Program Details

Classes held on: Saturdays

01/04/2025

through

01/25/2025

Objectives

  • Learn how to use Ableton Live for music production
  • Get comfortable navigating Ableton’s interface and essential features
  • Focus on MIDI, creating sounds, and using effects in the DAW
  • Produce your first song in Ableton Live

Topics

  • Basic Ableton Functions
    • User interface
    • Warping audio
    • Editing
  • MIDI 
    • Audio sampling
    • Ableton drum racks
    • MIDI effects
  • Synthesis
    • Signal Flow
    • Modulation, filters, and cut-offs
    • Sound design for beginners
  • Effects
    • EQ and compression
    • Reverb and delay
    • Automation
  • Mixing
    • Levels and dynamics
    • How to finish a track

Goals

  • You will be able to use Ableton with confidence, independently or in collaboration with instrumentalists, music producers, and DJs.
  • You will produce an original track with Ableton Live with guidance from a professional music producer.