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Ableton Live Overview – Ableton Live 11 Tutorial

By Freddie HarbApril 08, 20211 min read
Ableton Live 11 Overview

In this video we give you an Ableton Live 11 overview to help with your music production. Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation (DAW) that unlike other DAWs on the market, Ableton is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool to create, produce, record mix and master music.

Ableton is very unique in the sense that it has two distinct views. In this video we give you a brief overview of Ableton Live and talk about some of the basics. This is part one of a five-part series on Ableton Live.

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0:00​ Start
00:40​ What is Ableton Live?
01:06​ Ableton Live Overview

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  1. What is Ableton Live? – Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation (DAW)

  2. Ableton Live Overview – We give you a very brief overview of the program itself. In the next part, we go over Ableton Live’s Session and Arrangement views.

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