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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817639
Pages 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Anna Lakatos Anna Lakatos
Profile icon Anna Lakatos

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: The Live Concept and Workflow
2. Chapter 1: Taking a Quick Tour of Ableton Live 11 3. Chapter 2: Recording Audio in Ableton Live 11 4. Chapter 3: Editing Audio and Warping 5. Chapter 4: Exploring MIDI Sequencing Techniques 6. Chapter 5: MIDI Editing and MIDI Effects 7. Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
8. Chapter 6: Comping and Track Linking 9. Chapter 7: Discovering Some of Live 11’s Creative Audio Effects 10. Chapter 8: Exploring Device Racks in Live 11 11. Chapter 9: Audio to MIDI Conversion, Slicing to MIDI, and the Simpler Device 12. Chapter 10: Utilizing Arrangement and Organization Techniques in our Ableton Live Project 13. Chapter 11: Implementing Automation and Modulation 14. Chapter 12: Getting Started with MPE in Ableton Live 11 15. Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live
16. Chapter 13: Exploring Tempo Follower, Follow Action, Max for Live, Working with Video, and Ableton Note 17. Chapter 14: Exploring MIDI Mapping, External Instrument, and MIDI CCs 18. Chapter 15: Playing Live 19. Chapter 16: Interesting Mixing Techniques in Live 11 20. Chapter 17: Troubleshooting and File Management 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Track linking in Live 11

For someone who is coming from using Pro Tools, for example, track linking is a golden feature.

No matter whether you have multiple layers of vocals and harmonies, different tracks that are working together within the same tune in the timeline, or you took the time to multi-track record drums with multiple microphones and all of them need to be edited together, this feature will cut a great amount of time spent on editing materials:

Figure 6.1 – Two backing vocal tracks following the lead vocals

Figure 6.1 – Two backing vocal tracks following the lead vocals

In the example here (see Figure 6.1), we can see that we have two backing vocal tracks recorded. They are working together with the lead vocals, so I would apply similar editing to them. Before, this would have been done by either selecting both clips and holding down Shift while editing or editing them separately.

Now, we are going to link the tracks together:

  1. Select the tracks that you would like to have linked together...
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