Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 : create, produce, perform / Keith Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Keith, 1977-

Contributor:

Safari, an O'Reilly Media Company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ableton Live.

Digital audio editors.

Software synthesizers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Live 8 and Suite 8

Ableton Live Eight and Suite Eight

Live Eight and Suite Eight

Place of Publication:

Boston : Focal Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Learn how to create, produce and perform a whole new way; prepare to unlock the power of Live. This book and DVD combination shows, if you get it right, exactly what Ableton Live can deliver. Engineered to follow Lives non linear music environment the book looks and feels like the program, its unique format utilizes the terms and creative features of Live- tabs, keys, pointers, and labels to learn the littlest things that make the biggest difference. Packed with professional testimonials, concepts, definitions, hundred of tips and tricks and hidden features the book covers the software's nuts and bolts and creative technique to create, produce, perform and make music on the fly. The accompanying DVD contains ?Live sets? and web pointer information to sync and download as well as interviews, further hints and tips and video.

Contents:

Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 Create, Produce, Perform; Copyright; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Scene 1 Ableton Live 8: Create, Produce, Perform; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Approaching Live in three intuitive ways; 1.3 Immersing yourself in Live; 1.4 How to use this book!; 1.5 Taking advantage of Hot Tips; Scene 2 Overview: Live 8, Suite 8; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The concept; 2.3 Important preference tweaks!; 2.4 The Live Browser; Scene 3 The Quick Way to Start Making Music!; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Starting a project; 3.3 Audio in Live; 3.4 MIDI in Live

3.5 Essential operations and tasks3.6 Performance to arrangement; 3.7 Finishing your work; Scene 4 Global Record: Capturing Arrangements on the Fly; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Global Record concept; 4.3 Music on the fly; 4.4 User interfacing: two parallel worlds; 4.5 The linear approach; 4.6 The nonlinear approach; Scene 5 Arrangement View Concepts; 5.1 Musical timeline; 5.2 Layout; 5.3 Navigating; 5.4 The Arrangement View; 5.5 Working with automation; 5.6 Arranging concepts; Scene 6 Session View Concepts; 6.1 Real-time "launching base"; 6.2 Layout; 6.3 Clips; 6.4 Tracks versus Scenes

6.5 Track Status Display6.6 Working in Session View; 6.7 Sessions into Arrangements; 6.8 Musical concepts; Scene 7 Clips; 7.1 Musical building blocks; 7.2 Clip View; 7.3 Clip Box; 7.4 Launch Box; 7.5 Sample Box; 7.6 Notes Box; 7.7 MIDI Note Editor; 7.8 Envelope Box; 7.9 Envelope Editor; 7.10 Musical concepts; Scene 8 Groove; 8.1 Introduction to groove; 8.2 Grooves; 8.3 Groove Pool; 8.4 Commit groove; 8.5 Extract groove; 8.6 Musical concepts; Scene 9 Recording; 9.1 Recording MIDI clips; 9.2 MIDI overdub recording; 9.3 Freezing and converting MIDI clips into audio clips

9.4 Recording audio clips9.5 Exporting and printing; 9.6 Musical concepts; Scene 10 Working with Scenes; 10.1 Musical foundation and structure; 10.2 Scene launch preferences; 10.3 Tempo and time; 10.4 Capture and Insert Scenes; 10.5 Musical concepts; Scene 11 Grouping Tracks; 11.1 Group Tracks; 11.2 Launching Group clips; 11.3 Mixing concepts; 11.4 Musical concepts; Scene 12 Controlling Your Universe; 12.1 Remote Control; 12.2 MIDI Mapping; 12.3 Key Mapping; 12.4 The Relative Session Mapping Strip; 12.5 Mapping Browser; 12.6 Musical control; Scene 13 Warping Your Mind!; 13.1 Elastic time

13.2 Warp Modes13.3 Warping samples; 13.4 Musical concepts; Scene 14 Loops, Slicing, and More Looping; 14.1 Loops demystified; 14.2 REX loops; 14.3 Slice to new MIDI track; 14.4 Working with loops; 14.5 Looping in the Arrangement View; 14.6 Loops with Unlinked Clip Envelopes; 14.7 Looping concepts; Scene 15 Instruments and Effects; 15.1 Introduction to Live Devices; 15.2 Working with Live Devices; 15.3 Live 8 Instrument basics; 15.4 MIDI effects; 15.5 Audio effects; 15.6 Device chains; 15.7 Plug-in devices; 15.8 External (MIDI) Instruments; 15.9 Working with devices; Scene 16 Device Racks

16.1 Introduction to Racks

Notes:

Includes index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786612330056

9781136121494

1136121498

9781136121500

1136121501

9781282330054

1282330055

9780080961057

0080961053

OCLC:

500570948