Albums
A wee mess around in ableton live with a beastieboys accapella
A wee mess around in ableton live with a beastieboys accapella on a saterday cos I was bored. nothing much more to say about it.
Ableton
Ableton live show / hide options
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…
Albums
Hybrid machinima video
I was just looking about my blog and realised that I didn’t have the video for my band on the site, so here it is. http://www.youtube.com/hybridmach
Ableton
Rewiring ableton live into protools
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.
Legal stuff
That was a tough two days!!
Well, the last two days have been busy. Firstly my site went down – That was the final straw, I moved to a different host. that took a full day to get all my wordpress hacks working again, but it’s all going now. I also have all the google apps Read more…
Albums
Michael jackson comeback tour
Well, I’m sitting now, listening to the news, apparently Michael Jackson is going to announce a comeback tour this afternoon. Should be good =P Apart from that I have been training up to do a 900 mile cycle round Europe in the summer -you can find more details about it Read more…
Albums
Number one single when I was born
Well, I am a bit bored today, so I decided to look up the number one single when I was born. it turns out that it was ‘the specials’ with ‘ghost town’ not bad. it was number one from the 11th july 1981 for 3 weeks.
Albums
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. Read more…
Ableton
Audio hosting…
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…
Albums
Radiobeta.com
I like the radio, Its not like the TV – with the radio you can listen to it while you do other things (unless you are recording, mixing or mastering =) things like checking emails, sending replies to messages on the numerous social networking sites and generally all the other Read more…
Ableton
Abelton tutorial – warp markers
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.
Legal stuff
Newsflash – UK Govt Refusing to Back Legislation for Musicians
I got an email from the ppl this morning about the UK Govt Refusing to Back Legislation for Musicians, it goes as follows – Dear Colleagues Do performers deserve copyright on a par with other creators? We think so. So does the European Commission. So does the French government. So Read more…
Albums
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 Read more…
Albums
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.
Ableton
Mastering tracks
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…
Albums
Record players
So I was at my grans house, helping her tidy out her attic, and she gave me a pioneer stack system. and technics speakers. record players are cool. so I gladly accepted them, and now I have a record player. I dug out all my dads old LP’s, Neil young, Read more…
Ableton
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 Read more…
Albums
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. Read more…
Protools
Tips for micing up a drum kit
There are loads and loads of things to remember when setting up mics on a drum-kit, here are some tips for micing up a drum kit phase. watch out for the phase difference on your overheads. if you hear a swooshing noise when you solo the OH mics, then its Read more…
Albums
Gigs inside your itunes
Gigs inside your itunes. I’ve been using songkick for a while, infact, I have it integrated into my google calendar. but this is better. it goes in to your itunes. install it and then go to view – visualisers – ical you put in your city, and it brings up Read more…
Ableton
Mastering tracks
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…
Albums
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…
Ableton
A quick tip about EQ
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…
Protools
Protools tips
Here are some protools tips – how to cram more into your session, and a few shortcuts that I use the first thing is to use a lot of busses. I usually group all my drum tracks together then fling an aux after it, and route all the outputs of Read more…
Protools
How to use compressor plugins in protools
This one might seem a little easy for some people, but it essential that everyone knows it – what is a compressor, and how to use compressor plugins in protools. Basically a compressor takes the incoming audio and squeezes it, making the louder bits quieter and the quieter bits louder. Read more…
Ableton
Abelton tutorial number 6 – using reason inside abelton
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)
Albums
T in the park
i just got back in from t in the park, I’m charging my phone up so that I can put the pics up later on. all I have to say is that Rage Against The Machine are fucking amaising ! by far the best band that I have ever seen. Read more…
Ableton
How to use a playstation pad to control abelton
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…
Ableton
Abelton Midi mapping tutorial using a midi controller
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
Ableton tutorial number 3 follow actions
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…
Ableton
Ableton tutorial 2 recording file operations cool stuff
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
Albums
My new album is on itunes !!!
I got the confirmation email last week, and ive just checked the itunes store, and my new album is up !! the physical cd is available through cdbaby.com aswell =) so ive added a new slot to the sidebar and put in both of the cds with links to biy Read more…
Legal stuff
Excellent article – Single Mother Gets RIAA Suit Dismissed, Sues Them Right Back
Found this article on business week, makes for an interesting read Andersen got the piracy case against her dropped; now she’s going after the RIAA for conspiracy by Heather Green When Tanya Andersen opens the door to her modest apartment in suburban Portland, Ore., her Maltese-terrier mix, Tazz, runs over Read more…
Albums
Another free nine inch nails download
Nine inch nails have been releasing a lot of new material lately, they released a new single onm the 22nd, you can get it for free from this url http://dl.nin.com/discipline/nin
Legal stuff
Freelance within the creative industries
The financial and legal requirements within the music industry go hand in hand with each other
Ableton
Glitch plugin
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…
Albums
Hybrid machinima cd out now!!
W0ooot my second album is out now!!! cdbaby.com/cd/machinima2 This is the first full album release by the Scottish black metal band Hybrid Machinima, formed from their love of metal and rock in mid 2006. This is an altogether different experience from their debut ep which was released last year, showing Read more…
Albums
Rancid
Ooooh, rancid are gonna (hopefully) release a new album i just ripped this from some site that I subscribe to, and ive just fired up rancid on my winamp Rancid is working on a new album that is expected to drop around the same time the punk-rockers dive into their Read more…