Sound Design, Mixing and Mastering with Ableton Live 9 (Quick Pro Guides)

(Quick Pro Guides). From inspiring recipes for sculpting audio magic and mayhem to in-depth discussions of mixing and mastering that you would expect to learn in an audio production school, this book is designed to help you "out of your box" into a larger world. Sound Design, Mixing, and Mastering with Ableton Live 9 deepens, enlivens, inspires, and improves your tracking, audio production, and performance skills with Ableton Live. Go beyond the basics of Ableton Live with this book filled with audio-making and audio-mangling recipes, tips, and mixing and mastering techniques. Ableton Live is undoubtedly the most flexible audio application available today! Use it for sound design for music, film, theater, and games; composition; improvising with other musicians; live looping; DJing; and, of course, mixing and mastering music. Author, mastering engineer, certified Ableton trainer, and power-user Jake Perrine inspires you to use Live 9 in new ways and to improve how you already use it. Striking a delicate balance of artistry and theory, he expands your creative repertoire for both the studio and the stage.

Jake Perrine (Seattle, WA) has been an audio engineer for Real Networks and a mastering engineer at RFI/CD, and has taught professional audio production for over a decade at the Art Institute of Seattle. He has written and directed a rock opera entitled Vamp, releases his own solo electronic music under the name Spire, and is half of the electropop duo Bloom.