AfroDJMac has released his latest Ableton Live pack (link). This time it’s for the Roland Juno 106. An old friend of mine Jay Serken let me use his 106 in my studio for years. It was eventually stolen. I used save a row of patches each just slightly different than each other. Next I would have Cubase (then on an Atari ST) send patch changes every to the Juno every 16th note. This would emulate an analog sequencer changing CV filter. You can hear the 106 going though various guitar pedals and my Electrocomp-101 on most of my early records.
“Ableton Live Pack of 22 instruments created with the Roland Juno 106 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer. Each instrument was sampled from a custom patch on the Juno 106 and contains 8 macro knobs with its own unique effects to further twist and manipulate this diverse collection of sounds.” – afrodjmac.spinshop.com
For more info: vintagesynth.com/roland/juno106
This entry was written by , posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:06 am, filed under Ableton Live, sounds, synthesizer and tagged AfroDJMac, Juno-106, Roland Juno-106, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I sat on the fence for a long while before purchasing Max for Live. I now find it an indispensable tool in my arsenal. I’ve yet to try this new Supacut freebie but it looks tasty.
“Inspired by the classic beat effect plugins LiveCut and SupaTrigga, Ned Rush designed Suparcut for Max for Live. Suparcut’s parameters, including beat loops of various lengths and classic stretching and pitching effects, can either be sequenced or controlled by probability sliders.” – ableton.com
Get the free device: maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=1001
This entry was written by , posted on March 29, 2012 at 4:10 pm, filed under Ableton Live and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, Max for Live, Supacut. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
There have been so many attempts at putting musicians in separate locations together. For various reason so far none has really taken hold. The video above shows that it does seem we are getting closer to that reality though.
“Here’s a quick demo of a how to record peer to peer using albeton as our software. We then use google+ and other google products to communicate, organize and essentially recreate the studio environment but from anywhere in the world. Welcome to the future friends, this is just the beginning.” – lucai
For more info: youtube.com/user/lucai
This entry was written by , posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:06 am, filed under Ableton Live, live performance and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, Google, Google Plus. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s another great tip from Dubstop’s Thavius Beck. I always knew you can remove a Session View Clip’s stop button. I thought it was a safety type of measure for those using Session View in a live scenario. Often when I record vocals I do different takes on a channel and they grow down vertically. To launch each take I click a Scene Clip (the right most column in Ableton Live’s Session View). In order to have my music going I have to copy my music loop down vertically too. Now with this tip in the video above all I have to do is kill the stop buttons on my music loop channel. Thanks for the time saver.
“He explains how by simply removing the stop buttons inside empty clip slots, you can launch clips and jump through scenes without having to interrupt your groove. This is something that is essential and practical putting a track in the Session View without committing it to the Arrange view.” – dubspot.com
For more info: dubspot.com
This entry was written by , posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:31 am, filed under Ableton Live and tagged ableton, Ableton Live. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Right click on Ableton Live’s EQ Eight to set it to high quality. Watch the video above for more details. Great tip from Dubstop! What other Ableton plug-ins have a high quality mode?
“When Hi-Quality mode is enabled on the EQ8, the audio being fed into the EQ is oversampled by a factor of 2 (meaning the sample rate of the audio is doubled. If your session’s sample rate is 44.1kHz, enabling Hi-Quality will make the audio being fed into the EQ8 88.2kHz). Then the EQ changes are calculated at the doubled sample rate, and finally the audio as it leaves the EQ is undersampled by a factor of 2, or basically brought back to it’s original sample rate.” – Thavius Beck
For more info: ableton.com and dubstop.com
This entry was written by , posted on February 21, 2012 at 7:30 am, filed under Ableton Live and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, Dubstop, eq, equalizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I use Ableton’s Autopan often. Mostly I use it when recording old analog synths that don’t have MIDI. I use it as a 1/8th or 1/16th note chopper to keep things in line. You can hear it at work on the bassline in my song Sex Machine (above). Of course there’s more the little Autopan can do as the Liveschool video points out. Here’s another tip… Audiodamage’s Panstation plug-in which is based on the Drawmer M500 gives you a different, more classic, wider effect than Autopan.
