J. Anthony Allen teaches Ableton Live 10 from the ground up at Slam Academy. This first section covers the interface, Session and Arrangement views, recording audio and MIDI, signal flow, editing, and automation, with project files included.
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We've made for you here the most comprehensive Ableton Live program we could imagine. It's designed to take you from novice to pro. It'll have project files, instrument downloads, special guests, and a lot more. I've divided this class into six different sections so that you can focus on what you want to learn right away. However, to really take full advantage of the program, start at the beginning and go to the end. Or at least make sure you take all the sections. At some point in this first class, we're going to try to dive in quick. We're going to work on the interface and just generally how to get you up and running. Making some music with live. Quickly, we'll focus on the two views of live, how to navigate in live recording, both audio and MIDI in live, General signal flow and editing tricks you can do in live. MIDI editing, automation, groove pool, and we'll take apart a couple tracks just to see how they're working in a full session. Now the biggest thing that gets people hung up on live when they're first getting started, especially if they've worked in another audio program before. Is this Two Views of Live thing. Okay, so think about it like this. LIVE has. Let's do another session deconstruction like we did before. This is another track of mine that I thought we'd just take a look at, not that I'm. Okay, What I have here is the first part of that same track laid out into Session view. So let me show you how that would work. So you can see, my track thing is Ableton Live's big engine for keeping sounds in time with each other, which is why DJs like this program so much. We've talked about editing a little bit so far. We've talked about moving clips around, talking about shortening clips, lengthening clips. But let's get a little bit deeper into what we need to do to build a whole track out of these clips. Sam.
