all the hands-on, expert guidance you need for using Ableton Live 9. The accompanying online audio contains content keyed to the Ableton Live exercises in the text and session files, so you can actually both hear and see how many of the features actually work. A substantial appendix section offers discussions of important non-Ableton-specific topics, including digital audio basics, components of a producer's studio, considerations when buying a DAW computer, and more.

Jon Margulies' comprehensive guide to Ableton Live is back! This updated edition does far more than bring you up to speed on all of Live's new features-it teaches fundamental concepts and important workflows that every Live user needs to know. Used in top college programs such as NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, the Ableton Live Power! series is well known as the definitive guide to Live. In this new edition, you'll learn the software in depth and get the lowdown on all the latest updates, including the Wavetable synthesizer, multi-clip editing, Capture, and Live 10's many workflow improvements. Jon's friendly, engaging writing style and deep knowledge of the program come together to help you hone your production skills without losing sight of what's most important: making music!

Music Production can be an elusive art form for many, and the challenges that face someone who is new to this can easily create overwhelm and lead to complete paralysis. The goal of this book, is to cover music production from many different angles in a way that will change your thinking on the subject and build your confidence.Music making is a very mental and psychological game, and more often than not, all the technical stuff can hold you back from achieving your goals if you don't have the right creative habits in place first.With all the information available with a simple Google search, I wanted to really get to the heart of things that aren't being discussed nearly enough. I want to clear out all the garbage you may have been told and replace it with the essentials you can put to immediate use. Many people new to music may dive into forums and mindlessly watch video tutorials attempting to gather more and more information until they think they have enough to get going (hint: you never feel like you know enough).That would be like reading a whole encyclopedia and then being asked to recall only the important things that will get you from point A to point B. Even worse, much of the information you get will contradict the last thing you read. It's like finding a needle in a haystack only to be told it's the wrong needle. There is a much better approach. It's an approach that doesn't require you to know a lot to get started. You only need to know enough to get to the next step in your process.There is truly nothing stopping you from becoming a music producer. The ones who are successful now are the ones who started from nothing and chipped away at it until they found a way to express their unique voice. There are no gatekeepers making decisions on who is worthy and who isn't. The determining factor is you, your habits and your confidence in yourself.This book can be read from start to finish, or as a "choose your own adventure", going directly to what you think can help you most right now. Don't get caught up thinking you have to devour everything before getting started. That isn't necessary, and isn't the point of the book.The core concepts in the book will come up time & time again which should help you retain them & be able to recall them when the need arrives. By exploring these concepts from several angles you should gain a broad view of their many uses.My hope is that this book is used as a toolbox. You simply find the right tool that moves you forward and get back to work. So few people, who have more than enough information in their heads, ever start. Of those who do start, even fewer finish what they started and are satisfied with the results. I want you to be in that small group of finishers.Let's get started.