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…
If your audio midi setup takes an age to load, and you get the message ‘the midi server cant be opened’ it might be to do with protools. i run protools 8 and osx lion. everything worked fine if I was plugged into my protools interface, but when the interface Read more…
Setting up eclipse with xampp and xdebug to debug php code. This post will show you how to setup eclipse on your mac to work with xdebug inside XAMPP. This setup will allow you to step through your code as it runs, line by line, add breakpoints in your eclipse Read more…
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. again, made in ableton live with clips from youtube video’s.
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.
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.
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.
Well, ive been looking into protools 8 there are a few cool features – things that cubase and others have had for a long time, but that make protools at least able to compete now =) the score editor looks nice – play your midi into protools as usual, and Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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