MIDI is a core part of most people's workflow, allowing you to trigger, control and manipulate a vast range of software and hardware instruments. But where should new users turn to learn all about how MIDI works in Ableton Live? Noah Pred is here to help with this course on the essential MIDI tools and techniques you need to know! In this short video from the course Ableton Live 10 102: MIDI Essentials, he shows you how to use Live's MIDI FX to generate and process MIDI signal in fun and creative ways.
Noah demonstrates how to use Live's Arpeggiator MIDI effect as well as the Scale transformer to interpret simple MIDI parts and make them sound more complex and interesting, with only minimal input from the player. You'll see how making tweaks to MIDI effects can quickly spice up MIDI parts, creating sequences, beats and patterns that you wouldn't have been able to play by hand. Be sure to check out the other videos in this course for much more on mastering Live's MIDI tools and techniques.
Ableton Live 10 102: MIDI Essentials
Best known for its audio warping abilities, Ableton Live is no slouch when it comes to MIDI. And with the new MIDI features introduced in Live 10, it’s now more powerful than ever. This course, by certified trainer Noah Pred, shows you how MIDI is recorded, edited and manipulated in Ableton Live 10.
The course by defining exactly what is MIDI, and explaining how to configure it in Live. Step by step, Noah shows you different ways to record and edit MIDI data… You learn about quantizing, editing velocity, how to humanize your patterns with the Groove function, how to work with external MIDI hardware, MIDI effects and a lot more!
So dive in this MIDI-driven course, and get creative with Ableton Live and its powerful MIDI features!
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