Second song made from youtube videos
Well, I made this video yesterday, and had so much fun that I did another one today. The second one is a bit better than the first, but only just.…
Well, I made this video yesterday, and had so much fun that I did another one today. The second one is a bit better than the first, but only just.…
Here is a song that I made from youtube videos. I looked for someone playing drums, then edited the video to my own beat, then I found someone teaching you…
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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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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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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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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…
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