Book Review : Ableton Live 6 - Tips and Tricks

In an effort to jump start my understanding of Live I recently read the book Ableton Live 6 : Tips and Tricks by Martin Delaney. Its a fairly quick read at 142 pages with pictures and made easier by the fact that Martin writes with great passion for his subject. Its pretty obvious this guy loves Live and he should since he teaches it.

I read another book on live and it was a bit of a struggle, but Martin makes a smart move with this book and skips the whole intro to Live thing and gets right down to dishing out tips. He pretty much assumes you've done the tutorial and skimmed through the pdf manual (you have done this right?) and starts giving you a real world breakdown of how he and other musicians get stuff done in Live. Its like having your own friend, who has used Live forever, sit down with you and school you on fundamentals.

There are a few chapters I skipped like "Using Live with other software" but thats because I only plan on using Live. ;)

So I would recommend this book to anyone who's looking for more tip goodness that they can read about from the comfort of the couch. Right now its only $13 on Amazon and I'm not making any ad money on this referral so you know I'm for real.