Ableton Live
This course is taught by our Ableton Certified Instructor and is included in the Audio Engineering and Music Production Program or can be taken separately.
1. Introduction
- What sets Ableton Apart from other DAW’s?
- Scenarios of how Ableton is used in the production and live environment.
- Dj’ing
- With a band
- Multi-tracking
- Producing & remixing
- Scoring
2. Installation and Setup
- Audio Interfaces
- Choosing Midi Controllers
3. The Geography of Ableton’s Interface
- Session view
- Arrangement View
- Clip Slot Grid
- Scene Launcher
- Session Mixer
- Audio Tracks
- Midi Tracks
- Return Tracks
- Master Track
- The Crossfader
- Browser
- Track Delay
- Groove Pool
- Control Bar
4. Navigation
- Navigating the browser
- Hot swap browser
- Clip Navigation
- Arrangement Navigation
5. Managing Files
- Manage Set
- Manage Project
- Find missing files
6. Clip overview and parameters
- clip view
- name and colour
- time signature
- groove
- clip nudge controls
- commit
- clip Nudge controls
- quantize
- follow actions
- tempo settings
- tempo master/slave
7. Clips
- Audio Clip Properties & Looping: Sample Playback and Loop Cutting
- Warping Audio in Live: Time-stretching, Beat-matching and more
- MIDI Clips & the Note Editor: Writing Music with Live Clips
- Clip Envelopes: Non-Destructive Sound Design
- Launch Modes & Follow Actions: Triggering Clips and Sequences
- autowarp
- Warp modes and controls
- Warp markers and transients
- Audio quantize
- Creative warping
- MIDI Quantization
8. Using Audio Effects: Tweaking Your Sound
- Eq and Filters
- Dynamic Processing
- Delay Effects
- Modulation Effects
- Distortions
- External Audio Effects
- Looper
- Miscellanious
- Audio Effect Racks: Dynamic Effects Layers
- Sidechaining: Make Your Beats Breathe
9. MIDI & Key Controls: Using Live with MIDI Controllers
- Recording audio clips
- Recording midi clips
- Session View Actions to the Arrange
10. Editing Your Arrangement: Refining Your Production in the Arrange View
11. Customizing Global Preferences: Making Live Your Own
12. Routing & Group Tracks: Directing Your Signal Flow
13. Instruments
- Simpler: Easy Sample Manipulation
- Sampler: Advanced Sample Manipulation
- Analog: Subtractive Synthesis
- Operator: FM Synthesis
- Electric: Organ
- Tension: Instrument Physical Modeling
- Collision: Percussion Physical Modeling
- Impulse: Live’s Instant Drum Machine
- Instrument Racks: Layering Sounds for Dynamic Timbres
- Drum Racks
14. Beat Slicing: Slicing Samples with Live’s Ultimate Rhythm Tool
15. Hot Swapping: Browsing New Sounds, Effects and Grooves on the Fly
16. Using VST/AU Plug-Ins: 3rd-Party Instruments and Effects
17. The Groove Pool: Shuffle, Swing and Timing
18. MIDI Effects: Live’s Little Helpers
- Augment Musical Performances
- MIDI Effect Racks: Generative Musical Tools
