Ableton Live tutorial on auto filters
In this Ableton Live tutorial, Professor Nalepa from Dubspot shares a tip he learned from Justin Boreta of The Glitch Mob at the Dubspot Ableton Live 8 Tour workshop in Los Angeles. The technique involves creative use of the Auto Filter, Audio Effects Rack, The Chain Select Ruler and the Macro Knobs.
Placing Autofilter In An Audio Effects Rack For Increased Control
Sound Design Experiment with Aalto and AudioCubes
My friend Mark Mosher has released this cool video featuring his specialty – the AudioCubes 
“I’ve used the configure button on the Ableton Device holding the Aalto syntheiszer (www.http://madronalabs.com) to select a set of parameters that I then map to faces of two Percussa AudioCubes (http://www.percussa.com) in sensor mode. Spatial movement of my fingers modulate parameters in custom patches I created in Aalto from INIT. In same cases cubes modulate each other if sensors are facing each other.”
By the way there is a new preset out for the Aalto:
Enjoy
Avril Lavigne’s keyboardist Steve Ferlazzo using Griid
Avril Lavigne’s keyboardist contacted us – he needed a special version of Griid for the Avril Lavigne show.
Griid is multi platform and will run on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch! Griid is THE powerful, professional Ableton Live controller for iDevices. The ultimate cliplauncher is OS X and Windows compatible. Cliip now available as In-App purchase.
Griid runs on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, adapting dynamically to make the most of your device’s screen size. The core Griid module is the most fluid, fastest and reliable tool for launching clips. If you need the best cliplauncher on the market, you need Griid – pure and simple.
Using specialised touch objects and gestures, Griid is carefully designed with tactile control and the performance experience in mind. Finely tuned for rapid navigation, you can enjoy the freedom of playing Live sets of any size with ease. Griid features explicit visual feedback meaning that you have all the information you need, quite literally at your fingertips!
Free Gibson guitar Ableton Live rack
A virtual instrument created with the sounds of an acoustic guitar. The strings of my Gibson acoustic were sampled and racked up in Ableton Live to create a lush pad sound. Enjoy and spread the word!
Download @ http://bit.ly/freesynth32
“My Gibson acoustic guitar is a true one of a kind, it has a sound like no other and plays like a dream. I’ve exploited it previously with my Gibson E-bow rack and this week I have put it to work again in another free Ableton Live Rack. I sampled each of its six strings and racked them all together inside Live, added effects, and created what turns out to be a nice atmospheric pad sound. I’ve designed it with a compressor ready made for easy side chaining, so you can get this instrument breathing and moving in time with other elements of your tracks. Have fun with it and spread the word!”
Preview of the Uncanny Sequencer for Ableton Live
This is the teaser of The Uncanny Sequencer, the new Sequencer for Ableton Live made with Max for Live.
Latest developments on this can be found here >>
Ableton Instrument and Preset Management Tutorial
AfroDJMac Free Weekly Ableton Live Racks #31: Space Heaven Pad and Drums. Enjoy the sounds of traveling through the cosmos and into the great beyond with this virtual instrument rack. Also included is a drum rack from the demonstration music. Enjoy them.
As a little added tip, I show how I organize my personal presets to make them super easy to locate. I hope you find that useful, it’s made my life way better.
Download @: http://bit.ly/freesynth31
After digging around in my folder of Ableton presets (I keep a separate folder for all my own personally created presets, more on that later in this post), I came across this little gem, made probably over a year ago. It is made with a few layered synths, each one made of different sampled sounds. In all honesty, I’m not really sure where I got these samples from; whether I downloaded them somewhere, got them from a friend, or made them myself remains a mystery, but the sounds this synth produces is nothing less than heavenly. To me it sounds like being beamed up into the universe and flying through the celestial plains, on my way to heaven. At least, this is what I imagine it would sound like. Check it out and have fun on your intergalactic journeys. Oh, and as a little bonus, I’ve included a drum rack of some interesting sounds I’ve processed. So, for this installment of Free Weekly Ableton Live Racks, you get two racks for the price of none!
