Focus on Ableton Live
[Ableton Live in Action!]
Junkie XL Performs Using Ableton Live at NAMM 2008
Electronic music producer and film score composer Junkie XL performs at the 2008 Winter NAMM show, using an Allen & Heath XONE:3D mixer and Ableton Live software.
Just Blaze Interview
Just when you think the first song is over, production effects take hold: Instruments, vocals and beats twist and stretch into a slightly nauseating fissure, slowly creating the next track. The effect is unsettling. Your perceptions are manually adjusted, and along with it, a view of a possible audio future. Blaze credits working with Ableton Live and stems as key...
Studio Setup Feature: Think Inside the Box
As a software complement, Ableton's new Live 6 adds many exciting new features to what was already the most dynamic live-performance software. It's the best option for using a laptop for performing your own original music, live remixing and mash-ups...
[Puma 1977 Remix Contest Winners]
Winners of Remix magazine and Puma's 1977 remix contest, Jaded Lover, talk about their process of making their remix of Chic's "Everybody Dance."
"The first thing we did was to import the audio file of the complete song into Ableton Live, where we time-stretched the entire track in order to tighten up the drumming. Then we selected snippets of the tune..."
Puma 1977 Remix Contest Article
Puma 1977 Remix Hotel TV Video
While beginning as an innovative live performance/looping tool, Ableton Live has evolved quickly, and is now also a a full-featured audio, MIDI and even video-capable workstation, rivaling the feature sets of the other major DAWs. This collection of Ableton Live resources guides you through the early to the latest versions with tips, tricks and advice for studio production, remixing, live performance, Djing and even film scoring.
The Latest on Ableton Live
DIGITAL DJ:
Now’s the Time:
New features in Ableton Live’s latest update and fresh compatibilities from leading DJ programs make Live 7 as DJ booth-ready as ever. Learn about DJing...
TUTORIAL
Master Class: Rack 'Em Up
The Drum Rack instrument is one of Live 7's most interesting new features, its creative potential...
PODCAST
What's New: Len Sasso on Ableton Live 7 LE
Len Sasso talks about the features of Ableton Live 7 LE, the economy version of Ableton's Live 7.
Remix Review: Ableton Live 7 Suite
Ableton has really shown itself to be, well, able. Those bercreative and
hard-working Germans are back with the revamped and re-energized Live 7
Suite,...
Electronic Musician Review: Ableton Live 7
With the release of Live 7, Ableton implements numerous user requests,
improves audio and MIDI performance, and introduces a powerful new rack
variation called Drum Racks...
More on Ableton Live below
New Product: Ableton Live 7 DAW and Performance Software
Those creative programmers at Ableton don't sleep much, so they can release a major upgrade every year. Live 7 brings new levels of precision and fidelity...
Remix Ableton Live 6 review
Some of the uninitiated lump Ableton Live with other DAWs such as Pro Tools, Cubase, Digital Performer or Cakewalk. A growing number of creative types, however, have been discovering Live as...
Ableton Live 6 as a DJ Tool (Part 1) - Chance Meeting
"The term live and the name of the ubiquitous software that makes this revolution possible are so commonplace that we almost need to come up with a new one and permanently concede the word 'live' to Ableton...I am of course speaking of the loop-based performance software Ableton Live"...
Ableton Live 6 as a DJ Tool (Part 2) - EASY AS 1, 2, 6!
Once you get familiar with keeping Live in time with other music, layering several songs is a cinch. Then it's just a short hop, skip and jump over to DJing fully with Ableton...
Ableton Live 6 CSi Master DVD-ROM - Quick Hits
Ableton Live 6 may be painless to get started with, but there is a ton of stuff going on under the hood. The 4-hour Ableton Live 6 CSi Master DVD-ROM packs a ton of...
Dancetracks, Ableton Launch Live-Ready Downloads
Dancetracks has teamed up with Ableton, developers of the awarding-winning DJ and production software Live, to provide Live-Ready downloads...
Studio Setup Feature: Think Inside the Box
As a software complement, Ableton's new Live 6 adds many exciting new features to what was already the most dynamic live-performance software. It's the best option for using a laptop for performing your own original music, live remixing and mash-ups......
Tutorials: Tips and Tricks
Comping Tracks in Live 6
Sep 1, 2007
Ableton Live 6 provides lots of user-friendly tools for solving production problems quickly. When it comes to comping (compositing) a final audio track out of several takes, though, you'll have to resort to one or two old-fashioned manual methods. But with a little patience, you can comp vocals or other audio tracks and achieve fully professional results...
A Slice in Time
Jul 1, 2007
You can use any multisample player to play the slices, but Live's Impulse drum sampler offers separate outputs for each sample, has built-in time-stretching (useful when changing tempo), and can load audio clip regions into its slots...
Impulsive Decisions
Jul 1, 2007
Ableton Live's Impulse drum sampler makes an excellent player for sliced audio files because of its ability to apply separate processing and output routing to each of its slots. In this month's “Making Tracks” column (see p. 60), I show how to...
Twang, Plunk, Boing
Mar 1, 2005
Resonator effects are useful for adding pitch to unpitched sounds and for bringing out the harmonic content of pitched sounds. I'll use Ableton Live 4's Resonator plug-in to illustrate both processes...
Enveloping Strategies
Feb 1, 2006
Most DAWs have two kinds of automation: time based and clip based. Time-based automation is tied to the DAW's timeline, whereas clip-based automation is tied to...
Here's That Grainy Day
Feb 1, 2007
Granular synthesis is often used in academic and experimental music but isn't found in many commercial synthesizers. An easier way to try out granular synthesis is to use the Sampler plug-in available as an optional add-on for Ableton Live 6...
Learn the lesser-known perks of Ableton Live's Warp Function
Feb 1, 2005
One such program that I find particularly fruitful is Ableton Live. Live has a well-rounded array of effects, including the usuals such as delay, reverb and chorus. Particularly attractive to those who like their music to......
[Resources]
Ableton Homepage
Ableton news, products, downloads, etc...
Ableton Movies
Videos on how to's, tutorials, product information, etc...
Ableton Live 6
Over the course of its short history, Ableton Live has moved quickly from a novel live performance/looping tool to a full-featured audio, MIDI and now video-capable workstation....
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