Producing a Modern Track from Start to Finish in Ableton

Starting with the basics & finishing with mixing + mastering a complete track. 4 hour pro class taking you through the full process. (Beginner & Intermediate)

What you'll learn in this course:

Learn how to produce a professional sounding track from scratch without getting stuck along the way

• This course is for beginners.
• We are using Ableton - only!
• This course focusses on production. Our other course is focussing on chord progressions and harmony.

Over 21 sessions and around 4 hours of content!

• Produce and complete a professional sounding track using Ableton Live
• Create unique sound designs using Ableton instruments
• Use samples to edit, arrange, and create unique tracks and beats of your own.
• How to achieve great soundscapes using audio effects
• Hands on course showing you a producers workflow. Focus on sound design and technique
• Kickstart your productions with our material - full template session and samples included in this course!

What are the requirements?

• We’re using Ableton Live 9 Suite only. If you don’t have a copy of Ableton Live 9 Suite, a great way to start would be using the trial version (free for 30 days). We won't be using any third party plugins in this course
• If you've opened a DAW like Ableton, Logic or FL Studio before and know that hitting the space bar will start and stop the playback, that would be great.
• Having spent a couple of minutes in Ableton to check out the basic interface
• You want to know how to produce a professionally sounding track from the start to the fully mixed and mastered product.

What is the target audience?

• Students who want to see the complete production process step by step
• Students who want a comprehensive understanding of Ableton Live
• Anyone interested in producing tracks, beats, sound designs, or any other music on their own in a professional way
• Students looking to understand the deeper levels of Ableton Live
• Students who like to see how to start from scratch going all the way to the finished, mixed & mastered product.

What's the teacher's background?

I'm Francois and I've been teaching Ableton Live in individual training sessions, seminars and through a YouTube channel. Those individual classes are fun and very effective, and I'm getting many requests for personal training, but unfortunately my time is quite limited and apart of that, those sessions are quite expensive. So with this class, I'm trying to make all this knowledge available to more than a handful of students at a time and without the barrier of high costs. You will be able to learn tons of tricks and workflows in Ableton Live - as if we would be sitting next to each other in the studio - and all that at a fraction of the cost.

Producing a modern and fresh sounding track from start to finish

This is a very hands-on and deep class showing you how to produce a track from scratch - with tons of content, tricks, and tips on production, workflow, beat design, sound design, mixing and mastering. You’ll be getting the complete finished track as template session you can play around with. Additionally you’re getting a bunch of drum samples and MIDI files to work with. We are going to be covering how to produce using Ableton Live, starting from working with clips in the session view and going all the way up to some very advanced production techniques using the arrangement view.

Course Topics:

1. Creating beats
2. Basics of Ableton
3. How to make a song out of a loop
4. Creating fresh sound designs
5. Reversing Clips
6. Meter Changes
7. Using compressors
8. Creating custom effects
9. Working with vocal samples
10. How to EQ
11. Recording automations
12. Automating instruments, synths
13. Using synths
14. Working with one-shots
15. Using MIDI for beat production
16. Creating pad sounds
17. Working with automations
18. Adding harmony
19. Designing fat saw pads
20. Consolidating
21. Recording/Writing Drum grooves
22. Layering Synths
23. Audio effects
24. Automating effects
25. Basics of Arrangement
26. Side-Chaining
27. Vocal Chops
28. Send / return effects
29. Looping
30. Spread sound with chorus effects
31. Locators
32. Using Ableton pack sounds
33. Effecting Guitars
34. Creating pitch / tape Stop effects
35. Basics of Mixing
36. Basics of Mastering
37. Setting up a complete Mastering chain
38. Applying numerous mixing techniques
39. Layering sounds like audio engineers
40. EQ: adding space with mid / side eq
41. EQ: how to identify and cut resonances
42. Use Ableton built-in effects for mastering
43. and many more