Ableton Live Music Production Course | Marbella
Get to grips with everything you could ever love about producing and performing your own music on Ableton Live within a small and focussed class. It’s an engaging and interactive course from Garnish’s own Electronic Music Producer Program. This course covers all the music production knowledge you’ll need to set you on your way to creating and producing music in all manner of styles thanks to the unique nature of this revolutionary software. It’s a 36-hour course that’s the perfect introduction to Ableton Live, but caters for more than just beginners, as self-taught students can use the opportunity to enhance and augment their knowledge, too. The course includes instruction from an Ableton-Certified Trainer and a producer/engineer from our respected roster, who will demonstrate, in practical, accessible terms, how to implement the training.
Students can share and explore questions and techniques amongst their fellows and their instructors at any time during the course so that they optimize their learning. We feel this opportunity for true interactive learning gives the Garnish experience a significant edge over online courses or online tutorials.
This isn’t just about 36 hours of tinkering with software. Upon successful completion of the course, students get an industry-recognized certificate and extensive notes that are created by the expert team, who developed the course.
It’s worth mentioning that Ableton runs the same on both Mac and PC, so it’s not an issue if you’re running the PC version at home or at your own studio. If you should happen to miss any sessions (through illness or holiday), we are committed to doing our best to get you onto a future cycle of your choice to fill in the gaps! Finally, please note that many GMP participants worldwide are eligible for 40% off the price of Ableton software.
We’ve made it possible for our students to use their own laptops for this course, so you can get it set up to suit your needs. You can also hire one of our iMacs for €75. Headphones, audio interfaces and controller keyboards come as standard.
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Let’s Go!
- What sets Ableton apart from other DAWs?
- Getting set up: Audio and the preferences window
- Session view vs. Arrangement view: applications of each
- Live concepts: clips / scenes / browser / library
- The concept of Ableton’s unique warp engine
- Launching clips
- Intro to FX
- Intro to instruments
Creating With Audio & MIDI
- Warping in practice
- Quantizing audio
- Clips: clip view and clip properties
- Making beats with Drum Racks and Simpler sampling
- Effects: Live’s effects and using third-party effects
- Recording MIDI and live looping
- Basic routing and resampling
- Automation: creating dynamic changes in your arrangements
DJing and Live Performance
- Preparing (warping) whole tracks and harmonic mixing
- On the fly DJ effects
- Using MIDI controllers effectively / mouse-free control
- Bespoke Ableton controllers – Akai, Novation, and Push
- Grouping tracks and basic routing
- Structuring your sets and using loops
- Recording your performance + editing the arrangement view
- Bouncing down
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MIDI Tracks and Composing with Virtual Instruments
- Simpler – Unlocking the full potential of this simple sampler
- Drum Rack – Programming beats, manipulating sounds, chopping up loops, vocals, and tracks – making rhythms from anything. Slice to MIDI
- Using and controlling third-party virtual instruments
- Grooves + groove extraction
- Setting up a MIDI keyboard or drum pad controllers
- Getting creative with MIDI effects
Recording Techniques and Introduction to Sound Design
- Balancing, introduction to the art of mixing. Group tracks and advanced uses of routing
- Introduction to sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
- The recording patch in detail, introduction to gain structure
- EQ and compression for recording
- Foldback, headphone mixes, and latency
- Digital, analog, sampling rate and bit-rate explained
- Microphones overview and stereo miking techniques
- Recording specific aspects of Ableton
- Compiling audio takes
Advanced Techniques
- Advanced warping – acapellas, classical music and anything without beats!
- Multi-track warping
- Clip envelopes – creative uses of Ableton’s unique loop-based automation on audio fx, instruments, and midi fx. Easily achieve complex music, sound, and rhythm manipulation
- Using all automation types together – creating build-ups and break-downs with complex sounds
- Intro to Racks & Chains – powerful hidden features. Layering FX and instruments
