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: 2025-01-07T18:06:18+00:00
Duration: 2 min 8 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this segment of J. Anthony Allen’s Ableton Live 12 class, the instructor demonstrates the fundamentals of audio recording. He explains how to arm a…

7 Jan 2025 · 2 min

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In this segment of J. Anthony Allen’s Ableton Live 12 class, the instructor demonstrates the fundamentals of audio recording. He explains how to arm a track for recording, adjust the monitoring setting so the audio plays back only after recording, and interprets the gray meter that indicates incoming signal without playback. He shows the simple process of hitting the main Record button, capturing a spoken phrase, and then playing it back. Allen also covers how to record on multiple tracks simultaneously by using a command‑click (or Alt‑click on PC) to enable additional tracks, allowing separate microphones to be recorded on separate channels. After confirming the audio clip, he notes that deeper audio‑recording details will be covered later and transitions to the upcoming topic of MIDI recording.

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Now it's a little more comfortable and I'm not going to feedback. So the audio setting is going to play through when you're recording. I think I maybe said that backwards a minute ago, so I'm going to leave that off. So now this is armed to record. So you can see that there is a meter here now, but it's grayed out. It's gray because that means that it's trying to show you that there's signal here. But I'm not playing it. If I go back to auto, you will see that we're playing it. But as it's. It's gray means you can't hear it, but it's there. Okay, so I've armed this track to record and now I just hit the big record button and now we are recording Hooray bananas, bananas, bananas. And then I stop. Okay, we recorded something. If you want to record on multiple tracks at the same time, by default it only wants you to record one at a time. But if you want to record multiple, you can command click or I think alt click on a PC and enable two to record at once. So now I could record this microphone and this microphone if I had another microphone plugged into channel two recording both on separate tracks. But there we go. Now we have our audio clip of me playing of me talking. So now I can play it back. Record button. And now we are recording Hooray bananas, bananas, bananas. And we hear it. Cool. So super basic recording. I think in the later versions of this class we go into the full nitty gritty details of audio recording. But in this first class we're just trying to make some music. So let's move on and talk about MIDI recording.