About this course: In the past, Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) were programs used only by audio engineers with a highly specific knowledge base, on machines inaccessible to most people. But over the past 10-15 years, DAWs and the act of recording music have evolved from being a luxury of the few to being available to the masses. Ableton Live is one such application. Used by an extremely broad range of music creators, Ableton Live not only facilitates the work of engineers, producers, and writers in professional, home, and mobile studio settings, but it is also a powerful platform for musicians on stage, in the DJ booth, and elsewhere. In this course, you will explore some of Live’s most powerful and useful functionality: MIDI programming, audio recording, warping and processing, looping editing, mixing, performing, file management, and troubleshooting. Meant to be a springboard for those who are new to Ableton Live and/or DAWs in general, this three-week course will provide you with a strong knowledge base for using Live to take your musical ideas from conception to final recording. The course breaks down the many barriers of entry into music technology and encourages all those who wish, to create fearlessly. Note: If you do not own Ableton Live 9, you can download the free, fully featured Ableton Live Trial. The trial version will allow you to save and export your work for 30 days. If you use the trial version, do not download it until the course is scheduled to begin.
Taught by: Erin Barra, Associate Professor
Songwriting
| Commitment | 4-6 hours/week |
| Language | English, Subtitles: Chinese (Simplified) |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Welcome to the Course
- Practice Quiz: What Are Your Goals?
- Reading: A Note From Erin
- Reading: Meet Your Teaching Assistant and Community Mentor
- Reading: Connect on Facebook and Twitter
- Reading: Getting To Know You
- Reading: Download Your FREE Ableton Live Trial and Activate Your Blend Account
- Reading: External Resources and Additional Free Content
- Reading: How To Submit Your Assignments
- Reading: Peer Review Assignments
- Reading: Grading Policy
- Reading: Troubleshooting
- Reading: Course Certificates
- Reading: Learner Support
- Video: MIDI and Audio
- Video: The Audio Interface, from Introduction to Music Production
- Video: Settings
- Video: Saving and Submitting Your Sessions
- Video: Devices
- Video: MIDI Drums
- Video: MIDI Synths
- Video: Global Quantization
- Video: Creating an Arrangement
- Video: Publishing To Blend/Submitting Assignment
- Peer Review: Composing with MIDI
- Video: Audio Clips
- Video: Going Deeper with Audio
- Video: Warping Audio
- Video: Audio Recording
- Video: Audio and MIDI Effects
- Video: MIDI Mapping
- Video: Automation in Session View and Arrangement View
- Peer Review: Working with Audio and MIDI
- Video: Audio to MIDI Conversion
- Video: Slice to New MIDI
- Video: MAX for Live
- Video: File Management
- Video: Troubleshooting
- Video: Basic Mixing Techniques
- Reading: Post-Course Survey
- Reading: Course Evaluation
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If you're looking for a way to start with Ableton, this is definitely a way. I already had the very basics, but until this course I had no idea of the possibilities of Ableton. Still, I was hoping for more info on blending the sound together, using compressors and so on, and this is really just an introduction, but it was very useful nonetheless.
This was a great refresher course for me, since I hadn't used Ableton for some time. Highly recommended!
Very good for beginners. I started out from scratch and now I feel comfortable starting and finishing an arrangement entirely on Ableton.
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Great class for beginners in Audio production.