Ableton Live: How To Connect Multiple Control Surfaces

From WINKSOUND



Ableton Live accommodates up to six individual controllers on one computer enabling a deep level of hands-on expressiveness and freedom when producing or performing. During an Ableton Live User Group workshop hosted at Devotion Gallery instructor and sonic artist Adriano Clemente shares how he synchronizes two MacBook laptops to form a modular system of 10 Novation Launchpad controllers enabling him to control in a myriad of plugins and Max For Live devices in real time.


In this tutorial Devotion Gallery's Director of Education, Brian Jackson, explains how to setup multiple control surfaces within Ableton Live to quickly map desired functions and stream line your production and performance work flows.


Devotion Gallery is a Certified Ableton Live Training Center located in Williamsburg, Brooyklyn housing a comprehensive arts education program where they offer numerous Ableton Live courses and workshops for users of all levels.





Learn more about Devotion Gallery:
Website - Learn.areyoudevoted.com
Twitter - @DevotionLearn

Yamaha PSR-190 Drums for Ableton

From DJ AFROMAC
I like to think that there is a place for just about every sound or instrument, somewhere, in some song.  It doesn’t matter how cheap it is or whether it’s top of the line gold or a bargain bin reject, sometimes things fit perfectly.  I’ve found this to be true with a cheap RadioShack microphone, which barely qualifies as a nice toy, but actually records some nice room sounds for drum tracks.  And another time with my far-from-classic Yamaha PSR-190.  I got the PSR-190 shortly after starting to play guitar and was immediately amused by its built in rhythms and preset sounds that are nothing like the instruments they are named after.  Its career in dust collecting was off to an impressive start.  But as I grew and ventured off into the world of recording, I began to appreciate its character. I think I began incorporating it into some of my songs as its final test, failure meaning a swift trip to the Wednesday morning trash pick up or an adolescent reenactment of the final minutes of any good Nirvana concert (read: smashed to smithereens). Now I would never want to listen to a track composed entirely of PSR-190 sounds, but a layer or two often fit surprisingly well.

This week’s Free Ableton Live Rack is a drum rack made up of the Yamaha PSR-190′s awesomely late 80s-ish kit.   There’s some really indispensable kick and snare sounds, and the toms… the toms are such a charming $80 attempt at Phil Collins that you have to love them.  There were fourteen sounds in total, but to make things fit nicely on your MPC style pads, I modified a Kick and Snare sound, stretching them using Ableton’s Impulse instrument.  I’ve included some FX to allow for some further sculpting.  The video will take you through the particulars.

I’ve included links to my first ever solo album (released under the name Project Nairb), which is littered with a light dusting of my once mocked and now prized (and sometimes still mocked) Yamaha PSR-190. Have fun and enjoy.

Where To You by AfroDjMac

Seasons of Change (Animoog)

Uploaded by ratface1987 on Nov 

Another Animoog piece. Again, the drums were sequenced live in Garageband. To anyone who is wondering how I did this, I simply recorded the Animoog into computer using an audio i/o and lined it up with the video. Hope you enjoy!

Let me know what you think!

Free MP3 of recording: http://soundcloud.com/ratface1987/season-of-change

Phaedra Firing On All Four Cylinders

Alchemy Mobile for iPad

Uploaded by Dogboy73 

3:00 min demo video of Camel Audio's Alchemy Mobile FREE synth for iPad. All sounds from Alchemy Mobile. Sounds triggered internally or from external MIDI keyboard (via iRig MIDI interface).

Demo video of the Camel Audio Alchemy Mobile Free iPad App. All sounds from Alchemy. In some clips an external keyboard (with arpegiator) was used to trigger the App. Others were triggered internally or featured rhythmic patches. Some clips utilise the drum/beat player in the App for backing.


For more information on Alchemy for iPad visit the website.

Phaedra, A New iPad MIDI Step Sequencer

Chris Randall shared this sneak preview of his ‘bad boy’ software step sequencer, Phaedra.

Phaedra is an ”analog” style four-channel MIDI sequencer for the iPad. The design of the Phaedra step sequencer is inspired by the Moon Modular 568 Quad Sequential Trigger Source.

Here’s what Randall has to say about Phaedra:

I still have a long way to go, but it is coming along nicely. Each step has note, velocity, gate time, and a pair of MIDI CCs of your choosing. I haven’t yet coded in the chaining feature, but it’ll be able to do 4 x 32, 2 x 64, and 1 x 128 modes. The steps can be 32nd note, 16th note, 8th trips, and 8th note, and each “bus” can run in arbitrary lengths. The “Live Control” knobs on the left can be used to modify one of the four destinations.

I haven’t yet conquered “MIDI background mode,” as used by many iPad synth apps, but I hope to include it, as well as Korg’s WIST. It already does normal hardware MIDI and Network MIDI fine, though, and can clock, or be clocked from, an external source.

No release date has been announced, but Randall says that he hopes to have work on it wrapped up by Christmas.

Here’s a brief demo of Phaedra in its current state:

The demo is pretty basic, considering the current state of the iPad music platform.

The Moon Modular sequencer IS a bad boy, though, so a software version, paired up with a iPad MIDI interface and a multitimbral hardware or software synth, could prove to be a relatively inexpensive way to create a powerful step sequencing set up.

iPad Music Show Pilot Episode 2

Nick Batt & Gaz Williams are back with another ‘pilot’ episode for the iPad Music Show.

Items covered include:

• Hardware
• Apple Camera Connection Kit
• Alternative USB kit
• Dock Extender
• Line6 MIDI Mobilizer
• Yamaha i-MX1
• Apps:
• Accordéon
• Set List Organizer
• Keyboard Arp & Drum Pads
• ThumbJam

They’re looking for ideas for better names for the show – so if you’ve got an idea, let them know!

via SonicState