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Ableton Live for Ultimate Beginners

Ableton // Beginner // Production

Ableton Live for Ultimate Beginners

Video

Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen guides you through the first steps to making your own track with Ableton Live, the industry-standard software used by thousands of producers worldwide.

Beginner’s Guide to Logic Pro

Beginner // Logic // Production

Beginner’s Guide to Logic Pro

Video

Producer and singer Rivita demonstrates music creation in Logic Pro, from starting a track and using MIDI, to adding effects, EQ, compression and mixing.

How to Build your own Drum Rack and Kit

Ableton // Beats // Beginner

Build your own Drum Rack and Kit

Video

Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen shows you how to make your own virtual drum kit using Ableton’s preset samples – all in 10 minutes.

Creating Linear Drum Patterns

Ableton // Beats // Beginner // Production // Quick Tips

Creating Linear Drum Patterns

Video

Got five minutes? Time to make a beat! Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen reveals how easy it can be to create your own drum patterns using the preset samples in Ableton Live.

Creating Polyphonic Drum Patterns with LNA

Ableton // Beats // Beginner // Production // Quick Tips

Creating Polyphonic Drum Patterns

Video

Step up from linear drum patterns as musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen explains how to layer sounds and create your own polyphonic beat in Ableton Live.

Creating MIDI Drum Patterns

Ableton // Beats // Beginner // Production // Quick Tips

Creating MIDI Drum Patterns

Video

Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen shows how quick and easy it can be to save your beats as MIDI files, ready to use again with a fresh set of sounds.

30 MIDI Drum Patterns

Ableton // Beats // Beginner // Logic

30 MIDI Drum Patterns

Download // Visual Guide

Get straight to the beat with this collection of 30 free MIDI drum patterns for you to use in your own tracks.

Creating Chord Progressions

Ableton // Beginner // Production

Creating Chord Progressions

Video

Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen shows you how to take the next step in building your track by adding chords using Ableton Live’s handy collection of virtual instruments.

Creating Rhythm Bass

Ableton // Beginner // Production

Creating Rhythm Bass

Video

Once you have a rhythm, now add a funky bassline to your track! Learn how to do it in less than 10 minutes in this Ableton Live tutorial from musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen.

Beginner // Mixing

Mixing Basics in 4 Steps

Video

A beginner’s guide to mixing your track or song. You'll learn what mixing is, what limitations there are and a simple four step practical process when mixing.

Beginner // Mixing // Quick Tips

Top 3 Mixing Tips

Video

Improve your mixing in less time than the length of a song as music producer and tutor Phoebe Pope gives us her top three tips.

Creating Vocal Chops on Simpler

Ableton // Beginner // Production // Vocals

Creating Vocal Chops on Simpler

Video

Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen demonstrates how to use Ableton Live’s Simpler function to slice up and have fun with vocal samples, creating unique new chops for your track.

How to Save, Share and Export your Track

Ableton // Beginner // Production

How to Save, Share and Export your Track

Video

So you’ve created your first Ableton Live track – now it’s time to save and share it with the world! Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen shows you how.

Ableton // Beginner // Production

Beginner’s Guide to Ableton

Video

Music producer Sophie Russell aka Cherry Seraph introduces the popular music software Ableton and explains how to start building a track.

Ableton // Beginner // Quick Tips // Vocals

How to Make Your Vocals into a Pad Instrument

Video

In this quick-fire video, Sophie Russell shows you how to make your own vocal into a pad instrument using Ableton.

Producing a Radio Show

Beginner // Careers

Producing a Radio Show

Talk // Video

Ever wondered how a radio show is put together? Freelance producer Tej Adeleye talks us through creating an episode of Freeness for BBC Radio 3, from deciding a theme to polishing the final edit.

Working in the Audio Sector

Beginner // Careers // Quick Tips

Working in the Audio Sector

Talk // Video

Radio producer Tej Adeleye gives a quick recap of how she built upon her writing skills and a love of music to get her first break in radio.

Ableton // Beats // Beginner // Production

How to Create a Beat in Ableton Live

Video

Learn how to use Ableton Live to create a beat from start to finish, including setting up a session, recording instruments, clips and loops and adding effects.

Ableton // Beginner // Quick Tips

A Live Looping Performance in Ableton Live

Video

Producer Gnarly takes us through her live looping set-up and gives us a live looping performance.

Beginner // Sound Art

An Introduction to the Practice of Field Recording

Video

Musician and artist Kelly Jayne Jones introduces field recording, the recording of any sounds in any natural or urban environment: the what, how and why.

Breaking Down and Building Up a Pop Song with Xylo Aria

Ableton // Intermediate // Production

Breaking Down and Building Up a Pop Song

Video

Learn just what goes into a hit track by making your own version! Producer Xylo Aria breaks down and rebuilds Miley Cyrus’s ‘Flowers’ step by step.

Automation & Effects in Ableton

Ableton // Intermediate // Production

Automation & Effects in Ableton

Video

Learn how to create movement, expression and bring life to your productions by using automation and effects. Musician and producer Sophie Russell shows you how.

Parallel Processing, Modulation Effects & Automation

Intermediate // Logic // Production

Parallel Processing, Modulation Effects & Automation

Video

Get on the bus to FX city as music producer and engineer Carmel Comiskey explains how to route your tracks and shape them to your taste in Logic Pro.

Getting Creative with Audio

Ableton // Intermediate // Production

Getting Creative with Audio

Video

Discover music producers' magic tricks, as musician Lillian Frances shows what Ableton Live can do. Unleash your creativity as you reverse a clip, change its length and pitch and go crazy with warp mode.

Auto Draft 9

Ableton // Beats // Intermediate // Production // Quick Tips

Slice Audio to Drum Rack

Video

Musician and producer Lillian Frances shares a neat creative shortcut: using Ableton Live's Slice to New MIDI function to instantly create a new rack of drum sounds from your sample.

Vocal Production with Ramera Abraham

Intermediate // Production // Vocals

Vocal Production

Video

Vocal producer and sound engineer Ramera Abraham shares the secrets of getting a great pop vocal on your song.

Creating a Vocal Chain

Intermediate // Logic // Production // Vocals

Creating a Vocal Chain

Video

Musician and producer Shasheproduces shows you how to make raw vocal recordings sound professional in Logic Pro by tweaking things such as EQ, compression and reverb – a sequence of adjustments that builds your vocal chain.

Ableton // Intermediate // Production

How to Create Transitions

Video

Musician and producer Lillian Frances shows how to create transitions: helping listeners through a song by changing the energy, building up and breaking down.

Ableton // Intermediate // Production // Quick Tips

Creative Resampling

Video

Musician and producer Lillian Frances shows how to take one sound and turn it into a million different sample ideas.

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