ABLETON LIVE 11 LITE TUTORIAL PART 2
> Step by step
1. Setting up Live 11 Lite and a quick overview
1 We’ll assume you have an account at the Ableton site, and have used your unique serial code that comes with this magazine to download Ableton Live 11 Lite and have it installed on your Mac/PC. If not, there are more details in the first of these tutorials from p18. You can also check out the accompanying ‘Intro’ video from filesilo.co.uk or our Youtube channel.
2 When you load Live 11 Lite for the first time it will have the demo set loaded – a complete song for you to check out. On the right hand side of the screen (outlined in red in the above grab) is the Help View of Ableton Live 11 Lite which is very useful but which can be turned on or off by way of the View drop-down menu.
3 We now want to start a completely new Live 11 Lite track from scratch and not use the supplied demo set. We therefore go over to the File menu and click on New Live Set as shown above.
4 Now’s a good time to customise the look and feel of Live 11 Lite according to your preferences so go to the Live menu and click on Preferences to adjust factors like Zoom (to make Live 11 Lite’s interface appear bigger or smaller).
5 While you are in the Preferences mode, you should also set your audio interface up, as both the Input and Output device. Go to each and select it from the menu, in which it should appear automatically. You can also simply select Live’s built-in input/output if you don’t have an interface, so that the audio comes out through your computer speaker.
6 Now do the same for any MIDI controllers you have set up – here we’ve got our Komplete Kontrol set up as our main MIDI controller.
7 Now there’s just time for a quick overview of the Live 11 Lite interface, also covered in more depth in our previous tutorial. Over on the left-hand side we have the main Browser area where you can select sounds, plugin effects, instruments and grooves.
8 The main view that we start off with in Live 11 Lite is the Session View, where the tracks are displayed vertically, as both MIDI (to trigger internal or external MIDI instruments) and audio (to play
