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How to Produce Music with Ableton Live 12
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Introduction (1:05)
What You Need For This Course (0:53)
Quick Start (3:21)
Resources
Complete Resources Download
Music Production Glossary
Mac and PC Shortcut Sheet
Discord Community & Additional Useful Links
Additional Gear Recommendations
Chapter 1 - Ableton Live Fundamentals
1. An Introduction to the User Experience (5:21)
2. Why Use Session View? (3:01)
3. Session View In Detail (9:53)
5. Global Quantisation and Clip Properties (6:53)
4. From Session To Arrangement View (9:03)
6. Demo Set and Customising Live (4:09)
7. The Help Window (2:18)
8. Saving A Set (5:07)
Chapter 2 - Making a Drum Beat
1. Your First MIDI Drum Clip (9:57)
2. Velocity and Chance (4:31)
3. Switching Out Sounds (5:29)
4. Finger Drumming A Midi Clip (7:12)
5. Quantisation First Steps (4:45)
6. Setting Up A Midi Controller (6:15)
7. Using Capture and Session Record Button (4:46)
8. Tweaking Levels In Your Drum Rack (6:45)
9. Finger Drumming Inspiration (3:31)
10. Midi Generative Tools - Rhythm (5:48)
11. Grid and Subdivisions (4:08)
12. Working with a Triplet Groove (2:44)
Chapter 3 - Exploring MIDI Instruments
1. Intro to MIDI Instruments (8:33)
2. Selecting Sounds and Creating A Collection (5:44)
3. Piano Roll (6:05)
4. Creating A MIDI Chord Clip (8:34)
5. Creating A Bassline (6:44)
6. Scale Mode (7:37)
7. Generative and Transformative MIDI (Part One) (5:49)
8. Generative and Transformative MIDI (Part Two) (4:30)
9. Organising Ideas, Considering Structure (6:16)
Chapter 4 - Recording Audio
1. Setting Up To Record (7:07)
2. No Audio Interface Yet? (1:44)
3. Recording Our First Audio Clip (4:28)
4. Experimenting with Audio Clips (7:09)
5. Songwriting Quick Tips (4:10)
6. Recording An Instrument (4:33)
7. Quantising Audio and Warp Modes (6:20)
8. Warp Modes (6:05)
9. Groove Pool (4:14)
10. Dealing with an Upbeat (2:42)
11. Latency Trouble Shooting (2:53)
Chapter 5 - Audio FX
1. Intro To Audio FX (11:08)
2. Autoshift (6:42)
3. Delay (7:52)
4. Reverbs and Using Send FX (9:57)
5. Intro To EQ (5:43)
6. Autofilter - RKC's Favourite Effect (7:29)
7. Using A Max for Live Device (8:28)
8. Make Your Drums Sound Fat (6:32)
9. Adding FX to Individual Drum Hits (3:16)
Chapter 6 - Audio to MIDI Techniques
1. Intro To Sampling (8:04)
2. Simpler (9:30)
3. Sampler (5:24)
4. Converting Audio To MIDI (7:12)
5. Granulater (3:31)
Chapter 7 - Project and Plugin Management
1. Browser Recap (6:48)
2. Templates (4:50)
3. Saving Your Live Set (Recap) (3:50)
4. Help My Media Files Are Missing (4:02)
5. Installing Third Party Plugins - Mac (Part One) (7:42)
5. Installing Third Party Plugins - Mac (Part Two) (2:52)
6. Installing Third Party Plugins - PC (7:59)
7. Customising Live (7:24)
Chapter 8 - Further Ideas and Concluding Session View
1. Clip View Automation (7:11)
2. Controlling Live Without a Mouse (9:21)
3. Session View (Recap) (2:57)
4. Demo Beats - Rock (4:50)
5. Demo Beats - Hip Hop (4:55)
6. Recording Into Arrangement View (Recap) (4:02)
Chapter 9 - Transport and Navigation
1. Navigation (4:22)
2. Transport (4:36)
3. Copy, Paste, Mute, Group (5:26)
4. The Grid (3:47)
Chapter 10 - Layering and Arrangement
1. Recording Vocals And Comping (14:44)
2. Arrangement Technique - Layering and Harmonising with Vocoder (7:55)
3. Vocal Processing with RKC's Quick Vocal Chain (8:40)
4. RKC's Arrangement Techniques - Layering with MIDI (5:51)
5. RKC's Arrangement Techniques - Layering with Samples (7:19)
6. Resampling for Creative Textures (9:02)
7. Adding Movement with MIDI Arp (2:49)
8. Cutting Copying and Duplicating Time (4:08)
9. Adding Movement with Sidechain (5:55)
Chapter 11 - Automation
1. What is Automation (3:46)
2. How to Draw Automation (8:13)
3. Automating Parameters (7:39)
4. How to Overide, Create Lanes and Shapes (8:33)
Chapter 12 - Transition Techniques
1. Transitions - What are they? (5:35)
2. FX on the Master (7:18)
3. Reversed Reverbs and Resampling (9:59)
4. Fills (Part One) (5:04)
4. Fills (Part Two) (12:32)
5. Risers, Impacts and Crashes (5:26)
6. Tidying Your Tails (3:21)
7. Keep Your Track Interesting (7:37)
8. Rhythmic Filtering (13:43)
Chapter 13 - Mixing Techniques
1. What Is Mixing? (2:06)
2. Tidying Up Your Session - Headroom for Mastering (8:47)
3. Tidying Up - Cross Fades and Gates (8:13)
4. EQ First Steps (8:06)
5. Shaping Your Sound with EQ (Part One) (10:00)
5. Shaping Your Sound with EQ (Part Two) (10:03)
6. Dealing with Resonant Frequencies (8:11)
7. EQ Using M-D (2:33)
8. Compression - RKC's Approach (Part One) (7:05)
8. Compression - RKC's Approach (Part Two) (7:30)
9. Panning and Stereo Width (7:41)
Chapter 14 - Exporting Your Demo
1. RKC's Simple Mastering Chain (11:52)
2. Exporting (4:41)
3. Exporting Stems (6:51)
4. Final Production Break Down (16:59)
Ableton in the Real World (BONUS Material)
Ride With You Masterclass (28:21)
Paper Tiger Masterclass (24:23)
Wavy Cat Masterclass (15:02)
7. Generative and Transformative MIDI (Part One)
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