Ableton operator is a great FM synth with lots of options. Using Phaedra as my main sequencer and setting up VEL > OSC is operator allows me to draw in pitch data using velocity which is then mapped to the pitch in operator. You can also assign velocity to filter frequency and other settings. Using […]
I’ve had my MC202 for a long while – along with the Sh101 its one of the first synths I bought back in the late 1990’s. I’ve always enjoyed sequencing it but using it live meant writing patterns on the fly or using tape load to load new patterns. For a while now I’ve been […]
I have made a short screen capture of how to use Soundflower to record audio from your web browser into Ableton Live. Soundflower is like a virtual bus for audio on your computer and you can use it to route sound from any application to any other application. In this screen capture I record the […]
This is a quick tip if you are short on screen real estate and what to preview what your external gear is sounding like in one channel. Using one audio channel and an effects rack you can chain a whole bunch of external hardware effects into one rack and preview all your synths in one […]
I’ve recently upgraded to ableton live studio 9 and that comes with the great and powerful analog synth. Its great for acid lines and I’ve made a patch you can download and use in your projects. It makes use of Analog, Amp, Reverb and the EQ eight. You can download the patch from dropbox http://db.tt/xK3n34Q8 […]
Every gig should have a dedicated VJ or visualist even if its a mad terra strobe in a dark under ground tunnel but sometime budgets don’t stretch that far. I came across this max for live plugin that generates geometric object in time with audio You can grab the patch from http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/1530/ganz-graf-mod-x. I have done […]
I was messing around with using really short delays to produce metallic sounds. I was then informed this is called Karplus Strong synthesis. I created a abelton effects rack to control the effect and some other associated effects. The audio signal goes into a gate – you’ll have to adjust the threshold to suit your […]
Got this from Jerome Hill – too good not to share and might get you out of a tight spot. Basically if ableton live crashes it creates a temporary project file in your library. The issue with OSX is your library is now hidden. So here’s the tip & hope it helps you if you’re […]
I recently received a Bitchin’ Sync box made by Bryan Benting. This is a great little din sync clock box. Basically it takes clock pulse or din sync and split it to the other din sync ports. It has 6 din sync sockets which is the same number of din sync clock driven gear that […]
A while back I bought a Novation drumstation and for a while I have bee running it using my Korg Er1 in a x0x style. This is good for basic rhythms and hands on programming but is limited to only 10 sounds in a 4 bar block on the drumstation and doesn’t allow for velocity […]
here are a couple of quick screen capture videos of gate effects in liveThe first shows how to use a gate to send the accented notes to a delay then using a sidechained autofilter to filter the delay to the drum beat, then using effects rack and flipping the gate to have the notes still […]
i was watching some of tom cosm’s videos today and came across this one on glitchy basslines http://www.vimeo.com/1682698 and decided to give it a bash this is a short track put together using that technique and then digging into the glitchy bits and finding nice loops to extend outall done in ableton live with operator […]
Only having one Boss OS-2 pedal , I have been trying to emulate the overdrive / distortion I’ve been getting from it using racks in live, this file here is as close as I have got, there is a lot more work to be doe to move from overdriven to distorted but will plug away […]