Ableton Live 8 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide »

Jon Margulies is a New York-based musician and the founder of Hobotech (www.hobo-tech.com), a genre that would not exist without Ableton Live. He has been performing professionally since he was 11 years old and has worked with some of the best musicians around in a dizzying array of styles. When not composing and performing, he keeps busy teaching and writing curricula for the cutting-edge music school, Dubspot. Jon's latest album, Too Big To Fail, is available at heatercore.net and many music download sites.

Ableton Live 8 Power! is the all-inclusive guide to making music with Ableton's revolutionary live performance and studio software, Live 8. Written for all Live users, from digital audio beginners to seasoned pros, this book explores each fundamental feature in Live. The book provides power-user tips and insider tricks for integrating Ableton Live into your home or professional studio. But Live's in-studio capabilities are just the beginning. Every last feature, button, fader, instrument, and effect in Live 8 was also designed with the live performer in mind. Ableton Live 8 Power! is a book written for musicians by a musician who uses and teaches the software on a daily basis. Whether you use Live for producing, composing, DJing, or film and television, Ableton Live 8 Power! will help you put the fun back into making music with computers, while taking your music to the next level.

Chapter 1: Live 8;
Chapter 2: Getting Live Up and Running;
Chapter 3: Live Interface Basics;
Chapter 4: Making Music in Live;
Chapter 5: The Audio Clip;
Chapter 6: The MIDI Clip;
Chapter 7: Using Effects and Instruments;
Chapter 8: Live's Instruments;
Chapter 9: Live's Audio Effects;
Chapter 10: Live's MIDI Effects
Chapter 11: ReWire;
Chapter 12: Playing Live. . . Live
Chapter 13: Live 8 Power