if your like me, then you love using abelton, but you also love making drum beats with reason.
you can use your reason drumbeats (and anything else you have) inside abelton.

its an easy process once you know how to do it, and you can save the setup as a template, so that when you open abelton its already wired for use with reason.

so fire up abelton and lets get going.

basically im going to show you with pictures how to :
1) create new audiotracks
2) set the input to reason
3) wire up reason so that the individual drum sounds have a channel inside abelton
4) save the setup as a template
5) record the drums from reason inside abelton

so, on with part 1

make a few audio tracks (ctrl+t)

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ok, so i have a lot of contacts, they are all in different places.
all i really want is to have one list of names, email addresses and phone numbers.
i want this list in my phone and on all the services that i use.
never gonna happen.
but at least i can be a bit more organised.
i use outlook to manage my contacts -  all my contacts are synced to my phone -…

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man, this one is hard to do.
i think i might just make a crude little app that bruteforces its way to do it, but i dont really have the time.
though with all the API’s out there i could sell it for a fiver a time and make a fortune.

all i want to do is to save time.
i upload my foto’s to flickr. end of.
facebook, myspace and bebo all have photo…

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well, i have accounts on all three, but i organise all my stuff from outlook, always have, always will, but im trying to work on a way that when i update one service that it updates all of them, like uploading photo’s to my flickr account and having it automatically upload the same photos to bebo, myspace and facebook. also calendars would be cool, i have a calendar of all…

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this is a sneaky little one - how to use a playstation pad (or any joystick) as a midi controller to control abelton (or any other music making program that can do midi)

i use a playstation pad to play oldschool games on my pc (using zsnes emulator) ive got one of those little usb convertor thingies so the playstation pad gets recognised as a regular joystick by my machine..

but i…

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this is a quick one - im gonna show you how to control abelton with a midi keyboard
i have one of the m-audio ones with the knobs and sliders on it and i use it to control all sorts of things in abelton.

its really easy when you know how, so im gonna explain it as simply as i can.

first thing to do…

open up a session, or start a new one…

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ok, here is the third installment of my ableton tutorials - this thime its all about follow actions and automation
whats a follow action you ask - well, you have a loop and it plays through and after it plays it stops playing and launches another loop.
this is by far the best thing about ableton. it means that you can code yoiur songs. so, how to do it ?

well, fire up…

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so, this is the second ableton tutorial, its kinda boring, but will show you some cool things about abelton,
were gonna cover - how to record your loops to a track, how to consolidate parts you have made, saving live sets, and exporting wav files

so, fire up abelton.

make a simple loop, one bar will

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ableton tutorial #1

warp markers.

this is the most important and the best thing about abelton - they are called warp markers.
im gonna tell you what they are all about, and im gonna tell you how you can use them to your advantage.

so…
fire up abelton.

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The financial and legal requirements within the music industry go hand in hand with each other – one cannot function without the other.
Every professional agreement you make within a creative industry must be bound legally by a contract, this should spell out 5 things :

1) ownership of rights - who owns what
2) royalty payments - who gets paid / benefits
3) time - how long is the contract
4) who is responsible…

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