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.