Ableton Live Course | Tokyo
- →What sets Ableton apart from other DAWs?
- →Getting set up: Audio and the preferences window
- →Session view vs. Arrangement view: applications of each
- →Live concepts: clips / scenes / browser / library
- →The concept of Ableton’s unique warp engine
- →Launching clips
- →Intro to FX
- →Intro to instruments
- →Warping in practice
- →Quantizing audio
- →Clips: clip view and clip properties
- →Making beats with Drum Racks and Simpler sampling
- →Effects: Live’s effects and using third-party effects
- →Recording MIDI and live looping
- →Basic routing and resampling
- →Automation: creating dynamic changes in your arrangements
- →Preparing (warping) whole tracks and harmonic mixing
- →On the fly DJ effects
- →Using MIDI controllers effectively / mouse-free control
- →Bespoke Ableton controllers - Akai, Novation, and Push
- →Grouping tracks and basic routing
- →Structuring your sets and using loops
- →Recording your performance + editing the arrangement view
- →Bouncing down
- →Simpler - Unlocking the full potential of this simple sampler
- →Drum Rack - Programming beats, manipulating sounds, chopping up loops, vocals, and tracks - making rhythms from anything. Slice to MIDI
- →Using and controlling third-party virtual instruments
- →Grooves + groove extraction
- →Setting up a MIDI keyboard or drum pad controllers
- →Getting creative with MIDI effects
- →Balancing, introduction to the art of mixing. Group tracks and advanced uses of routing
- →Introduction to sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
- →The recording patch in detail, introduction to gain structure
- →EQ and compression for recording
- →Foldback, headphone mixes, and latency
- →Digital, analog, sampling rate and bit-rate explained
- →Microphones overview and stereo miking techniques
- →Recording specific aspects of Ableton
- →Compiling audio takes
- →Advanced warping - acapellas, classical music and anything without beats!
- →Multi-track warping
- →Clip envelopes - creative uses of Ableton's unique loop-based automation on audio fx, instruments, and midi fx. Easily achieve complex music, sound, and rhythm manipulation
- →Using all automation types together - creating build-ups and break-downs with complex sounds
- →Intro to Racks & Chains – powerful hidden features. Layering FX and instruments
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