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Advanced Creative Music Production with Ableton Live with Anna Disclaim

Unlock advanced music production mastery with the 6-week Ableton Live course led by Music Hackspace's Anna Lakatos. Dive deep into cutting-edge skills, workflows, and insider techniques to elevate your sound.

Level

Beginner

Duration

Self-paced

Format

Self-paced video

Course overview

A unique live online short course for developing creative music production skills

The Advanced Creative Music Production with Ableton Live Course is a 6-week course of 12
live online classes, taught by Music Hackspace tutor Anna Lakatos, providing the necessary
latest skills, techniques and first-hand industry insight into the methodology, workflow and tips
and tricks to creative and more advanced music production techniques. This course is the
perfect progression after the Introduction to Music Production with Ableton Live course

The online course will consist of:
• 12 x 2hr live online classes
• All classes recorded for student use (during the course only)
• Access to session templates and sounds
• Interactive group challenges
• Music Hackspace Graduate Certificate of Excellence
• 50% discount on your first year subscription to Music Hackspace

Course content

Introduction to the course, recap of the Live concept

3 lessons

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  • Introduction to the course
  • Getting to know each other
  • Quick recap of the Live Workflow and Interface

Creating Complex Drum Racks

2 lessons

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  • Understanding how a Drum Rack works in depth, and how to build your own
  • Macros, Macro Variations and Randomization

Creating Complex drum patterns and edits, humanizing patterns

3 lessons

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  • Understanding concepts and tools to create complex drum patterns
  • Editing techniques, utilizing Audio and MIDI
  • Understanding advanced humanization techniques

Synthesis

4 lessons

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  • Synthesis types
  • Sound Theory
  • Understanding Subtractive Synthesis
  • Creating Sounds

Instrument Racks

3 lessons

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  • Building complex Instrument Racks for production and performance
  • Chain Selector, Key Zones, Velocity Zones
  • Layering Sounds

Effect Racks, and the concept of Racks in Racks

3 lessons

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  • Understanding how to build Effect Racks for production and performance
  • Working with 3rd party plug-ins within Effect Racks
  • Advanced workflow: The concept of Racks in Racks

Audio to MIDI Conversion & Creative Sampling and Comping

3 lessons

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  • Understanding how to convert audio into MIDI and use it creatively in your composition
  • Creative Sampling- slicing, dicing and sound design
  • Implementing creative comping

Production Challenge

1 lesson

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  • Production Challenge

Creative Mixing Techniques

3 lessons

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  • Understanding Split Band Processing
  • Implementing Gated and Side-chained reverbs
  • Parallel Processing

Working with Video, discovering Ableton Link, Note

3 lessons

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  • Exploring how to work with video in Live
  • Understanding Ableton Link and its capabilities for external integration
  • Discovering Ableton Note and how to transfer files to Live

Going further

6 lessons

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  • Understanding how to set up Dummy Clips
  • Implementing MIDI and Key mapping
  • Understanding Follow Action
  • Exporting and Importing Stems
  • Using Templates
  • Understanding Follow Action

Peer Review

1 lesson

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  • Feedback Session

Instructors

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Instructor TBC

Instructor

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