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Sharing your Tracks and Creating Live Packs
Collaborating with your music is such an amazing experience. It lets you bring new perspectives to your tracks, outsource to other musicians to use their strengths, and it’s just straight up fun as hell. Ableton Live is a great platform to collaborate with, but it takes some knowledge. It’s really frustrating when you get that “Media Files Missing” or “Missing external Plugin” notification when you open a file. That’s why I made the (aq) Sharing Files PDF. Here are some example pages from the Free PDF.
Upright and Walking Bass samples
I have been working on some new music for a singer songwriter project called Glittermoss. We were experimenting with upright bass. I ended up taking a lot of upright bass samples and converting them to midi to play them with an 808 tom. It lead to some really interesting new rhythmic and melodic ideas. It took me quite some time to do this and now have a little library of ideas I can tap in the future. I wanted to share these samples with ya'll. Feel free to use them in your own music production. If you ever make a track from it, comment here or let me know. Love sharing the studio work and hear how it continues to be used in other producers music. There is a Live Set that has the samples as well as MIDI with an 808 Operator on it. Then I have the MIDI files and Wav's below as well to be used with any DAW. Enjoy the Bass! Download Walking Bass
Microtonal Music in Live – Scale of Fifths
Microtonal music can bring a whole new meaning to your music. When you start exploring Microtonal music you are exploring the edge of what is possible. This article will look deep into making Microtonal music in Ableton Live. But to start lets look at what Tunning and Temperament is. TUNING AND HOW IT DIFFERS FROM TEMPERAMENT There is a difference between that pitch reference, that concert tuning, and temperament or scale you build from that pitch reference. When we are talking about tuning there are 2 things we need to keep in mind and understand how they are separate, but interrelated. Most music and DAWS are set to the reference pitch at A=440hz. All this means is that the first note, that all others are built from, is at 440. There are many different ways to calculate what the frequency of the next note is. This is when you get into tuning schemes, and temperament.
Reference Makes Perfect – Pt.1 Listening Environment
An amazing part about being human is our aptitude for willpower, intelligence, and consciousness. It lets us take abstract ideas, like music, and create such wonder. Sometimes we get lost in our own self importance, our ego. One of the first things you’re going to have to learn as a Mixing engineer is to get over yourself. It’s no longer about how good that guitar solo was, or how fantastic that synth bass is. You have to look at it objectively. Something that helps us reach that objective is referenced. The way the ear and mind works is it adjust over time. We also get this thing called ear fatigue. If we listen to the same thing over and over, it has a different impact than when we first put it on. Over time we don’t want it so bright because we perceive it differently. Because of this we must always understand our references and out reference points.
Looking at Notes on Push
When you first get the push you can plug it in and start rocking out. It's so easy to use the Note Mode to play new melodies in a chosen scale. I found that after playing with it for a while I sometimes wonder how to make different type of chords. Or when you are jamming with someone, it's important to be able to communicate which notes you are playing. Because of this I made a worksheet to visually show off the note positions on the push as well as chord shapes. Below is the image I created to help in learning the In Key Mode on Push. You can download this image (Right click and Save Image As) and print it off for use in the studio. I have found this as an awesome tool to show off note positions to my students. One of the most useful things I found is to know that the blue key is the root note, and then memorize the note positions from there. Once you get that down you can easily know what chord, or note
New Push Sequencer by Spektro Audio
Icaro Ferre is an amazing Max For Live developer. He has created amazing synths and utilities in Max For Live. His Grain Flux Synth is amazing and totally worth checking out. Today I saw his newest device that brings new functionality to Ableton Push. The PS-8 is a new Step Sequencer for Push. 8-step analog-style sequencer for the Ableton Push inspired by analog sequencers such as the Korg SQ-10 and Moog 960 Sequential Controller. PS-8 is great for live performance and improvisation. The main difference between PS-8 and other Push sequencers is that it uses the Push encoders to change the pitch / velocity of the eight steps and rows of pads to control other parameters such as gate length, shuffle amount and direction. Here is a video walk through of the PS-8. I absolutely love the functionality this new device brings to live performance. Thanks a lot Icaro for continuing to rock new innovation To learn more you can also go to http://www.spektroaudio.com/
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