Let’s say you created your mix in your favorite sequencing software. You’ve laid out all tracks with crossfades, filter and effects automation and you would like to burn the results onto a CD for distributing to record labels, duplication houses or your friends. I am going to show you a great, streamlined way of achieving …
10-12/06/2011 – Performing at the Chillout and Dance stage at Eden Festival(Scotland)
Let’s say you’ve warped a good amount of tracks that are scattered around in your hard drive. You’ve meticulously added your warp markers for each song and .asd files at the same directory where each track is located. It would be desirable for you to have access to those files from one place and not …
With the plethora of free and paid plugins currently available on the market, chances are that you already have access to a few of them. It might get intimidating trying to organize these plugins in a logical and understandable structure in your hard drive. Ableton Live has some nice organizational features that can make your …
With the plethora of free and paid plugins currently available on the market, chances are that you already have access to a few of them. It might get intimidating trying to organize these plugins in a logical and understandable structure in your hard drive. Ableton Live has some nice organizational features that can make your …
06/05/2011 – DJ Set at the Cheesy My Puff club night (Studio 24, 24 Calton Road, Edinburgh, Scotland)
15/04/2011 – DJ Set at the Cosmic club night (Studio 24, 24 Calton Road, Edinburgh, Scotland)
It’s true that long mixing sessions can create a degree of ear fatigue. That can lead to a number of undesirable things like making bad mixing decisions. It’s always a good idea to take small breaks to clear up and relax your ears. On top of that, there are various monitoring plugins or spectrum analyzers …
In this quick tip, I am going to show you a great MIDI remote script which I found that can greatly enhance your Ableton Live experience both during production and live performance. MIDI Scripts are compiled Python scripts that provide custom support for various MIDI controllers by allowing you to map MIDI note, Control Change …
In this quick tip, I am going to show you a neat and simple way of running Ableton Live and Traktor on the same computer by using external MIDI software. This scenario would be useful if you wish to add extra loops on top of your Traktor set by triggering Live clips that stay in …
In Part 1 of this tutorial which can be found here, we examined a couple of uses of side chain compression and demonstrated how this method can assist and enhance your mixing experience. Specifically, we looked at how we can sidechain a single signal and also used an effect rack on a return channel and …
Up to Ableton Live version 6, the software didn’t include a compressor device with side chain input. Ableton Live 7 onwards introduced the new side chain enabled native compressor. The resulting effect is also called “ducking” and in this two-part tutorial we are going to explore it’s uses and demonstrate how his method can assist …
Quite a few times after recording a vocal or a sample from the outside world, especially when using a low quality microphone, you can end up with some kind of undesirable background noise. We are going to examine a way of reducing these type of noise by using a free Cross-Platform Sound Editor called Audacity. …
17/10/2010 – DJ Set at the Cosmic club night (Studio 24, 24 Calton Road, Edinburgh, Scotland)
In this quick tip, I am going to show you a great way to sync two Ableton Live instances on the same computer by using external MIDI software. This way we can have one instance acting as a Master that will be controlling the playback of both instances. This technique can be useful if a …
