Mixing & Mastering Tutorials
Dubspot Instructor and Mixing & Mastering engineer Daniel Wyatt teaches you How To Use A Limiter using Ozone 4 from Izotope in this two-part video tutorial series offering tips and techniques for polishing your tracks, and give them a finished, professional sound. Daniel Wyatt offers a universal mastering technique using Ozone 4, which is indeed one of the most powerful mastering plug-ins, but you can use this method to attain loudness in any host application. In part 1, Daniel Wyatt navigates the Limiter section and explains some the essential functions of the Loudness Maximizer (another name for the Limiter) in a step by step process; from Master Output setting to Dithering, correcting mixing mistakes, adding fullness without distortion, and Release control, for making the sound loud and bouncy. Stay tuned for part 2, as Daniel Wyatt concludes the series with a focus on Multiband Dynamics, Harmonic Exciter, and more.
Ableton Live + Bass One: create a phatty bass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMyH4Vk-Ig
A video explaining how to create a cool phatty bass in Live with my Bass One VST in a few mins, hope you enjoy it!
Download the VST on: http://www.thecolorspace.net/
Ableton – Jomox T-resonator demo
Tiny demo done in Ableton Live with a very minimal sound… just fooling around nothing serious. Of course it’s only a static image as all those crappy videos out there…
No animal was harmed during this session.
Gp2x Piggy Tracker Midi Interface Techno Session
Toytone session with the Piggy Midi Interface for Gp2x Handheld created by Logan Ericson (Low-Gain) and Firestarter. Setup is done like that:
Gp2x goes into Computer (Ableton Live) and I split the Midi channels into separate instruments. In this session I used sounds of the Piggy Tracker, Reason, Doepfer Dark Energy. The Evolver is used as Effects Unit.
Surprisingly smooth session.. Some more bouncy stuff will follow..
Next time I will show how to come to a quick end 
Free synth for Ableton
One of the things I want to do with this site is to share some of the tools I use to create music. If you are an Ableton Live user, this post is for you.
I created this synth using a sample of my laptops speakers belting out a screeching feedback from the internal microphone. As unpleasant as the sample itself sounds, it makes for a pretty atmospheric and dreamy sounding synth.
The Laptop Feedback instrument rack for Ableton Live is available to download from AfroDjMac.
Visit: AfroDjMac Laptop Feedback
Mixing Dance Music with Ableton
Point Blank Online has announced MDMA, a new “Mixing Dance Music with Ableton” course.
Point Blank can’t stop the music! Due to massive demand and over-subscribed courses, the team at the world’s premier online school has put the finishing touches to a fastrack guide to mixing your tracks like a true pro. The Hoxton crew have enjoyed sustained success with Mixing Dance Music on Logic and have been inundated with requests for an Ableton Live version virtually since the course was inaugurated last year. So, as they say, here it is….
Spaced evenly over 4 weeks, the course includes a minimum of 240 minutes video tutorials, 4 x DVR™ , the school’s bespoke 1-2-1 video feedback system and 4 hours of live online masterclasses by your expert pro producer tutor and with your classmates from around the world. While the course is running you gain 24/7 access to forum and the course materials which include over 80 pages of notes and exclusive audio resources to download. After the 4 weeks is up you still have a whole year’s access to this content, and get your track signed to Point Blank Music, who can get your music out on Beatport, Junodownload, iTunes and Amazon.
The course has been developed by producer and remixer Danny J Lewis who has releases on labels including Defected, Masters At Work, Ministry of Sound and XL Recordings. It also features contributions from other Point Blank tutors including electro breaks producer Rogue Element (aka Ben Medcalf) and Grammy nominee Mike Koglin (Noys Music). Thanks to this expert input, the course is suitable for producers of any style of dance music. Class sizes are strictly limited so if you would like to learn more then head to www.pointblankonline.net where you can view a full summary of the course and watch free sample videos. Point Blank is an Ableton Certified Training Centre and has been voted “Best Music Production School” for six consecutive years at the annual T-Scan Awards.
The MDMA courses start 4th April, 2nd May, 6th June 2011. Course fee is £355 GBP.
More information: Point Blank Online / Mixing Dance Music – Ableton Live
touchAble App XY PAD PREVIEW
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchable/id385949475?mt=8
website: http://www.touch-able.com
touchAble is an unique iPad app is the first application to give Ableton Live users full control over their digital audio workstation, without the tiresome process of manual midi-mapping.
TouchAble XY Pad is the 6th module, included in touchAble 1.2 update among many new features and improvements.
Others modules are Clips grid, Mixer, Devices, Keys, Pads, and a transport and clip dedicated sections.
TouchAble is supported by many professional musicians, performers, djs and composers around the world, who use touchAble on stage or in studio.
Requirements:
• iPad with iOS 3.3 or later
• Ableton Live 8.1.1 minimum
• Mac OSX 10.5 and above or Windows XP, Vista, windows 7
• touchAble server (downloadable for free : touch-able.com/Site/Downloads.html)
http://www.touch-able.com
http://www.itunes.com/ app/touchable
Ableton operator tutorial, use Max for Live or MIDI to morph waveforms for new modulated sounds
I’m always looking to do things a little differently. It occurred to me that with a midi/parameter LFO I could automatically and rhythmically change the waveform parameter for each of operator’s operators
Ableton Live User Group feat synth girl Erin Barra
Tekserve is hosting the Ableton Live Users Group tonight, Thursday March 24th, at 6 PM. Erin Barra and Ableton Live return to Tekserve.
Tekserve is hosting the Ableton Live Users Group tonight, Thursday March 24th, at 6 PM.
This free event will be headed up by special guest and multi-instrumentalist Erin Barra, who will return to Tekserve and the Live Users Group to discuss her “One Woman Army” approach to electronic songwriting.
Featured topics tonight will be Live’s improvisational ability, audio effects, vocal processing, and live looping. New users and advanced practitioners alike will pick up a wide range of tips and tricks.
Barra regularly uses Ableton Live to manipulate multiple control surfaces in conjunction with a vintage Wurlitzer and Hohner Melodica.
Full Coordinates:
Where: Tekserve, 119 W. 23rd St. New York, NY 10011
When: Thursday, March 24th, 6PM
Who: Ableton User Group NYC
Admission: Free
Ableton Live MIDI Effects
Ableton Live Drum Racks Part 1 and 2
by Laura Escudé
at the Electronic Creatives Ableton Live Master Class on March 21, 2010
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