Course Highlights
  • Setup and Navigate Around Ableton Live
  • Learn how to Record MIDI
  • Learn to Record Audio
  • Learn how Edit MIDI in the MIDI Note Editor
  • Learn how to Warp and Edit Audio
  • Avoid common pitfalls and mistakes other Ableton Live users make
  • Learn how to Work Quickly and Efficiently in Ableton Live 11
  • Setup your Audio Interface and MIDI Controller
  • Improve your general Music Production skills
  • Build a Track from Nothing
  • Learn Music Theory and Songwriting Essentials in Ableton Live 11
  • Understand the main Audio and MIDI Effects in Live 11
  • Learn the Basics of Mixing
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

5 Topics
Introduction - Part 1: Workflow - Session View + Arrangement View
IMPORTANT UPDATE for following along with this course
Introduction - Part 2: Creating Clips
Introduction - Part 3: Basic Track Controls
Before we get Started

2 Topics
Before we Get Started - Ableton Live Editions
Before we Get Started - Ableton Live Packs

28 Topics
Setting The Tempo of the Project
Audio Tracks
MIDI Tracks
Computer MIDI Keyboard
Setting up a MIDI Controller
The Basics of Writing MIDI
Writing in a New Part (velocity scale)
How to Record MIDI into Clips
Grid Settings
Quantizing
Writing Drums - (Levels Draw Tool Saving)
Writing Drums - PT 2: Creating a Basic Trap Style Beat
MIDI Overdub Recording
Recording Quantization
Legato Feature - Kick + Bass
Organizing your Set
Global Quantization Menu
Building an Arrangement
Setting up to Record
How to Record Audio in Ableton Live 11
Basic Audio Editing - Part 1: Trimming Your Audio Clips
Basic Audio Editing - Part 2: Quantizing Audio
Walkthrough of Adding New Parts
How to Record into the Arrangement View
How to Move Clips into the Arrangement View
Essential Editing Features in the Arrangement View
Audio Editing Features - Fades Time-stretching + Reversing
Finalizing Song Arrangement

7 Topics
Audio Setup Recap
How to Record Audio + MIDI into the Arrangement View
Punch Recording - Audio + MIDI
Loop Recording - MIDI
Loop Recording - Audio
How to use Take Lanes - Comping Audio (Live 11 New Feature)
Exporting your Song from Ableton Live

13 Topics
Introduction to Mixing
Levels
Panning
Adding Audio Effects
Using Groups
Introduction to EQ
EQ Eight (Ableton Live Standard + Suite Only)
Compression - Part 1
Compression - Part 2
Sidechain Compression
Introduction to Mixing with EQ and Compression - Part 1
Introduction to Mixing with EQ and Compression - Part 2
Using The Default Reverb Send - A Brief Introduction

4 Topics
Arpeggiator - Part 1: Introduction + Overview
Arpeggiator - Part 2: Style Groove Hold + Offset
Arpeggiator - Part 3: Rate Gate + Retrigger
Arpeggiator - Part 4: Transpose + Velocity

8 Topics
Automation - Part 1: Introduction
Automation - Part 2: Writing in + Editing Automation
Automation - Part 3: Automation Shapes
Automation - Part 4: Recording Automation in the Arrangement View
Automation - Part 5: Recording Automation with a MIDI Device
Automation - Part 6: Clip Automation
Automation - Part 7: Recording Automation into Clips
Modulation

2 Topics
Drum Rack - Part 1: Brief Overview
Drum Rack - Part 2: Building a Kit + Creating a Beat

12 Topics
An Introduction to the Drift Synth
A Quick Overview of the Drift Synth
Oscillators - Part 1: Oscillators + the Drift Control
Oscillators - Part 2: Modulation Sources
Filter Section - Part 1
Filter Section - Part 2: Frequency Modulation
Envelopes Section - Part 1: ADSR
Envelopes Section - Part 2: Envelope 2
LFO Section
Modulation Tab / Mod Matrix
Voices Section
Let's Look at Some Presets for the Drift Synth

10 Topics
Simpler - Introduction and Classic Mode
Simpler - 1 Shot Mode
Simpler - Slice Mode
Simpler - Global Controls and Tuning Samples
Simpler - Filter
Simpler - LFO
Simpler - Amp Envelope
Simpler - Amp Envelope Modes
Simpler - Pitch Envelope
Simpler - Filter Envelope

2 Topics
(Ableton Live Suite Only) Wavetable Overview - Part 1
(Ableton Live Suite Only) Wavetable Overview - Part 2

11 Topics
Tension Instrument - Part 1: Introduction + Brief Overview
Tension Instrument - Part 2: Create Pad Sound
Tension Instrument - Part 3: Create a Lead Sound
Tension Instrument - Part 4: Excitator Section
Tension Instrument - Part 5: Damper Section
Tension Instrument - Part 6: String Section
Tension Instrument - Part 7: Vibrato Section
Tension Instrument - Part 8: Termination + Pickup Position
Tension Instrument - Part 9: Body + Volume
Tension Instrument - Part 10: Filter Envelope + LFO
Tension Instrument - Part 11: Global Settings

