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Flight of the Bumblebee Performed on an Ableton Push
If you’ve ever tried to use a Launchpad or APC as a (frustrating at best) keyboard controller, you need to watch this video. It seems there is quite a bit of flexibility when it comes to programming...
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▶ Ableton Live 9 Review
9 The first thing that hits you is the browser. That and the new color scheme. The pervasive Futura font and extensive rebranding effort. Push. Ableton is working overtime trying to convince the...
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In-Depth Ableton Push Review
Required reading for anyone wanting lots of details and macro pictures of Push. In summary: But the Launchpad and APC40 now feel more like experiments in comparison to Push. The new, sleek black...
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Audio to MIDI in Ableton Live 9 vs. Melodyne
Oliver Chesler has an interesting look at the Audio to MIDI feature in Live 9. He compares it to Melodyne, actually: Whatever you think of the results as much as I love Melodyne and use it it’s not a...
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▶ Push Envy -Hacking the Novation Launchpad to do Scales
After rewatching the Ableton Preview Event video, in which Dennis DeSantis gives a great demo of the Push’s scale mapping capabilities, I decided to see if I could mimic this on my Launchpad using Max...
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Interesting stats on women in electronic music
Via Sonic Bloom: Later I learnt only 7% of the Ableton Live users were female. That was in 2010 or 2011. I didn’t expect a high percentage, but 7% sorta shocked me. That really got me thinking.
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The Best Ableton Push Review
Courtesy of DJ Tech Tools: “The buttons are a lot more playable than I thought they’d be” The video makes it look less like a rubber pad and more like some sort of kevlar-headed piano key. The triple...
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▶ Imogen Heap + Deadmau5 = An Imogen Heap song
Hmm. When I saw that Imogen Heap appeared on the new Deadmau5 album, I thought maybe to expect possibly a Deadmau5-ish song with Immi’s vocals. Instead what we got was simply an unreleased Imogen Heap...
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How the Drumsynth works in Ableton Suite 9
Great interview at Sonic Bloom with Christian Kleine, creator of the DrumSynth Max for Live device. Lots of things I had no idea about, such as: There are currently 13 different devices. The important...
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Ableton Push First Prototypes
Great interview with the Ableton Push co-creator, Jesse Terry: That’s right, I used Lego and sugru (a silicon putty). We attached Lego pieces to MIDI buttons with LEDs, connected to a Livid Brain. So,...
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How I teach mixing to high schoolers
I’ve been teaching Mixing and Mastering as an early project in my advanced Music Tech course for about 6 years, and I’ve found it to be one of the more challenging and rewarding parts of the...
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Teaching Chord Progressions with Ableton and Hooktheory
When teaching composition, it used to be that writing chord progressions required: Ability to play an instrument Ability to read music notation Knowledge of scales/chord positions on a piano A few...
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From One Clip, Many (Beginner-level House Music in Session View)
In my beginner Music Tech class we’re currently working on House music in Ableton’s Session View. A key component of the project is generating tons of descendent clips from one original clip. The...
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TI:ME Free Online Symposium is Happening NOW
TI:ME Members and non-members alike can logon to check out our free Symposium on Music Tech Pedagogy that is happening right now. I’ll be speaking at 3:00pm EDT about the types of projects I like to...
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How I start beginners on Ableton Live with Apple Loops
Around Christmas 2013 I was starting to worry about GarageBand. Since 2006 I had started my beginners on the software, which arguably ignited the entire movement of “older beginner” music composition...
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