Ableton Live 9 is a groundbreaking music production and performance application whose uniquely nonlinear and incredibly flexible features set it far apart from all the other digital audio applications. It is equally adept at making beats, remixing, live recording, DJing, live looping, sound design, electronic music, hip-hop, and much more. Unlike other books about Live that simply explain its features like a second manual, this hands-on-centric book contains a series of exercises that walk you through all the features you need to produce professional-sounding music with Ableton Live 9. As a fundamental instructional component to Power Tools for Ableton Live 9, certified Ableton instructor Jake Perrine guides you through the creation of an actual track from start to finish. In addition, you get plenty of practice using Live with the included audio content, video tutorials, exercises, audio samples, and third-party plug-in demos contained on the accompanying DVD-ROM. A substantial appendix section offers discussions of important non-Ableton-specific topics, including digital audio basics, components of a producer's studio, considerations when buying a DAW computer, and more.

From inspiring recipes for sculpting audio magic and mayhem to in-depth discussions of mixing and mastering that you would expect to learn in an audio production school, this book is designed to help you out of your box into a larger world. Sound Design, Mixing, and Mastering with Ableton Live 9 deepens, enlivens, inspires, and improves your tracking, audio production, and performance skills with Ableton Live. You can go beyond the basics of Ableton Live with this book filled with audio-making and audio-mangling recipes, tips, and mixing and mastering techniques. Ableton Live is undoubtedly the most flexible audio application available today! You can use it for sound design for music, film, theater, and games; composition; improvising with other musicians; live looping; DJing; and, of course, mixing and mastering music. Author, mastering engineer, certified Ableton trainer, and power-user Jake Perrine inspires you to use Live 9 in new ways and to improve how you already use it. Striking a delicate balance of artistry and theory, he expands your creative repertoire for both the studio and the stage.