The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11: Level up your music recording, arranging, editing, and mixing skills and workflow techniques

I grew up using written online tutorials with screenshots to learn programs like Photoshop, and going to Barnes and Noble to buy books on PHP/HTML. By the time I was learning Ableton, youtube had been around for a while and everything was an hour long video tutorial with blurry screen sharing. THIS BOOK IS SUCH A RELIEF. THANK YOU ANNA.The font is great, the images look great on my laptop's kindle app, and the content is EXCELLENT. Easily explained, to the point and time efficient. I love being able to flip between sections, skip ahead to the steps I don't know, highlight valuable info and have the book open side by side with Ableton.We need more tutorials delivered like this. The ability to absorb the information quietly, reading and following along with quality material, and trying it out without any distractions is amazing. It is a relief to not have to listen to anyone's voice or go through weird entertainment jokes to get to the information.

**update**Amazon sent a replacement and it was the full print. The error was a fluke and I even gave the artist a heads up that there are come QC issues floating around out there. Anyway - I am a fellow Point Blank student and this is very concise and detailed enough to send you on your way towards your own exploration. Live is a powerful DAW, no matter how much you know there is always more to learn and this is an excellent resource to keep handy.***(previous) An obvious error that somehow made it through QC - my book is missing the first half of 468 pages - it starts on page 213. Will be returning and perhaps I'll buy again to see if I get the entire book.

As an Ableton Live user since version 2 more than 20 years ago, I have seen this incredible music production tool grow up. The number of things you can do, the amount of features it has, and its power and flexibility have increased exponentially. If you're new to Live 11, or even if you're an intermediate user, there's at least a good chance that you have missed some important new features that could dramatically increase your productivity, creativity, and workflow. Enter Anna's wonderful new book.With great screenshots and annotated diagrams, this book walks you through a significant amount of features in Live 11. It isn't too verbose; rather, the book gets to the heart of a topic or feature and then visually shows you how unleash that particular power or ability. For anyone who wants a companion to the manual but doesn't want to sit through endless Youtube videos, this is the book for you. It includes workflow tips and techniques that can seriously increase your musical output, all in a very easy reference manual kind of way.I have been an Ableton Certified Trainer for more than 12 years, and I found this book to be helpful to me. I would have no hesitation in recommending it to my students. Nice work, Anna!

Having used Ableton Live since version 9, I know my way around the interface pretty well. Despite my experience, I am particularly impressed by the “Editing Audio and Warping” and “Interesting Mixing Techniques in Live 11” chapters which both provide plenty of techniques for experimentation that I have had fun incorporating into my workflow.Whether you are just getting started or an advanced user looking for inspiration, you can gain a lot from this book. There is also something to be said for having a reference book that you can sift through which lends itself to discovering new and interesting material that you wouldn’t necessarily stumble across when searching for specific video instructions online.

This book is an excellent resource for anyone using Ableton, from those who have never touched it before to those who are familiar with it but need to brush up on their skills (and probably learn new things). As someone who falls into the latter camp, I'll definitely be using this as a resource for the foreseeable future! It's super well written and detailed, and the images are extremely helpful. Thanks, Anna!

I had to start using Ableton for a touring group I now work for and it was very confusing at first and still is at times. This book is really answering a lot of questions and making sense of how it differs from Pro Tools and Logic. Well done!

This book does a great job at explaining the software in a way that is easy to understand for a new user or an experienced producer. The example files are great for putting the ideas into practice and getting more hands-on. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in learning Ableton Live or wants to unpack what was added in version 11. As a producer that has used Live for 8 years+ there were still techniques and features in this book that I found very useful.

I have been working in Ableton for years- this book was a fantastic recap, and even managed to bring some new concepts to the table. It is very well organized, with each chapter having a clear intro and list of topics, the bulk (tutorial), and a summary paragraph. Recommend to beginners as well as people looking to finetune/brush up their skills.

I have ableton live 12 standard but this has proved very useful despite a few things not available to me in standard. I simply substitued nearest instrument etc. well written

mich hatte im Buchtitel "Creative Guide" angesprochen - dazu steht allerdings wenig im Buch.Anstattdessen ist es ein recht ausführliches Handbuch zu den Ableton-Features.Und dafür hat sich für mich der Kauf gelohnt.

I was aware of the author's work via YouTube and magazine columns so was sure the book would be well presented and researched. I also thought my knowledge of Ableton was pretty good given I have been using it for the last few years - well how wrong I was!!! When I got the book and skimmed though the first few chapters I took the decision to spend some time every day and just start right from the beginning and work though the book. Learning so much already even if some of it is just little bits - they all make incremental benefits to creativity and workflow. I have not finished this process yet but, so far, based on my experience, anyone who uses Ableton should own the book. I also hope it will be updated as Ableton updates.

This is a brilliant book for those it is intended for, creators with experience of Ableton 11 and want further advanced knowledge. This book isn't immediately suitable for beginners like myself, it still makes a good read and can be useful at a later stage when someone has learned the basics and can competently produce music, finding a good book for beginners is difficult, I've not found any yet, online paid for video's is the only source of learning I've found so far.

All the chapters in this book has been perfectly put together. This book is just about enough to understand different areas of Ableton Live 11 with relevant picture reference making it easier to follow. It not only deepens your knowledge and opens doors too many aspects for eg the 'Take lanes.' There are tasks towards the end of chapters which will help you put learning in context. Highly recommend this book to know everything about Ableton Live 11.