J. Anthony AllenComposer, Producer, Music Educator, Entrepreneur

Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class!

Name: Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class!
Uploaded: 2025-02-05T18:07:24+00:00
Duration: 2 min 58 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this segment, J. Anthony Allen walks through Ableton Live 12’s new Generate and Transform features, showcasing how to shape and manipulate musical…

5 Feb 2025 · 3 min

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In this segment, J. Anthony Allen walks through Ableton Live 12’s new Generate and Transform features, showcasing how to shape and manipulate musical ideas. He demonstrates quantize settings (start/end by 16th, rigid, staccato, connect), ornament and recombine functions, and the Seed Shape tool for generating melodies, adjusting parameters such as rate, tiling, density, and jitter. Allen then explores the Stacks feature for creating chords, experimenting with root, inversion, and various chord symbols. He emphasizes the creative potential of these tools, announces plans to develop a full class on writing music with Generate & Transform, and intends to produce an entire track using only these features.

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Okay, that's cool. You know what I could do is now that I have this, I could take this and I could go to transform and I could say quantize, start and end by 16th and let's make it rigid and then span, staccato, connect, you know, and I can really start doing even more to it. Ornament, quantize, recombine, can move it around. Now let's hear it. It's getting somewhere. Anyway, back to seed. So seed shape is going to generate me a melodic idea and I can just draw on here and say, okay, that kind of a thing. And now I can adjust the rate, the tiling of it, meaning the different rhythmic ideas. Density leave some holes in it and jitter is just kind of randomness, I think. So here's a brand new melody that Ableton just created for me. Cool. Let's go to the last one. Stacks. Now this is chords. This one is a little bit weird because I haven't quite figured out exactly how these symbols work, but I can say root and inversion and then I can select one of all of these different symbols and you know, here's my chord. Go back to more simple chords down here. So you can experiment with it and end up making some really cool chords. So all of this generate stuff is new in Live 12 and it's kind of just wild. So play around with it. I'm going to make a whole class, I think, on writing music with this. I'm going to try to make a whole track just with this generate and transform stuff. So keep an eye out for that. I'll do it soon, I think.