About the Author |
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Acknowledgments |
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Scene 1 Live 9: Create, Produce, Perform |
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1.2 Approaching Ableton Live in Three Intuitive Ways |
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1.3 Immersing Yourself in Live |
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1.3.1 How the Book Has Been Constructed |
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1.3.2 General Scene Layout |
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1.6 Taking Advantage of "Hot Tips" |
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2.3 Important Preference Tweaks |
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2.3.6 Record, Warp, and Launch Preferences |
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2.4.2 The Browser Concept |
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Scene 3 The Quick Way to Start Making Music! |
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3.5 Essential Operations and Tasks |
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3.6 Performance to Arrangement |
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3.7.1 Exporting Your Audio |
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Scene 4 Global Recording: Arrangements "On-the-Fly" |
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4.2 The Global Recording Concept |
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4.4 User Interfacing: Two Parallel Worlds |
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4.4.5 Session View as a Mixer |
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4.6 The Non-linear Approach |
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Scene 5 Session View Concepts |
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5.1 Real-time Launching Base |
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5.6 Working in Session View |
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5.7 Sessions into Arrangements |
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5.7.1 Capturing a Session Performance |
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5.7.2 Playing Back a Performance |
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5.8.1 Produce: Submixing with Return Tracks |
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Scene 6 Arrangement View Concepts |
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6.4 Working in the Arrangement View |
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6.4.5 Fades and Crossfades |
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7.1 Musical Building Blocks |
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7.2.1 Sample Display (Editor) and MIDI Note Editor |
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7.2.2 Clip Overview and Device View Selector |
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7.2.3 Audio versus MIDI Clips |
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7.5.2 Edit, Save, Reverse |
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7.5.3 High-quality Mode (HiQ) |
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7.5.13 Loop Switch, Loop Position, and Loop Length |
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7.6.2 Play at Half or Double |
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7.6.3 Reverse/Invert Notes |
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7.6.7 Start/End, Loop Switch, and Position/Length |
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7.7.1 Basic Commands, Navigation, and Zooming |
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7.7.3 MIDI Velocity Editor |
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7.7.4 Insert/Edit MIDI Notes |
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7.7.5 MIDI Step Recording |
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7.8.1 Device and Control Chooser |
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7.9.1 Drawing and Editing Envelopes |
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7.9.2 Link/Unlink Envelope, Start/End, and Loop Position/Length |
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7.10.1 Create: Rhythmic Loops with Follow Actions |
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7.10.2 Produce: Dummy Clips |
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8.1.1 Clip Slots and Clips |
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8.2 MIDI Overdub Recording |
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8.2.1 Session View Loop Recording |
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8.2.2 Arrangement View Loop Recording |
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8.3.3 Convert Harmony, Melody, and Drums to New MIDI Track |
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8.4 Recording Audio Clips |
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8.5 Exporting and Printing |
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8.5.1 Rendering/Exporting Audio |
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8.6.1 Produce: Real-time "Stack Tracks" |
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Scene 9 Working with Scenes |
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9.1 Musical Foundation and Structure |
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9.2 Scene Launch Preferences |
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9.2.1 Select Next Scene on Launch |
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9.2.3 Prepare New Scene for Recording |
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9.3 Capture and Insert Scenes |
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9.5.1 Create: Multi-track Instruments and Recording |
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9.5.2 Perform: Mapping Scenes |
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10.1 Automation in the Arrangement View |
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10.1.1 Recording Arrangement Automation |
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10.2 Automation in the Session View |
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10.2.1 Recording Session Automation |
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10.3 Working with Envelopes |
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10.4 Song Tempo Automation |
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11.1.1 Croup Tracks in Session View |
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11.1.3 Group Tracks in Arrangement View |
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11.2 Launching Group Clips |
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11.2.1 Groups versus Scenes |
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11.4.1 Create: Printing Group Tracks |
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12.1 Introduction to Groove |
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12.3.1 Groove Pool Parameters |
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12.6.1 Create: Grooving Your Backing Tracks |
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Scene 13 Warping Your Mind! |
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13.1.4 Master versus Slave |
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13.3.2 Contextual Warp Commands |
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13.3.3 How to Fix "Out of Sync" Audio Files |
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13.3.5 Adjusting Timing and Quantizing |
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13.4.1 Produce: Quantize Audio in Real-Time |
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Scene 14 Loops, Slicing, and More Looping |
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14.3 Slice to New MIDI Track |
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14.3.1 Audio Loop Slicing |
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14.5 Looping in the Arrangement View |
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14.6 Loops with Unlinked Clip Envelopes |
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14.1.1 Create: Custom Loop Library |
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Scene 15 Instruments and Effects |
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15.1 Introduction to Live Devices |
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15.2 Working with Live Devices |
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15.2.1 Overview of Devices |
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15.2.4 Customizing Presets |
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15.5.6 Multiband Dynamics |
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15.7.2 Interfacing with Device Chains |
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15.8.2 Third-party Instruments |
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15.8.3 Third-party Effects |
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15.8.4 User Interfacing and Layout |
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15.9 External (MIDI) Instruments |
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15.9.2 Rendering External MIDI |
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15.10 Working with Devices |
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15.10.1 Produce: Multi-instrument Plug-in |
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16.2 Interface and Layout |
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16.4 Creating Device Racks |
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16.4.4 Drum Racks and Audio Effects |
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16.5 Racks in Session View |
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16.6.1 Produce: Convert Chains into MIDI Tracks |
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Scene 17 Controlling Your Universe |
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17.1.1 Setting up Control |
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17.4 The Relative Session Mapping Strip |
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17.6 Dedicated Live Hardware Controllers |
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17.7.1 Perform: Mapping Locators |
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Scene 18 ReWiring the Digital World |
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18.2.1 Master Mode: Host (Mixer) Application |
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18.2.2 Slave Mode: Synth Application |
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