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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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Importing and recording audio in Arrangement View

Let’s open a new Live set by navigating to File | New Live Set.

A window will pop up asking you whether you’d like to keep temporary recording files (see Figure 2.12) – you should select Delete:

Figure 2.12 – Pop-up window

Figure 2.12 – Pop-up window

Once that is done, follow these steps:

  1. Now that we have an empty project open, let’s hit the Tab key on the computer keyboard to switch to Arrangement View.
  2. Drag and drop a drum loop from the browser again to the first empty audio track.
  3. Enable the metronome and one-bar count-in again.
  4. Navigate to another empty audio track, set the appropriate input at the I/O section and the monitoring to Auto, and arm the track (see Figure 2.13):
Figure 2.13 – I/O, monitoring, and track arming set up

Figure 2.13 – I/O, monitoring, and track arming set up

  1. Now, we are going to press the Arrangement Record button, and you will hear the count-in before the...
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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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