Courses

  • 5 Lessons

    3-part Framework for Using Tracks

    In this course, you’ll be introduced to the 3-part framework for using tracks in Ableton Live. While there are many ways to run tracks in Live, none of them provide the flexibility, stability, and efficiency that using this framework provides. You’ll learn the common language that will be used throughout all the tracks content on the site.

  • 7 Lessons

    5 Things You Need to Use MultiTracks

    In this course, we discuss the 5 things you need to use Ableton Live on stage for click and tracks.
  • 68 Lessons

    A Chaotic Christmas and K-Love Event Review: Watch Me Build My Ableton Sets from Scratch

    I had the opportunity to run playback for two live TV specials recently. These events involved several artists, songs with lots of tempo changes, charts used by string and horn sections, and lots of nuances that required a lot from a playback perspective.

  • 23 Lessons

    Ableton Live Control Types

    In this course, you’ll learn the various types of control used for hardware and software, and how to send those control types from Ableton Live. Consider this a foundational course that you can reference whenever you’re attempting to control hardware or software with Ableton. The course is software/hardware agnostic and instead of focusing on how to control a specific software or hardware, focuses on the foundational knowledge needed to control any type of software or hardware.
  • 13 Lessons

    Audio Routing For Live Performance

    Learn how to connect your computer to your soundboard. From a simple 2 or 4 channel output to a multi-channel output setup, you'll learn the exact process for getting audio out of your computer to the soundboard.

  • 12 Lessons

    Audio routing for live performance LEGACY

    Check out our NEW updated course here. In this course, you’ll learn how to route audio in Ableton Live. While the concepts apply for many…
  • 12 Lessons

    Controlling Ableton Live

    In this course, you’ll learn how to control Ableton Live via your computer keyboard and a MIDI controller. You’ll learn when to use each type…
  • 22 Lessons

    Controlling Ableton Live with TouchOSC Mk2

    Learn how to control Ableton Live with TouchOSC Mk 2.

  • 6 Lessons

    Controlling DMX-is with Ableton Live

    Learn how to control your lights with DMX-is and Ableton Live.

  • 13 Lessons

    Controlling Lights with Ableton Live

    How can you control your lights with Ableton Live? In this course, you'll learn the best approach to controlling lights with Ableton Live, no matter what you're using for lights.
  • 5 Lessons

    Controlling Luminair with Ableton Live

    In this course, you’ll learn how to control Luminair with Ableton Live. Luminair is an excellent solution for controlling lights from an iPad or iPhone. Controlling it with Ableton Live allows you to sync your lights to your click or tracks so that your light looks will be perfect every time, and perfectly in time.
  • 10 Lessons

    Controlling OBS with Ableton Live

    In this course, you’ll learn how to control OBS with Ableton Live. This will allow you to pre-program your live stream. From switching scenes in OBS, to starting and stopping recording and more, you’ll learn how one person can program their entire live stream in OBS, and create a high quality production that looks like you have a whole production team involved. You’ll also learn how to use the included Bome MIDI Translator Pro and Keyboard Maestro templates to control OBS with Ableton Live.
  • 18 Lessons

    Controlling ProPresenter 6 with Ableton Live

    In this course, we’ll discuss how to control ProPresenter with Ableton Live. ProPresenter is a lyric projection software that allows you to easily create lyrics and control them live. Think of it like “Keynote Plus”. It’s used primarily by churches to show the lyrics of the songs for the congregation to sing along. Even if you’re not a worship leader or musician in a church, it’s an incredibly useful software to know, for a lyric confidence monitor for an artist, keynote Plus for a corporate gig, or even simple playback. In this course we’ll discuss why and how to send MIDI notes from Ableton Live to control ProPresenter to create a flawless production, only do the work once, and have freedom and flexibility to jump around a song and have the lyrics follow.
  • 22 Lessons

    Controlling ProPresenter 7 with Ableton Live

    In this course, we’ll discuss how to control ProPresenter 7 with Ableton Live. In this course we’ll discuss why and how to send MIDI notes from Ableton Live to control ProPresenter to create a flawless production.
  • 11 Lessons

    Controlling ProPresenter with Timecode from Ableton Live

    This new mini-course will teach you how to control ProPresenter with Ableton using timecode. If you want to sync lyrics or video to your tracks in Ableton, watch this course to learn how.

  • 5 Lessons

    Controlling PTZ Cameras with Ableton Live

    In this course, you’ll learn how to control PTZ cameras from PTZ Optics using Ableton Live. You’ll learn how to setup the PTZ Optics App, connect to it via the IAC Driver, or Network MIDI, and how to program cues in Ableton Live. This will allow you to pre-program camera adjustments in your Ableton Live set.
  • 6 Lessons

    Controlling PVP with Ableton Live

    In this course, you’ll learn how to control PVP with Ableton Live. You’ll learn how to use timecode to trigger cues in PVP. How to use timecode “trigger” commands to launch non-timing specific clips and how to use timecode “follow” commands to have video “chase” timecode from Ableton. You’ll also learn how to use ProPresenter and PVP together so you can automate your lyrics via MIDI in ProPresenter and have perfectly sync’d videos in PVP.
  • 6 Lessons

    Controlling Qlab with Ableton Live

    In this course, you’ll learn how to control Qlab with Ableton Live. You’ll learn how to use MIDI notes from our Qlab Cues template to assign to cues in Qlab and to trigger video effortlessly in Ableton Live.
  • 13 Lessons

    Controlling Resolume with Ableton Live

    In this course, we’ll discuss how to control Resolume Arena with Ableton Live. The allows you to keep your videos in perfect sync with your audio using LTC. We’ll discuss how to connect two machines using audio interfaces to send LTC from Ableton to Arena. We’ll discuss how to use a striped LTC track in Ableton Live to send arrangement location and data at all times to Resolume. We’ll discuss why you’ll likely want to also control Resolume with MIDI and how to connect your machines via MIDI. Finally we’ll look at 2 different approaches to using these programs in combination for your sets.
  • 7 Lessons

    Controlling the P16 with Ableton Live

    Connect your P16 to Ableton via MIDI to get complete control of your monitor mix and automate scenes and settings for particular songs and musicians.

  • 9 Lessons

    Controlling Vista with Ableton Live

    In this course, you’ll learn how to control Vista from Ableton Live. Whether you’re using a Jands console, or simply running Vista 3 on a laptop, we’ll discuss the various ways you can control Vista from Live. We’ll discuss how to connect Ableton to Vista to control it 4 different ways, and we’ll discuss when to choose each type for ultimate control of your lighting in Vista.
  • 8 Lessons

    Creating Great Sounds in Ableton Live 10

    In this course, you’ll learn how to create the sounds you hear in your head, in Ableton Live 10. We’ll discuss important settings, effects and techniques to create incredible sounds in Ableton Live 10. (As a side note-sorry for the formality of the intro bit here! I shared this course with a friend of mine to use on his platform as a promo, and I needed an intro, so I decided to keep it for this course as well).
  • 11 Lessons

    File Management for Live Performance

    In this course, you’ll learn how to properly manage songs and sets for live performance. From properly saving and sharing live files, to using a…