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Anna Lakatos
Anna Lakatos
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Anna Lakatos

Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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Audio editing functions in Live 11

There are different ways to how you should approach editing in the Session and Arrangement Views. It is important to understand what the two views are focusing on.

As we previously discussed, the Session View is good for laying down ideas in a non-linear fashion, which can speed up your workflow tremendously; however, eventually, you will move into the Arrangement View to define your arrangement and, therefore, the majority of your editing work as well.

This is reflected in the editing capabilities of the two views.

Editing audio in the Session View

It is a fact that the editing possibilities are rather limited in the Session View. But if we really reflect on what the Session View is used for and its music-making nature, it is quite understandable. This is not where you will be carrying out all your micro edits and getting really bogged down on refining these.

In fact, the only slicing and dicing you can do here is crop a sample. Let...

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Anna Lakatos

Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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