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: 2024-04-05T22:45:52+00:00
Duration: 2 min 24 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this segment of the "Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily" series, J. Anthony Allen demonstrates how loading an alternate…

5 Apr 2024 · 2 min

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In this segment of the "Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily" series, J. Anthony Allen demonstrates how loading an alternate tuning in Ableton Live 12 instantly transforms the familiar black‑and‑white piano keyboard layout, turning standard notes (C, D, E, etc.) into unfamiliar, microtonal pitches that sound dissonant to ears accustomed to equal temperament. He shows how to remove the tuning to return to standard Western tuning, explains that these tunings are not for everyday use but can inspire unique music, and cautions viewers to only experiment with them if they understand the implications. Allen recommends further research, specifically pointing to American composer Harry Partch—known for building instruments with non‑standard tunings such as 43 notes per octave—as a historical reference for those interested in microtonal composition. The segment ends with a transition to the next topic on templates.

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Watch. I'm just gonna, I think I just double click on it. There we go. Now look what happened. Like my black and white key patterns went away. Because we're the, the notes that we know. C, D, E no longer apply. These are all now more complicated notes. Right. And it's going to be, to my ears, extremely dissonant to make music in this way. Alright, so I'm going to take this off, but I'm just going to click on this tuning area and hit delete. So now we're back to normal western tuning, also called equal temperament. Okay, so this tuning thing is wild. I love it. I'm so excited to hear the music that people are going to make with it. It's something that's not really for me. I probably won't really use it because I really like working with the traditional system that we have. That's where all my music lives. But there's going to be some really cool music coming out with this, trust me. So in our browser the tunings section is just all these different tunings. If you double click on one of these and load it up, everything is going to get very dissonant if you don't know what you're doing. So unless you really have a desire to do this, I would leave this area alone. But look it up, do some more research on it. You'll find it's great, really fascinating. If you really want, if you want to know a composer who did a lot of this kind of work, actually an American composer, I think, I think it was from Chicago or Chicago area, I'm not really sure. But look up the composer, Harry Partch. He built all kinds of instruments around, I don't know, maybe the 60s, maybe the 50s. He built instruments that had non standard tunings, things like 43 notes to the octave. So look him up, see what you think. If you want to make music like him in Ableton now you can. Okay, let's move on to templates.