Robert Henke, co-founder of Ableton has released some interesting looking Max for Live devices on his website – http://www.monolake.de/technology/m4l.html. Devices include: The legendary PX-18 step sequencer Black – "A simple device which does two things: It displays songtime in hours:minutes:seconds- at least as long as you are working with a constant song tempo. And it […]
Author: Mark Mosher
Synthesist and Multimedia Artist
Despite the economic downturn, 2009 was thankfully a huge year when it came to new technology for electronic music artists. Rather than try and cover every significant release, I’ll instead list some of my favorite products and notable trends. The Year of Ableton What a big year for Ableton. Live 8 with great new features […]
The blogosphere is all a buzz with people discussing Gerhard Behles’s (CEO of Ableton) recent post on Ableton Quality on the Ableton forum – http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=132761. “We have now decided to: suspend all development towards new features while the whole team joins forces to address the current issues. This effort is open ended and will result […]
I recently added Percussa AudioCubes to my studio and performance rig. While I’m planning a longer post offering an overview of how AudioCubes work, this is a quick post to mention two applications of AudioCube technology I’ve been experimenting with. First, I’m using them as lights. You can send RGB values to the cubes via […]
In this YouTube Video, I demonstrate how to use Ableton Live 8 and the Velocity MIDI device along with a dummy clip to add velocity to incoming MIDI notes that are a fixed velocity. I illustrate this with the Tenori-On but this concept will work with any MIDI device. Once velocity is introduced into the […]
One Patch Performance Over the years I’ve produced some very detailed step-by-step videos with voice-over on sound design and music technology. To balance things out, I’m launching a new video series called “ONE PATCH PERFORMANCE”. In this new series there will be no voice over just sound and music. The videos are intended to show […]
I just saw this on the Ableton Forum: We just released the latest Live 8 version, Live 8.1. The main focus of that 8.1 version is the release for the "Max for Live" product. Additionally, Live 8.1 contains a bunch of bugfixes compared to Live 8.0.9. (A corresponding change log will follow soon). Please ONLY […]
Via AbetonDenver – A new YouTube video that offers a nice overview of what’s included with Max for Live. Here are some highlights: Buvfer Shuffler Loop Shifter Step-Sequencer More than 40 Pluggo devices were ported to Max for Live along wth presets! Graphic EQ Compressors Monitoring Tools MIDI Generators Humanizers Building Blocks with annotation Live […]
I found these two videos of Robert Henke on the Cycling ‘74 web site. Always nice to hear insights from insiders. C74 Perspectives: Robert Henke on Max (Watch on YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/v/EO8TMZCGYDc&hl=en_US&fs=1&&hl=en</embed></object></div>";” src=”https://modulatethis.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/91bc0-6a00d83451cae869e2012875b00618970c-pi.jpg” style=”border-style: none” /> C74 Perspectives: Robert Henke on Max for Live(Watch on YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/v/VmLvjRmulAM&hl=en</embed></object></div>";” src=”https://modulatethis.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/9a537-6a00d83451cae869e2012875b0061c970c-pi.jpg” style=”border-style: none” /> Mark Mosher Electronic Music […]
Laura Escude asked me to pass along information on the upcoming Ableton Live Master Class with Timo Preece, Brian Trifon, and Moldover. The event is from 11am to 7pm on November 22nd in San Francisco. Visit http://www.electroniccreatives.com/san-francisco for more info. Mark Mosher Electronic Music Artist, Composer, Sound Designer Louisville/Denver/Boulder http://www.modulatethis.com http://www.markmoshermusic.com http://www.twitter.com/markmosher Download/Buy my album […]
Ableton is celebrating it’s 10th birthday. Lots of buzz today related to this and many announcements, discounts, and freebies. I tweeted a lot of this earlier today but thought I’d pull together a quick post to summarize. Live 8.0.9 released Free live packs (require 8.0.9) Up to 20% off of Live 8 & Suite including […]
In this epic post I’m going to share some behind the scenes notes on what it took to compose the song “They Walk Among Us” from the 2009 electronic music sci-fi themes album REBOOT. If you have any friends who think that all us electronic musicians do is just drop canned loops and hit buttons, […]
If you are into Ableton Live I think you’ll enjoy the following videos. DJ Jazzy Jeff on Ableton Live I saw reference to this on Synthtopia. It’s a an Ableton Inc video featuring DJ Jazzy Jeff on how he uses Ableton Live. At 2:30 he discusses his use of Ableton Sampler to slice segments of […]
I Love Sampler! I’m a huge fan of of Sampler, Ableton’s advance sampling instrument. I was recently corresponding with an artist who was considering Live and I wrote this about it: “Ableton Sampler breaks with the classic sampler metaphor and supports a more immediate and "organic" workflow than other hardware or software samplers. This workflow […]
Revised 7-3-2009, changes are in red. For over two years I've been completely laptop based and loving it. Here are some notes on the three configurations I run with my latpop. First, I'm running an HP DV6500T running Vista, Ableton Live 8 Suite, and various vsts (Alchemy,Sylenth1,NI Massive/Absynth 4,Gladiator 2,Dimension Pro, Morphine…) I run in […]
I’m the proud owner of the new Akai APC40. I’ve already integrated it into my workflow along with my Novation Remote SL. I’ve put together a video of how I’m using these controllers with Live 8. Watch the video on YouTube: <img style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" alt="" src="http://newecho.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451cae869e201156fc42ea7970c-pi" onload="var downlevelDiv = […]