7 Topics
Collision Instrument - Part 1: Introduction + Brief Overview
Collision Instrument - Part 2: How to Quickly Create Bell Preset
Collision Instrument - Part 3: Mallet + Noise Excitators
Collision Instrument - Part 4: Resonator Section
Collision Instrument - Part 5: LFO Section
Collision Instrument - Part 6: MIDI Tab
Collision Instrument - Part 7: Output Area

8 Topics
Warping - Part 1: Introduction + Quick Look
Warping - Part 2: Brief Overview of Warping
Warping - Part 3: Warp Modes - Beats
Warping - Part 4: Warp Modes - Tones
Warping - Part 5: Warp Modes - Texture
Warping - Part 6: Warp Modes - Re-Pitch
Warping - Part 7: Warp Modes - Complex + Complex Pro
Warping - Part 8: Warp Modes- Additional Features

3 Topics
Redux Audio Effect
Spectral Resonator Audio Effect (Ableton Live 11 Suite Only)
Spectral Time Audio Effect (Ableton Live 11 Suite Only)

6 Topics
Getting Started - Setting up the Project + Return Tracks + Sends (Suite 11 Only)
Hybrid Reverb - Part 1: Global Controls (Ableton Live 11 Suite Only)
Hybrid Reverb - Part 2: Convolution Section (Ableton Live 11 Suite Only)
Hybrid Reverb - Part 3: Routing (Ableton Live 11 Suite Only)
Hybrid Reverb - Part 4: Algorithmic Section (Ableton Live 11 Suite Only)
Hybrid Reverb - Part 5 - EQ Tab (Ableton Live 11 Suite Only)

6 Topics
Browser - Part 1: Collections
Browser - Part 2: Sounds
Browser - Part 3: More Categories in the Browser
Browser - Part 4: Plugins and Clips
Browser - Part 5: Samples Grooves and Templates
Browser - Part 6: Places

2 Topics
Grooves and Groove Pool - Part 1: Overview + Adding Grooves
Grooves and Groove Pool - Part 2: Additional Settings (Live 11 Standard + Suite)

4 Topics
Preferences - Part 1: Look/Feel
Preferences - Part 2: Audio
Preferences - Part 3: MIDI
Preferences - Part 4: Other Essential Preferences

10 Topics
Before we get Started in this Section
Introduction and Getting Started in this Section
How to Work out a Major Scale
How to Work out a Natural Minor Scale
The Circle of 5ths
Chords in a Major Scale
Chords in a Major Scale - 2nd Example
How to Work out Chord Progressions
RECAP - How to Work out a Natural Minor Scale
How to Work out the Chords for a Natural Minor Scale

13 Topics
Writing Chords for our Song - Part 1
Writing Chords for our Song - Part 2
Writing a Melody for our Song - Part 1
Writing a Melody for our Song - Part 2
Inverting the Chords
The 3 Different Types of 7th Chords
Adding 7th Chords and Extended Chords to our Song - Part 1
Adding 7th Chords and Extended Chords to our Song - Part 2
Separating the Parts onto a New Instrument
Writing a Bass Part - Part 1: Getting Started + Bass Sound
Writing a Bass Part - Part 2 - Writing the Groove - PT 1
Writing a Bass Part - Part 3 - Writing the Groove - PT 2
Creating a Drum Part - Basics

5 Topics
Before Starting this Section
What is Max for Live?
A Brief Look into Max for Live
MIDI Effect: Delay
Audio Effect: Delay

12 Topics
Part 1: Bottom Bar
Part 2: Object
Part 3: Message Comment + Toggle
Part 4: Buttons
Part 5: Numbers and Sliders
Part 6: Max for Live Objects
Part 7: Add Object - Basic and Audio
Part 8: Add Object - Data and Images
Part 9: Add Object - Interface and Jitter
Part 10: Format
Part 11: Left Toolbar
Part 12: Right Toolbar

28 Topics
Christopher Carvalho Making Synths Intro
Making Synths Introduction
Additive Synth - Part 1
Additive Synth - Part 2
Additive Synth - Part 3
Additive Synth - Part 4
Additive Synth - Part 5
Subpatcher
Oscillator
Basic Envelope
Triggering Envelopes
Adjustable Envelopes
Presentation Mode
Dials
Multiple Oscillators
Making an Oscillator Menu
ADSR
Tidying the Code
AM Synth - Part 1
AM Synth - Part 2
FM Synth - Part 1
FM Synth - Part 2
FM Synth - Part 3
FM Synth - Part 4
FM Synth - Part 5
FM Synth - Part 6
Poly Synth
Max for Live Outro

2 Topics
Thanks and Bye
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