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Vibrasphere Remix Breakdown
Read more . . . →By Alex Massaad A few weeks ago I made a remix of a song: Its by a band that I've been a really big fan of for a couple years, Vibrasphere. You can check out the link above to get caught up with the song I'm about to describe and break down. In this post I'm going to explain how I put together this arrangement, as well as some details on how I'm configuring Ableton Live to play around with the samples before I get to the arrangement stage. I save a lot of time by playing around with musical...
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Music Mondays - Tommy Lee joins Deadmau5 @ Ultra Music 2010
Read more . . . →Edited by Alex Massaad from sources at MTV (who cannot write good copy to save their life) No one was prepared for Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee to take the stage with Canadian sensation Deadmau5 to close out the night. The two began the set with a treat fans have come to love WMC for, the debut of a brand-new song (so new that it's still untitled!). Lee departed after this initial song, and the 'Mau5 launched into an hour and 40 minutes of hits, including his own mix of Rage Against the Machine, "Strobe" and his biggest fan favorite...
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The application that changed making music...
However, we are now the most successful music software company out there, with an incredible number of customers all over the world, and our software massively changed the way electronic music is created and performed. ... Because it not only allows highly musical people with limited budget to create fantastic and complex music, it also allows those folks like me to dive deeper into the creation and exploration of music, sound and structure than ever before.Read more . . . → -
Vibrasphere Remix - Wasteland (firewire coldplaysucks re-edit) download
Read more . . . →Download an mp3 of my remix of Vibrapshere's Wasteland. I have uploaded it to zippyshare, for the time being. Download Vibrasphere - Wasteland (firewire coldplaysucks re-edit) here. You can also check out a video of the remix in Ableton here: (video offline)
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The XX vs Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot - Silicone Shelter - King Unique
Read more . . . →I've been listening to this for a long time now, and I really love this song. Here's proof that our future is not becoming less free.
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I cannot get enough King Unique "The XX & Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot — Silicone Shelter" these days
Read more . . . →As I wrote about recently, I cannot stop listening to this bootleg! It is totally one of the greatest productions going on through my head right now. It's just so raw . . . sounds like a live remix . . .it would be wicked to see musicians start to go in this style live. Doing mash up remixes via Ableton Live . . . the future of music is exciting! On a similar note I've been listening to a lot of "The XX" especially their "Florence + The Machine" remix!
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Fiducial Midi Controller for Ableton
Read more . . . →Cool Ableton Live triggering system! This is a quick demo of the Fiducial Midi Controller, a tangible controller built using ReacTIVision software with OSCulator to send midi signals to Ableton Live. via gabeshaughnessy: My DJ skills need some work, but you get the idea. One thing you can’t see in this video is the cards are color coded. They match the Ableton Tracks. My ableton live mapping is not very sophisticated. Each clip has a card that triggers it, and you can rotate each card too, effecting something different on each track. The drum track, for example, changes the note duration, or time, when you...
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Ableton Live Webcam Music Generator
This is a demo of some of the powerful stuff you can do with Max 4 Live, the new Max API for Ableton Live 8. ... The video demonstrates a webcam plugin that turns on-camera movements, quantizes them to pre-defined notes, and then further adjusts them to a preset musical scale. the result is an instant midi note generator that is controlled by your movement in front of a camera.Read more . . . → -
Ableton Live by 11 year old
Read more . . . →Having some problems hooking up your Ableton Live rig together? Take a lesson from this 11 year old who picked up his brothers Ableton rig and taught himself to do this in 30 minutes: This video just speaks to the easy concept within Ableton. It is not necessary to be a computer scientist to operate this software (although if you are . . Max for Live offers some wicked coding opportunities!). You can be a musician, and in fact the session view speaks to this side of the brain very intuitively. This kid was able to pick up his brothers...
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Reasons to become a DJ
Paul Oakenfold is reportedly makes $7.5 million dollars a year and there are plenty of DJs who charge as much as $50,000 for one gig (Tiesto, deadmau5). ... You might be a champ with ‘guitar hero’ but learning to play real guitars or keeping time with a live band on with drums is actually hard work.Read more . . . →