Best of Ableton Twitter Video Posts

Over the last couple of months I have found Twitter to be a really great tool for sharing ideas with likeminded people. I’ve learned a few great tricks and I wanted to pass this on to all of you.

If you would like to follow my “Tweets”

follow me here: http://twitter.com/AbletonVids

These are some of my favorite Video posts over the last couple weeks regarding Ableton

Hope you enjoy these!

Jason

P.S. – Don’t forget to comment & tweet (down below) & “like” (up above).
All your feedback & support is appreciated!

Dennis DeSantis makes a song in Ableton:

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Misuse of Ableton’s Frequency filter:

http://www.channels.com/episodes/6710914

Follow Dennis: http://twitter.com/dennisdesantis

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WinkSound.com has a wide variety of video tutorials (Including some of mine) on their site. I’m not sure if they have any content that they make themselves, but it’s a great portal if you are looking for a specific tutorial.

These are a few that caught my attention:

Turn samples and ambient recordings into instruments using Ableton

Live: http://tinyurl.com/dc2wle

A video tip to help with your Ableton Live workflow.

http://tinyurl.com/d37upg

One of the “Whoda Funk” guys (Shiny Disco Balls) give you some tips:

http://winksound.com/video/House-Music-Production-Tutorial

Creating a basic sound with filter enveloping & stereo spread in Ableton

http://tinyurl.com/cf7hdu

Remove feedback from sound system -

http://winksound.com/video/Ringing-Out-Feedback-from-a-PA

NFX explains the importance of understanding Scales.

http://tinyurl.com/cmojjl

Follow WinkSound: http://twitter.com/WinkSound

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Here are a couple from my favorite tutorial making Sound Designer Nick Maxwell. I suggest you go to his website and look at his free videos. Really great for Drum Racks and Sampler users.

http://www.nickstutorials.com

Follow Nick: http://twitter.com/NicksTutorials

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This is another Ableton 8 Misuse video from Dennis Desantis regarding Groove extraction. This was posted on the CDM site (Look 4 videos down)

Groove Extraction Misuse

Follow CDMblogs: http://twitter.com/cdmblogs

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Lastly these are some of my favorite videos at the moment. Gustavo Bravetti is really a “next generation” DJ who is using Ableton and a bunch of other technology to take his DJ set to another level. He also takes the time to make tutorial videos that drastically simplifies the process of making electronic music. I will likely be making a more detailed set of videos diving deeper into his techniques.

http://tinyurl.com/353ofp

http://www.dancetracksdigital.com/wp/?p=553

http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/gustavo-bravetti/

Follow Gustavo: http://twitter.com/gustavobravetti

Happy Music Making,

Jason

Music Links from the community

In a past post I asked for some of you to submit links to any music you would like me to share with the community. Over the last several weeks I got some responses, so now I will post them here.

If you would like to be added to the list, feel free to email me you soundcloud link or any permanent link to your music.

DJ mixes are also welcome although, I can’t host those files. Mixportal and mixcloud is great for that sort of thing though. Also If you have a weekly internet radio show, make sure to share that as well!

I’d love to hear about any useful Ableton techniques you used (or any other program). Sharing tips and tricks is what it’s all about!

I will continue to update this particular blog, so if you would like to be added to this post, simply send me an email at:

MusicSoftwareTraining@gmail.com

Here are the links:

www.myspace.com/deuslive

www.myspace.com/mrtonvibes

www.myspace.com/mrtonvibes

www.myspace.com/jonathanhorseman

www.myspace.com/airosmusic

http://soundcloud.com/velizar

www.myspace.com/rinotah

The magnetron Formula

www.reverbnation.com/cling

www.reverbnation.com/itsheebz

www.myspace.com/sonicspells

http://thatoneawkwardkid.bandcamp.com/

Violet Shift

target=”_blank”>Cling (Video)

target=”_blank”>Rna Project ft. Ronnie (video)

HWC – NYC remix: http://www.sectionz.com/detail.asp?rType=mp3&SZID=28343

http://soundcloud.com/paulhunter/untitled-21 ( Paul mentioned this was unfinished)

http://soundcloud.com/davidhenderson

http://soundcloud.com/david-bau

http://soundcloud.com/dr_goldsylver-fastfinger/sets/work-in-progress

www.soundcloud.com/psychic-vibe

www.soundcloud.com/patrickchampagne

http://soundcloud.com/ojasan

http://soundcloud.com/hi_dub/only-a-human

“Beat Up Car” by AfroDjMac and SuperKid
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“B and C Down in History” by AfroDjMac and SuperKid
http://soundcloud.com/afrodjmac/b-and-c-down-in-history

http://soundcloud.com/kylebstyle

Paul Hunters DJ mixportal:

http://paulhuntermixportal.blogspot.com/?psinvite=ALRopfU37O3k54i_ztWxXGT9uC_mLlUNK8UaKZLPwT4X3OR6Gq7rhHUGYh4FteUwaXsYKZES3eMkF8R7eYeXWinzxMlofOBAvg

And a couple from me:

http://www.soundcloud.com/jason-timothy

Sigur Ros – Svefn-g-englar (Innerstate remix)

Mixing with my mind – Jason Timothy

New Music Strategies Ebook by Andrew Dubber

There is a fantastic free 96 page ebook on marketing your music or band online and by Andrew Dubber

His New Marketing Strategies ebook is essentially a collection of relevant blogs he wrote and breaks down the 20 most important things to know about marketing your music online. Although I’ve not yet finished the whole ebook, it appears to be a “no fluff” resource. Download it free at the link below and share it with friends. If you like what you read, consider joining Andrews blog.

http://newmusicstrategies.com/ebook/

Enjoy!

Jason

P.S. – Don’t forget to comment & tweet (down below) & “like” (up above).
All your feedback & support is appreciated!

Free Ableton effect and instrument racks

I wanted to share with you a bunch of great goodies! A wonderfull

thing about the Ableton community is that they love to share their

creative inventions. I found these in the forums and wanted to share

them with you.

Below are a whole mess of custom made instrument racks and effect

racks!

I haven’t put all these to the test, but would love feedback from

you as to which ones you had the most fun with.

Enjoy these! I hope this give you weeks of inspiration

and experimentation!

Happy music making!

Jason

Effect Racks

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Masher

By fatrabbit: 8 Beat Repeats mapped to a chain control so you

can use a knob on your MIDI controller to select which one

you want.

Sweepable Crossover

by ethios4: The Sweepable Crossover allows you to apply an

effects chain to either side of a crossover that can be moved

>freely with perfect transparency.

Glitch 3 as an audio rack

modified by fatrabbit

This rack uses and requires supatrigga.

Beat Divider One 1/8/07

Beat Divider Two

by ethios4: With these racks, each beat has its own chain.

Therefore you can apply different effects to each beat, over

1 or 2 measures depending on the rack. This is accomplished

by a series of autopans – you can adjust each beat so that it

only plays the first 16th note, 8th note, or entire beat by turning

>on/off the leftmost autopan, or even adding additional autopans

on the left end of the chain, according to the pattern already set.

DJ-EQ 2/11/07

by hoffman2k: “Some people don’t seem to be happy with EQ3 for

Dj’ing and find EQ4/8 too complex to set up. So here’s my attempt

at a DJ EQ. The requests were only as specific as: “It should not

color the sound” and “0dB should be in the middle”.

With those 2 features in mind, I built the rack.”

Requires Dual Comp AU

Blitchmyglitch & Scratcher 4/6/07

by Airwave:

Blitchmyglitch is a realtime glitcher that moves all the time.

It uses a lot of different fx, redux, beatrepeat, grain delay…

quite enjoyable if you like supercollider and livecut stuff.

Scratcher is a tool that lets you program scratches, turntable

stop fx, reverses based on any loop that you will load in it.

It’s extremely addictive and funny.

InstantChip 4/19/07

by Idonotlikebroccoli: Here’s a quick and fun one if you

wanna make that chip-tune whatever kind of thing. It’s a

MIDI effect rack which consists of an arpeggiator and two

pitch plugins.

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Instrument Racks

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Oper808

by mdk: its an early version of his 808 emulator built using just

>Operator and Live’s built in fx.

Requires Ableton’s Operator

AM drum kit 1/4/07

by AM: It’s an acoustic drum kit… with tweakable mic positions…

sounds strange i know, but you get the idea once you see it in action.

It’s a large download, and it’s processor intensive…. but it’s pretty

good for getting a range of Acoustic drum sounds…. and also for

messing with until you get really odd sounds.

Angstrum Drum Player 2/5/07

by angstrum: Really cool drum kit using the included waveforms

in Lives sample library. Set up well for electronic music- lots of

presence.

Drum Selektor 2/14/07

by wollej: Another small drum rack for selecting different kicks, snares, toms

via macro controls. Built with 8 instances of Impulse and pitch/scale plugins

for selecting the samples in the Impulse players.

AfroDjMac Laptop Feedback

P.S. – Don’t forget to comment & tweet (down below) & “like” (up above).
All your feedback & support is appreciated!

Ultimate Drum Machine Samples

This is a gold mine of sample collections from 70 vintage drum machines. This varies from the most popular to the obscure. All kits made into Drum Rack presets that are easily installed to your library. For a full list click on the title link or picture to the left. This collection will easily give you every sound you could need for electronic drums. If you are looking for THAT sound, I guarantee you'll find it here!

30 Day Music Production Video

If you've ever wanted to look over my shoulder while I make songs, THIS is the collection for you! In this collection you get me producing 2 full songs and a DJ mix from start to finish over a 30 day period. I take you through the good the bad and the ugly. It's the most honest video collection I've ever made. It includes every Ableton songfile for each day, every sample used and about 20 hours of Video. It also includes mixdowns of the 2 completed songs and DJ Mix.

Ultimate Ableton Collection 1

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Ultimate Ableton Collection 2

This collection makes an incredible companion to the first collection and gets into the newest features in Ableton. There are also 20 professional custom drum kits and a full Drum Racks replication of Roland's famous R-70 drum machine.

Advanced Warping Collection

This collection is a must for DJ's and remixers! If you find yourself warping full songs on a regular basis, you are going to run into warping issues that can really bring your production to a halt. These simple secrets will get you past that with ease and back to doing what you do best.

Dj'ing and Performance Collection

A must for anyone wanting to DJ or perform live in Ableton. Includes 17 in-depth Videos on Warping, Organizing files, Setting up midi controllers (including APC40) and lots more! As a Free bonus, it also includes my Ebook "Mixing with your Mind - Make your best DJ Mix".

Ableton Remixing Walkthrough

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