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Del curso dictado por Berklee College of Music

Introduction to Ableton Live

803 calificaciones

Berklee College of Music

Introduction to Ableton Live

803 calificaciones

In the past, Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) were programs used only by audio engineers with a highly specific knowledge base, on machines inaccessible to most people. But over the past 10-15 years, DAWs and the act of recording music have evolved from being a luxury of the few to being available to the masses. Ableton Live is one such application. Used by an extremely broad range of music creators, Ableton Live not only facilitates the work of engineers, producers, and writers in professional, home, and mobile studio settings, but it is also a powerful platform for musicians on stage, in the DJ booth, and elsewhere. In this course, you will explore some of Live’s most powerful and useful functionality: MIDI programming, audio recording, warping and processing, looping editing, mixing, performing, file management, and troubleshooting. Meant to be a springboard for those who are new to Ableton Live and/or DAWs in general, this three-week course will provide you with a strong knowledge base for using Live to take your musical ideas from conception to final recording. The course breaks down the many barriers of entry into music technology and encourages all those who wish, to create fearlessly. Note: If you do not own Ableton Live 9, you can download the free, fully featured Ableton Live Trial. The trial version will allow you to save and export your work for 30 days. If you use the trial version, do not download it until the course is scheduled to begin.

De la lección

Polishing the Sound

We'll be moving from MIDI to audio and implementing effects, which will give your sessions even more personality and depth. We'll also be diving into Audio Warping, which is one of Ableton's most powerful functionalities and is the cornerstone of remixing.

Audio Clips4:44

Going Deeper with Audio2:24

Warping Audio8:15

Audio Recording7:30

Audio and MIDI Effects7:52

MIDI Mapping6:52

Automation in Session View and Arrangement View7:22

Conoce a los instructores

Erin Barra
Associate Professor
Songwriting

Audio and MIDI differ in some ways, work exactly the same in others, and

thanks to some very smart people out there, can now actually be

converted from one format into the other, and then back again.

As our first fourier into audio, and to see how it really differs from MIDI,

we're going to start by loading in one of Live's pre recorded audio clips.

And start messing around.

I'm going to continue to build upon the same set we've been using from before in

order to give us some context.

So we're going to begin by going back over to Live's browser, and

this time we're going to select clips from the left-hand side.

And in this section you'll find a lot of pre-fab audio and

MIDI clips which are free and legal for you to use in your compositions.

To preview one of them, you just need to select the sound you want to hear, and

then click on Click to Preview down here.

[MUSIC]

That's a pretty fun one.

[MUSIC]

There's a lot to choose from and clips are a really fantastic starting point for

inspiration or if you're just getting into this and

you don't, you're not taking to the drum programing or the melodic programing you

can always access a clip and pull it right in to your session.

So I'm going to pick a clip called, Clapping Flamenco here, so

listen to the preview.

[MUSIC]

So you notice that inside of the name we're also giving it a BPM marking.

So right now we've got 120 BPM which is, matches the BPM of our master set.

So when I pull this into the session which I'm going to do by clicking dragging and

holding, and I'm going to drop this onto any empty clip here on

an audio track which is vitally important.

When we play it back we're going to hear it at the temp we heard in the preview.

[MUSIC]

But you notice that not every single clip is at 120 BPM.

And in fact, there's a, a pretty large spread here.

So I'm going to pull in a, an audio clip that's at a very different BPM.

I'm going to choose this shaker sound, which is at 102.

And then give the pre, give it a quick preview.

[MUSIC]

I'm going to click it drag it into Audio 7 here onto an empty cell.

And then now when I play it you'll hear it at a much different BMP than the preview.

[MUSIC]

Now that we have both audio and

MIDI in our current session, I suggest saving at this point.

And now I'm going to show you some important things,

that you need to know about manipulating audio clips.

So before we move on, I'm going to solo each track.

going to press the S in this track, and

then I'm going to, hold down Cmd or Ctrl, while I solo the other track,

which is going to allow us to simultaneously solo two tracks.

So, let's look at the sample settings.

going to just check out this Flamenco, audio file here.

You can find the sample settings are in Clip View, next to the launch settings.

And you can hide or display them by pressing the little miniature

waveform here, down at the bottom.

So we have the ability to transpose the pitch of these claps.

[MUSIC]

going to grab the transpose knob here and I'm going to pull it up.

And I'm going to drag it back down.

[MUSIC]

And I'm going to go over the shaker.

The other thing that is really fun to play with here is the double time or

half time function underneath the segment BPM.

So I'm going to quickly half time the shaker.

[MUSIC]

Then I'm going to double time it.

[MUSIC]

Do it for the clapping here too.

[MUSIC]

It's pretty cool.

So additionally, besides changing the BPM and

the pitch here, we can also change the volume.

[MUSIC]

So this is the clip gain fader.

If I raise it, we're going to get more volume.

And conversely, if I lower it, we're going to get less volume.

[MUSIC]

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