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Hardware to Ableton Live

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Intro: Goals Of This TutorialThis brief tutorial will help you take your existing hardware work-

ow with machines such as the Akai MPC series or similar and

transfer it to Ableton Live. We will take a quick look at Live’slayout and functions, see how they relate to hardware and make

music with Live.

First, lets take a look at why you are here:

• What do you expect to get out of this tutorial?

• What will you be able to do when you are done?

• Have you used hardware sampler/sequencers to make music?

Now, lets look at your goals and what you want to be able to do

when you nish this tutorial.




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Your Goals

By the end of this tutorial you will be able to:

1. Create a Live Set with midi and audio tracks

2. Load your sounds/samples into Ableton Live3. Record musical parts to different tracks

4. Create patterns using copy/paste

5. Create a basic arrangement

6. Export your work to a single WAV or AIFF fle

But then what?? (long term goals)

Think about what you would like to get out of using Ableton Live

Musical goals (to compose and arrange a song in two hours)

Technical goals (to control ableton using my breath)

Enter your goal(s) here:






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Live Layout: Two ViewsLets look at the basic layout of Ableton Live.

There are two maint views: Arrangement and Session.

Arrangement view shows your tracks in a typical left-to-right

timeline style. (See image on right)

Session view shows your tracks vertically and has slots where

you can add a sound le of virtually any format. This unique

layout allows you to ‘jam’ with your sounds in a very exible

and fun way.

Device Browser use the browser to look through the live sound library and

nd your own sounds on any connected drive.

Clip view edit your (midi and audio) clips and loops here

(click <shift+tab> to see the effects window)

Next, lets see what you need to know to complete this tutorial.

Arrangement

Session




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This tutorial is short and assumes:

that you have made music before and

know important basics about music theory and composition:Meter (Bars/beats)

Tempo

loops/patterns

Arrangement

On the technical side you should be comfortable with:

Digital multitrack recording concepts (patterns, tracks, etc)

Midi/controllers

What you should know

Multitracking

Meter




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Now lets take a closer look at Live’s interface

A. Tempo, Meter and Metronome

B. Tracks, double click area,C. Instruments/Sound Library/Browser

-Patches

D. Map To Controller

Practice

Using the image on the right, Click on the following areas:

1. Time Signature

2. A Midi Track3. The plugins window

Part One: Ableton Quick Start A

C B




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Now lets get the party started. Open Live on your machine.

Lets practice creating a Live set and setting the tempo:

1. From the File menu click New Live Set

2. On the upper left hand control bar nd the Tempo box and en -

ter the tempo for your piece

The default Live Set opens with x tracks. Lets create a few more:

3. From the Create menu click Insert Audio Track

4. Now click Insert MIDI Track

In the next slide we will add instruments and/or sounds to these

tracks.

Part Two: Set UpNew Set

New Track






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First, lets check our MIDI Preferences to make sure Live is ‘see-

ing’ our controller.

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MIDI map mode

Keyboard map mode

Tip - Click the keyboard icon in the upper right to turn computer

keyboard mode on and use your computers keyboard to playnotes or trigger sounds. Keep this in your back pocket. It comes in handy in a pinch.

Mapping sounds to your keyboard/controller

MIDI map mode

Preferences - MIDI

Add image




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If you have Live, switch over and go through the procedures we

covered:

• open and name a new set, SAVE,Create tracks (audio, midi)

Add sounds, instruments

If you do NOT have Live, nd the correct buttons in the images to

the right.

MAKE IMAGES

INTERACTIVITY

Now we can move on to part four and make some music.

Practice...




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1. Create Live Set and set Meter and Tempo.

2. Create tracks

3. Add instruments and sounds4. Map controller

5. Play/hear music

Flowchart image - image + instructions as caption

We are all set up. Now let’s Jam and record some parts!(To keep things quick and easy, we’ll work with 1 or 2 bar loops)

Part Three: Create a Live set to work with

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Rhythm/loop

Lets get a foundation going. If you are starting with a sample

loop, lets get it looping:import/drag your sound from the browser onto a clip

get your sample playing in loop/warp mode.

tip: make sure sample tempo and Live Set tempo match.(make sure bars are set to a whole number 1 or 2)

Drums

Add some drums. Start with one of the following

A. Load a preset drum kit, create midi clip, input pattern(s)

B. loop a drum break - Slice to midi

Ok. Now lets make music








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Arrangement/patterns/songs





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Mix your tracks, sounds, etc

Set your level/volume for each track

Add an EQ8, effect

Export your song

File>Export Audio Command>Choose format>Select folder

WAV vs AIFF

MP3 - Live does not export mp3. no sweat, use another program or website to

convert your wav/aiff to mp3.


Export command

Mix



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Lets hear it.

• Play your piece for friends/family.

• Send/post to online friends, networks, boards.Feedback - good feedback - is hard to nd. Make it sound right to you.

If you do not have Live right now:

Play with the images to the right and see if you remember where to click on the interface.

To take a quick survey, click on the survey image on the right Can

you work musically in Live as you do your gear?

How long before you expect to?

What is your fave part of Live

Did you get bored at any part during the tutorial?

longer/more info, shorter/less info.open comments

Thank you. Send us feedback. [email protected]

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