J. Anthony AllenComposer, Producer, Music Educator, Entrepreneur

Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily.

Name: Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily.
Uploaded: 2024-06-29T22:45:34+00:00
Duration: 2 min 33 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this segment, J. Anthony Allen walks through a recent university‑studio project where he recorded a jazz big band using Ableton Live 12. He…

29 Jun 2024 · 3 min

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In this segment, J. Anthony Allen walks through a recent university‑studio project where he recorded a jazz big band using Ableton Live 12. He demonstrates how he organizes the many tracks by creating groups (rhythm section, drums, saxes, brass) and even groups within groups, using Shift‑click selection and the Command‑G shortcut. He explains the benefit of collapsing groups to keep the session tidy. Allen also shows how he imports a MIDI version of the score solely as a visual reference, allowing him to compare the intended notes with the recorded audio and manually adjust pitch to match the score. The discussion highlights the scale of the project—recording separate sections, importing MIDI for pitch correction, and the early stage of editing—illustrating a practical workflow for handling large, multi‑instrument recordings in Ableton Live.

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Okay, before we move on from audio recording, I thought I'd show you a project, recent Dish project that I did. So this was a project I did not here, but in my university studio. What I have here is a jazz band, like a big. A big band. So one thing I've set up here that we haven't talked about is groups. So I have a rhythm section group. The advantage of there being this big group here is that I can close it and just tuck away all those tracks, right? Here's saxes, here's brass. Here's a bunch of MIDI stuff. So if I look at the rhythm section. So to put something in groups, you can just actually select by using Shift, click to select a bunch of things and command G, like group. And that'll put it into groups. You can see this drums is another group. So you can have groups within groups. So here are all the drum mics. So this was a big project because we had to record the rhythm section and then. And then the saxes and then the brass. And then I imported all this MIDI stuff just to reference, so I could go through and clean up the pitches, like, a lot. So I just got the score as a MIDI file. And those MIDI tracks aren't doing anything. They're just there. So I can see what note is supposed to be playing, and then I can help tune it. This was a big, big project to get it sounding really good. So here's a little taste. So this is a really early version of this, before I really got in the weeds to edit it. But you can kind of see what I'm doing here with comparing the MIDI to the recorded notes to help me adjust them. So this was a big project and a big recording session, but this is what a big recording session can look like sometimes.