Tips on file and music management with Ableton

March 18, 2010

In my experience, the file manager built into Ableton does not work very well. Being a PC and Microsoft Windows person, the file management is backwards.  The scroll bar is on the left side of the window … at first, it is not obvious how that you can scroll down. It is handy that there are several different views [...]

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What is … Ableton Live?

March 17, 2010

Ableton Live is a software program that enables you to play music from your computer. iTunes allows you to do that but … Ableton Live lets you edit the song and create loops within the song and change the pitch [or key] and change the tempo [without changing the pitch]. Ableton Live is used by [...]

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Thavius Beck in San Francisco for Ableton Live and Novation – March 18, 2010

March 16, 2010

Looking forward to this event … details.  I am excited to see my first
Ableton Live performer … other than myself. Looking to learn what I can about breaks and transitions between songs. Especially slow stuff. I also want to learn more about altering the waveform in real time … during the performance. It seems to me that [...]

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Berklee Music Spring term begins April 5th 2010 for Ableton Live

March 15, 2010

Here is the detail on this course. I saw an ad online for this today that says it starts in January 2010.  A new term starts on April 5th. Click here for detail.
How cool is that. An online course from Berklee Music.  I’ve not taken the course so I can’t comment but it would be great to [...]

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Very Cool! Pete Townshend of The Who uses Ableton Live

March 14, 2010

Being new to Ableton myself, it is fascinating to find out who is using or has been using this software.  Pete Townshend of The Who is a huge fan of the product.  This article is from August 2007 but there are some great comments from him concerning the program. Given that they played for the [...]

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Considering Ableton? or Just Starting Out?

March 14, 2010

This article from “Sound on Sound – The World’s Best Music Recording Magazine” is a great overview of the product. The writer does a great job of synthesising [pun??] the main ideas in Ableton.  I especially liked his description of Ableton as a “two-headed beast”.  That is really appropriate. He describes it as a … [...]

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What is available in Ableton education?

March 14, 2010

We had educated ourselves on Ableton using a book we purchased [Ableton Live 8 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide] and the manual from Ableton.  This has not been easy. We have learned a lot in a short amount of time but some formal education would have been helpful.
At this point, we have not reviewed all the [...]

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Novation Launchpad – Ableton Live Controller

March 14, 2010

This piece of hardware started it all. I can’t say enough nice things about this midi controller. It is realiable, well designed and easy to use. This one piece of hardware has opened up Ableton to all the performance possibilities.
As a live performer, using a computer has been impossible. A keyboard and a mouse are [...]

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Ableton Live 8 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

March 14, 2010

This was the first book we bought when we started using Ableton. Starting with Ableton is no small feat. It can get pretty complicated. This book helped us simplify and focus. We wanted to using Ableton for performance and that is the area we have focused on. We have not really gotten into the recording [...]

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