Ableton Live 9 Basic Tutorial 1 "how do i build a tune"

in #music7 years ago

A big hello Fans of electronic music to the Ableton Live 9 Basic Tutorial:
'how do I build a tune'

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If you do not have any DAW to produce and are still new here, I recommend you to download the trial version of Ableton Live 9
https://www.ableton.com/de/trial/
All information about the correct settings of your audio driver in Ableton Live can be found on:
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209071469-Optimizing-Windows-for-Audio

Here we go!
Part 1 of my tutorial series for beginners with Ableton Live 9:

Step 1: please open Ableton Live 9 and set the tempo to 120 bpm (beats per minute)
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This is to practice a good pace

First we focus on MIDI track 1:
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Please do a double-click in the white box under 1Midi
If you do that then opens below those notes role
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You can roll with the mouse wheel between the octaves now
Click on the left Side on Sounds and then go to Piano & Keys

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Search Grand Piano and prefer to 1Midi
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Of course you can select another instrument that is just one example
Please Make sure that your MIDI track is set to:
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recording standby enabled? ;)

Now go back with a double-click in the white box to the note roll
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Make sure that the headphone icon is activated! Now you can play something already on your keyboard!

For the exercises we draw with a double-click in the 4th octave notes following one:
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In A reverb on the right side in the Session View is a Hall Effeckt. It can be assigned to each audio and MIDI track.
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We accept the defaults and set the controller sends A slightly upwards.

Listen to your score by pressing play under 1Midi
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Congratulations! You've made your first tune! Keep it up!

End of the Tuturial one of my Ableton Live Tutorial Series

Thank you!!

Your soundelephant

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