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Ableton Live Producer Course (W/E)

Course Summary

Ableton Live offers an innovative new approach to music production and performance that frees up your creativity whilst allowing you to add greater emotion to a performance or composition. This powerful piece of software is intuitive, quick and responsive and a fantastic tool for writing, composing and recording ideas. Let Point Blank London's music production school tutors show you how. This intensive weekend course explores all of the key features that Ableton Live has to offer. Ableton Live is incredibly flexible and this Ableton Course will familiarise you with the interface but perhaps more crucially help you work out how to optimise it for your own productions. In just two days you will get an intensive introduction to the skills and techniques you need to start producing your own tracks. The course includes setting up, using audio and midi clips, arranging your track, utilising the sesssion and arrangement views, effects and processing, for example using vocoders filters, and reverb and mixing. All Ableton Courses are taught in small groups by a Certified Ableton instructor in our London training studios.

Ableton Live Producer Course Contents

Introduction and Setup

Setting up your audio card with Ableton Live
The Session and Arrangement views
Loading and triggering clips
Global Quantization

Using Audio Clips

Warping your audio files
Clip options
Clip envelopes
Audio editing

Using MIDI Clips

MIDI sequencing and editing
MIDI files and commands
Drum programming with Drum Racks
Introduction to sampling with Simpler

Arranging Your Track

Real time arrangement
Post recording editing
Traditional arrangement techniques
Automation envelopes

Session View

Manipulation of clips
Recording changes
Legato Mode
Recording into the Arrangement View

Effects & Processing

MIDI Controllers: overview and mapping
Ableton’s audio effects: an overview
Third party plug-ins
Vocoder, Beat Repeat, Auto Filter

Mixing

Mixing theory and tips
Types of EQ and how to use them
Introduction to Compression & Limiting
Mastering

Tutor profile Freddy Cuin A certified Ableton Live Trainer who 'aced his training', Freddy has worked with artists including Shy FX, BLIM, Above and Beyond, The Go Team and Asian Dub Foundation. MORE	Pete Tong Dance music legend, Radio One DJ and avid Ableton Live user Pete Tong is a regular visitor to Point Blank. Click on image at left to hear what he has to say about us.