Introduction to Ableton Live drafted draft
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Program Overview
Course overview
This course is delivered by one of our experienced lecturers from the Music Department. With strong emphasis on the musical and production aspects of music creation, the course will help you develop your Ableton Live skills for a wide range of musical activities.
Many thanks to Mariano for an excellent Ableton course. he clearly knew the subject matter inside out and structured the course so that users from any musical background could learn what they needed to know for their particular objectives. it's made me keen to undertake a further music production & mastering course at Goldsmiths in the near future.
Participant, 2017
Mariano was an excellent teacher - super passionate about the subject, took the time to answer all our questions, extended lessons to finish answering things/showing us new things. I really enjoyed the course and this was because Mariano was such an engaging teacher.
Sam, Marketing Officer
To avoid disappointment, please book your place on the course 72 hours prior to its commencement.
This music production course, delivered by an experienced lecturer from the Music Department, and supports students’ work in their preferred musical style. It is suitable for beginners and for users wanting to get more out of the sophisticated production tools that Ableton Live offers. With a strong emphasis on the musical and production aspects of music creation, this comprehensive course will help you develop your Ableton Live skills for a wide range of musical activities - composition, arranging, recording, mixing, sound processing, synthesising instrument and live triggering - thus greatly expanding your music-making options on the computer.
Ableton Live is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive music production and performance environment increasingly used by creative musicians in a variety of settings. On this course, you will learn about composition, arranging, recording, mixing, sound processing, synthesising instruments, and live triggering in Ableton Live, thus greatly expanding the possibilities of music-making on a computer. The course also supports students’ work in their preferred musical style.
Ableton Live can be used for writing, arranging, and mixing like a traditional DAW but also contains unique features allowing for improvisation, live triggering, live looping, effect processing, modular synthesis, and randomisation. The performance elements can easily become part of a writing and production process, greatly expanding the possibilities of making music on a computer without the need for fiddly programming. This course gives you a solid grounding in the basics of using Live for music creation, enabling you to explore some of the powerful in-depth features and learn how to tailor its operation to your own way of working.