Audio Editing in Ableton & Logic Pro
- Self-paced with Life Time Access
- Certificate on Completion
- Access on Android and iOS App
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An online course teaching how to edit audio, manage files and sync audio recordings. Suitable for complete beginners and experienced audio editors this course is designed to help you finish your projects much faster and to help you collaborate with other people or other music production softwares with easy to understand explanations and worksheets. This course is not related to mixing or mastering so there will be no plugins to worry about but you will develop powerful habits, clean organisation skills and build solid foundations.
Suited for bedroom or studio music producers, editing voice over recordings for an app, scoring sound for a film, syncing multi track audio recordings from a live show, band rehearsal recordings, album recordings, orchestra recordings, getting drum kit sounds to sync well, transferring audio files between 2 different digital audio workstations or basically managing any type of audio at all.
HOW
The course will use both Ableton Live 10 and Logic Pro X to edit instrument recordings from a funky dance song called “Funky Dance Moves” by world music band Mantravine. You will learn to build a reusable template, essential key commands, learn clean editing and organisation of audio files, learn the different ways to combine audio, sync melodies and transfer recordings to other softwares. Theoretically the concepts are universal and should work for any professional DAW that has similar levels of functionality to Ableton & Logic. So if you use a different DAW you may have to google or youtube some of the processes.
PREPARATION
To enjoy maximum benefit either open up an existing music project that has audio recordings or start a new one and record audio of a few instruments layering harmonies or rhythms on top of each other. With your recordings ready, take the course and immediately after each lesson try to apply the concepts learned on your existing project.
WHO
* Music producers
- Music composers
- Musicians
- DJs
- Teachers to have new teaching material for classes
- Audio editors
- Anyone who works with audio recordings for songs, jingles, apps, video games, films, video
- Works with multi track mixers
- Manages audio recordings for a band, album, mixes, rehearsals, orchestra, electronic music, live recordings
ADVANTAGES
- Control the speed at which you learn with lifetime access to the course
- Accessible anytime on mobile or desktop with an internet connection
CONNECT TO FRIENDS & FAMILY
- Share or gift this course to musicians, students, teachers, producers and music lovers
- Ableton, Logic Pro or both. Other professional DAWs that are comparable with Ableton or Logic can be used
- Basic knowledge on how to record audio. Helpful if you have a song you are working on
- Lessons are taught using a mac. You can use windows too but may need to google key commands and processes
- How to edit and manage audio files Ableton & Logic Pro to finish projects faster
- Simple and powerful techniques to edit audio from live recordings using for a band, album, mixes, rehearsals, orchestra, electronic music
- How to build your own reusable template
- Learn useful preference settings
- Essential key commands for audio editing
- Understand the different techniques for combining audio like join, consolidate, convert, crop, bounce in place, record, resample, freeze and know which process to use for your need
- Develop clean organisation skills so you can speed up your workflow
- Save hard drive space and never have useless audio files
- Move the timing of audio with warp markers and flex markers
- Vocal editing to get a clean and clear vocal performance
- Sync the timing of melodies and harmonies of multiple instruments
- Intelligent file management for quick finding of files
- Expand your sample library so you can reuse audio files in other projects
- Manage missing files
- Transfer audio between different DAWs allowing for collaboration with different softwares and people
An overview of the different sections that will be showcased in the course
Make a blank template that you can reuse for importing audio file recordings
Setting up marquee tool, fade tool click zones and project synchronization
Use the key commands menu in Logic and Ableton to customise shortcuts to speed up your workflow
Learn a quick technique to create new audio files that imprint gain changes, flex / warp markers and fades
Convert audio regions or clips into new audio files without absorbing any flex / warp marker or fade edits
Converting audio files to new ones and imprinting any plugin processing
A technique used to save on cpu processing and it can also be used to render plugin processing but beware of how freezing can take up space on the computer
Raising the db levels of audio that is low in gain, lining up and navigating on the grid, shortcut for removing silences, adding fades and organising the location of your audio files in groups and folders
Creating silence, adding fades, placing audio on the grid, changing grid sizes, joining clips to create a new audio file with crop and consolidate, organising audio files into folders and changing the gain
Learn how to create on flex makers in Logic and create them to move the timing of audio
Looking deeper into manually, automatically and groove templating your flex markers so that the music sounds in time
Learn how to access the clip view to create flex makers in Ableton to move the timing of audio
Learn how to modify a vocal performance at the source level from Logic’s audio file editor using silence, fade, changing the gain and navigating swiftly
Modify a vocal performance in Ableton using silence, fade, changing the gain and consolidating
A systematic approach to help sync melodies of multiple instruments that need to be aligned in time when played together using a reference region. Strategy worksheet provided
Make a double of the reference to edit parts that don’t sound right. Strategy worksheet provided
A systematic approach to help sync melodies of multiple instruments that need to be aligned in time when played together using a reference region. Strategy worksheet provided
Make a double of the reference to edit parts that don’t sound right. Strategy worksheet provided
With all the flex marker edits are done it’s time to start converting the audio files into new ones and this lesson will show how i edit each region for the Trombone
Dragging till the right sometimes doesn’t get things necessarily on the bar so it’s important to over drag and to use simple naming conventions
If the audio bin looks very hectic for naming you can also do the naming at the region level
Remove unnecessary notes with silence function and give natural sounding starting notes with a fade in
Make precise cuts even if you are not sure to ensure your loops play through correctly
Deleting unnecessary files, unused regions and organising within and outside of the project
Check all files in the project are the same as the folders that files have been allocated to
Transfer files from Logic to Ableton and sync them well in terms of bars and audio length
Playback the song to check the sounds are all synced and if the right number of tracks have been created
Save your audio files into your sound library so you can reuse recordings for future projects and learn how to tackle missing files in both Ableton & Logic Pro
Download a copy of the shortcuts guide to audio editing for free in the resources
