Overview
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Daniel Mintseris, keyboard player and programmer for St. Vincent, shares his onstage setup, his tips for working with Ableton Live, and insights from his long musical career.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Keyboard and MIDI station
- Software overview
- Ableton Live set layout
- Preparing to use a click
- Creating click tracks
- Count-off and starting pitch
- In-ear monitors
- Creating a song preset in an Instrument Rack
- Switching sounds within the song preset
- Using clip automation to switch sounds
- Adding songs in nested Racks
- Using a macro to conserve CPU and select song presets
- Automating presets at song start
- Drums and electronics
- Ableton drum presets
- Guitar stations and Moog bass
- Changing external instrument presets
- Program change automation with Max for Live
- When playback is necessary: Preparing audio stems
- Importing playback audio
- Audio routing
- Set navigation
- Line-check file
- Backup system
- From humble beginnings to St. Vincent's technical brain
- Bringing ideas to life with Ableton Live
- Technology as an extension of musicianship
- Next steps
