Featuring the Mixer control of Ableton Live with the Zero SL MK II
A tutorial to show the Mixer control of Ableton Live with the Zero SL MK II controller. Please note: You will need Live 8.1.3 upwards for this particular integration. Download Automap 3.5 for more instructions in the DAW Setup Guide.
Why settle with just one iPad in your music production
“Le K using two ipads running touchAble and controlling Ableton live.
The 2 iPADS mode included in touchAble allows users to control Ableton Live with 2 selection boxes, 1 red and 1 yellow, and gives access to all the features.
2 peoples can play and tweak the same liveset or you can play with 2 iPads for a better control experience.
touchAble is the new dedicated multitouch controller for Ableton and iPad,
more infos on http://www.touch-able.com
Le K playing “Rahan” available on Circus Company LP “Snuggle and Slap”
http://soundcloud.com/le-K”
Ableton takes off into space
Aggregat is a gesture-based digital audio workstation for sound production in Ableton Live 8.
The interface allows up to three people to create music collaboratively in one single set . According to developers, “Aggregat brings back the performative band-character into digital music: Instead of watching somebody (DJ) looking like he‘s checking emails, the audience experiences a show.”
Aggregat was was designed by studio nø: Antonio de Luca, Daniel Dormann and Andreas Unteidig. Aggregat is still in experimental phase.
Check it out and let us know what you think of Aggregat!
What Is Aggregat? (Googlish)
Aggregate is a gesture-based digital audio workstation (DAW) for sound production in Ableton live 8. The interface allows multiple musicians to bring to a device to collaboratively play a set, which is why unit is primarily for live performance. The focus of the software is the implementation of common standards in a multi-touch environment. MIDI interfaces are not replaced, but on aggregate together, where can the musician and the Midimapping effect controls wire themselves. Audio can be distributed across the table to multiple channels opened and edited in real time. This helps the area of hardware, in which all the musicians face each other and mutual gestures are persecuted, and attempts at mutual understandings back an aspect to electronic music lead to: the performance. The viewer no longer has the feeling of someone watching from behind a laptop with email, retrieve, but experienced a new kind of concert. A core concept of the program is the conductor. He is a mixer and clock control samples produced effect chains and loops. It suited the gesture-based control of the table finish to a great flow of the last decade: the lines between DJ and musician finally repealed and the DJ to make it a virtuoso.
The instruments themselves are previously arranged in Ableton Live 8 and prepared. About naming conventions assignments to various input devices (eg keyboard or a Supermodel, be supplied). This unit receives access to all instruments and their control, both programs communicate both OSC and MIDI. The former is mainly used to all aspects related to remote control of Ableton Live, the latter to change effects, parameters, and of course sending notes.By Ableton Live’s MIDI mapping functions and aggregate any possibility to add controls and areas assigned to the table, there is the possibility to make all the setup for most peculiar desires. It was programmed in Java using the Aggregate Processing Library. To process the surface touches the TUIO interface was implemented. To generate run time MIDI and OSC signals, where the libraries were rwmidi of Ruin & care and use oscP5 by Andreas Schlegel.
Ableton hits Europe
Ableton & Novation are bringing their Live Beats series to Europe this September, with 14 events across eight countries.
The Live Beats events are designed so that attendees of all skill levels can discover more about using Ableton Live and Novation hardware. Demonstrator Thavius Beck will mainly focus on the hands-on music-making potential of Live & Launchpad, but will also be showing off other Novation hardware and demonstrating how Automap can be used to take your Ableton Live sessions to the next level.
At each event, Thavius and local Ableton and Novation demonstrators will be on hand to answer questions and offer tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your software and hardware. There will also be a chance to win a Novation Launchpad and Ableton Live 8 at each Live Beats event.
