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Something worth checking out I came across today. This guy put together loop slicer rack that seems pretty cool. I havent actually had time to tweak, but it looks interesting. Check it out and give your feedback here.
CHECK IT OUT HERE

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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I’ve been hit up a couple times and it seems I notice on the back end of this blog people who land her are looking for how to set up M-Audio’s Trigger Finger in Ableton Live.

Here are a couple quick tips…

1. The trigger finger ships with its preset of Ableton Live as P10. Access this by pressing Memory/Recall and then p10.

2. Use the Midi map function to map specific pads and faders to ableton clips, effects, etc.

3. The Ctrl/Note Mute Button changes the message sent… if you need it to be note on/off or just controller message… this applies to the rotary and faders mostly.

Once you get it hooked up and your sure that your computer (hopefully a mac, haha) is receiving messages then load up preset P10 and map away.

Happy Triggering.

Ok.. huge video file… 50mb… but interesting to see it used live. Still thinking and searching the set on what to use for a foot controller.
WATCH VIDEO

right click and save as to download.

*From Sound On Sound Website… basically how I have mine organized.

SAMPLE LIBRARY CATEGORIES

PERCUSSION
• Drums
• Cymbals
• Latin Percussion
• Hand Drums
• Metal Percussion
• Misc. Percussion
• Tuned Percussion
• Orchestral Percussion
• Assembled Percussion

INSTRUMENTS (I)
• Bass
• Guitar (Acoustic)
• Guitar (Electric)
• Misc. Stringed
• Piano
• Organ
• Misc. Keyboards

INSTRUMENTS (II)
• Brass
• Strings
• Wind
• Bowed/Stroked/Wind-like
• Orchestral Ensembles

INSTRUMENTS (III)
• Synths

LOOPS, SOUNDTRACKS & VOCALS
• Loops (percussion)
• Loops (Musical)
• Loops with Vocals
• Soundtracks
• Lead Vocals
• Backing Vocals
• Voices (Choral)
• Speech

SOUND EFFECTS
• Human Noises (Vocal)
• Human Noises (Physical)
• Human Activities
• Crowds
• Animals & Insects
• Natural World
• Atmos
• General Noises
• Crashes, Explosions, Impacts
• Electrical
• Industrial/Mechanical
• Transport
• Clocks & Bells
• Telephones
• Tools & Appliances
• Comedy Instruments

In reponse to a question I got I was thinking about saving time each week when I develop our sets… And one of the main time savers is creating a good set template so that when you open Live you have the basic elements you typically have in your set already loaded.

So this is my main set template. I replaced some of the 3rd party plug ins I use (Wave Arts Power Suite) and replaced them with built in ableton effects (which are plenty good for live use). I also swaped out the samples in my electric drum kit with a kit you can download for free on the net (I just forget where I got it). So other than that this is where I start every week.

Check out the manual on how to save your template (as the master template) once you have it to your liking.

Set Template File

I was emailing ableton back and forth recently concerning the built in metronome and how to change its sound. I got an email back from them today (which is weird cause they finally responded to an email I sent them forever ago) saying,

“The Metronome is preset, you can´t take out the downbeat sounds.”

Or can can you????? Ahhhh, yes you can… (from an earlier post, although I thought it was posting as a separate issue)

So how do you change that sound? Here ya go (thanks to some friends on the Ableton forum):

To find them on your Mac…
1. Right-Click (option click) on Live.app
2. Show Package Contents

3. Contents
4. App-Resources
5. Misc
You will see two files of interest… “Metronome.wav” and “MetronomeUp.wav”

Rename your “MetronomeUp.wav” to “MetronomeUpBackup.wav” (so you keep that file if you want to change it back). Next copy the “Metronome.wav” and paste it to your desktop. Change its name to “MetronomeUp.wav” and move it back into “Misc” folder you just copied it from. Whaaa-La. Now your click will be a static sound.

If you want to change it back simply delete the file you created and rename the backup file to its original file name.

Pretty simple eh?

I got a question about how I create my loops along with what I use to create… so here are two screen shots from my Heart of Worship and Give Us Clean Hands loops I recently uploaded. Along with my response to that original question below.

Feel free to ask questions if I dont make much sense.

**CLICK SCREEN SHOTS TO SEE FULL IMAGE**

Drew,

I do 99% of all my stuff in Live. Im not a big reason fan at all, although it does have some cool elements.

For Heart of Worship I created the Djembe Loop using an impulse instrument in Live (most of my loops are done with impluse). The glitch stuff is from a loop library I have (see a post I did a while ago on resources for where to get some killer loops at really good prices). I use the envelope filters to tweak those glitch loops to my liking and then layer them through each scene.

A quick shout out to a new friend, Matt who hooked me up with some tambourine loops he made from scratch. Both the Heart of Worship and Give Us Clean Hands loops have his tambourine files in ‘em.

The only element of Reason I used was the Wurlitzer Sound you hear in Give Us Clean Hands. I wanted to recreate and Angles and Airwaves song (distraction I believe) and abletons rhodes sounds (if you have the Essential Instrument Lib) wasnt to my liking, so I rewired in Reason and used one of its Wurlitzer sounds - although the loop itself was running from Ableton. I took a couple screen shoots so you could see my workflow on each song. Maybe that will help too.

Hope that helps some… Oh… I used a lot o delay and reverb effect in both of those songs as well…. so take that into consideration when you listen to the files.

Peace.

Came across this free sample Live pack from Puremagnetik. Pretty cool stuff.

Check it out here.

They have a subscription service for monthly live packs that seem pretty killer. Anyone heard/tried them and have feedback?

Check out their site at http://puremagnetik.com/

A problem I have run into during sets is needing to change the time signature between songs. Mainly this is for the click track. Now you could just record your own click and route it just like you would any other track (which still has transition problems of its own), but I still am amazed that Ableton hasnt created a feature similar to the their BPM title function that allows you to change tempos between master slots by simply renaming that master clip 100BPM (or what ever the tempo just replace the number). The only way to accomplish this (that I know of) is to manually reach over and type in the new time signature via you laptop keyboard. This can be pretty annoying! I’ve talked with Ableton and they say this is an issue they are addressing in future releases, but nothing for the time being… well… here is my fix (with its own drawbacks)…

Change the sound of Lives built in metronome. Instead of an accent on the downbeat, have a static click sound (the same tone each click). By doing this you can transition between songs and as long as your BPM is set you wont need to change time sig’s. OK, and now for the DISCLAIMER - this really is only useful with the “play along” method I have mentioned before. If you are triggering clips on the fly in a set (see previous posts on how to do this) your “1 bar” (or how ever many you have your grace period set to) is thinking in terms of that actual time signature you have set. See the problem? So this really, as far as I know, is only useful if you are using live to compliment and existing layout of a song (meaning you dont change the way you play it).

How do you change that sound? Here ya go (thanks to some friends on the Ableton forum):

To find them on your Mac…
1. Right-Click (option click) on Live.app
2. Show Package Contents

3. Contents
4. App-Resources
5. Misc
You will see two files of interest… “Metronome.wav” and “MetronomeUp.wav”

Rename your “MetronomeUp.wav” to “MetronomeUpBackup.wav” (so you keep that file if you want to change it back). Next copy the “Metronome.wav” and paste it to your desktop. Change its name to “MetronomeUp.wav” and move it back into “Misc” folder you just copied it from. Whaaa-La. Now your click will be a static sound.

If you want to change it back simply delete the file you created and rename the backup file to its original file name.

And that is how you change time signatures in a set. Pretty simple eh?

** Check out previous “Ableton Live In Worship” posts for certain techniques mentioned above.