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#Ableton Q: Start a track before 1.1.0?

18-Jun-09

Notice my clever hash mark — because my posts get forwarded to Twitter … I’m becoming a blog/facebook/twitter whore.
 My friend Dylan wrote “Here’s a problem I’ve been trying to figure out for a while now: say you want to drop a track in from the very start instead of fading it in  slowly, but it starts before [...]

DJing in Live — Limiters are not the answer!

06-Jun-09

This is a common ‘helpful tip’ about playing live or DJ’ing with Ableton Live — ‘put a limiter on the main output bus.’
After recording a set last night (which you’ll hear about when I get approval from one artist to use a track) I have spent some time rendering, tweaking, and then re-rendering a mix, [...]

Akai APC40 First Impressions

05-Jun-09

My APC40 came yesterday, and I spent a few hours fiddling with it last night…
The build quality is impressive. Almost absurdly so — the knobs are big and solid, the faders are smooth. The hard rubber end cheeks are some designers wet dream — they seem to have no purpose except to enhance the ’stealth [...]

AudioMidi has APC40 in stock, shipping today

29-May-09

AudioMidi is one of those online retailers, like NewEgg that once you find it, becomes your vendor of first resort. I can’t recommend them highly enough — competetive prices, prompt shipping, and first rate customer service.
I ordered my Akai APC40 yesterday, and called them to ask if they were backordered and when they’d [...]

Ableton Live 8 Extracts Grooves from Audio

20-May-09

Groove Quantization was one of the ‘big deal’ features added in Ableton Live, and I suppose if I’d read all the marketing shiznit more carefully I would have figured it out before now, but as usual I only learn by doing.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-LiveGrooveQuantize.mp3
So what I did here:
1. Load the track “Amazon” [...]

How to make Reaktor Knobs Automatable in Ableton Live

09-Mar-09

So the target demographic for this post is the intersection of three sets:

Ableton Live Users
Reaktor Users
People wonky enough to try and automate VST plugins with envelopes.

Still with me? OK.
I was contacted by an Internet acquaintance because he wanted to use the Reaktor Effect that emulates the Roland RE201 Space Echo, and he wanted to automate [...]