Sidechain Functionality with 3rd Party Plugins in Ableton Live

Ableton Live 8 has native sidechaining that only works with the native Compressor plugin or any other possible Max4Live devices. Steinberg’s VST3 specifications include functionality for VST3 compatible plugins to allow external sidechain signals but Live does not yet support the VST3 protocol. In this tutorial I will explain how to set up a third …

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Kaleidoscope Festival 2011

Sep 30 – Oct 02, 2011 – I will be perfoming a DJ Set at the Dance stage at Kaleidoscope Festival (Kinkell Farm, St. Andrews, Scotland)

1001 Uses of Ableton Live’s Utility Device – Part 2

In Part 1 of this tutorial we had a look at the very useful Ableton Live Utility device and also at a few examples of its use. In this part we are going to look at some more involved uses of the device that may come in handy in your production. Tutorial available in Audio …

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1001 Uses of Ableton Live’s Utility Device – Part 1

At the bottom of Ableton Live’s device list lies the Utility device. At first glance, the device doesn’t seem to be so useful to users compared to other Ableton Live devices. The truth is, thought, that the Utility can perform some very useful tasks, indeed. Let’s have a look at some of them. Tutorial available …

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Exporting Your Mixes for Disc-at-once Gapless CD Authoring – Part 2

In Part 1, we examined one way of preparing a mix for Disc-at-once gapless CD authoring. We exported our mix from Ableton Live. Then, we imported the mix into Sony Sound forge 10 and used the software’s professional tools to author a professional CD ready for sending it as a premaster to a duplication house, …

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