“Ableton Autopan device – multiple ways you can use it in your music.” – Ableton Liveschool
For more info: vimeo.com/abletonliveschool
photo credit: Seven Morris
via synthtopia
This entry was written by , posted on December 29, 2011 at 5:38 am, filed under Ableton Live, plug-ins and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, Audiodamage, Autopan, Panstation, Sex Machine. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I am constantly using Midi effects and tricks in my own workflow. I look for plug-ins that output midi data (Audio Damage Axon for example). The video above from The Ableton Cookbook shows you how to record the Arpeggiator’s notes while manipulating the device.
“The traditional signal chain in Ableton goes from the MIDI clip to a MIDI effect and then into an Instrument or Instrument Rack, where the MIDI information is interpreted and output as audio. This means that, if you press record on a MIDI Clip that has an effect on it, you’ll get a recording not of the effected MIDI signal, but of the unaffected MIDI signal. If you want to capture these affected MIDI events, you are going to have to do some MIDI routing. In this video, I show you how this is done!” – theabletoncookbook.com
For more info: theabletoncookbook.com
This entry was written by , posted on December 20, 2011 at 9:23 am, filed under Ableton Live, effects and tagged Ableton Live, arpeggiator, midi, The Ableton Cookbook. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
IRCAMAX SuperVP is a set of 5 plug-ins for Ableton Max4Live. You really have to head to the Ircam website and watch the demo videos. Each of the plug-ins SimpleTransp, Transp, Scrub, Mover and SuperVPSynth allow for some serious audio rearranging, part transposing, formant manipluations, etc… My favorite is Mover. 139 Euro.
“Mover offers a different way to control time position and transposition performed by the SuperVP engine. It displays the sound on a big waveform on witch the user can move using the mouse, its MIDI controllers or a joystick. It can be easily use to improvise on the sound material thanks to its synchronized random motions capabilities.” – ircamax.ircam.fr
For more info: ircamax.ircam.fr
This entry was written by , posted on December 8, 2011 at 7:29 am, filed under Ableton Live, plug-ins and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, Ircam, IRCAMAX SuperVP, Max4Live, plug-ins. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Nalepa clearly describes a quick way to create inspiring patterns using Ableton Live. I’ve use this technique and if you take a shot at is try it with some drum kits! I like how you can see the student in the orange hat start to get it.
“Dubspot Instructor and Curriculum Developer, Professor Nalepa offers a glimpse into our Ableton program; explains and demonstrates how to create custom arpeggio patterns using Live’s powerful interface.” – youtube.com/user/DubSpot
For more info: dubspot.com, ableton.com
This entry was written by , posted on December 2, 2011 at 5:56 am, filed under Ableton Live and tagged ableton, arpeggio, Dubspot. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
AfroDJMac is a songwriter and guitarist/electronic musician from New York. Besides his interesting name he creates free and very inexpensive Ableton Live Racks. Some Racks include “Brostep” inspired by the Jersey Shore, RapMan (Casio VL-1, Teenage Engineering OP-1), Gameboy Glitches and Synth, Ensoniq SQ-80, Glitched Piano, Glitch Machine, Nu Wave Synth (sounds from his oven!) and about 20 more so far. Any Live user should give his website a good look over!
“Futuristic, yet nostalgic. New York’s AfroDJMac is a live electronic musician, drawing influence from the genres of indie garage rock, classic rock, video game music, and modern electronica.” – afrodjmac.com
For more info: afrodjmac.com
This entry was written by , posted on October 10, 2011 at 8:19 am, filed under Ableton Live, plug-ins, sounds and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, AfroDJMac, Jersey Shore, oven, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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