Electronic Music Live Performance: Ableton and MIDI
A guide to the perfect electronic music performance rig, integrating MIDI control, Ableton, iOS/iPad, hardware and more!
Instructors:
Will EdwardsDescription:
When you're?on stage and?performing electronic music it is a thrill!??But, it can be undercut if your MIDI?rig is unreliable, confusing?or hard?to use.
Great electronic music needs to be "playable" and not rely entirely on triggered loops. ?Modern MIDI?equipment can make?live performance incredibly flexible and powerful - if you know how to do it. ?Configuring it all and getting your MIDI routing correct can be an insurmountable challenge for many artists.
- Learn how to reliably?use an iPad as performance "dashboard"
- Work faster and better with tested apps and tools that the pros use
- Get creative with instruments, loops and sampling
- Customize your own tweakable parameters and get expressive on stage!
Don't waste your time tinkering. ?
Instead,?follow this clear, concise?guide and start?designing and building your own, highly personalized MIDI rig for live performance today. ?This course is ideal for performing artists who want to modernize their rig with an iPad (or simply more flexible MIDI-based performance control.)?
Content and Overview:
Using the tips and?walkthroughs in this course, you can design and use?a much more empowering set of modern MIDI-based tools to integrate your instruments, keyboards and other MIDI controllers. ?Plus, your new MIDI?rig will be totally reliable, easier to troubleshoot and more expressive when you go out to?play live! ?This course will help?make your music more original, make performances more?successful and allow you more creative freedom to express yourself than you ever though possible!
In the first major section of the course, you'll develop a complete understanding of the tools, apps and technologies that will form the basis for your awesome live MIDI?rig.??You'll watch walkthroughs of installing and configuring you're devices for maximum power (and minimum distraction). ?Ableton users will benefit from tips and tricks related to devices, chains and racks. ?However, users of many DAWs will still be able to use the foundation of this course to make a powerful MIDI?rig. ?After all, MIDI?is the main ingredient.
In the following section, you'll learn how to get inspired and be creative while on stage. ?Find out what holds most electronic musicians hostage - pre-fab loop triggering - and liberate yourself by setting up the best iOS apps the right way. ?Learn about creating tweakable parameters (like filter cutoff, reverb, envelopes and more).
In the final main section, you'll learn about automating tempo changes, discover the power of LED?feedback and learn?how to optimize your rig with:?
- More flexibility (scene/program changes)
- Increased reliability (hardwire vs. bluetooth and wifi)
- Distraction-free artistic expression ("blue hand" MIDI?mapping)
Throughout the course, you'll benefit from concise and to-the-point lessons. ?Each lecture focuses on one topic and cuts to the chase fast without leaving out the details. ?I've condensed over 3 years of live MIDI and synth performance into a concise and powerful course designed specifically for active electronic musicians who need powerful, modern and reliable tools.
Course content:
- Introduction --- 10min
- Building Your Rig --- 35min
- Learning to "Play" not "Trigger" music --- 19min
- Optimizing Your Rig --- 33min
- Conclusion --- 7min
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some useful info here but may be more useful for beginners. also difficult to see details because the very large header and footer takes up so much screen real estate throughout the entire course.
Way too much of the instructor's face on the a screen. Basically an advert for his favorite tools. Very little "meat" in the course. Overall disappointing course. This is the first poor rating I've given to a Udemy course.
Sounds very promising so far, exactly the topics I want to streamline in my setup. Reg "Protools experience", I might have some re-wire questions later on..
I’m happy that I found this course because it is helping me to transition from a hardware performance setup to a mobile software setup.
This course was extremely well put together with immediate applications to my career as a performing musician. The instructor is clearly knowledgeable not only as a musician and master of the course content, but also as an educator. I have found that in many other online courses at least one of these has been insufficient but this is not the case with Will. Creating electronic music using MIDI during live performance has always been an appealing thing to me but I have been stalled time and time again by fears of reliability. The potential power of adding electronic elements is invigorating yet daunting. I believe this course bridges gaps in knowledge that many musicians have spent countless hours trying to solve on their own in the past. The pacing of this course is on par with many of the best Lynda courses I have taken and the supplementary materials are far superior. In addition, the willingness of the instructor to create videos in response to student questions is commendable and helpful to the community as a whole. I feel that I have become a competent MIDI and Ableton performer as a result of this course and I am no longer intimidated by the technical obstacles that previously kept me from going live with my skills. I will definitely be checking out future courses from this instructor. Thanks Will!
Something about the advertised three years of experience led me to believe that I would actually learn something, which, despite only doing this for about a year, was not the case. About half of the information in the course can be found in the manual to iMIDIPatchbay and it’s missing a lot of very useful live functions I use on a regular basis. Some of the methods are extremely limiting and are better accomplished with other apps. It’s well put together though, so an absolute beginner that doesn’t care to read a manual or look things up themself might benefit , but overall it’s very basic and disappointing.
this is a course for begginers!