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Author: Jon Margulies
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Download for free books Free Download Ableton Live 8 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download LinkAbleton Live 8 Power! is the all-inclusive guide to making music with Ableton’s revolutionary live performance
and studio software, Live 8. Written for all Live users, from digital audio beginners to seasoned pros,
this book explores each fundamental feature in Live. The book provides power-user tips and insider tricks
for integrating Ableton Live into your home or professional studio. But Live’s in-studio capabilities are just
the beginning. Every last feature, button, fader, instrument, and effect in Live 8 was also designed with
the live performer in mind. Ableton Live 8 Power! is a book written for musicians by a musician who uses
and teaches the software on a daily basis. Whether you use Live for producing, composing, DJing, or film
and television, Ableton Live 8 Power! will help you put the fun back into making music with computers,
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- Print Length: 432 pages
- Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (February 1, 2013)
- Sold by: Cengage Learning
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00B7RF906
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I bought this book when I bought Ableon Live 8 Suite, and I had never used the software before. I read a lot of technical texts -- mostly software / computer texts, and I am just now getting into DAW stuff for fun. The book is more like a slimmed down version of the very large official Ableton User Manual PDF. It is more readable, and more narrative than the PDF, but not really by all that much.
It follows a particular style for technical texts that I don't care for much, which is to have chapters that just describe each function/feature of the software in a linear fashion. It doesn't promote learning all that well, b/c you tend to get bored just reading about feature after feature without being more interactive. It has available some live sets that you can download and there are a few areas in the book where it prompts you to try things, but not many.
By comparison, I also have the book Reason 4 Ignite by Matt Piper (also Cengage Learning), and it takes a completely different approach. Each chapter in that book has you start with blank instrument and work through a short lesson. This style I found much more engaging, and I learn the software so much faster.
With the Ableton Power book, I feel like I've learned enough about the software now by playing with it, that the book doesn't really provide much of a reference for me anymore, as I'll probably just go straight to the PDF User Manual. Your mileage may vary.
By Davis
I actually bought a PDF format of this "Ableton Live 8 Power!" book online so I don't have a paperback or hardcover physically in my hands, but what I can give you is a brief overview of what's in the book. I recently switched from Avid's Pro Tools 9 to Ableton's Live 8 Suite (No I'm not crazy, Live is just a better DAW for the type of music I produce). So, obviously whenever you open up Live, you get confused and start to think how the heck does this work? I'm sure you've all seen Youtube video's of how easy users make Live seem, and honestly after reading up to Chapter 6 of this book, it is!
The first half of this book introduces you to the most basic concepts in Live such as the Arrangement and Session views. The chapters are very long and concepts that are touched on in earlier chapters are repeated in the following chapters (again, and again, and again). I recommend skipping around the book if you really need to know about a specific feature in Live. The book goes on to explain Clips, Scenes, Tracks, Warping Markers, Loop Markers, etc. The first six chapters will give you basically all you need to know on making music in Live. The chapters that follow describe Plug-Ins, Effects, Instruments (Midi Effects and Audio Effects, which are touched upon in the first six chapters). The author does an amazing job describing not only what a certain feature is used for, but what it does and how it works. I think this book is a "must have" for any Ableton Live 8 user that has just switched from a previous DAW.
I seriously underestimated Live (a couple years ago when I was using FL Studio). Now that I see what I've been missing, I don't think I'll ever switch from Ableton's Live.
I'll update this post when I'm finished reading the last chapters of the book. You can really fly through the book if you read a chapter or two everyday, but make sure you understand the material or you'll be stuck with no knowledge of Live at all.
By Jacob