Dates & times for Live Beats events:
- Tuesday 7th September, Production Room, Leeds, UK, 18:30
- Thursday 9th September, Digital Village Clapham, London, UK, 18:30
- Saturday 11th September, Teach Music, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 19:00
- Monday 13th September, Just Studio Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany, 18:30
- Tuesday 14th September, Just Music, Hamburg, Germany, 19:15
- Wednesday 15th September, Hard Rock Cafe, Cologne, Germany, 19:00
- Saturday 18th September, Just Music, Munich, Germany, 16:00
- Monday 20th September, microFusa, Madrid, Spain, 19:00
- Tuesday 21st September, microFusa, Barcelona, Spain, 19:00
- Thursday 23rd September, SAE Institute, Milan, Italy, 18:00
- Friday 24th September, Percorsi Audio, Acquapendente (VT), Italy, 18:00
- Monday 27th September, Rytmus Aula, Stockholm, Sweden, 18:30
- Wednesday 29th September, ProLyd AS, Oslo, Norway, Time TBC
Details are available at the Novation site.
Are you into odd sounds and instruments?
If yes this one’s definitely for you….
Soniccouture have announce their latest product : Tingklik. Here’s what they have to say about it…
A Tingklik is a bamboo percussion instrument from Bali. A Tingklik typically has 11 bamboo tubes, although the instrument we sampled has 12. The longest bamboo is about a metre long for the lowest pitch. With five notes per octave, the range is just over 2 octaves. The tubes are suspended using string over a brightly coloured wooden frame. The player sits on the ground and strikes the bamboo tubes with rubber-tipped mallets.
Because the Tingklik only has 12 notes, it is possible to sample it in great detail without it becoming too large in terms of sampler memory. Each note was sampled at 12 different velocity levels, with 6 alternate samples for each level, ensuring a very natural, living sound. The Kontakt and Ableton Live versions include tools for doubling the Tingklik to simulate the authentic paired playing found in Bali. Both the original tuning and a full chromatic western tuning are included in all formats.
Pricing and Availability:
Tingklik is available now as a Download, priced EUR 29 / USD 39
More information:
Recording with tons of hardware
They sure have a lot of gear running 
“Sometimes I/people wonder if I need all those delays in the studio. This was merely an attempt to use most of them (62%?) in one recording.
Some people like fast cars, I like slow delays.Hard delays used in this recording:
Roland RE-201
Roland RE-301
Roland Re-501
Korg SDD-1200
Dynacord SRS-56
Aria AD-15 Locobox
AP S-303
TC Electronics D-Two
Ensoniq DP/2The main sounds come from four loops in Ableton Live.
The rest is Korg Mono/Poly, Stylophone and beer.”
The excellent NES chip Reason Refill now for Ableton
The NES Chip Collection is now available as an Ableton Live Pack with SK1 Drums bonus!
Ableton Live NES Pack $20
Product Info:
Do you want to make chip tunes? Or integrate the sound of the Nintendo NES into your music? You do not have to buy the NES or mess around old gear and software that doesnt quite emulate that natural sound 8 bit sound. These are profesionally recorded samples at 24 bit 96khz bit rate directly from the NES output on the back of the machine. People will actually think you have an NES with midi. Every Square wave, Sine, Noise, and even 8-bit percussive samples.
8 Bit Drum WAVE sound files
Bonus SK1 Drums
NES Square Waves files
The NES Sine wave
Individual NES Noise WAVE files with integrated refill patch!
Custom NES FX WAVES Files
Ableton Live Project
**Once paypal checkout is complete you will be taken to the download link. This offer for Ableton Live is only availably by clicking the Buy It Now button above.
The NES pack is also available in other formats (Reason Refill, Multiformat sf2/gig) by entering our the download store.
Testing Griid for Ableton on iPad
Ritchie Hawtin, John Acquaviva and a small group called Liine have created an Ableton specific iPad controller called Griid.
Griid is an advanced clip grid interface which allows you to control Ableton Live (running on your desktop or laptop) from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Using specially developed touch objects and simple gestures, Griid is carefully designed with the performance experience in mind. Finely tuned for rapid navigation, you can enjoy the freedom of playing Live sets of any size with ease. Explicit visual feedback means that you have all the information you need, quite literally at your fingertips. Combined with wireless operation, this means you can perform with Ableton Live without ever needing to look at the computer screen.” – http://liine.net/
Beat Thang Virtual workstation
http://beatkangzbeatthang.com/home showing off the beta vst plugin of beat thang virtual, running it in ableton live
If you have tried it please leave your comments
Vocal gating in Ableton
Live guru Tom Cosm is back with another one of his in-depth videos on Ableton Live, this time focusing on rhythmic vocal gating.
This is part 1 of a 10 part video series on fun ways to process vocals.
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