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Using Ableton Live to create a Books And Beats Club
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Using Ableton Live to create a Books And Beats Club

Parents and Teachers will be shown how to use Ableton to record reading and add music in the background and export it
Created byYadvinder Singh
Last updated 4/2024
English
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What you'll learn

  • Create a books and beats club or centre in your classroom
  • Use Ableton Live to record audio and mix with music by dragging and dropping music files
  • Exporting the audio mixes and creating a video to share with the children and their parents
  • Using the Novation Launchpad to let kids easily record and hear the pages that they have read and play drums and melodies with their recordings!

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Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 32m total length

  • Ableton Live Brief Look at Session View, Add Tracks and Set up Audio Input.1:33

    Open Ableton Live, create two tracks named vocal and melody, and set up the audio input in Preferences to record from a microphone.

  • Launch Pad Practice: Add a melody to the reading.10:51

    Create a multimedia reading experience for the books and beats club by recording a story in Ableton Live, adding drums and melody with a launchpad, saving and loading sessions.

  • Arrangement view: Adding audio track, drums, melody and adjusting the volume5:29

    Learn arrangement view in Ableton Live by moving from session to arrangement, adding drums and melody. Adjust volumes to balance the track as you layer vocals and melody.

  • Playing your midi instrument and recording it into the track7:46

    Connect your MIDI controller, load a plugin on a MIDI track, and select a harp preset in Complete Control. Record, overdub, and loop in session view to build your beat.

  • Exporting and sharing the audio as well as creating a video file with the audio!6:22

    Export your Ableton project as audio or video from arrangement view, then create an mp4 in iMovie and share it on Google Classroom.

  • Resources0:03

Requirements

  • Ableton Live Lite software
  • Laptop with mic
  • Optional Novation LaunchPad Mini
  • Optional Midi Piano Keyboard

Description

If you have a passion for helping children develop a culture of reading this course will help you to create your own books and beats club.


We will be looking into how to have students and children first read into a software program called Ableton Live and then I will go into adding royalty free loops to the audio recording.


We will go into how to use Novation’s Launchpad to have the students be able to record their voice reading a book and load it into each pad and then click the pad to hear the audio recorded on to each pad.


We will be looking at how to record the different pages using the launch pad buttons and how to stop the recording. In addition, I will share how to add in drums and melodies as background music. I will show both session and arrangement views so you can see the benefits of each mode.  Further, I will show how to adjust the volume of the sounds as well as fading in and out and exporting the audio. Also we will briefly look at how to use iMovie to attach a book cover with the audio so that the creation can be easily shared with the students and their parents. You can also have this whole setup as a centre for studios to hopefully use independently to listen to books recorded by their teacher or peers.

Who this course is for:

  • Parents and teachers who would like to create a culture where reading is combined with music to make it fun and exciting to read

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