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Description
Learn how to produce a track from start to finish with Ableton Live.
4 hour pro class taking you through the full process. (Beginner & Intermediate). Starting with the basics & finishing with mixing + mastering a complete track.
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What you'll learn in this course:
Learn how to produce a professional sounding track from scratch without getting stuck along the way
- This course is for beginners.
- We are using Ableton - only!
- This course focusses on production. Our other course is focussing on chord progressions and harmony.
Over 21 sessions and around 4 hours of content!
- Produce and complete a professional sounding track using Ableton Live
- Create unique sound designs using Ableton instruments
- Use samples to edit, arrange, and create unique tracks and beats of your own.
- How to achieve great soundscapes using audio effects
- Hands on course showing you a producers workflow. Focus on sound design and technique
- Kickstart your productions with our material - full template session and samples included in this course!
What are the requirements?
- We’re using Ableton Live 9 Suite only. If you don’t have a copy of Ableton Live 9 Suite, a great way to start would be using the trial version (free for 30 days). We won't be using any third party plugins in this course
- If you've opened a DAW like Ableton, Logic or FL Studio before and know that hitting the space bar will start and stop the playback, that would be great.
- Having spent a couple of minutes in Ableton to check out the basic interface
- You want to know how to produce a professionally sounding track from the start to the fully mixed and mastered product.
Is it for you?
- You want to see the complete production process step by step
- You want a comprehensive understanding of Ableton Live
- You are interested in producing tracks, beats, sound designs, or any other music on your own in a professional way
- You're looking to understand the deeper levels of Ableton Live
- You like to see how to start from scratch going all the way to the finished, mixed & mastered product.
Producing a modern and fresh sounding track from start to finish
This is a very hands-on and deep class showing you how to produce a track from scratch - with tons of content, tricks, and tips on production, workflow, beat design, sound design, mixing and mastering. You’ll be getting the complete finished track as template session you can play around with. Additionally you’re getting a bunch of drum samples and MIDI files to work with. We are going to be covering how to produce using Ableton Live, starting from working with clips in the session view and going all the way up to some very advanced production techniques using the arrangement view.
Class Curriculum / Contents:
I. Introduction
Course Topics:
- Creating beats
- Basics of Ableton
- How to make a song out of a loop
- Creating fresh sound designs
- Reversing Clips
- Meter Changes
- Using compressors
- Creating custom effects
- Working with vocal samples
- How to EQ
- Recording automations
- Automating instruments, synths
- Using synths
- Working with one-shots
- Using MIDI for beat production
- Creating pad sounds
- Working with automations
- Adding harmony
- Designing fat saw pads
- Consolidating
- Recording/Writing Drum grooves
- Layering Synths
- Audio effects
- Automating effects
- Basics of Arrangement
- Side-Chaining
- Vocal Chops
- Send / return effects
- Looping
- Spread sound with chorus effects
- Locators
- Using Ableton pack sounds
- Effecting Guitars
- Creating pitch / tape Stop effects
- Basics of Mixing
- Basics of Mastering
- Setting up a complete Mastering chain
- Applying numerous mixing techniques
- Layering sounds like audio engineers
- EQ: adding space with mid / side eq
- EQ: how to identify and cut resonances
- Use Ableton built-in effects for mastering
- and many more
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What you're getting:
20+ Studio sessions with Francois / Production Music Live
4h+ online video sessions with lifetime-access
MIDIs and Drum Samples
Bonus: Course Ableton Project File (using Ableton Live 9 SUITE)
