Ableton 101

Ableton course covering quantisation, normalisation, transposition and a multitude of other useful ableton skills.

• What is Ableton and what can it do?
• What are the layouts and views and what do they do? Arrange, session view, browser and library
• Key commands. MIDI assignable keys, key mapping and controllers
• Customising the window layouts and speeding up the workflow.
• Configuring soundcards and MIDI interfaces.
  

• Importing audio (organising folders and files) into Ableton
• Experimenting with the mixer and effects
• Record, solo, mute and transport functions including metronome
• Understanding the grid, quantization
• Cue feature and previewing
• I/O, sends and returns (multiple ins and outs)

• Sample box
• Envelope box
• Launch box
• Warping warp techniques
• Looping and advanced techniques in audio manipulation (quantization)

• Understanding MIDI editing; notes, velocities, length, real-time quantization
• Basic synthesis ADSR
• Inputting MIDI data
• Creating drum patterns and basic programming (step and real-time)
• Crossfader (assigning under MIDI control)

• DJ'ing with Ableton
• Relationship between the windows/views
• Recording external tracks/instruments
• Introducing Simpler, Impulse and other instruments
• Creative real world application, production techniques
• EQ, panning, FX and compression
• Beat repeat, Erosion, Redux in detail
• Operator and examples of third party and Ableton suite plug-ins
• Applying and creating audio and MIDI effects
• Instrument racks, drum racks, effects racks
• Exporting, saving and rendering