There are lots of good tutorials, some of the best come with Ableton (the manual, and the included tutorial files that demonstrate basic concepts in the app itself with instructions).
Definitely read the manual, particularly sections on Concepts, Session View, Arrangement View, Clip View, and Tempo Control and Warping. And here are some tutorial’s I found with a quick look around:
They’re both pretty basic, so have a look, try some stuff out, and then dive into Ableton’s own tutorials. The things you’ll need to get a handle on are:
- warping
- crossfade
- zooming / moving around in the clips and the arrangement.
- adding effects
- moving between clips in session and arrangement views
- recording
(this is part of a my upcoming tutorial on KJ’ing in Ableton)
I also enjoyed The Wide Sargasso Sea which looked at things from the standpoint of Bertha, the mad wife of Rochester in Jane Eyre. Another sequel that I thought was riveting was Grendel by John Fowler, a take on the monster’s viewpoint and story from Beowulf. I agree that too often these sequels are cringe-wor-thy but as many have pointed out, no one is holding a gun to your head to force you to read it and sometimes, as in these cases, it works.Tera gold