Ableton Live Course | Barcelona

Let's Go!

• →Launching clips
• →Intro to FX
• →Intro to instruments
• →What sets Ableton apart from other DAWs?
• →Getting set up: Audio and the preferences window
• →Session view vs. Arrangement view: applications of each
• →Live concepts: clips / scenes / browser / library
• →The concept of Ableton’s unique warp engine

Creating With Audio & MIDI

• →Basic routing and resampling
• →Automation: creating dynamic changes in your arrangements
• →Warping in practice
• →Quantizing audio
• →Clips: clip view and clip properties
• →Making beats with Drum Racks and Simpler sampling
• →Effects: Live’s effects and using third-party effects
• →Recording MIDI and live looping

DJing and Live Performance

• →Bouncing down
• →Preparing (warping) whole tracks and harmonic mixing
• →On the fly DJ effects
• →Using MIDI controllers effectively / mouse-free control
• →Bespoke Ableton controllers - Akai, Novation, and Push
• →Grouping tracks and basic routing
• →Structuring your sets and using loops
• →Recording your performance + editing the arrangement view

MIDI Tracks and Composing with Virtual Instruments

• →Drum Rack - Programming beats, manipulating sounds, chopping up loops, vocals, and tracks - making rhythms from anything. Slice to MIDI
• →Using and controlling third-party virtual instruments
• →Grooves + groove extraction
• →Setting up a MIDI keyboard or drum pad controllers
• →Getting creative with MIDI effects
• →Simpler - Unlocking the full potential of this simple sampler

Recording Techniques and Introduction to Sound Design

• →Recording specific aspects of Ableton
• →Compiling audio takes
• →Balancing, introduction to the art of mixing. Group tracks and advanced uses of routing
• →Introduction to sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
• →The recording patch in detail, introduction to gain structure
• →EQ and compression for recording
• →Foldback, headphone mixes, and latency
• →Digital, analog, sampling rate and bit-rate explained
• →Microphones overview and stereo miking techniques

Advanced Techniques

• →Intro to Racks & Chains – powerful hidden features. Layering FX and instruments
• →Advanced warping - acapellas, classical music and anything without beats!
• →Multi-track warping
• →Clip envelopes - creative uses of Ableton's unique loop-based automation on audio fx, instruments, and midi fx. Easily achieve complex music, sound, and rhythm manipulation
• →Using all automation types together - creating build-ups and break-downs with complex sounds

Our Instructors!

36 Hours | In-Person: €1299 + €100 Registration fee | Online Remote Attendance: €803

In Barcelona the Ableton Live Course runs as a small in-person class at our studio, taught in English by producers active in the city's electronic music scene, with the option to attend live online, using our specialist music collaboration software, Muse. Students join us from across Spain and the rest of Europe.

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