Ableton Live 11

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Review| April 01 2021 Ableton Live 11 Ableton Live 11. Ableton AG. URL: http://ableton.com Ethan Hein Ethan Hein ETHAN HEIN is a Doctoral Fellow in Music Education at New York University. He teaches music education, technology, and theory at NYU and the New School. He is coauthor of Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2021). He worked with the NYU Music Experience Design Lab to develop the Groove Pizza, which has been used by over one million people around the world. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021) 74 (1): 214–225. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.1.214 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ethan Hein; Ableton Live 11. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2021; 74 (1): 214–225. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.1.214 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Ableton Live is a widely used digital audio workstation (DAW).1 The program’s name refers to its intended use as a performance instrument for electronic musicians, a way to literally play the studio as an instrument in real time. This practice aligns with Brian Eno’s concept of “the studio as compositional tool.”2 Ableton Live’s main user base consists of electronic dance music and hip-hop producers, and it is also becoming common in experimental and academic circles. For example, the composer Morton Subotnick uses Live on stage to loop and process the output of his modular synthesizer. At the New School in New York where I teach, Live is the default DAW among students and faculty alike. This review evaluates Live’s utility for research and teaching in music studies. Some of Live’s useful features are generic to all DAWs: visualizing and playing back audio and MIDI data; segmenting, annotating, and... You do not currently have access to this content.