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Ultimate Ableton Live 9 COMPLETE

This course is "5-Star Certified" by the International Association of Online Music Educators and Institutions (IAOMEI). This course has been independently reviewed by a panel of experts and has received a stellar 5-star rating.

100% Answer Rate. Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor.

For years I've been teaching Ableton Live in the college classroom. As a University Professor, my classes are sought after, and, frankly, expensive. I believe Ableton Live can be learned by anyone, and cost shouldn't be a barrier. This class uses the same outline and syllabus I've used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost.

This version of the class contains all parts 1, 2, and 3. 

This is a really deep class - tons of content, tricks, and tips. I'm giving you tons of complete sessions to play around with. One of them (the first one in part 3) is even a finished, published complete track of mine. We are going to be covering how to produce using Ableton Live, starting from working with clips and going all the way up to some advanced production techniques. Topics include:

  • Recording Hardware Needs

  • Recording Hardware Setup

  • Microphone Types and Options

  • Microphone Purchasing Tips

  • Microphone Placement

  • Audio Interface Needs

  • Audio Interface Purchasing Tips

  • Single and Multitrack Recording

  • MIDI Hardware Needs

  • MIDI Hardware Purchasing Tips

  • MIDI Setup

  • MIDI Recording

  • Looping

  • Locators

  • Key Mapping

  • Reversing Clips

  • Time Signatures Changes (session and arrangement)

  • Meter Changes (session and arrangement)

  • Adding harmony

  • Working with vocal samples

  • Creating beats

  • Working with one-shots

  • Slice to MIDI for beat production

  • Drum racks (. )

  • Consolidating

  • Recording/Writing Drum grooves

  • Layering Synths

  • Freezing & Flattening

  • Audio Effects

  • Automating Effects

  • Side-Chaining

  • Routing & Bussing

  • Resampling

  • ...and much more.

And of course, once you sign up for any part, you automatically get huge discounts on all the upcoming parts (the next 5. ) of this class.

You will not have another opportunity to learn Ableton Live in a more comprehensive way than this. Start here.

Dr. Jason Allen is an Ableton Certified Trainer, and a Ph.D. in Music Composition and master of Electronic Sounds. His music has been heard internationally in film, radio, video games, and industrial sound, as well as the concert hall and theater. His 2015 album, Aniscorcia, reaching the CMJ Top200 Charts and radio broadcasts nationwide. In 2014 he was named a semi-finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award.

He currently as an adjunct professor of composition at the University of St. Thomas, and the CEO of Slam Academy in Minneapolis.

Praise for classes by Dr. Jason Allen:

  • "Without a doubt the best explanation and east of use that one can get. It leaves you enough room to go explore. The classes go by quick, so you can be on your way at being proficient. What are you wait for. "

  • "Amazing - Seriously Loved It. I took all his courses and have to say I'm so happy. Learned loads. Jason is an awesome teacher. "

  • "I have never had any formal training in music at all. Trying to learn all the notes and how everything translated was a serious challenge. After going through this class, Dr. J has totally brought down the barriers. The content was very useful and was easy to grasp for me."

  • "I like these courses because you can get up and running quickly without having to spend hours of time wading through TMI (too much information. ). Jason hits the high points but shows you what you need to know. Thanks. "

  • "I've watched many other videos on scales and chords before, however, this one has been the best. I now understand minor scales and chords and even how to analyze songs. It really gave me the confidence to start producing music because I feel like I have some structure and guidelines to follow. AWESOME. "

  • "Clear and Informative - Jason has a clear uncluttered style (with the important dashes of humor) of presentation that is focused on the important key aspects of this course. Recommended for those starting out. "

  • "Dr. Allen does it again with his music theory series. This course really opened up everything I learned from the 1st section, and now I understand more about the composition side of things for music. I highly highly recommend this course to anyone. Really opened my eyes to many things I wasn't aware of."

  • "The Best Teacher Ever, who makes you understand the ins & outs of Music Theory by all means without giving what you don't want to know."

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so far so good

So far so good!

