Best way to learn ableton
Best way to learn ableton Posted on: 01.06.2011 by Anibal Jerrett Hey guys,I am a dj from Belgium. and i recently teamed up with a friend of mine who produces his own tracks. We are planning on making some kind of live show and were believeing of doing this with ableton. Since neither of us has a lot of experience with ableton I wass wondering how, or where did you guys learn to work with it? thanks | |
| Dorie Scelzo 01.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by scyn
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| Dorie Scelzo 01.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by scyn
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| Dorie Scelzo 01.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by scyn
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| Dorie Scelzo 01.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by scyn
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| Dorie Scelzo 01.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by scyn
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| Dorie Scelzo 01.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by scyn
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| Dorie Scelzo 01.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by scyn
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| Isreal Roberto 08.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by mostapha
To answer the OP, the one advantage Ableton has over traktor is that you can play synths, so get some synths and learn them in and out. Map a few knobs to different parameters, add some fx, see how crazy you can get it to sound (crazy as in, interesting for your genre/songs). There's some great ipod/ipad apps like kapture pad which can give you a lot of features not normally in ableton. For Live performance, the most important thing you need to learn is all the midi mapping possibilities, which the other people in this thread have already pointed out the best ones. Look into controllers like the APC40 and launchpad. using stock launchpad (no special scripts)Fingadruma does a nice performance.Fingadruma does a nice performance here |
| Dorie Scelzo 01.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by scyn
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| Anibal Jerrett 01.06.2011 | Hey guys, I am a dj from Belgium. and i recently teamed up with a friend of mine who produces his own tracks. We are planning on making some kind of live show and were believeing of doing this with ableton. Since neither of us has a lot of experience with ableton I wass wondering how, or where did you guys learn to work with it? thanks |
| Buffy Kicklighter 17.06.2011 | if your friend is a producer, what daw did he use before? also, say with what are you having problems, so you can get help more easily like, you got problems with warping, routing, low volume, etc there isnt a magic bullet when it comes to tutorials, everyone will keep his secret weapon a... well, secret :P but there are videos which can get you started. try youtube search "future music", some are usefull, most arent |
| Nestor Witkowsky 11.06.2011 | The only issue I have w/ Tom Cosms stuff is the actual style of music. The product is top notch and the tutorials -- really useful. I find the tunes a bit more abrasive than what I would play. Wonder if they'd still be useful. |
| Leeanna Ayla 10.06.2011 | @nukage can you please remove the player from your sig. It's against community rules. |
| Leeanna Ayla 10.06.2011 | That Cosm set looks good. Usually the youtube videos is are on a specific thing, but if you don't really know Ableton yet they don't make much sense. |
| Hana Majerle 10.06.2011 | 1+ for Tom Cosm. His Introduction into ... Simply the best ableton tutorial series. There are tons out there but for the step by step show me everything way this is best. Now you could just start Rtfm but when watching toms Vids before, it actually makes sense :-P Also his vids on moving from studio to live performance etc could help you much. |
| Isreal Roberto 08.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by mostapha
To answer the OP, the one advantage Ableton has over traktor is that you can play synths, so get some synths and learn them in and out. Map a few knobs to different parameters, add some fx, see how crazy you can get it to sound (crazy as in, interesting for your genre/songs). There's some great ipod/ipad apps like kapture pad which can give you a lot of features not normally in ableton. For Live performance, the most important thing you need to learn is all the midi mapping possibilities, which the other people in this thread have already pointed out the best ones. Look into controllers like the APC40 and launchpad. using stock launchpad (no special scripts)Fingadruma does a nice performance.Fingadruma does a nice performance here |
| Dorie Scelzo 01.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by scyn
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| Anibal Jerrett 01.06.2011 | thanks guys, I obviously tried the ableton and youtube tutorials. But I'm i bit stuck now. Thanks for the advice, I will check it out now |
| Chantelle Dellosso 01.06.2011 | There's the obvious Youtube search for Ableton tutorials...but picking random lessons doesn't have any flow to it. The Dubspot and mrbillstunes tutorials are good though. A good idea is to go through the TomCosm 'Introduction to Digital Audio design' (or something like that) tutorials. It's a series of 10 hour long videos going through the design of a track. Might not be your flavor of music, but it's a decent enough progression from nothing to a complete track using Ableton. You'll need to register on the site, but at $10 it's worth it. |
| Leeanna Ayla 01.06.2011 | Youtube and the manual that came with Ableton. |
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