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Using Ableton Live to create a Books And Beats Club

Name: Using Ableton Live to create a Books And Beats Club
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Overview

A niche course for educators who want to combine music technology with children's reading development by building a "Books and Beats Club." It shows how to have students read a book aloud into Ableton Live, then layer in royalty-free loops and background music to turn the recording into a shareable audio experience.

What's covered

Using Novation's Launchpad so students can record their voice reading each page onto its own pad
Recording and stopping page-by-page audio with the Launchpad buttons
Adding drums and melodies as background music, using both Session and Arrangement views
Adjusting volume, fading, and exporting the final audio
Using iMovie to pair a book cover image with the finished audio for sharing with students and parents

Who it's for

Teachers or studio leaders who want an independent listening center built from work their own students recorded.

About this course

If you have a passion for helping children develop a culture of reading this course will help you to create your own books and beats club.

We will be looking into how to have students and children first read into a software program called Ableton Live and then I will go into adding royalty free loops to the audio recording.

We will go into how to use Novation’s Launchpad to have the students be able to record their voice reading a book and load it into each pad and then click the pad to hear the audio recorded on to each pad.

We will be looking at how to record the different pages using the launch pad buttons and how to stop the recording. In addition, I will share how to add in drums and melodies as background music. I will show both session and arrangement views so you can see the benefits of each mode. Further, I will show how to adjust the volume of the sounds as well as fading in and out and exporting the audio. Also we will briefly look at how to use iMovie to attach a book cover with the audio so that the creation can be easily shared with the students and their parents. You can also have this whole setup as a centre for studios to hopefully use independently to listen to books recorded by their teacher or peers.