I feel it's a bit elementary Great instructions, very intuitive in the explanation so far so good I took the beginning parts of this mostly as review, but there were some basic, time-saving functions that I was not utilizing that are part of what make Ableton workflow what it is.

Detailed so far so good Lots of great details Very very very basic Great match ?✌?kool Interesantísimo y totalmente útil.

evet so far so good ;) Instructor is very knowledgeable and explains clearly the technical aspects and concepts needed to gain a solid understanding of Ableton Live.

Derek So far so good.

The only thing is that sometimes the instructor refers to things he asumes the students know and when we don't then we get a bit lost... but again, so far so good !!

So far so good.

So far so good super informative and thorough.

Hard to tell as it's really just an overview atm, but so far so good.

Same with some people dont have sound when they first open ableton Yes, so far so good.

Good So far so good!

Great product So far so good!

so far so good Really great stuff!

so far so good Very clear so far its good So far, yes:) Too Slow so far seems clear and comfortable to watch good ff Great!

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highly recommend

Highly recommended!

I highly recommend this course!

Highly recommended I have no musical background and I was able to understand.

HIGHLY recommend this to anyone.

I highly recommend this course.

Highly recommend for beginners.

Highly recommend this class.

I'd highly recommend this course.

I highly recommend the whole series 1-7 that J offers and would be happy to speak to anyone about my positive experience.

Excellent and precise, highly recommended The course is very poorly organized and the lectures are essentially stream of consciousness tours of whatever function strikes the instructors fancy at the moment.

Highly recommend.

I Highly recommend this to anyone who wants a bit of detail in Ableton without the technicals.

To be honest, discount or no discount, depending on how flush you are, i highly recommend it.

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looking forward

I am looking forward to bashing my way through those as well.

Looking forward to continuing the course.

Looking forward to taking more courses from him!

I am certainly looking forward to finishing this complete 1-7 course.

I am looking forward to the rest of Jason's courses.

Now I'm halfway through and Ableton doesn't seem like a foreign land to me, and I'm really looking forward to creating some sounds myself, when I actually know what I'm doing.

I am looking forward to 45 and 6 lectures.

I came out learning a lot and I'm looking forward to the other courses.

Still looking forward to what's to come!

looking forward to 4, 5 and 6 Nice and slow explanation.

I am not a beginner and sort of knew whatever the lesson was talking about and am looking forward to the rest of the class because the teaching method is excellent and I don't know everything.

It is very informative and broken down really well I've just started this course and really looking forward to speeding up my recording process while learning in my own time!

I've found the course to be fantasic so far, and im only in the very early stages, in all honesty, so far we haven't quite covered anything i didn't already know, but with the tutor talking at a pace i can follow, i'm already looking forward to the next lessons.

I think he does explain everything a little fuzzy i got confused easly, casue of not knowing any DAWS learned a lot in a short period of time, looking forward too the next sessions Very easy to listen to.

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easy to follow along

This tutorial is comprehensive and easy to follow along with.

Love that he clearly explains keyboard shortcuts and every step of what he's doing, very easy to follow along with and I don't have to wonder what he just did as he clearly explains everything!

He has a friendly engaging tone of voice which is easy to follow along with and he supplements it with visual on screen capturing.

seems promising very detailed, very simple and well explained very easy to follow along!

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been using ableton

it's dope been using Ableton for 3 years now and learned some key commands that would've been helpful forever ago.

Cheers, -Darrick Atwater Good coverage of basics in the early sections with lots of nuggets of new info even if you've been using Ableton for a while, while progressing at a good pace.

Thank you mr instructor, I'm actually not sure what your name is right now ahaha :) I've been using Ableton as a hobbyist for years - long enough to put me FAR past the beginner stage, so I questioned if taking the "Part 1-3" section of the course would be "worth my time."

I've been using Ableton Live 9 Standard for a while now, but I'm learning a few tricks I didn't know.

Been using Ableton a while and even the first few lessons introduced me to some techniques that I hadn't known about.

I've been using Ableton for many years mostly to host Plugins.

