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I hear you, Ableton actually has pretty great tutorials in the program itself that can help to learn the software as well.

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I understand that and not saying it is not great, just that it seems to be more difficult to master than I expected. It can be fun to tinker with and learn if you have the time. One problem I think is that the documentation is scattered there's not single Bible to read to learn all about it, is there?

In the world of programming languages there's a lot of books called "cookbooks" - recipes for how to do things that many programmers will need to do. Say "C# CookBook". Is there such a book or resource for Ableton? If not maybe there should be. It might be a best seller :-)

> there's not single Bible to read to learn all about it, is there?

There is. The reference manual:

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/welcome-to-live/

It is incredibly well-written. Possibly my favorite piece of technical writing ever, and am myself a technical author.

https://www.adsrsounds.com/product/courses/ableton-live-10-t...

I used one of these a few years ago for an earlier version. Was helpful. I suspect this one would be just the same.

"I understand that and not saying it is not great, just that it seems to be more difficult to master than I expected. It can be fun to tinker with and learn if you have the time. One problem I think is that the documentation is scattered there's not single Bible to read to learn all about it, is there?"

Just to commiserate, I feel the same way about the pedal steel guitar :D

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