Discover the endless possibilities of Performing and DJ’ing with Ableton Live, turning your live sets into an exciting and flexible mixing, remixing and mashing musical experience.

This concise, fun, practical course shows you everything you need to know to evolve your DJ sets to the next level, from preparing your songs, key mixing, routing soundcards, choosing, setting up and mapping midi controllers and using fx’s, to incorporating traditional dj gear into your set up. This course is ideal for DJ’s and producers wanting to use Ableton Live to do live preformance, dj sets and on the fly remixes.

Course Outline:

• General Ableton navigation and setup
• Time correcting songs, samples, loops and acapellas for your sets
• Setting up a Live Session for use with DJ Set/Live Remix Set/Live Set
• Midi controller mapping and assignment
• Beat mixing with Live
• Monitoring/cueing with Live and setting up your soundcard
• Using effects with Live in your DJ set
• Using Live as a quantized sampler
• Using accapellas in your Live DJ set
• Setting up EQ’s to use Ableton as a DJ mixer
• Phrase Mixing
• Key Mixing and keying your tracks and parts
• Putting together a DJ set : Structure / fail safes / performance
• Automation, phrasing, eq’ing your mix CD
• Ableton Live club set up

Features:

• Limit of 6 students per class
• Top of the Line Professional DJ equipment
• Each student has their own Digital DJ workstation through out the entire course, including: Mac Book laptops, Live 8, midi controllers, Soundcards, CDJs, DJ Mixers and monitors and headphones.
• Complete hands-on learning through out the entire course
• Personal one on one instructing for each course module
• Large Projector Screen display for all instructors practical demonstrations
• Practical mixing of DJ set with Ableton DJ set ups during classes
• Weekday Evening Classes

Attendance:

This is a 4 week course. Students are required to attend one night a week for 4 consecutive weeks. Classes will start at 6pm and will end at approximately 8pm.

Below is a list of available course dates coming up.