Introduction To Ableton Live 9

Course Outline

If you have just bought Ableton live or you are struggling to get to grips with how the program works, then this is the perfect course for you. We start with the very basics and soon you will have a good understanding of how to use Ableton Live 9

Learn how quickly you can get to grips with one of the most powerful and popular music production software packages on the market. We will show you how to create your own beats, re-edits and you will soon be banging out those tunes. This is a complete guide to the music production capabilities of Ableton and is perfect if you have just started to use the program and want to get a good understanding of how Ableton works and how to begin to create your music in the software.

We will take you through a step by step guide from setting up the software, to creating beats, sampling, creating bass and chords, arranging, automation and much much more. With lesson goals and tasks to follow you will soon master this amazing piece of software from the comfort of your own home.

At the start of the course we will spend time and set you goals so that you really understand how the software works, then its onto making the music and beginning to build a track. The tasks are designed to make sure you have fully grasped the lessons and we will even advise you on how much time you should spend working through your goals.

With full course notes and diagrams, to guide you through, you will feel like you are in the Subbass studio, we use actual tracks that have been released to give you an insight into what the finished product should look like.

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Course Content

• Lesson 01 - 
  What You Might Need
• Lesson 02 - 
  Under The Hood
• Lesson 03 - 
  The Live 9 Interface (Part 1)
• Lesson 04 - 
  The Live 9 Interface (Part 2)
• Lesson 05 - 
  Browsing and Loading Sounds
• Lesson 06 - 
  Audio Clips
• Lesson 07 - 
  Audio Clips Part 2
• Lesson 08 - 
  Clip Launching & Follow Actions
• Lesson 09 - 
  Making a beat in Impulse (Part 1)
• Lesson 10 - 
  Making a beat in Impulse (Part 2)
• Lesson 11 - 
  Keyboard Shortcuts Recap
• Lesson 12 - 
  Adding a Beat Loop and Grooves
• Lesson 13 - 
  Midi Instrument and Simpler
• Lesson 14 - 
  Theory Introduction - Notes and Octaves
• Lesson 15 - 
  Theory Contd. - Flats and Sharps
• Lesson 16 - 
  Theory Contd. - Simple Chords
• Lesson 17 - 
  Theory Contd. - Intervals
• Lesson 18 - 
  Writing Your Bass Riff
• Lesson 19 - 
  Layering Multiple Sounds
• Lesson 20 - 
  Writing a Lead Riff - Using Scalers
• Lesson 21 - 
  Moving to the Arrangement View
• Lesson 22 - 
  Adding a Pad, using the Arpeggiator
• Lesson 23 - 
  Making Transitions
• Lesson 24 - 
  Tweaking Your Track
• Lesson 25 - 
  Vocal Edits (Part I)
• Lesson 26 - 
  Vocal Edits (Part 2)
• Lesson 27 - 
  Mixdowns Part 1 - Volume Levels and Pans
• Lesson 28 - 
  Mixdown Part 2 - EQ8
• Lesson 29 - 
  Mixdown Part 3 - EQ8
• Lesson 30 - 
  FX Delays
• Lesson 31 - 
  FX Delays (Part 2)
• Lesson 32 - 
  FX Reverbs
• Lesson 33 - 
  FX Compressors
• Lesson 34 - 
  FX Sidechain Compressors
• Lesson 35 - 
  FX Extra