Ableton Live 10 Essential Training

Course details

Create music in real time, on stage, or while producing in the studio, with Ableton Live 10. In this course, music professor Rick Schmunk shows how to compose, record, remix, improvise, produce, and edit your musical ideas using this powerful software. Get familiar with the Live interface, learn how to set up your audio and MIDI hardware, and explore how to create a Live set. Plus, discover how to record and edit both MIDI and audio, shape the sound of your projects by applying effects to your tracks, warp audio, and much more. As you get acquainted with Live 10, you'll learn real-world production skills that can be applied to songwriting, studio production, and DJing.

Learning objectives
Choosing the right gear for a home recording studio
Setting audio and MIDI preferences
Optimizing performance
Loading, playing, and moving clips
Working with Live sets
Recording and overdubbing MIDI
Using groove quantization
Editing pitch, velocity, and duration
Looping audio
Working with locators
Creating beats with Impulse
Building instrument racks and drum racks
Recording and editing automation
Creating sounds with Wavetable
Using Max for Live devices

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

Updates - What's New in Ableton 10.1

03 - EQ8
04 - Delay
05 - New and update key commands
06 - Automation changes and improvements
07 - Audio export changes and improvements

1. System Setup

08 - Selecting gear for a home recording studio
09 - Connecting your system

2. Getting Started

10 - Audio I O device setup and preferences
11 - MIDI controller setup and preferences
12 - Optimizing performance
13 - Arrangement and Session View introduction and comparison
14 - Working with Live sets

3. Working in Arrangement View

15 - Track controls
16 - Selecting, zooming, and playback
17 - Auditioning and loading presets
18 - Preparing to record MIDI
19 - Computer keyboard as MIDI controller
20 - Pencil enter MIDI
21 - Punch record

4. Working in Session View

22 - Session view overview
23 - Working with clips
24 - Working with scenes
25 - Recording and overdubbing MIDI
26 - MIDI capture
27 - Recording audio
28 - Working with external devices

5. Editing MIDI

29 - Working in the MIDI Editor
30 - Configuring the grid
31 - Editing rhythm and quantizing
32 - Using groove quantization
33 - Editing velocity, duration, and pitch
34 - Copy, paste, and duplicate MIDI
35 - Multi-clip editing

6. Working with Audio

36 - Audio clip editing
37 - Fades
38 - Audio warping overview
39 - Looping audio clips
40 - Quantizing audio
41 - Creative warping
42 - Slice to MIDI
43 - Convert to MIDI

7. Ableton Arranging Techniques

44 - CPU management and Track Freeze
45 - Working with locators
46 - Section editing in Arrangement view
47 - Section editing in Session view
48 - Moving a project from Session to Arrangement view
49 - Moving a project from Arrangement to Session view

8. Working with Clips, Devices, and Files

50 - Browser overview
51 - Customizing the browser
52 - Searching and auditioning
53 - Saving presets and clips
54 - Exporting audio and MIDI
55 - File management
56 - Importing and exporting video

9. Live Mixer

57 - Overview
58 - Group tracks
59 - Sends and returns
60 - Routing and resampling
61 - Headphone cues

10. Audio FX

62 - FX overview
63 - EQ and filters
64 - Compressors
65 - Side chain processing
66 - Using delays
67 - Echo introduction
68 - Echo advanced features
69 - Saturator and pedal
70 - Drum buss
71 - Reverb

11. MIDI FX

72 - Arpeggiator
73 - Chord and Scale

12. Instruments

74 - Impulse introduction
75 - Multi-output Impulse
76 - Impulse parameters
77 - Simpler introduction
78 - Simpler classic
79 - Simpler one shot
80 - Simpler slice mode
81 - Wavetable introduction
82 - WT filters and LFOs

13. Racks

83 - Audio FX racks
84 - Instrument racks
85 - Drum racks
86 - Rack zone editors
87 - Macros

14. Mapping

88 - Key mapping
89 - MIDI mapping
90 - Instant mapping

15. Automation

91 - Graphic automation
92 - Editing automation
93 - Clip automation
94 - Recording automation

16. Max for Live

95 - M4L basics
96 - M4L LFO plugin
97 - M4L Shaper
98 - M4L Drum Synths

Conclusion

99 - Next steps