Reddit reviews Ableton Live 8 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

Hey Bjeaurn,

I'm a struggling techno producer myself as well. The main source of learning will, I guess, always be already existing music. Listen carefully and try to understand what is going on in the tracks you listen to. How many instruments do you hear? What effects are there used when and where?

I cannot listen to any music without figuring out what is going on.

Also I'm reading these books at the moment. http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Music-Manual-Second-Edition/dp/0240521072
and
http://www.amazon.com/Ableton-Live-Power-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1598639757

It's a really great help, you learn so much from it.

Also /r/edmproduction is a place you need to go.

And it's obviously important to just make music as much as you can. It's not something you are gifted to just do. You will have to put a lot of time in it.

Here you go.

Get your self this book as it will take you through all the basic operations of Ableton Live.

Other than that you can go on to Youtube and do a search for a Ableton tutorial as there is loads of good videos on there.

One thing I used to do when I was getting my head around music production is listen to tracks that I like, and try and find a way to recreate it. Good luck with it dude!

Live 8 Power is supposed to be quite good too, although I haven't read it. But its author did a great year-long series of Live tips, so I presume he knows what's up.

I thank everyone for the links! I've also been reading this: http://www.amazon.com/Ableton-Live-Power-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1598639757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293595168&sr=8-1 (five stars from me) and am finally starting to get it.

Hi. In my experience music production is ridiculously difficult to pick up and learn on your own. And I'm speaking literally from experience. I just recently have gotten to the point where I feel like I understand what most things do enough to be able to make a simple recording and I've been fiddling on and off for like a year. I'm too cheap to pay for any sort of lessons so what I did is just youtube the shit out of as many tutorial videos as I could. I recently found this site, audiotuts.com and that has been an invaluable resource for teaching me some of the broader concepts of music production. They have a lot of stuff available for free which is nice.

To be honest, there is a lot of things you can do in music production these days from remixing, to sound synthesis, to mixing/mastering, and it helps to narrow the scope of what you actually want to learn. You don't necessarily need to understand the intricacies of substractive synthesis if your interests lie in live production. Also, the Ableton Live Manual is also a great resource for understanding some of the basics(take note, not everything will make sense or click on the first read, especially if you're new to production). Ableton Live 8 Power has also been highly recommended on reddit and other places and I've used it and liked it.

http://www.amazon.com/Ableton-Live-Power-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1598639757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321151409&sr=8-1

You might want to try asking in the ableton subreddit though, you may have better luck there. Good Luck!
http://www.reddit.com/r/abletonlive