101 EMP COURSE
A comprehensive 101 electronic music focused course that covers how to use Ableton Live 11 to its best, so you can make music of your choice. Starting from the very basics this course teaches you in and outs of Ableton Live and how to quickly start and finish tracks while understanding why and how to mix and master your tracks efficiently.
We will focus on developing practices that makes the process of music making fast, fun and creative.
Course offers a mix of online (Zoom & HQ Audio) and offline lectures (@silkroadstudioss). Where we show you how we produce records for our clients and get the in-depth experience of whats happening in the fast emerging Music industry.
MODE OF EDUCATION
Online/Offline
COURSE LENGTH
2 Months
Satyam Sangwan is an Ableton Certified Trainer and a Music Producer from New Delhi. Owner of Silk Road Studios, which is a friendly music production studio where he offers services and mentorship in the area of music and visual composition, production, engineering and education.
Ripple Drift is the creative alias of IDM producer, sound engineer and educator, Satyam Sangwan. Knowing the ins and outs of Live, Satyam actively produces and engineers artists, jams on analog synths, and mentors students.
CURRICULUM
CLASS 1
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Introduction to Ableton Live
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Setting Inputs and Outputs
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What is a DAW
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Signal Flow | Equipment You Need
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Preferences in Ableton Live
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Understanding Ableton’s Interface
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Working with Scenes
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Introduction to Live’s Browser
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What is MIDI | MIDI & Audio Properties.
CLASS 1
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Introduction to Ableton Live
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Setting Inputs and Outputs
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What is a DAW
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Signal Flow | Equipment You Need
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Preferences in Ableton Live
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Understanding Ableton’s Interface
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Working with Scenes
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Introduction to Live’s Browser
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What is MIDI | MIDI & Audio Properties.
CLASS 1
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Introduction to Ableton Live
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Setting Inputs and Outputs
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What is a DAW
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Signal Flow | Equipment You Need
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Preferences in Ableton Live
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Understanding Ableton’s Interface
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Working with Scenes
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Introduction to Live’s Browser
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What is MIDI | MIDI & Audio Properties.
CLASS 3
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Recording Audio
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Different Monitoring Modes
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Understanding Session & Arrangement View
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Grids in Arrangement View | Permanent Scrub Areas
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Recording in Arrangement View
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Using Punch-In and Punch-Out Switches
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Recording from Session View to Arrangement View
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Back to Arrange View Button
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Grouping Tracks
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Using Locaters
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Editing in Arrangement View
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Shortcuts for a fast workflow
CLASS 5
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Using MIDI Effects
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Arpeggiator | Chord | Scale
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Keyboard Mapping | MIDI Controller Mapping | Instant Mapping
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Automation Envelopes
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Recording Real-Time Automation
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Drawing Automation Manually
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Automating Clips in Session View
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Unlinking Clip Length and Automation Length
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Editing Automation
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Using Fades and Cross-Fades
CLASS 7
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Live’s Software Instruments
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Impulse in Detail
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Impulse as Multi-Output
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Simpler in Detail
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Isolating Chords from a Loop to Playback as an Authentic Chord
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Simpler / Sampler in Detail
CLASS 9
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Launch Modes of Clips
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Follow Actions in Detail
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Making a Break-beat Using Follow Actions
CLASS 11
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Make an Ableton set for live performance
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Optimize your Ableton session.
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Using Dummy Clips to manage your live set
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Max for Live Instruments, Midi & Audio effects
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Creative Essentials | Packs
CLASS 13 Mixing 1
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Gain Staging
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Colour coding | Grouping | Management
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Fades | Editing | Cleaning
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Levelling
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Set the right Monitoring | What levels to mix on?
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Studio Monitor setup | Why do we need room acoustics?
CLASS 15 Mixing 3
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Reverb | Delay | Chorus | Phaser
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Parallel or Series FX
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Advance FX mixing techniques
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Automations with Return Tracks
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Finalising the Mix
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Setting a correct Headroom for Mastering
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Introduction to Mastering
CLASS 2
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Live’s Browser in detail
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Auditioning Clips and Devices
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Understating File Structure and Saving Live Set
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Preparation to Record MIDI
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Recording and Overdubbing MIDI
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Using the Step Sequencer to Enter MIDI
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Grids | Fold View in the Editor | Legato Option
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Quantizing | Quantizing with Grooves | Live Quantizing
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Editing MIDI Velocities | Note Expression | Chance
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Make a beat using what we learned.
CLASS 4
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Live’s Mixer
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Exclusive Arm and Solo
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Dry/Wet | Series and Parallel FX
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Using Sends and Returns
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Creating Manual Feedback for Returns
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2 Ways of Building Headphone Cues
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Using Effect Devices
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The Hot Swap Switch
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EQ and Filters
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Soloing Different EQ Bands
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EQ-ing in Stereo, L/R and M/S
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Compressors and Dynamic Processing
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Different Types of Delay Effect Processing
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Using Reverb Effectively
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Side-Chain Gating and Side-Chain Compression
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Make a song using 5 or more tracks and use what we have learned.
CLASS 6
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Warping Audio
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Basics of Warping
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Understanding all Different Warping Modes in Detail
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Transient Markers and Warp Markers
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Using Warp to Quantize Audio
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Creating an Instrument Using Warp Markers
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Exporting/Bouncing Audio from Arrangement and Session View
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Freeze and Flatten Tracks
CLASS 8
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Live Racks
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FX Racks
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Nested Racks
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Effects in Series and Parallel
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Using FX Chains
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Instrument Racks
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Key-Zone Editor and Velocity-Zone Editor
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Drum Racks
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I/O, Sends and Returns Inside the Drum Rack
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Choking Samples
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Using Macros
CLASS 12
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Introduction to Ableton Push 2
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Walkthrough basics of Push 2.
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How to make a track from scratch using Push 2
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Introduction to Analog Synths
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Connect an Analog synth with your Ableton set.
CLASS 14 Mixing 2
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Why & When to use EQ and Compression.
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EQ in detail | Types of EQ | Different EQ modes
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Compression in detail | Types of Compressors
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Multi-Band Compressor | Multi-Band EQ | Difference btw both
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Discuss various types of plugins in the market.