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Introduction to Music Production Masterclass
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Welcome & Overview
Introduction -
What We Will Cover
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What is an Ableton Certified Trainer?
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How to Use This Class
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A Brief History of Digital AudioAnalog Audio
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The Oldest Known Recording of a Human
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Edison
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Bell Labs and Max Mathews
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Advances Since Mathews
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The Difference Between Analog and Digital
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Hardware: What Gear Do I Need?Mac or PC?
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Laptop or Desktop?
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The ADC and the DAC
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The Audio Interface
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Speakers or Headphones?
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Microphones
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External Hard Drives
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My Setup at Home
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Software: The DAWWhat is a DAW?
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What to look for in a DAW
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A Highly Opinionated List of Common DAWs
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For the Money...
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The 4 Sections in Every DAW
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The Timeline
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The Mixer
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The Effects Section
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The Transport
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Nearly Universal Key Commands
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Care and Feeding of Your DAW
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Working on the Grid: Rhythm and MeterWhat is the Grid?
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Horizontal = Time
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Vertical = Tracks
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How DAWs Handle Meter
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Vocabulary: Downbeats, Upbeats, and Offbeats
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Elements of the Beat: Kick, Snare, Hi Hats
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Building the Worlds Most Basic Beat
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Placing the Kick
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Placing the Snare
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Placing the Hi Hats
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Having Fun with Hi Hats
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Looping and Consolidating
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Working with AudioAudio is Finicky.
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Looking at Waveforms
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Sine Waves
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Clipping
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File Formats
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The Sample Rate
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The Nyquist Theorem
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What Frequencies Do We Really Need?
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The Bit Rate
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Standards for Sample Rate and Bit Rate
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A Brief History of MIDIThe Dawn of Electronic Instruments
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The Theremin
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What Happened to Leon?
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The Moog
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Wendy Carlos
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What Happened in 1981
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The MIDI 1.0 Spec is Born
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MIDI Instruments Today
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MIDI Guitars
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Other Uses of MIDI
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What is MIDI?MIDI is a Protocol
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MIDI is Not Audio
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MIDI Channels
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Anatomy of a MIDI Message
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Note On Errors
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Velocity Tracing
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Advantages of MIDI
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Adjusting Notes
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MIDI EffectsWhat are MIDI Effects?
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Arpeggiator
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Chord
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Note Echo
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Note Length
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Pitch
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Random
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Scale
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Quantize
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Can you use Audio Effects on a MIDI track?
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"Printing" MIDI effects
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Here is that Goofy Track
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Working on the Grid: Incorporating MIDIMIDI and Audio Are Friends
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Velocity Editing
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Automation
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Panning Automation
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"Binary Automation"
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Audio Effect Automation
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MIDI Effect Automation
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Tempo Automation
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Automating Anything
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Walkthrough of a Whole Track
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Working with LoopsFinding Loops for Free
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File Types
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Automatically Warping Loops
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Fixing A Poorly Warped Track
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Let's Do That Again....
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Transients
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Breaking a Loop for Fun
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Flattening Loops
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Stacking Loops
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Making Your Own Loops
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Creating a Loop Library
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Introduction to Synthesis and Sound DesignSound Design in Ableton Live
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Workflow: Working with Live’s Instruments
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Quick MIDI Refresher
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MIDI Clips
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Fold To Scale
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Important Key Commands
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Sound Design Basics
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Synthesis Types
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Synthesis Elements
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Live’s Analog Synth
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Basic Outline
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Programming Analog
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The LFO
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Saving And Loading Patches
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Analog Patch from this Section
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Synthesis with SamplersThe Sample and the Sampler
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Exploring Samplers
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The Simpler and the Sampler
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Using Simpler (Classic Mode)
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Simpler in 1-shot mode
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Simpler in Slice Mode
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Using Sampler
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MultiSamples and Zones
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Sampler Orchestra Library Example
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Starting from ScratchLet's Make a Track.
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Where do we Start?
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Using a Guide Track
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Programming The Drums
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The Harmony
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Adding Strings?
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The Bass
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The Super Top Secret of Making Tracks Quickly
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Wrap UpWhat Comes Next?
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Thanks for Watching!
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