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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

You're reading from   The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11 Level up your music recording, arranging, editing, and mixing skills and workflow techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817639
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Live Concept and Workflow
2. Chapter 1: Taking a Quick Tour of Ableton Live 11 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Recording Audio in Ableton Live 11 4. Chapter 3: Editing Audio and Warping 5. Chapter 4: Exploring MIDI Sequencing Techniques 6. Chapter 5: MIDI Editing and MIDI Effects 7. Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
8. Chapter 6: Comping and Track Linking 9. Chapter 7: Discovering Some of Live 11’s Creative Audio Effects 10. Chapter 8: Exploring Device Racks in Live 11 11. Chapter 9: Audio to MIDI Conversion, Slicing to MIDI, and the Simpler Device 12. Chapter 10: Utilizing Arrangement and Organization Techniques in our Ableton Live Project 13. Chapter 11: Implementing Automation and Modulation 14. Chapter 12: Getting Started with MPE in Ableton Live 11 15. Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live
16. Chapter 13: Exploring Tempo Follower, Follow Action, Max for Live, Working with Video, and Ableton Note 17. Chapter 14: Exploring MIDI Mapping, External Instrument, and MIDI CCs 18. Chapter 15: Playing Live 19. Chapter 16: Interesting Mixing Techniques in Live 11 20. Chapter 17: Troubleshooting and File Management 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Recording automation in the Arrangement View

We already learned how, in the previous section, to select a parameter for automation. In this section, we will take that further and record track automation in real time!

Take the following steps with me:

  1. We could automate mixer parameters, such as panning, volume fader, or even sends, as we learned that nearly all parameters in Live can be automated. However, for this example, we are going to automate a device parameter.
  2. Insert an Auto Filter effect onto the SYNTH 1 track.
  3. Make sure that Automation Mode is enabled.
  4. We also need to enable the Automation Arm button, as we are going to record automation.
Figure 11.8 – The Automation Arm button

Figure 11.8 – The Automation Arm button

  1. We are going to automate the frequency cutoff of the Auto Filter device we have just inserted and click on the Frequency parameter on Auto Filter, so the parameter appears with its automation lane and automation envelope (the value...
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