Right-click the title bar of track #3 and click 'Assign Track Color to Clips' (highlighted with a red rectangle in the picture above). In the Ableton Browser, click the folder for the packs that you downloaded and installed in Part Two, then expand Future House Fusion, then expand Future House Fusion Project, then expand Future House Fusion, then expand FX (as in the picture below), then drag 'FX 1' into the second clip slot in track #3. Right-click the title bar of track #3 and change the color to the one highlighted with a red rectangle in the picture below: Right-click the first clip in track #1 and click Duplicate, then do the same for the first clip in track #2. Click the first Scene Launch button in the Master track (highlighted with a red rectangle at the top right in the picture below) to hear the beat: Press Shift+Tab to return to the Note Editor and add the icons at B0 as in the picture below. Double-click the first clip slot in track #2, press Shift+Tab to see the Device view, then click and drag the Volume to turn it up to its maximum level (6.0dB) (don't make any changes in Ableton Live 11). Right-click the title bar for track #2 and make it yellow (the first yellow in the top row of colors). Stop the clip, then click Instruments in the Ableton Browser, then expand Instrument Rack, then expand Bass, then drag 'Analog Saw Bass' ('Basic FM House Bass' in Ableton Live 11) onto the title bar of track #2. Change the BPM to 140 (highlighted with a red rectangle at the top left in the picture below), then launch the first clip in track #1: Right-click the title bar of the first track and select green:ĭouble-click the first clip slot in track #1 and add the kick and clap icons as in the picture below. Then expand Hihat and drag 'Hihat 808 Close' ('Hihat Closed 808' in Ableton Live 11) next to 'Clap 707' in the Drum Rack.

Now expand Clap and drag 'Clap 707' to the square next to the kick drum in the Drum Rack. Expand Drum Hits, then expand Kick, then drag 'Kick 70s 2' onto the square labeled C1 in the Drum Rack at the bottom of the screen. Click Drums on the left in the Ableton Browser, then drag Drum Rack onto the title bar of the first MIDI track. We won't be using these features, and turning them off gives us more room on the screen.įirst we'll add a Drum Rack to our first MIDI track so that we can create some drum beats, just as we did in Part One. Let's start with a clean slate, so click the File menu in Ableton and then click 'New Live Set.' Remember to click the View menu and turn off Sends and In/Out.

In Part Five we'll create a basic EDM (Electronic Dance Music) song from scratch in order to learn some more features of Ableton.

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