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Making Your Own Epic Custom Wavetables in Live
The Wavetable Instrument in Live is an amazing tool for synthesizing complex sounds. In Live 10.1 they included a new feature that lets you add your own custom User Wavetables. In this article, I am going to show you different techniques for making Custom Wavetables. DRAG AND DROP AUDIO SAMPLES Ableton Live made it really easy to just drag and drop samples into the Wavetable Synth. The audio file can be dragged from the Browser, from a clip slot in the set, or directly from anywhere from your computer (Just like dragging in samples). If you add an audio file from a folder, you can use the Next/Previous arrows to move through those samples in Wavetable. How are the samples processed? Ableton Live has to process the file to make it work as a Wavetable. You have to keep things in mind like sample size, phasing, and many other things. Most of the time just dragging a file in works great, but let's look at how Live processes it. Wavetable only reads the first few seconds from the Sample. Since it
Generating Unexpected Music with Artificial Intelligence and Ableton Live
Using Artificial Intelligence in music production is an exciting and strange idea. Different AI tools have come and gone since 2016, but this is the first one that caught a deeper interest. When it comes down to it the output still seems random. Today that has changed. Magenta is a suite of Max for Live Devices that gives musicians easy access to experimenting with AI for generating new ideas. Walkthrough of Magenta Max For Live Devices Magenta released a free Max For Live Patch to give you access to the power of Magenta Studio. It has four devices you can use to make new musical ideas. This video is a walkthrough of Magenta by Google: Download Magenta At https://magenta.tensorflow.org/studio/ableton-live Magenta Studio of Machine Learning Tools Magenta is an open source research project by Google. It was made to exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process. Magenta has taken massive amounts of data and created a database that can then be used with machine learning. A great example of this is Generate. The Generate module using AI and
Starting Successful Music Goals this New Year
New Years is the perfect time to evaluate your strengths and weakness and make a plan to make it to the next level. It's a great opportunity to make impactful goals that will lead us to success. You will never make it as a musician if you don't have solid goals. How will you reach your musical goals this year? When you first think about goal setting, the idea of just writing out some statement and posting it on your wall comes to mind. That is why so many people fail at there goals. There is a science... no, an art to writing great goals. Good goals make you feel good, great goals propel you to your achievement. Setting Great Goals for Sucess To start make sure any goal is SMART which is; Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. Here is a breakdown of what makes a great goal. Specific - It is much better to say you will know how to play one song on the guitar then to "be great at music". Be as specific as you can. Measurable - Set what will be the
8 of the Best Free Ableton Live Packs and Effects (2018 rundown)
Having access to great sounds makes the whole music making the process so much faster. That is why I am always on a hunt for good Live Packs. I’ve collected my top favorite free Live Packs and Instrument Racks. Download each of these for free. If it opens up a Gumroad page, just put “0” in the name your price to grab it for free. Singularities for that synthy goodness First on our list is an official Live Pack from Ableton, Singularities. This Live pack is freaking amazing. As they say on the website; Singularities makes use of single samples and finely tuned, expressive parameters to capture the sound and feel of classic synths and samplers. Included are 40 Instrument Racks, plus MIDI clips and drum kits – all the parts you need for a complete track. I love the collection of synths and instrument racks in this Live Pack. Check out the sounds of Singularities below. Smashed Snapple Can Just For Fun If you have read this blog, you know I am a fan of AfroDjMac. He is constantly
Get Epic Songwriting Ideas Fast
Sometimes a track just spills out of you and other times it is an epic battle equaled to the fight on the mountains of Mordor. Through the years I have figured out some techniques to get me out of those ruts. Once and a while you just need a little creative nudge to finish that idea or come up with a new one. One technique that has helped me a lot, I call the title question. The idea is you start with a title and start exploring questions and answers that it envokes. I know… seems cheesy. Well, it is but it works. 1. Start with the track title. Usually, when I start a track the title is the last thing on my mind. I usually don’t even have the name until I send it out for mastering. But when I am lost on ideas to get a track started, this technique is a lifesaver. One of the best ways to come up with an idea is to start with an action. Like running, fighting, breaking, and so
Song Structure in Electronic Music and Dubstep
Developing a song is more than just the pieces placed together. It’s about creating a fluid story. In this article, I am going to go over how to arrange your track and getting a solid song structure for your music. The Building Blocks of an Arrangement: To start, let’s go over the parts that make up an arrangement. There are many different terms, depending on the style of music. For our purposes, we will be looking at these basic terms and then applying them to the electronic music arrangement:
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