In this introductory Ableton Certified training video, J. Anthony Allen presents a beginner‑level course on Ableton Live 12. He assumes viewers have no prior experience with Live or music production and promises to start from the very basics, gradually building skills. The class covers the Live 12 interface, walks through three of his own tracks, and guides learners in creating their own music clips and sessions. He outlines the broader curriculum, which will later dive deeper into recording, editing, sound design, and other production elements. The first practical segment focuses on drums, introducing Ableton Device Group (ADG) files, explaining the need for a hardware audio interface (or USB mic), and demonstrating how microphone and guitar inputs are routed to channels for recording.
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Sa. Hey, everyone. Welcome to official Ableton Certified training. Ableton Live 12, the first in my big sequence of classes on Ableton live 12. In this class, we're going to start from the very basics on how to use Live. Assuming you haven't used any other version of Live, and assuming you don't have any real experience in music production, we're going to start at the very basics in this class and build up from there. Throughout this class, I'll be showing you how to use all of Ableton Live 12. I'll also be walking you through a couple different tracks. There are three different tracks of mine that I'm going to walk you through. I've set up this class so that we're going to do a couple of things just to get us comfortable with the software, but then we're going to start making music. So pretty quick, we're going to start making our own music clips and putting together some music sessions. This class is designed to be a first, big broad strokes into a lot of the content areas. And then we'll be moving on to other sections of this class where we dive in deeper to recording, editing, sound design, and all the other elements that go into music production. But it is the single best place to start if you're looking to learn live 12. So without further ado, let's dive in and start making some music. Up next is drums. Now, in the drums category, we're going to find three different types of files. Okay, the first thing we're going to see here is more of these ADG files. Ableton Device Group. The reason I want that, again is because that's what my microphone is plugged into. Okay. If you don't have a hardware interface, you're not really going to be able to record a traditional microphone. You might be able to record a USB microphone or something like that. I'm going into channel two here. Okay, so this channel one is my microphone, this is my guitar. So you can see in that little thing right there, me make some sound with my guitar. Okay, so what are the elements here? Here we.
