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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there are a few things that need to happen if you are gonna make a record, and get it out there; this is how a traditional record company does it :
1) Legal department: preparation of contracts ; lawyers construct and sign your contract; also make sure you stick to your contract; they also sue you if you break your contract.
2) Accounts department: make sure you get paid (after everyone else…
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i just uploaded a presentation about DAW’s
its taken from powerpoint and converted into a flash movie ( I had to use powerpoint, it wasnt my choice)
anyway, you can get it here
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Most of us think the music industry is only made up of bands, record companies and venues, however each area of the business is represented and governed by specific organisations that all link together, most of these are royalty collection agencies.
There are two kinds of royalties – mechanical (records pressed or sold) and performance (radio, TV, live, film soundtrack, etc)
a wee bit about the music industry, from a college essay i wrote
Record company – record companies sign artists and then finance them to make sound recordings of intellectual properties they have written. The record company then seeks to exsanguinate these recordings by duplicating and manufacturing delivery mechanisms (cd’s, downloads, vinyl, etc ) and distributing
so, what is midi, and does it always have to sound so bad?
MIDI is short for Musical instrument Digital Interface.
it allows electronic instruments, computers and other stuff to communicate with each other, synchronise with each other and control each other.
the most important thing about midi is that it doesnt transmit any sound. all midi is is the information about what you play, eg the pitch of the note, the…
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if, like me, you use a lot of google tools for your websites then this blog might be of some interest to you.
I have started using igoogle (google.com/ig) gadgets for all my webmaster specific things…
here are a few of the gadgets that i have found useful so far
By 
Collect gadgets on your personalized homepage into tabs in a compound gadget…
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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.
Importing Audio
next thing to do is to drag and drop a music file into abelton -
im gonna use one of my
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