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Genre Focus Tutorial: Produce Authentic House in Ableton Live
Welcome to a new series that focuses on different genres of music production across every DAW. We kick off with house, the simplest of dance genres. ‘Or is it?’ asks Rob Boffard… For this tutorial you...
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Ableton Live Tutorial: Become a Power User Part 6 – Converting Audio To MIDI
Live has some of the best tools for turning an audio file into MIDI to reflect its musical content. Liam O’Mullane shares his preferred techniques for getting the best results. For this tutorial you...
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Ableton Live Tutorial: Become a Power User 7 – Clip Experimentation in...
Session View has numerous uses in Live 9 , both practical and creative. Liam O’Mullane explains how you can use and abuse the properties of audio and MIDI Clips to make music in a different way… So far...
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Ableton Live Tutorial: Become A Power User Part 9 – Collaboration
So much can be done with one computer these days that you can forget that other humans are around to collaborate with. Liam O’Mullane shares various ways to get social with Live… One of the strengths...
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Ableton Live Tutorial: Become A Power User Part 10 – Mixing Tools And Techniques
When it comes to mixing, Live offers both classic and contemporary mixing tools for a variety of sonic options. Liam O’Mullane walks you through his main choices of devices and editing tools to make...
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Ableton Live Tutorial: Become A Power User Part 12 – Mastering tracks in Live
To close this Power User series for Ableton Live, Liam O’Mullane shares some Live-specific techniques that can be essential when it comes to mastering your own music… Well, this series has been quite a...
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Abayomi on Push Performance
Watch Jesse aka Zone3 perform one of his recent tracks, “Chemistry” using Ableton’s Push: Jesse Abayomi is a man of many talents – in addition to his daytime role as Ableton Product Specialist, Jesse...
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Abayomi on Push Walkthrough
Abayomi takes us through the process of how he uses Ableton’s Push to perform one of his latest tracks, “Chemistry”… Looking behind the scenes at the performance, Jesse’s set up a Live Set that allows...
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The Lazy Guide to Ableton Live: Part 1 – The Template Factor
Live is obviously excellent at looping clips – that’s what it’s built on, after all – but it’s all too easy to get bogged down in rigid looping hell. Fortunately, it’s almost as easy not to. MusicTech...
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The Lazy Guide to Ableton Live: Part 2 – The Virtual Keyboard
In the second of our ‘Lazy Guide to Live’ series we take a look at the virtual keyboard… Unless you own Push or Push 2 – in which case, lucky you – you’ll probably be using Live with an external...
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The Lazy Guide to Ableton Live: Part 3 – Creative Clips
You can get creative with clips very quickly and very easily. Firstly, there’s the obvious: copying! Check out more in our guide to creative clips. Check out part 1 and part 2 Copying one clip to...
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The Lazy Guide to Ableton Live: Part 5 – Clip Automation
It’s time for our final part of our lazy guide to Ableton Live and this time we’re looking at getting the most out of clip automation. Check out the rest of our guide, part 1, part 2, part 3 and part...
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Sync with Link – Using Ableton Link to sync your computers and iOS devices
Ableton Link is the smoothest and easiest possible way to get your iOS music apps and Ableton Live talking to each other. Martin Delaney shows how it’s done – and it’s brilliantly simple… After years...
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Sync with Link – A Step-by-Step Guide (Continued)
As the step by step guide to using Ableton Link to synchronise your computers and iOS devices continues Martin Delaney talks through the key tips to ensure you get the most out of Link… 7. It’s the...
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Put Your Projects On A Diet: Reduce Your Track Count in Ableton Live
It’s a wonderful thing that with computer production, there are few limitations on track count. But there are practical and artistic implications. Martin Delaney shows you how to streamline your...
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Reduce Your Track Count In Ableton Live: Step-By-Step Guide (Continued)
We still think your projects could look a little leaner so let’s continue to look at ways to reduce the track count in Ableton Live with our step-by-step guide. Make sure to check out part 1! 7. You’ll...
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How To Integrate Ableton Live With Your iOS Devices
Ableton Live can enjoy a rich and varied relationship with your iOS devices – by syncing with Link, by using them as hardware controllers, or as sound sources. Here, Martin Delaney explains how… Since...
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Linking Devices To Ableton Live – Step By Step Guide (Continued)
As we continue our guide to linking devices with Ableton Live, we look at sending MIDI via hardware and Wi-Fi. Be sure to check out part 1 before continuing… 7. iPhone 7 users will need to use their...
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Control Your Hardware From Ableton Live Step-by-Step Guide (Continued)
We’re continuing our guide to controlling hardware from Ableton Live, where Martin Delaney introduces MIDI clip and the arpeggiator to the mix. Make sure to catch up on part 1 here. 7. Then choose the...
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Control Your Hardware From Ableton Live
Everybody reading this has – or will eventually have – a hardware synthesiser or drum machine that they want to hook into their Ableton Live rig. Martin Delaney explains how to link it with Live… Live...
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