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: 2024-04-29T22:45:31+00:00
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this segment of J. Anthony Allen's "Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class," the instructor introduces the fundamentals of audio editing within…

29 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment of J. Anthony Allen's "Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class," the instructor introduces the fundamentals of audio editing within Ableton Live. He explains that while audio and MIDI editing share many operations, this lesson will focus solely on audio, reserving MIDI for a later section. Allen demonstrates that standard copy, cut, and paste commands (Command‑C/V on macOS, Ctrl‑C/V on Windows) function identically within Ableton as they do in common software like Microsoft Word. He shows how to select entire clips or portions within a clip, copy them, and paste them elsewhere, establishing the basic workflow for building a song by cutting and rearranging audio material.

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Okay, up next, let's talk about editing. We know how to get clips into live. We know how to do a few things with them. So let's talk about how we actually start to build a song by cutting things up and moving them around. So in this section, we're only going to focus on audio. In the next section, we'll focus on midi. A lot of things when you're editing, audio and MIDI are the same, but not all. So that's kind of why I want to separate them. So we've got a MIDI clip here, right? The first thing that you should keep in mind when it comes to making edits is that all of your standard functions from like, Microsoft Word or whatever will apply. If I click on this to highlight it, I can click on this, the header of it to highlight the whole thing. And then I can press configuration. Command C to copy. Click somewhere else. Command V to paste. Okay, cut, copy, paste, all that stuff still works. And it's the same key command that it is everywhere else. Command C to copy, command V to paste. Or on a PC, I believe it's Control C and Control V or Alt V, one of those for PC users. Whatever it is in Microsoft and everything else, that's what it is. We can select a part of a clip on the inside. Command C to copy and Command V to paste.