Advanced Ableton: The Next Level of Live 8 February 7, 2010

Course Outline

- Non-Destructive Sound Design: Creative audio warping, linked and unlinked clip envelope automation
- Intelligent Looping: launch modes, follow actions and dummy clips
- Unmitigated MIDI: Mastering the MIDI Editor, changing note transposition, length and velocity, live recording and punch-out looping
- Internal Connections: MIDI and audio routing techniques, creative bussing and side-chaining
- Timing is Everything: Making beats with Drum Racks, slicing audio to MIDI, rhythmic programming concepts, quantization, syncopation, randomization and humanization
- Making Waves: Dive into the groove pool
- Maximizing the Browser: Making files and folders work for you
- Crafting your Sound: introduction to Live's included instruments
- External Control: Working with hardware controllers, audio interfaces, control surfaces and auto-mapping

Prerequisites: Basic Ableton Foundations workshop and/or general comfort warping loops, writing MIDI, triggering clips and scenes, assigning automation; laptop with Ableton Live 8 installed (demo or trial version acceptable), headphones suggested, midi controller and audio interface optional. To download the demo, visit Ableton.com

Official Website: http://www.richmediainstitute.com/advancedableton