![]() ![]() ![]() Andy Jones Senior Editor, MusicTech & (And contact me to Show Off Your Live Studios see pages 68 and 88 for more!) MUSICTECH FOCUS MAGAZINE Anthem Publishing Ltd Suite 6, Piccadilly House London Road, Bath BA1 6PL Tel +44 (0) Fax +44 (0) Senior Editor Andy Jones Art Editor Debra Barber Digital Editor Andy Price Multimedia Editor Alex Holmes Business Dev. But we re really all about Live: your Ableton studios (p68 and 88), the best ways to control the software (p18), to listen to it (p98), and the best gear to create the perfect Live studio (from p102). In what is one of our best features, MT writer Alex Holmes reveals how he built his studio from scratch in his info-packed diary from p74. For those new to the software and to music production, we have a guide on creating beats (from p6), and for everyone I d advise snapping up as many as possible of the best freeware titles that we round up from p20. The software has had a couple of important updates over the last year, and our Live expert Martin Delaney looks in depth at some of the We re all about Live: controlling it, listening to it, and creating the perfect Live studio best new and existing features in his series of tutorials from p36. We have tutorials for users with all levels of experience: from those just starting out with the software to more experienced Live veterans. To hear a preview, select Click to Preview from the bottom of the browser.3 Welcome MTF Welcome to Ableton LIve 2016! It s another special MusicTech Focus edition for Live users and one that is packed with workshops for Ableton s finest DAW. Clips are usually longer samples, but most of them won't preview when you click them. If you want something a bit more complex, select Clips from the Categories submenu. Most of these will be short sounds of people or instruments. You can use the cursor or the arrow keys to select a sample, and doing so will play a preview of it. Use the right side of the browser to search for some sounds you like - Ableton comes with lots of samples, and each version (Intro, Standard, and Suite) comes with a different selection. Open the Browser from the left hand side - it's time to find some sounds! Underneath Categories, select Samples. If you only have one track, you won't be able to delete it. You can delete tracks by right-clicking on the track title bar and selecting Delete, or by left-clicking the title bar and using your delete or backspace key. Go ahead and delete the two MIDI tracks and one audio track so you are left with one track. The default values are sufficient for now. Here you can enable or disable the track, adjust settings such as pan or gain, and route audio from or to nearly any other place. Underneath the clip slot is a mini control panel for each track. ![]() Each clip slot can contain one clip (a piece of or a whole song/sound). You can right-click here to change the name and color of the track. The top of the track is known as the Track Title Bar. Don't worry about these for now.Įach track has the same basic structure. These provide a route for processing audio and returning it back. These can play and record sounds from other devices (such as a microphone or other device), but they cannot generate any sounds on their own.įinally, there are Return Tracks. MIDI devices and tracks are covered comprehensively later on, but for now, think of them as a way of generating a sound, like a keyboard or guitar.Īudio tracks are the opposite of MIDI tracks. ![]() MIDI tracks can only accept MIDI instruments, and cannot play samples themselves. Before you can make any music, you need to understand the difference between tracks. ![]()
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