Free Ableton Live Packs
If you are not subscribed to puremagnetik.com already… you need to be. Every month they roll out a new sound set (instruments, loops, presets, etc) for Ableton and Logic. There have been a couple let downs, but for the most part these guys hit it straight on the head!
A great way to see what Puremagnetik is all about is their free packs. They just released a couple new artist packs you can download here.
Most recently addition to the free artist packs is:
MtTP Guitar – offers two variations on a multitimbral tuned percussion instrument inspired by the acoustic-piano preparations of John Cage.
Format: ALP
System Requirements: Ableton Live 8
The Current Set Up
Macbook Pro 13″ 2.26GHz
Ableton Live 7
Reason 4
Logic Studio 2
Pro Tools 7.4
‘Ol Faithful Trigger Finger
X-board25 (Small Keys MIDI Controller )
M-Audio 1814 Interface
SSL XLogic Channel Strip (What I run all my real instruments through)
Ultimate Ears IEM’s
Barron Youn “Ability” Footcontroller
Great Article on Worship & The Visitor
I read a great article this morning By Gerrit Gustafson on the Catalyst Space blog. It’s worth the couple minutes to read. The part that jumped out at me was;
“We shouldn’t assume that the visitor is incapable of apprehending spiritual phenomenon. After all, each one is made in the image of God, and, as Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, He has “set eternity in the hearts of men.” The worship experience corresponds to that universal “itch.” That explains the finding of the largest study of American congregational life ever undertaken — the FACT report conducted by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research: “vibrant worship is at the heart of church growth.”
I’ve been wrestling with the concept and idea of “vibrant worship” all day. How would you define “vibrant?”
Read the article here: http://www.catalystspace.com/content/read/worship_the_visitor/
Coming Back
I am making a venture back into the world of consistent blogging you could say. I started this blog a couple years ago to help other worship leaders see how I was using Ableton Live in worship.
After spending time working on a couple other blogs and creative ideas… I have decided to return to my roots and expand the digitalworship blog… once again with my musings on Ableton Live and now so much more!
So be on the look out…
Rewire Reason Into Ableton
Good tutorial from youtube.
Baron Youn Customworks “ability” Midi Foot Controller
The newest addition to my habit. I have been on the search for a midi foot controller that 1) wasnt huge like the Berhinger FCB1010 and 2) and was reasonable in cost. Designed from the ground up for Ableton Live, this foot controller is exactly what I was looking for. Baron is a killer designer! I’d recomend the pedal for sure.
Optimize Your Computer For Ableton and Running Audio Out
In advance, I’m strictly a mac guy so this is mainly for people running on a mac. I assume though these apply to PC somehow…
1. Turn off time sensitive functions such as screen savers, sleep mode, changing desktop backgrounds automatically ever 30 minutes (or what ever you have yours set to), software update, etc. As I am typing it hit me you could program a automator script or apple script to disable these features and also re-enable them when your not doing audio stuff… mmmm, anyone good at programing those?
2. Turn off airpor when running albeton
3. Disable/turn off dashboard. big one here. (here is a good article on how to do this )
4. Run your sets off an external hard drive… needs to have 8MB Buffer, and 7200 RPM – this is a BIG one!
5. Minimize the use of other programs while running abelton
And there you go… couple get ya started tips on optimizing your mac for ableton/audio.
Sampling From Existing Drum Loops In Ableton
This is gem in disguise… it digs deeper that you might think.
Lets say you really dig the drum sounds on a specific drum loop (ie the kick or snare sounds, etc)… for example on David Crowders “All Creatures of Our God and King” (version 2), you can sample the beat yea… but what if you could also create your own beats with that same kit? This makes it possible and easy!
Check out the video and just think the possibilities… all those hits and sounds you wish you could have in your sample library.
Ableton Live and Reason
In the begining… well… I really wasnt a fan of Reason… mainly cause of its price tag. I saw no reason to shell out the cash when ableton could do everything reason could (if you know how to use ableton that is) and a whole heck of a lot more.
But in recent days (thanks to a friend who hooked me up with Reason for a stupid price), I have been experimenting with how the two programs interface. Rather than me ramble on about this, Ableton has a great article with some of the high points… feel free to check it out.
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