Overview
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Explore the broadening landscape of plugins and virtual instruments in this hands-on Ableton Live course, through a variety of walkthroughs, tips, tricks, and examples.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- About this course
- What you should know
- Sampler intro
- Sample playback
- Prepare and load multisamples
- Multisample instruments and key zones
- Multisample instruments and velocity zones
- FM modulation and pitch envelopes
- Filter and amp envelopes
- LFO modulation
- Assign MIDI control
- Electric intro: Hammers and tines
- Damper and pickup in Electric
- Creating classic EP sounds
- Creating wide stereo EP sound
- FX overview
- Beat Repeat
- Resonators, part 1
- Resonators, part 2
- Multiband Dynamics
- Random
- Vocoder
- Vinyl Distortion
- Working with external devices
- EQ and filters
- Compressors
- Side chain processing
- Using delays
- Echo intro
- Echo advanced features
- Saturator and Pedal
- Drum Buss
- Reverb
- Overview
- Excitator section
- Resonator section, part 1
- Resonator section, part 2
- LFO section
- Creating sounds with Collision
- Overview
- Group tracks
- Sends and returns
- Routing and resampling
- Headphone cues
- Arpeggiator
- Chord and Scale
- M4L LFO plugin
- M4L Shaper
- Introduction to Analog
- Origins of sound synthesis: Oscillators and oscillator waveforms
- Create a richer sound with oscillator tuning
- Analog's hidden sub and sync oscillators
- Use filters to sculpt the sound
- Use a filter envelope to shape the sound
- Create motion with filter modulation
- Emulate a vintage synth with oscillator modulation
- Create tremolo and stutter effects with amp modulation
- Create a sidechain saw bass
- Create a supersaw and mellow pad sound
- Create a growl bass sound
- Create a vintage lead sound
- Introduction to Operator
- FM sound synthesis: Carrier and modulator oscillators
- Choose an oscillator waveshape
- Create custom oscillator waveshapes
- Add low end with a "sub" oscillator
- Use filters to sculpt the sound
- Use a filter envelope to shape the sound
- Create motion using modulation and LFOs
- Create a processed EP sound
- Create a house bass sound with sidechained sub bass
- Creating an ambient FM pad sound
- Creating a plucked synth sound
- Next steps
