BERKLEE'S INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC PRODUCTION

AT COURSERA.ORGHi, and welcome! my name is John Tinjaca, I’m from Bogota, Colombia. I’m taking the

Berklee's Introduction To Music Production at Coursera.org  This video lesson is for week 3, part of the assignment; I will be teaching:

The signal flow through a channel strip in Ableton Live 9

MIXER IN SESSION VIEW AND ARRANGEMENT VIEW

The Mixer in Live is accesible from the two main views:

Arrangement view (Horizontal strip) and Session view (vertical

strip).

Arrangement view Session view

SESSION VIEW MIXER

The Session View mixer is a standard vertical mixer layout, which you may find more intuitive than the Arrangement mixer.

Ableton Live 9 Session mixer view

The View menu options (pointed with the blue arrow) show or hide the following mixer components, so you can use different mixer view setups:

•In/Out •Sends •Returns •Mixer •Track Delays •Crossfader

The view menu options (blue arrow)

THE MIXER CONTROLS

The Meter shows the track’s RMS (average) and peak output level. While monitoring, however, it shows the input level.

The mixer controls

The meter

1. THE METER

Adjusts the track’s output level. With multiple tracks selected, adjusting the volume of one of them will adjust the others as well.

The mixer controls

The volume control

2. THE VOLUME CONTROL

The Pan control positions the track’s output in the stereo field. To reset the Pan control to center, click on its associated triangle. With multiple tracks selected, adjusting the pan knob for one of them will adjust the others as well.

The mixer controls

The pan control

3. THE PAN CONTROL

To mute the track’s output, turn off the Track Activator switch. With multiple tracks selected, toggling one of their Track Activators will toggle the others as well.

The mixer controls

Track activator switch

4. MUTE TRACK CONTROL

The Solo switch solos the track by muting all other tracks, With multiple tracks selected, pressing any of their Solo switches will solo all of them. Otherwise, tracks can only be soloed one at a time unless the [CTRL](PC) / [CMD] (Mac) modifier is held down or the Exclusive Solo option in the Record/Warp/Launch Preferences is deactivated.

The mixer controls

Solo switch

5. THE SOLO SWITCH

If the Arm Recording button is on, the track is record-enabled. With multiple tracks selected, pressing any of their Arm switches will arm all of them. Otherwise, tracks can only be armed one at a time unless the [CTRL](PC) / [CMD](Mac) modifier is held down or the Exclusive Arm option in the Record/Warp/Launch Preferences is deactivated. With Exclusive Arm enabled, inserting an instrument into a new or empty MIDI track will automatically arm the track.

The mixer controls

Arm recording button

6. ARM RECORDING BUTTON

RESOURCES

• Ableton Live 9 Manual: https://cdn2-resources.ableton.com/80bA26cPQ1hEJDFjpUKntxfqdmG3ZykO/static/manual/pdf/L9Manual_EN.pdf

•Ableton Live 9 Tutorial - Mixing Two Tracks Together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AYQj0LIKA

•Ableton Live | Mixing: How to Export Stems to Get Ready for Mix Down | Pyramind: http://youtu.be/A-0avuymsgc

I tried my best to explain this subject, trying to cover the information in the respective lesson. I chose this lesson

because I’m taking the Ableton Live 9 course at coursera.org and because I’ve been working with Live’s mixer for quite

some time now, so I feel familiar with it.

Please feel free to let me know what do you think about this presentation, and if there is anything I could do to make it

better, just let some comments, I will appreciate!

Thank You!

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