RE: what's everybody doing with Ableton Live?

["Tom Rex" <tomrex1@cox.net>]

Cool tracks, Per.  Fun tracks!  Creatively done tracks!!  Thanks for the
ideas.

The business one would be fun to play at a management meeting about losing
your corporate strategic advantage.  Is that what you wrote it for?

And the preacher one... outside the tent for an old fashion revival 
meeting,
with a twist!  See if that draws the kids in!!

I like your use of Live as a software mixer/patch-bay, with a good
soundcard.  I have a decent card, a Delta 66, but only 2 stereo in and 2
out.  So I use a Behringer Eurorack 1622 fx to get the instruments in and
out of the PC.  But this creates problems in Live and Cubase SX in hearing
the insert effects when I bus them in this way.  

I called M-Audio, and they suggested to plug the synths directly into the
sound card and out through the mixer.  Since the Delta 66 has only 2 stereo
in, I've been thinking of upgrading to either the Delta 1010, or a firewire
interface.

Tom




-----Original Message-----
From: Per Boysen [mailto:per@boysen.se] 
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:09 AM
To: Loopers
Subject: Re: what's everybody doing with Ableton Live?

On 04-04-22 09.18,  "Tom Rex" <tomrex1@cox.net> wrote:

> I guess that's about as far as I've gotten.  What about you?  Where have
you
> taken Live, or where has it taken you?  I know that Per uses it a lot, 
>and
> shared some in the last few days with the discussion thread that's been
> going on.


Mostly I'm just using Live, in session mode, as a software mixer/patch-bay
in combination with the RME Multiface soundcard. Then I have hardware
loopers and analogue effects connected as outboards to the break-out  box
while automizing Live session mixer and the loopers from midi foot
controller while playing.

But I've done a little traditional music producing in Live.

http://www.boysen.se/studio/00_01_2004_live.mp3

 A quick track I did to try out "step sequencing" in Live 3.0. No drum 
loops
used, only single drum hits that I looped on 16ths. Then I used clip
envelopes to "step sequence" beats. I got so inspired by this technique so 
I
did the same with the syth lines. No synths used either, only short slices
from the preachermans voice. Looped them, tuned them, and used clip
envelopes to create melodies with "step sequencing". Clip envelope
"transpose" for melody and clip envelope "volume" for the timing. Just
writing it in there with the pen tool using the mouse ;-)


http://www.boysen.se/nodenrecordings/04_Modern_Mistakes.mp3
Another track completely assembled in Live. The talking drum was recorded 
in
Live during a tracking session when the drummer played all the time while I
was recording and looping his playing in Live. A very rewarding method to
record percussion. The speaker was recorded acapella and then I put his
phrases on clips.

Best wishes

Per Boysen
-- 
www.boysen.se
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