Ableton Live 8 Intensive Workshop with Brian Jackson, MA - Nov 7-8, 2009

After more than 3 months of work, completing 5+ hours of narrated video tutorials, Brian is celebrating the completion & release of the Ableton Live 8 Course Clips Master DVD at this workshop. Everyone that registers by October 24th will receive a free copy of the DVD.

Learn Live from electronic musician, audio engineer, DJ, teacher, and Ableton Certified Live expert Brian Jackson. This workshop is designed to push your Live skills to the next level in just 2 days (13 hours of teaching time). Through a combination of A/V demonstrations, lecture, Q & A, and guided hands-on practice, each participant will have a chance to learn in a way that best suits their style.

About the Instructor:
Brian is an internationally released electronic musician with 14 years of music production experience. In addition to releases on numerous indie labels, including GSL and Simballrec, he has also remixed artists such as The Locust and Chemlab. As an engineer he’s worked with notables that include Tribes of Neurot (Neurosis) and MC Dris (of HBO’s The Wire). Specializing in Mac-based digital audio, Brian started using Pro Tools in 1996. Not limiting his expertise to one DAW, Brian is one of the very first Ableton Certified Trainers on the planet – having previously authored 2 tutorial DVDs on Live and tech edited the Live 7 & 8 Power! books (among others) for Cengage Learning. Brian also regularly works as a creative-technical consultant for companies (e.g., Ableton and Access) and individuals (including multiple Grammy nominees/winners). He also teaches audio engineering and music production at SAE and Touro College in NYC. In 1999 Brian received an MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Prior to relocating from SF to NYC in 2002, he also worked for Harmony-Central.com and Rocket Network (now DigiDelivery). Currently, his studio is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Topics Covered:

• What's new in Live 8?
• Warp Modes, Markers, and methods
• Mixer Routing & ReWire
• Working with Plug-ins and Effects
• Working with Virtual Instruments
• Operator, Impulse, & Simpler
• Instrument, Drum, & Effect Racks
• Sesssion View and Arrangement View
• Audio and MIDI Clips
• The Browser
• Custom Key and MIDI Mappings
• Clip Envelopes
• Follow Actions
• Recording Audio and MIDI clips
• Automation in Arrangement View
• Recording and Editing your performance in Arrangement View
• Mixing Theory
• Basic Setup and Preferences
• Library & Asset Management
• REX FIles & Slicing Audio
• And more...

Registration & Details
Saturday November 7th + Sunday November 8th from 1:00PM - 9:30 PM
On Friday November 6th there will be an optional workshop for anyone that needs help with Installation. Contact us for details.

Devotion Gallery
54 Maujer St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Centrally located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn by the Metopolitan G / Lorimer L MTA station

Participants are expected to bring a laptop, Apple or PC, capable of running Live 8 comfortably. You can sign up without a laptop, it is simply not ideal.


Online Workshop Registration is closed.
You can come to the gallery at 1pm to register in person. Fee for single day is $215
Thanks!