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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!
Here is that goofy track. If you feel like playing around with it (and you are using Ableton Live), feel free to download it, modify it, release it, whatever you want.