Watching Your Levels in Ableton!
A common thing that happens in the early days of using audio programmes is that you may neglect to look after your levels and the overall track may sound over recordedAbleton is surprisingly forgiving in this area but ther is no substitute for managing your levels and getting a good optimised signal flow.
These next two videos will help you to achieve this. Also your tracks should sound as loud as commercial tracks i.e. if yours was played on a radio station after a commercially released track you would not want it to sound quieter by comparison. These videos will also help you address these issues.
Watching Your Levels 1.... Adjusting the levels in relation to the all important Master fader.
Watching Your Levels 2.... Using a Limiter to do it dynamically.
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Some Movies to help you!
This should be useful to you when mixing. You can use the guidelines to help you get more clarity and energy into your mixes :)
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Session2_Sound Design.pdf (167.335 Kb)
This is the handout from the Introduction to Ableton Session where we looked at the interface but in particular the two main views i.e. the session view and arrangement views. In this session you learned 1. Why the session view is a very valuable feature in the package and 2. How to use it in conjunction with the more traditional timeline view (arrangement window). The workfiles for this session are also provided for you to experiment with.
Work Pack For Session 2
AbletonSessions.zip (7.64 Mb)
These are the workfiles that we used in session 2 - you can use these to experiment with the session view and recording into the arrangement view. Remember its the session view where most of the performance related action takes place.
Tutorial Vid For Session 2
AbletonSessions.zip (7.64 Mb)
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Session 3 Midi Slicing,Transposition and Sampling.
The Video Tutorial for Midi Slicing.
Transposition - the Video Tutorial and Workfiles.
Editing Audio and Mapping in the Sampler Video Tutorial.
Making a Piano in Ableton And Going Up and Down the Octaves.
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Projected Progress Report
projectedProgressSchedule.pdf (37.071 Kb)
This is a more detailed and more accurate schedule for the first 6 weeks of the Sound module. It gives you an indication of where you need to be up to at any given time.
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Outline for Session 4
Session 4.pdf (77.084 Kb)
This is the basic outline of what we will be covering in the forthcoming session. It will be an editing session using the Chameleon Catering Ad.
Work Pack and Handout Session 4
Session 4 radioEdit.zip (21.264 Mb)
This contains all of the files for the demonstration in session 4 including tutorial movies and handout. This is the session where we edited the Chameleon Catering advert.
Session 4 Country Ad Wav Files
countryAd.zip (4.145 Mb)
These are the wav files for session 4 just in case there is a compatibility problem with different versions of Ableton. By using these files in conjunction with the tutorial movies in the relevant work pack you should be easily able to reconstruct the Ad.
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Tutorial The Ableton Sampler
thesampler.mp4 (3.842 Mb)
The built in sampler in Ableton has a lot of features that are worth further investigation - This movie just demonstrates how to get a set of samples assigned to keys in the sampler. Its very easy and can be very effective when used properly.