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christmas songs



well, its coming up for that time of year when all the crappy christmas songs come out.
I must admit that there is one good song in the uk charts this year - the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen.
all the other versions just arent as good. simple.
anyway, on to the point about this post - its christmas, so I am, again, in charge of music for the whole…

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I was feeling a bit epic today



I was feeling a bit epic today, so I wrote this. I just jammed it out in two passes - one for the bass parts, and one for the higher stuff, its a bit messy, but I kinda like it. I had midi tracks going from ableton into reason, and the audio going back into ableton. there is a tutorial on the site on how to do this if you…

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messing with instrument racks in ableton



there are so many good things about ableton. one of them is instrument racks.
this is me messing about with instrument racks.

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video tutorial - ableton, simpler and drum samples



well, I just made a really quick video that shows you how to quickly put together an instrument rack, and fill it with drum samples and have the samples triggered from different notes - I used the example of drum sounds, but as its using simpler it can be any sound you like - you can use it to setup octaves on your keyboard to have different sounds, or to…

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more videos…



i just made a little video, its another test of visualisation, but this time I used windows media player to generate the visualisations, I was really testing out a new screen capture thing I found caled tipcam - its ok, not the best - it only records at 15 FPS, which is pretty low.
but it does have some nice features - it records direct to flv, so no messing about…

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visualisation



everyone’s itunes does it.
you get massive visualisations at gigs.
im experimenting in proper visuals for my gigs - I play ableton in a band.
I have yet to find a visualisation program that takes input from your soundcard and generates the visualisations based on whats coming into that input. I suppose ill have to make my own - or find a way to make winamp ‘listen’ to the mic port - then…

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Videos



well, I now have a way to make tutorial videos, and this is really the last in a series of tests for me, this is the test of getting my video from youtube and generating a page with the video in it, its not yet working properly on the homepage - i need to put an if statement in the code to check if the file is a video instead of a picture.
it should be working on the front page as well, and the story should be ok in the categories, but the single page video is borked =P

this video is just me running an ableton session so that i could make a video of it and test everything…

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