Make Music with Ableton Live
In nine easy to follow tutorials we lead you through the music making process from the start (creating drumbeats and bass lines) and through the more detailed layers of musical production (writing lead lines, adding stabs and other effects). The Make Music with Ableton Live course also includes lessons on arranging, mixing and rendering your final track.
Course features:
• Learn to make music online, in your own time and at your own pace with one of the hottest pieces of software around, Ableton Live
• Learn quickly from our high quality video tutorials, presented by industry professionals
• Get the most from your equipment – there is nothing more frustrating than having kit and not being able to use it. You want to make music and Sonic Academy tutorials show you how!
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Videos Overview
Lesson 1: Creating a Drum Beat
Using drum clips and samples, MIDI sequencing and the software’s built-in Impulse drum machine, this lesson guides you the process of laying down a track’s percussion line in Ableton Live.
Lesson 2: Creating a Bassline
Using Simpler, the built-in sampler on Ableton Live, to build your track’s bassline.
Lesson 3: Creating a synth lead line
Guides you through the tools for writing the track’s main lead line. You’ll get more practice using Ableton Live’s Simpler, while learning how to create chords and use ‘envelopes’, which let you control the volume, pitch, and other aspects of the sounds in your track.
Lesson 4: Creating Rhythmical Stabs
Adding drama to your Ableton Live track: How to make synth stabs, using Simpler, MIDI sequencing and note editing.
Lesson 5: Using MIDI effects
Ableton Live’s features for adding music production effects include Arpeggiator and Chord. Learn how to use these effects and load them onto a MIDI track.
Lesson 6: Utilising audio effects
Teaches you the ins and outs of incorporating audio effects into tracks created with Ableton Live. You’ll learn the processes of auto filtering and delay, and get a crash course in Send and Return Theory.
Lesson 7: Arranging
Once all the individual elements are in place, you organise them into a complete musical arrangement. This lesson focuses on the Ableton Live methods for copying and pasting clips, situating them in the track, crafting musical phrases, and editing.
Lesson 8: Automation
A mini-course on Ableton Live’s automation functions, including volume control and filtering. Teaches you all about automation lanes and hinges – the anatomy of how to automate a track.
Lesson 9: Mixing & Rendering
Render your track ready for the world to hear – the low down on using Ableton Live for filtering, removing unnecessary frequencies, and committing your track to CD.