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step by step

Even recorded a step by step video for one of my questions!

This course needed to cover that a bit - show us how to compose something coherent from the ground up - step by step.

I am new to Abelton live and this is providing a step by step foundation on navigating the software.

Right now it is an overview and picking up small useful mhints It's going step by step which is very helpful for someone like me.

I like it -- eventually I want a step by step to create an Illenium style track and to use my Launchpad.

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ins and outs

I've learnt practically the ins and outs of Ableton thanks to this course.

I have used various DAW's over the years and studied Audio Recording Engineering while in college but with every program there are a few idiosyncrasies to adapt to and incorporate into your knowledge base/skill arsenal and thus far, this course has been excellent in showing you the ins and outs of Ableton Live.

Thanks to Jason's superb demonstration of the ins and outs of Live, I'm now a million times more confident in what I'm doing, as well as knowing how and where to find and do things and I feel that I could explain pretty much what every button in the DAW does now.

Im trying to learn all the ins and outs and this is helping tremendously Verständlich und sehr genau.

(Ins and outs, automation, etc.)

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explains everything

One last thing, the instructor actually explains everything he does, e.g, telling you what key command he used instead of leaving you in the dark wondering how he got to a certain function, etc.

Jason explains everything very clearly with onscreen examples.

He explains everything as if you already have the smallest foundation in music production.

He actually explains everything in the right order, the order you would discover things if you wouldn't follow the course.

There is so much to learn it seems to be going a little slow, but this will definitely get me to where I need to be very good i think the instructor should have planned out what he was going to say a little more but he explains everything super well!

I am learning a lot and the instructor explains everything very well.

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quite a bit

Look forward to continue taking courses with this great instructor I already know quite a bit about Ableton so this was a bit elementary for me but a great explaination for others who are less familiar VERY GOOD IT GOING TO TAKE TIME AND TIME I HAVE great match very very good thank you so much !

I learned quite a bit in a short amount of time.

I have dabbled quite a bit with Ableton Live, but I noticed there was just too much stuff that I did not really feel I needed to use, or wanted to learn.

I have learned quite a bit.

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talking about

Occasionally, he doesn't explain things at a newbie's level (like mentioning "120" without explaining he's talking about 120 bpm, and not explaining that "bpm" is beats per minute), but overall he keeps it easy to understand even for beginners.

The instructor really knows what he is talking about!

The amount of detail, quality of the speaker, the quality of the video, his editing of the video (zooming into features he's talking about) covering confusing aspects to newcomers... it's basically a perfect intro course.

not sure if you mixed them up a little bit when talking about "optimal use" or something lile that.

I like the pace and I am pausing it whenever I feel I need to so that I can go to my own Ableton and try out the things he is talking about.

He clearly demonstrates on screen exactly what he is talking about, and, his pace feels just right...three video clips into the class.

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look forward

I look forward to sections 4,5 & 6!

Thank you Jason for the introduction to Ableton Live and I look forward to the other courses!

I feel more confident using ableton and look forward to going through some of the instructors other courses here.

I look forward to completing the class and most likely will be a life long customer for all of the future courses.

I enjoy what he covers in this course and look forward to learning from it.

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music theory

I use it for basic stuff like sound capture and recording, but wanted to take things deeper as I learn music theory.

If you're looking for a more substantive discussion surrounding Ableton's own instruments, that topic is presented in a subsequent course, as are any detailed discussions regarding music theory or composition.

Standing back one more meta-level, J has an amazing depth of knowledge about music theory *plus* electronic music making (I guess that's what the Ph.D is about!)

I also took his 3 part course "Music Theory for Electronic Music", and it seems to help by continuing on thru the same teacher.

I am excited to move onto Jay's music theory classes and then to finish off the other 4 parts of this class.

Just like his music theory classes, he is super succinct and explains everything so well to first time users.

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Rating 4.4 based on 674 ratings
Length 8.5 total hours
Starts On Demand (Start anytime)
Cost $14
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Instructor Jason Allen
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Language English
Subjects Art & Design
Tags Music Music Software

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