In this third installment of J. Anthony Allen’s free Ableton Live 12 series, the instructor assumes viewers have basic familiarity with Live and dives straight into hands‑on music creation. He begins by exploring the Arrangement View, guiding viewers through building a track, then shifts to the Session View for a parallel track‑building exercise. The lesson emphasizes beat‑making fundamentals, showcasing Ableton’s built‑in synths and the new Live 12 MIDI generation tools that can auto‑create chord progressions and other material. The class wraps up with advanced production techniques such as side‑chaining, routing, bussing, and resampling, and provides downloadable starter sessions for learners to experiment with. Throughout, Allen shares practical tips, anecdotes about common workflow pitfalls, and encourages experimentation.
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Sam. Hey, everyone. Welcome to producing music with Ableton Live. This is the third class in my big giant ableton live 12 series. You don't need to have taken the first two. However, I'm going to assume you know your way around live a little bit at this point. In this class, we're going to focus on just making stuff. We'll start by getting comfortable with the Arrangement View, and then we'll work on making a track together. Then we'll move on to Session View, and then we'll work on making a track together. We'll focus on beats and what goes into making a beat and what I look for in beats. We'll talk about the Ableton synths that are built in. And then all these new MIDI tools that are in live 12. There's all these new tools that will let you just generate things so you can come up with a chord progression. And maybe you don't really like it all that much. You can click a couple buttons and have lives say, let me see what I can do with that and have it generate more material for you. It's hugely valuable and really cool. And then we'll close out with some extra techniques like sidechaining, routing, bussing, resampling, things like that. Before we wrap up, I'll leave you with a bunch of different sessions in this class so that you can have something to get started with and play with that are completely yours to use however you like. So let's dive in. I can't tell you how many times I've been, like, in the weeds working on something I, like, programmed, like, this complicated beat, only to realize I was, like, thinking, I'm working on quarter notes. View and Arrangement View have different, like, content areas, but they share a mixer. Okay. So that to really kind of make these more. Make these groove a little bit better, make them feel a little more natural. Two of them you already know. I remember back when I was learning how to use Session View and somebody showed me this thing that I'm about to show you, and it just went click and everything made sense about Session View. So let's do it. So first. Sa.
