There's a fact of the underground music scene: Ableton Live is the new killer audio app! But for those of us from a more traditional DAW background, using Ableton can be quite ... well, confusing! But it doesn't need to be that way ...

In this 6-hour Ableton Live 6 tutorial, technical author, laptop music guru and consumate Ableton Live performer Martin Delaney shows you the quick way into Ableton Live. Using moving pictures and sound, this video tutorial program let's you see and hear how Live 6 works!

For a full list of this program's contents, check-out the Table of Contents below:

Table of Contents
Chapter 1- GETTING STARTED

Section 1: Introduction
001.What Is Ableton Live
002. What You Can Do Part A
003. What You Can Do Part B

Section 2: The First Steps
004. Installation
005. Demo Mode
006. Set Up Audio Hardware
007. Multiple Audio Interfaces
008. Midi Hardware Fast Setup
009. Templates

Section 3: Quick Peeks
010. Live Sets Defined
011. Knobs & Faders
012. Quick Look Control Bar
013. Quick Look Session
014. Quick Look Arrangement
015. Quick Look Mixer
016. Quick Look Browser
018. Managing Live Sets

Section 4: Getting Help
019. Info View
020. Live Lessons

Chapter 2 - LIVE INTERFACE

Section 5: The Interface
021. Full Screen
022. Overview Navigation
023. Expanding Track Views
024. Status Bar
025. Context Menu
026. Creating Tracks
027. Managing Tracks Pt 1
028. Managing Tracks Pt 2
029. Loading Skins

Section 6: The Control Bar
030. Tap Tempo
031. Tempo
032. Global Groove
033. Overdub From Control Bar
034. Back To Arrangement
035. Global Quantize
036. And Other Things

Section 7: The Session View
037. Left Brain-Right Brain
038. Selector Buttons

Section 8: The Arrangement View
039. Scrubbing In Arrangement
040. Locators
041. Arrangement Loop
042. Editing In Arrangement

Section 9: The Mixer
043. Mixer In Both Views
044. Volume Sliders
045. Pan
046. Mute-Solo-Activate

Section 10: The Crossfader
047. Crossfader Part One
048. Crossfader Part Two

Section 11: In-Out Overview
049. In-Out Overview

Section 12: Browser And Library
050. Housekeeping In Browser
051. Browse Load Save Dvc Presets
052. Default Folders
053. Point To Itunes
054. Cueing-Preview
055. Import From Cd
056. Analyze Folder
057. Loading Midi Files
058. Browsing Loading Sets
059. Search & Bookmark
060. Project Folders
061. Browsing Samples

Chapter 3 - CLIPS & SCENES

Section 13: Clips In General
062. Clips Overview
063. Launching Clips
064. Clip Velocity
065. Clip Stop Button
066. Stop All Clips
067. Save Default Clip
068. Clip Color & Name
069. Multi-Clip Selection
070. Follow Actions
071. Clip Envelopes
072. Clip Loop
073. Clip Scrub
074. Clip Groove And Signature
075. Clip Update Rate
076. Live Clip Format
077. Nudge
078. Clip & Note Deactivation
079. Split Clips
080. Moving Clips Between Sets
081. Moving Clips From Arrange

Section 14: Audio Clips
082. Audio Clip Overview
083. Warp Modes
084. Warp Markers
085. Analysis Files
086. Lost Samples
087. Clip Ram Mode
088. Reversing Clips
089. Crop Sample
090. Consolidation
091. Legato Mode
092. Sample Offset
093. Tempo Master

Section 15: MIDI Clips
094. Midi Clips Overview
095. Create Midi Clips
096. Editing Midi Clips
098. Midi Velocity

Section 16: Scenes
100. Video Clips
102. Scene Navigation
103. Naming Scenes
104. Clips Vs Scenes

Chapter 4 - RECORDING

Section 17: The I/O Window
105. In-Out Overview
106. Resampling
107. Sub Mix
108. More Complex Routing
109. Complex Routing-Guitars
110. Extreme Midi Routing

Section 18: Recording In General
111. Recording Into Scenes
112. Preparing To Record
113. Monitoring
114. Count-In
115. Punch In-Punch Out
116. Track Freeze
117. Track Delay Device Delay

Section 19: Recording Audio
118. Recording Audio
119. Rec Into Arrangement Loop
120. Post-Fx Recording

Section 20: Recording MIDI
121. Midi Record Quantization
122. Midi Overdub

Section 21: Automation
123. Automation Overview
124. Editing Automation
125. Draw Mode
126. Tempo Automation

Section 22: Rendering
127. Rendering

Section 23: Housework
128. Managing File Sizes
129. Managing Resources
130. CPU & Disk Load

Chapter 5 - OTHER DEVICES

Section 24: Devices In General
131. Devices Overview
132. Common Interface Features
133. Device Racks Part 1
134. Device Racks Part 2

Section 25: Effects
135. Effects Overview
136. Return Tracks

Section 26: Instruments
137. Impulse
138. Sampler
139. Operator
140. Simpler

Section 27: Hardware Control
141. How To Assign
142. Midi Map Mode
143. Instant Mapping
144. Limit Cc Ranges
145. Types Of Midi Cc
146. Key Map Mode
147. Keyboard Shortcuts
148. Pseudo MIDI Keyboard

Chapter 6- OUTSIDE THE BOX

Section 28: Rewire & MIDI Sync
149. Rewire To Reason Part 1
150. Rewire To Reason Part 2
151. Rewire To Logic From Logic
152. Rewire To Garageband
153. Rewire To Arkaos Vj
154. Send Sync To X-Station
155. Send-Receive Midi Sync

Section 29: Expanding Live
156. Apple Loops
157. Third Party Plugins
158. Live Packs