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Creating with Ableton Live Plugins and Instruments

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Overview

Explore the broadening landscape of plugins and virtual instruments in this hands-on Ableton Live course, through a variety of walkthroughs, tips, tricks, and examples.

Explore the wide variety of powerful plugins and instruments in Ableton Live 10, the popular music production software. Instructor Rick Schmunk starts with an in-depth look at Sampler and how to create multi-sample presets, as well as overviews of the core instruments Electric and Collision. Rick moves on to cover audio and MIDI plug-ins through a variety of walkthroughs, tips, tricks, and examples.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Using Ableton Live plugins and instruments
  • What you should know
1. Sampler Instrument
  • Sampler intro
  • Sample playback
  • Preparing and loading multisamples
  • Multisample instruments and key zones
  • Multisample instruments and velocity zones
  • FM modulation and pitch envelopes
  • Filter and amp envelopes
  • LFO modulation
  • Assigning MIDI control
2. Electric Instrument
  • Electric intro: Hammers and tines
  • Damper and pickup in Electric
  • Creating classic EP sounds
  • Creating a wide stereo EP sound
3. Audio Plugins
  • Beat repeat
  • Resonators I
  • Resonators II
  • Multiband Dynamics
  • Random
  • Vocoder
  • Vinyl Distortion
4. Creating and Editing Sounds
  • Overview
  • Excitatory section
  • Resonator section, part 1
  • Resonator section, part 2
  • LFO section
  • Creating sounds with Collision
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Rick Schmunk

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