Digital Music Doctor Ableton Live 8 Video Tutorial Course





Video tutorials covering all aspects of audio and midi recording, editing, mixing, and mastering for the Ableton Live 8 Digital Audio Workstation. Includes project examples.

These Ableton Live tutorials are a complete guide to making music using the Ableton Live 8 Digital Audio Workstation. The Quick Start section presents a grand tour of the functions in Live as well as a review of the new features in Live 8. The Audio Section contains in-depth tutorials on audio setup, recording, mixing and mastering. The MIDI section features tutorials on virtual instruments, hardware synthesizers, MIDI editing, Rewire, and the Instrument, Effects, and Drum Racks. The Loops & Remix section presents a comprehensive discussion of using loops and the Audio Warp function. The Live Performance section demonstrates Live's unique Session View as well as several DJ features.


Quick Start

Introduction 3:31

Our introduction to Ableton Live provides an overview of the training:

Welcome
Course Overview
Navigation

What's New 9:16

This Ableton Live tutorial covers the most important new functions in Ableton Live including:

Groove Patterns
Multiband Comp
Vocoder
Group Track
Step Record
Looper
Freq Shifter
Overdrive

Grand Tour I 10:48

This module of our Ableton Live tutorial introduces the main components of the Ableton Live workspace and covers the following topics:

Arrangement View
Tracks
Clips
Session View

Grand Tour II 9:29

This Ableton Live tutorial continues with the example in the Grand Tour I session:

Mixer
Automation
Racks
Info View
Hot Swap
Browsers
Status Bars
Toolbars

Audio

Audio Setup & Recording 16:46

This tutorial in our series uses Ableton Live session to demonstrate the following:

Audio Interface
Audio Routing
Spectrum
Crossfades
Recording
File Management
Punch In/Out Recording

Mixing I 13:15

This section on Mixing in our Ableton Live training uses an example session to demonstrate the principles of audio mixing:

Panning
EQ
Compression

Mixing II 13:16

This Ableton Live tutorial continues with the example in the Mixing session:

Reverb
Automation
Freeze
Export

Mastering 15:54

The Mastering section of our Ableton Live training uses another Ableton Live session to explain the basic principles of mastering:

Stereo Imaging
Reverb
Multiband Compression
Loudness Maximizing
Dither

MIDI

Virtual Instruments 13:36

The MIDI Editing tutorial in our series uses Ableton Live session to demonstrate the MIDI editing functions available.

MIDI Background
Multitimbral
Multichannel
3rd-Party Virtual Instruments
Live Virtual Instruments

Hardware Synths 12:55

The MIDI Editing tutorial in our series uses Ableton Live session to demonstrate the MIDI editing functions available.

Driver Interface
Ports & Channels
Banks
Patches
Routing
Recording
Step Record


System Requirements

Operating System: Windows XP/Vista or Macintosh OS X
Main Memory (RAM): 512 Megabytes (MB)
Disk Space: 620 Megabytes (MB)
Ableton Live: Ableton Live 8
Note: This is a data DVD. It will play on any computer that meets the system
requirements but not a video DVD player.





INSTALLATION:



• Next open the .zip file by double clicking it. If you can't open it you need to get an archiver which supports rar files such as StuffItExpander Click on Extract and then open dmg file to install.

• That's it! Done.



enjoY!!!