Huston Singletary takes you through the new Session Drums & Drum Racks inside Ableton Live 7.  Session Drums is a  multisampled library of acoustic drums that reproduces the nuances of a recording session . Session Drums gives you full control of the close mics for each drum as well as the overheads and room mics, so you can craft the perfect drum mix for your songs. Session Drums also includes stereo kits appropriate for various musical styles and a variety of MIDI grooves to speed up the production process.

In this tutorial movie, you learn how to use software instruments in Ableton Live. Huston Singletary, Ableton’s Lead Clinician and Training Specialist teaches you how to use Ableton’s MIDI capabilities to play it’s built-in software instruments, or any VST instruments that are installed on your computer.

We continue our Ableton Live tutorials series with “A tour of live” . This time, Huston Singletary , Ableton’s Lead Clinician and Training Specialist uses a demo song to show you a “hands on” demonstration of Live’s features. In this video, you will  find out about the main views of Ableton Live,  some shortcuts keys as well as some very handy mouse techniques, implemented to “smoothen”  Live’s workflow.  Today’s video corresponds to “A tour of Live ” lesson,  so that you can get a personal experience with the features presented here, at your own pace. The built in program lessons represent one of the fastest ways to get a grip on mastering Ableton’s Live software sequencer. Enjoy !

Ableton Live is a professional loop-based software music sequencer for Mac OS and Windows, by Ableton.

Much of Live’s unique interface comes from being designed for use in live performance as well as for production. As such, the interface is more compact than most sequencers and clearly designed for use on a single screen. There are few pop up messages or dialogs. Portions of the interface are hidden and shown based on arrows which may be clicked to show or hide a certain segment (e.g. to hide the instrument/effect list or to show or hide the help box).