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Sprechen sie Ableton? Live release date March 5, 2013
Read more . . . →Ableton Live 9 release date has been announced for March 5 this year. I'm very excited to get my hands on the push controller as well as the newly redesigned Live. Particularly interesting will be the Max4Live scene. They are now building this into the highest end Ableton so more people will have their hands on this incredible tool.
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ABLETON LIVE 9
Read more . . . →Woah, go check yerself! Ableton Live 9 has just been announced, to be released in 2013. New improvements include a dedicated controller, Suite includes max for live (YES!) among dozens of other core-usability improvements. This is major news for the music making community. More to follow
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MIDI Synth in Max for Live
Max for Live lets you build custom MIDI patches with full access to Ableton's internals. This tutorial shows how simple and powerful it can get fast.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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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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Max/MSP Live Coding
Read more . . . →A realtime performance of creating a Max-patch, starting from zero. This is a lot like the final project in third year computer music at Carleton University. The only difference is we had all semester to make something that complex. The other minor difference was that we had to make a midi note engine rather than an audio engine, but I'm sure this would pass as acceptable. The Rules: You have 6 minutes to build a Max-patch and do a performance with it. Start with an empty patch. Only use the standard objects that are part of Max/MSP/Jitter. Don’t use externals,...
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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 . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend.