Overview
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Learn professional techniques for producing and mixing electronic music with Ableton Live and Ableton Push 2.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Configuring preferences
- Quick review of Ableton Live basics
- Working with Ableton Live's browser
- The foundation of a track: Electronic music production concepts
- Session view and Arrangement view
- Exporting and saving your project
- Editing audio and MIDI clips
- Warping basics
- Sends and returns
- Insert effects
- Capture recording
- Editing multiple MIDI clips
- Working with groups
- Quick history of traditional drum machines
- Programming drums with Ableton Live's drum racks
- Programming drums, slicing an audio sample, and slicing to MIDI
- Creating custom drum racks for your samples
- Using the drum buss
- Creating wobble bass lines with Analog
- Creating call and response bass lines
- Creating wobble bass lines with Operator
- Programming leads with instrument racks
- Programming pads and mapping macros
- Chord shapes with Ableton Push
- Slice to MIDI
- Harmony to MIDI
- Melody to MIDI
- Drums to MIDI
- Using wavetables
- Creating a lead sound with wavetables
- Creating a bass sound with wavetables
- Creative vocal sampling
- Using Push 2 with Ableton Live Sampler
- Using MIDI effects
- Tips and tricks for using Push 2 during the production process
- Tips and tricks for using Push 2 during the mixing process
- Electronic music arrangement basics
- Working with automation
- Working with EQ and compression
- Setting up sidechain compression
- Building effects racks
- Working with Ableton Link and iOS devices
- MIDI mapping parameters with your controller
- Using Ableton Live with an analog synth
- Next steps and further training
