J. Anthony Allen is an Ableton Certified Trainer, one of roughly a thousand worldwide, and says the certification exam is harder than earning a PhD in music. He'll teach the course using Ableton Live but will compare it to FL Studio, Logic, Pro Tools, Reaper, and Reason later. Don't buy software yet.
So I am what is called an Ableton Certified Trainer, which just as a sidebar is really interesting thing for me because in a lot of communities where I'm working, you know, I have a PhD in music. Like that's the top, top degree you can get in music. And yet people are more impressed that I'm an Ableton Certified Trainer. And to be fair, they should be, because it was, I would venture to say, almost harder to get than the PhD. PhD took more time. But the exam to be an Ableton Certified Trainer is no joke. It was a two day long process. It's a whole ordeal. It's not, it's, you can only get it from Ableton. It's not like I went to some weekend class. So what this means though, and when you see someone who's an Ableton Certified Trainer, it doesn't just mean that they are really good at using the program Ableton. It means that they are really good at teaching how to use the program Ableton. That is actually what the Ableton company is certifying is that you are a certified teacher, meaning you are, in their mind, one of the top teachers of this thing, of this program, the country or the world. There's only like a hundred Ableton Certified trainers in the US and I think there's a kind of roughly a thousand worldwide. So it's fairly rare. I'm telling you all this because this thing Ableton, this word I keep saying is this software that's on the screen here and it's a software we use for music production and it's one that I use every day and I'll be walking you through some of the elements of it and how it works. But it's not the only software out there. There are other pieces of software that are great. FL Studio, Logic, Pro Tools, Reaper Reason, there are a lot of great ones. So you don't have to fall in love with live in this class, but I am going to be using it for a lot of stuff. But I'll also show you things in other programs as well. Shortly we'll talk about software and the pros and cons of the different platforms that you could choose to use. So like I said in the last video, don't go out and buy anything yet, but just know you're taking a class with one of the top Ableton people in the country. I also have a PhD.
