Ableton 10 - Introduction to sampling

Logic Pro X - Audio Manipulation and Flex course

Basic Production Skills

Author : Lewis Saunders • 10 Lessons • 90 minutes

Music Production Tool Box! Exploring the world of sampling will push your compositions and productions to the limits of your creative potential.

In this course, we will be exploring the world of sampling. Sampling in a nutshell can be defined as:
A production technique which involves reusing or repurposing an existing piece of audio in a piece of music.

This is a very simple definition, but there are many of applications for sampling in music. The first technologies to facilitate sampling were shellac records and later magnetic tape, and these were used by musique concretecomposers such as Pierre Schaeffer in the 1940’s.

Course details

Requirements: Ableton Live 10
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate levels
Prior Knowledge: Ableton Basics
Time: Approximately 30 minutes of practice per lesson is needed to consolidate the information

Course Content

Lessons Status

Ableton 10 – Introduction to sampling

Course details

Course Content

What is Sampling?

Basic Simpler Techniques – Sample

Basic Simpler Techniques – Controls

Using the Simpler Instrument

Basic Sampler Techniques – Zones

Basic Sampler Techniques – Sample

Basic Sampler Techniques – Pitch/Osc

Basic Sampler Techniques – Filter/Global

Basic Sampler Techniques – Modulation & MIDI

Using the Sampler Instrument