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    PRODUCE & ARRANGE A TUNE IN ABLETON LIVE 10

    Sep 07, 2017 7 minutes

    Amere five pages ago we started to create a track from scratch in Ableton Live 10. Having got it to a very early stage, complete with bass, lead, melodies and beats, we're at that stage that many producers get to: the ideas are there on paper, and now is the time to turn them into a complete tune. We'll be honest with you here, this is an often difficult bridge to cross. We can't tell you how many song ideas we have come up with that get to this stage and are then left to fester on our hard drives. As a DAW, Ableton Live makes it very easy just to stop here, experiment with clips, start and stop, try different combinations and then not really progress beyond that. Fortunately, if you know what you are doing, Live also makes it very easy to progress beyond this – what we call – 'looping stage'. Before that, however, we're going to perform some basic mixing.

    SORTING THE MIX

    Fortunately for us and you, the basic ideas we came up with in the last tutorial are terribly mixed. (Check out the Ableton Live file on the DVD called Live 10.als). We'd like to say that we

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