In this opening session of an Ableton Certified training series, J. Anthony Allen introduces a beginner‑focused course on Ableton Live 12. He outlines the class’s purpose—to start from zero experience and progressively build competence—by walking through three of his own tracks, covering basic navigation, clip creation, and session assembly. The overview explains the curriculum’s roadmap: initial broad‑stroke fundamentals followed by deeper modules on recording, editing, and sound design. The segment then shifts to the drums module, where Allen demonstrates three types of drum‑related files, emphasizing Ableton Device Group (ADG) files that route audio from a microphone or guitar. He explains the necessity of a hardware audio interface for traditional microphones versus the limited options of USB microphones, and shows channel routing (mic on channel 1, guitar on channel 2) to illustrate input setup for drum recording.
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Sam. 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.
