From the course: Performing with Ableton Live: On Stage with St. Vincent

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Ableton Live set layout

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From the course: Performing with Ableton Live: On Stage with St. Vincent

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Ableton Live set layout

A lot of today's music is first and foremost a studio creation. It can feature sequenced synthesizers, electronic or heavily processed live drums, complex audio effects and textures. There could be a huge variety of guitar sounds and layers and layers of overdubs. When the time comes to perform the music live with a compact group of musicians, reproducing all that wonderful stuff with nuance and musicality could be a real task. The good thing is, today's software is up to the challenge. My platform of choice for many years now has been Ableton Live. It offers unrivaled stability and efficiency, as well as a lot of versatility. One of its innovations is Session View, that we see here. Using Session View is a good way to have a visual representation of the entire show at a glance. In this basic set up, each row called a scene, represents one song. And each of the clips in a scene contains MIDI or audio elements for that song. The columns are MIDI and audio tracks routed accordingly…

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