Ableton released live 9 :) there are loads of cool new features – things like ‘automation as part of a clip’ which is nice :) they also have ‘drums to midi’, ‘harmony to midi’ and ‘melody to midi’ which basically means that you can play, or sample anything and convert Read more…
I did a post recently on the snowball mic from blue microphones, I also got a snowflake mic at the same time, so here is a post about that too :D the snowflake is the baby brother of the snowball a cardiod USB microphone with a built-in soundcard, so you Read more…
I recently got a blue microphones snowball mic. the snowball is an omnidirectional USB microphone with a built-in soundcard, so you only need a usb port for it to work. its an excellent mic for podcasting and the like, so I thought that id put up a review of it. Read more…
i just found a site (well, I re-found it in my bookmarks) that has listings for free plugins – au, vst, rtas and tdm ones for mac, and rtas, tdm and vst for pc www.dontcrack.com there are a few good ones – most you will probably have already, like the Read more…
This little video shows you all the show / hide options in ableton live show / hide channel IO (inputs and outputs) show / hide channel Sends show / hide Return channels show / hide channel faders show / hide channel delay show / hide cross fader pretty simple, but Read more…
Here is a video tutorial that I made a wee while ago about rewiring ableton live into protools, it shows you how to rewire ableton into protools, just incase you ever want to do that. It’s also the first youtube video I have made with the captions on it.
I own my own domain ( I own a couple of them) and I have to pay for bandwidth, so I can’t afford to host my own mp3 files here, so I have been looking into different ways to host my audio files – Last.fm seems to be the best Read more…
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.
Ive been busy mastering tracks. I just mastered 37 tracks (I actually mastered 51 of them, but a few got dropped already) I have bounced them all down to disk and now need to sort out the order of the tracks to make them flow better. I have my own Read more…
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 Read more…
Mastering tracks – Ok, so the hard part is done. you’ve written, demoed, practiced, arranged in countless different ways, recorded, re-recorded, mixed, re-mixed and finally scrapped and done all that again, you have a handfull of songs. your not happy with them (noone ever is). now the hard part starts. Read more…
This one is really fast – A quick tip about EQ – if you are adding EQ to a track, watch the peaks – eg, if you have a track thats peak value is -3dB and you add 4dB @ 500hz, then its gonna clip. this is also true if Read more…
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)
This is a sneaky little one – How to use a playstation pad to control abelton (or any joystick) by using the joystick as a midi controller (you can control any other music making program that can do midi using this method too) I use a playstation pad to play Read more…
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 Read more…
Ableton tutorial number 3 follow actions. Ok, here is the third installment of my ableton tutorials – this time 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 Read more…
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
Hi, ive been playing about with a new plugin http://illformed.org/blog/glitch/ its very cool, ive been running it in my protools with the vst wrapper, and it seems fine. a few blogs that ive been reading have a sort of mini=player in them, so I need to check them out so Read more…