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: 2025-01-10T18:06:22+00:00
Duration: 2 min 6 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this segment of his free Ableton Live 12 music production class, J. Anthony Allen demonstrates how to use several new MIDI workflow features in…

10 Jan 2025 · 2 min

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In this segment of his free Ableton Live 12 music production class, J. Anthony Allen demonstrates how to use several new MIDI workflow features in Ableton Live 12. He records multiple takes of a MIDI loop, shows how the takes appear as separate take lanes even after deleting the original clip, and explains how to assemble a composite take by selecting the best parts from each lane. Allen then introduces the Capture feature, which automatically surfaces recent MIDI activity for quick retrieval, and the Automation Record mode, which records controller movements (knobs, sliders, etc.) without note data. Throughout, he adopts a conversational, instructional tone, encouraging viewers to experiment with these tools while briefly previewing a track he’s been working on.

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Okay. Take Lanes in MIDI works just about the same. So I'm going to go up here, I've got a loop going. I'm going to arm this to record and start recording something on this clip. Okay, so we recorded a bunch of MIDI stuff there. We can now go to show Take lanes and we can see a bunch of take lanes now. You might say, what are these? This is actually kind of wild. So this is my second take at this video. I did this video a minute ago and I just didn't like what I came up with. So I'm redoing it. But even though I deleted the main clip, the other takes of it are still here. So I mean, I thought I deleted everything, but it's still here. Interesting. But I can select things just like anything else and make the take lane and put together a composite take of the best versions of myself playing it. Now there's a little bit more that goes into this you can do. There's something called capture which will just automatically put on the screen the last couple MIDI things you did. It's kind of wild. So experiment with that. And then there's also automation record which will record just. Just non note MIDI stuff. Things like dials and buttons that might be on your MIDI keyboard. So that's another thing to look for. Okay, let's move on and let's just look at a track. Right. We've been talking a lot about theory and how all this works. Let's look at something. I've been working on one of my things and talk through what I did just as a break, something fun to do.