J. Anthony Allen teaches DJ techniques in Ableton Live 10, covering how to build effect racks, map MIDI controllers, and set up a live performance template. James Patrick demonstrates organizing tracks like a DJ record bag and controlling Ableton entirely from hardware without looking at the screen.
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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. This is part six, DJing and controllers. We'll start off this section looking at the audio effects rack and how to build really dynamic, powerful audio effects that you have control over with a knob or a fader or even a key in Ableton Live. From there, we'll move on to controllers and talk about the world of controllers, the different ones you can get, and how to incorporate them into your production workflow and live performance workflow. At that point, my Slam Academy colleague James Patrick will be joining us to walk through his live performance setup and show what's on his screen when he's playing to a big crowd. We'll wrap up this section with some tips and tricks and ideas for you to think about for other performance setups. We can control all of live right from within this. We don't really need to ever look up at Ableton if we don't want to. And the L doesn't stand for loop. You might think that means like parameters about the loop, but it doesn't. It opens this launch tab. Okay, so there's a couple things here we need to look at launch modes and Legato is something we're going to look at.
So in building the template I think the first thing we probably want to do is just make a couple of audio tracks.
Could have also put them on multiple channels chains by dragging them over here. Right. So now chain one has these two effects filter, delay and chorus. Chain two has echo and let's go
ahead and add a folder. Now I like to see these folders as kind of like my DJ record bags, you know.
Sam.
