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Creative Sampling & Production in Ableton Live

Name: Creative Sampling & Production in Ableton Live
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Duration2h 26m

Modules14

LevelIntermediate

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (2h 26m)

- 01. Getting started & setup
  3:21
- 02. Managing a sample library
  Free lesson
  4:34
- 03. Ableton preferences
  1:14
- 04. Using samples: Simpler and Sampler devices
  7:04
- 05. Using samples in your track (trim, stretch, tune, EQ)
  12:56
- 06. Adding sampled strings and flutes
  7:28
- 07. Adding sampled rhythm: kicks and snares
  25:07
- 08. Sampling external intsruments - drum machine & synth
  12:28
- 09. Building the parts in Session view
  13:55
- 10. Recording the song into Arrange view
  4:34
- 11. Fine tuning track structure
  5:35
- 12. Mixing the track: effects
  21:24
- 13. Final adjustments
  13:14
- 14. BONUS: Mastering your track & uploading to Soundcloud
  Free lesson
  13:31

About this course

Producer and music technology educator John Watson shows you how to build a track from nothing but samples in Ableton Live. He works from his own collection - field recordings made around the world, vinyl grabs, and sounds he records during the course on a Korg Electribe drum machine and a MicroKorg synth.

After setting up the project and touring the sample library, you'll use Ableton's Simpler and Sampler to trigger and record samples, then trim, time-stretch, tune and EQ them so they sit in the track. John covers building parts in Session view, arranging in Arrange view, and the full mix and master - shaping attack, sustain, decay and release, EQ Eight, reverb on a send/return, and compression including the Glue Compressor on rhythm parts.

Bonus download: a 40MB pack of every sample used in the course, plus John's Ableton Live project files, so you can open up exactly what he built and take it apart.

Who it's for

Producers comfortable in a DAW wanting deeper sampling skills
Self-taught Ableton users patching gaps in workflow
Beatmakers who want to build tracks from found sounds

What you'll learn

Build a full track using only samples
Trim, stretch, tune and EQ any sample cleanly
Mix and master your track for release

What you'll need

A copy of Ableton Live and headphones
Any samples you like, plus the course downloads
A few minutes most days to keep momentum

Meet the Guru

John Watson

After work experience with Depeche Mode and The Cure producer Dave Allen, John was inspired to study Music Technology in London. His music career took off after a successful signing to CookShop Records, releasing 9 singles and an album in 2007 that received rave reviews from Q, Uncut and Lowdown Magazine, plus radio play from XFM and Radio One.

John began training as an audio engineer at Bonafide studio in 2005, where he refined his talents, and later that year set up Jackdaw Recordings. He has collaborated with many successful artists, and in 2007 began playing for pop musician Patrick Wolf, performing at leading venues here in the UK and internationally - including The Astoria and Shepherds Bush Empire.

Based in his London studio, John now writes music, with two more releases on CookShop, does sound engineering for prominent artists, and creates sound design for TV ads, film, theatre and corporate video.

That rare mix of songwriter, producer and working studio engineer is exactly what John brings to his teaching. In Creative Composition & Production in Ableton Live and Creative Sampling & Production in Ableton Live, he shows you how he turns raw ideas into finished, release-ready tracks - the writing, the sampling, the sound design and the hands-on engineering know-how behind a professional record.

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