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3 six hours sessions including 2 hours self practice
1st session: Audio & VIDEO
- Overview of famous sequencers
- A brief preview of Ableton and a description of Lives' abilities
- Live basic aspects and general concept
- Setting up and optimising Live preferences (Digital audio basic aspects review)
- Explanation of the session view
- Live browser:Find, Preview and Import audio samples
- Audio clip manipulation and loop quantization
- In depth time stretch (warp) modes
- Modulating loops with clip preferences
- Creating loop sequences with follow actions and scenes
- Audio plug-ins explanation with creativity aspects (Auto Filter, Beat Repeat, Compressor 2, Dynamic Tube, EQ-8, Grain-Filter Delays, Saturator, Utility)
- Automation basics: working with clip envelopes
- Setting up monitor mixes for a musician using Send and Return tracks
- Audio recording and quantization of the recorded material
- Mixing and routing, using insert and aux effects-creating audio subgroups
- Freezing tracks
- Working with video
- Saving channel strip settings within a clip
- File management: File Manager capabilities, Saving and Creating Live packs
2nd session: MIDI
- Brief review of 1st session's key topics
- Setting up Lives' MIDI preferences
- Impulse: Creating beats using its own effects and filters, routing its outputs into multiple tracks
- Recording and processing MIDI clips (MIDI basic aspects review)
- Using MIDI effects and VST/AU Instruments
- Using and setting external controllers
- Advanced usage of MIDI clip envelopes for external hardware control: Sending program change messages, cc, creating multitimbral sounds in an external synth
- Syncronizing Live to external devices and vice versa
- Sampler: multilayering sampling and "hypermodulation" capabilities
- In depth usage of Instrument and MIDI effects rack
- Sequencing in the arrangement window: Clip placement, Editing commands and automation
- Saving MIDI track settings within a MIDI clip
- Exporting and Importing MIDI clips
- Rewire Master and Slave modes
- Controlling Rewire slave devices via Live's MIDI tracks
- Recording Rewire inputs into Live
3rd session: GET READY FOR THE STAGE: Live performance and Djing
- Brief review of 2nd session's key topics
- Using your own templates
- Optimizing preferences for Live performance
- Audio/MIDI clips launch modes
- Usage of scenes for live performance
- Creating on the fly loops and MIDI assignements
- MIDI absolute/relative modes
- Live performance with session and arrangement view
- Costumize session-clips and mixer view
- Managing audio files for a dj set
- Warping mp3/wav songs
- Dj tools (Auto filter, Beat Repeat, Eq 3)
- Using cues and sends for monitoring
- Recording your performances
- Review of Live's key features
- Q & A
- Preview of some Ableton artists videos
- 3 hours self practice under instructor's guidelines
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