As I said before, I like to keep my own personal presets in a separate folder. As my collection of sounds grew, I got tired of sifting around through different folders for each instrument I made a preset for. My solution: create a folder of my own that I save my presets to. After I save a preset, I simply drag it into my presets folder. The benefit is that all my presets are in one folder, rather than scattered across my stock Ableton presets. This has saved me hours of searching around for my own unique sounds. In the video, I detail exactly how I do it, as well as give you a taste of the AfroDJMac Space Heaven Rack.
In the studio: Ableton liveset tryout
Ableton in action:
Trying to find a way to combine a couple of tracks and keep it as live as possible(without losing the plot). The control is stock Live and Automap, no Max4Live. Sounds are 50% standard Ableton and 50% sampled hardware (mostly Oberheim Matrix-1000). FX all standard Ableton except the free “King Dubby” plug-in used in the first track. My brain is the bottleneck. I just wish Novation would do a $500 version of the Launchpad with LCD buttons which could display text/color.
JM-DG Dirty Trumpet and Drum Rack for Ableton Live
This is Free Weekly Ableton Live Rack #30! Made from samples from JM-DG http://www.jm-deejay.com/ Check it out and enjoy!
download the instruments here: http://bit.ly/freesynth30
This weeks free Ableton Live racks come from reader JM-DG. Over the last few months JM-DG has sent me a couple tracks made with various AfroDJMac racks, and he recently stepped it up with an offering of his own. Created with an old trumpet that almost landed in the trash, JM-DG brings us an instrument with lots of warmth and character. Not always perfectly in tune but packed with plenty of charm, this trumpet is sure to add a bit of life into your music. I’ve taken what he sent me and added a couple of little touches and effects, as well as adjusting the tuning to make it a bit more playable. As an extra bonus, I took the drums from JM-DG’s demo song and chopped them up into its own instrument rack. So you get a unique trumpet sound as well as a drum kit to play around with. Make sure you stop by JM-DG’s site and say thanks!
Interview with Redinho: Change It All Up
Redinho captivates us with his talk box-enhanced rhythms. Following his excellent performance and Ableton Live demo at Sonar 2011, we sat down with Redinho to learn more about his setup.
BroStep Rack for Ableton Live
This weeks update from our ever so persistent AfroDJMac
“I felt a strange compulsion to create a BroStep style synth in Ableton Live. Whether or not it is a good BroStep sound I will leave to the experts, but it turned into something pretty cool and diverse. I hope you dig bro :)”
Download @ http://bit.ly/freesynth29
Any decent movement in music comes with its own inevitable backlash. The Beatles came to us at the cost of The Monkees. Nirvana became disenchanted when the people they were originally rebelling against started showing up at their shows yelling “Teen Spirit.” And now the DubStep community cries foul about an emerging sub-genre affectionately known as BroStep. Although I’ve learned a lot from some of its production techniques, DubStep has never really dominating my own personal playlists. So, I did a quick online search for BroStep and found tons of amusing articles and posts, packed with a lot of passionate disdain. Check out this Urban Dictionary entry on BroStep. James Blake had a go at it on Pitchfork. Forums are jumping on the topic.
So, basically for my own amusement, I started putting together a synth to emulate some of the characteristic vowel formant and noisy controversy causing bass sounds. I ended up with something I actually like a lot. This weeks Free Weekly Ableton Live Rack is the AfroDJMac BroStep Rack! It wound up getting pretty complicated. It’s made using the Operator synth. I got the vowel sounds from racking up the vowel presets in Ableton’s EQ Eight. (Check this Ableton Forum Post for my inspiration) This vowel Rack is also included and useful in other situations. I believe that every sound has its time and place, so I’m confident this Ableton Live instrument rack will be useful at some point or another. And, if using it as a bass type sound goes against your own musical values, this rack can be tweaked around into something entirely different. Don’t hate it for its name, bro:)
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