This course is suitable for beginners and for users wanting to get more out of the sophisticated production tools that Ableton Live offers. With a strong emphasis on the musical and production aspects of music creation, this comprehensive course will help you develop your Ableton Live skills for a wide range of musical activities - composition, arranging, recording, mixing, sound processing, synthesising instrument and live triggering - thus greatly expanding your music-making options on the computer.

Ableton Live is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive music production and performance environment increasingly used by creative musicians in a variety of settings. On this course, you will learn about composition, arranging, recording, mixing, sound processing, synthesising instruments, and live triggering in Ableton Live, thus greatly expanding the possibilities of music-making on a computer.

Ableton Live can be used for writing, arranging, and mixing like a traditional DAW but also contains unique features allowing for improvisation, live triggering, live looping, effect processing, modular synthesis, and randomisation. The performance elements can easily become part of a writing and production process, greatly expanding the possibilities of making music on a computer without the need for fiddly programming. This course gives you a solid grounding in the basics of using Live for music creation, enabling you to explore some of the powerful in-depth features and learn how to tailor its operation to your own way of working.