making beats
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mcmillions,
I read your note, I'm no instructor and far from an expert but I'll share what I've found. My love for Ableton comes from the session view. You can record audio directly into the session view as a loop or sample (you're given options as to one shot or loop). In the same regard you can create midi instruments to your hearts content and use any controller connected to build a pattern provided you've armed the instrument for recording. now you've got your patterns. Ableton lets you quantize with several options in case you're a litle off. Another thing I like about Ableton is that you can select the segment from your midi performance and set a specific loop. I do this all the time. I'll just haul off and start playing random melodies or bass lines then duplicate my midi clip to select the segments i want to loop. That way i can have a measure of my performance on one scene, 2 measures of it on another or just the last measure on yet another. As you build these individual sounds, patterns, loops one shots , you can launch everything in that row via the scene launcher. So you launch scene one and it triggers all the loops in scene 1 then launch scene 2 and then scene 3 then back to scene one or whatever and so on. you can practice your performance and song structure this way very easily. Once you have your scene sorted and arranged for build up fade out or whatever you can then record the performance by playing back your scenes. I love this break from traditional 4 track like recording where the drums go down first then the guitar or whatever. You complete your phrasing and structure setup then perform your verse, chorus, hook etc via the scenes instead of one instrument at a time or worry about composing long patterns. I don't know if I rambled too much there but that's pretty much my workflow as of late.
- whoa, I was just joking, but thanks for the response, man!mcmillions