Originally Posted by
charo
check out the tom cosm webiste and tutorials, some great stuff there. with ableton, the user base is large enough where you will find youtube tutorials as well. i personally would download it now, if you can do even 20 mins a day until your break, those days off will be ALOT more productive.
there was a good blog entry here (search main page) for how to make remixes if you don't have the stem tracks (seperate drums, vocals, bass, etc.)
it might be confusing to start out thinking remix remix remix, and not really understanding the basic concepts of a DAW, and additional song composition.
there is a good series of videos call "in the studio with ____" I think the ian carey ones are good starting points.
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the demo version of live doesn't allow you to render or save your work as wavs. there are vst recorders that you could use to bypass this for the demo, but that is something that should be taken into consideration. with intro you are going to run into the effects/vst limit of intro very quickly if you can't render the effect to wav file and then use the wav file(to free up that effect).
good luck