A new era! I am not the programming type, but I am really excited about Max being made available for the Ableton Live community.  In my mind this is like having NI Reaktor with all its possibilities directly wired into Live’s devices. Please check out the links and you’ll find a ton of info about this great invention. Hopefully someone will make something spectacular with the Akai APC40 as well.

Max for Live Guide 10

http://max4live.info/

It’s been quite a while since my last entry, so I decided to write a new one (just after having purchased Ableton Max for Live – really excited about what this application will do for Live users – and I am also waiting for some serious Akai APC40 tweaking to go along with it).

Anyway, the status at the moment in the camp of Pjusk is simply that Andreas “Lupo” Nordenstam is currently mastering and mixing the album which will be named “Sval”.  For those not that fluent in Norwegian (probably 99% of you),  Google translate suggests “cool” (temperature).  Feedback so far from Andreas is really promising and if everything goes as planned, the album should be out on 12k spring 2010.  With the next Pjusk album on its way,  I have already started working together with Bjarte on the next Circular album.  Promise to be back soon. Cheers, Josten!

This past weekend’s Ableton invasion included two days of classes by Dubspot instructors and a FunkAid for Africa Benefit party. Highlights?

• Being around ppl who aren’t afraid that Ableton will lead to the end of modern civilization
• Hobotech and eating hog eyes
• Francis Preve
• DJ Obah and Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys at the Independent

Read more after the jump.

Austin was one of eight U.S. cities to host NYC DJ School Dubspot’s weekends of “interactive workshops, Q&As and live performances” on their Ableton Live 8 Sessions tour. An increasingly ubiquitous program, Ableton Live 8 is production and performance software used by the biggest, best producers around the world, and some of the worst too. Despite the discourse around Ableton and other DJ software that has some of the most creative and forward thinking edm producers pitching fits and sounding like grandparents wishing for the good ol’ days, the session was decently attended by at least 30 students each day.

Sunday’s Ableton Sessions featured some amazing on-the-fly live performances by Dubspot instructors and guests Pilo, Jon Margulies and Francis Preve.  Margulies, a Dubspot instructor and author of Ableton Live 7 & 8, enlightened students regarding Hobo-tech during his session on Advanced Performance Applications. The genre, whose name he coined, goes against NYC’s bottle service sensibility and glorifies low living instead. Margulies even created an example, warping a hobo-esque song to a dance track. Thanks John. I’ll never get those lyrics out of my head. “I got a girl, 6 feet tall, sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall, eatin hog eyes, spittin out chittlins.” Disgusting. Great class though.

Francis Preve also taught a fun class on Creative DJing Options. First of all, he’s really entertaining. His desktop background is a quote about how truly creative types are dirty, unorganized and have strange taste in women. Secondly, perhaps more importantly, he’s a great teacher. Everyone and their mom has taken or wants to take his production classes at ACC, and I can see why.

Saturday night’s CD release event and benefit for NextAid, “Funk Aid” went down at the Independent, a cool venue east of IH-35, between 5th and 6th Street. I arrived just in time for a great performance by Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys.  DJ Obah spun a set of funk, jazz and soul next. Obah mixed the FunkAid for Africa CD being released at the event. All proceeds benefit NextAid. Check it out here.

FunkAid CD

Dian Giove, president and founder of Dubspot mentioned loving Austin’s vibe and wanting to start a Dubspot school here. Very interesting. Interested?

The Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT Music) will present Forward Flight, the third and final event of its 7th annual performance season, from Wednesday, January 13th through Saturday, January 16th at New York’s Abrons Arts Center.

This four-night celebration of the eclecticism of the trumpet in contemporary music, curated by Dave Douglas and Taylor Ho Bynum, will feature events on two stages, including performances by a diverse range of ensembles, three free FONT Music Workshop Series events and an opening night tribute to unheralded veteran trumpet player, Wilmer Wise.

The program will include world premieres of music from the New York-based composers collective Anti-Social Music (ASM) and composer David Sanford, whose piece, “Seven Kings”, was commissioned by FONT Music with support from Chamber Music America to be performed by the Meridian Arts Ensemble with guest soloist Dave Ballou. And, The New York Trumpet Ensemble, directed by Mark Gould, will present the New York premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s Brass Quintet.

Headlining events will include indie folk band The Low Anthem with a special appearance by Dave Douglas, a celebration of the Chicago Underground Duo’s new CD, Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey), a rare performance of Ornette Coleman’s “The Sacred Mind of Johnny Dolphin” by Wilmer Wise and the American debut of the Open Circuit International Trumpet Ensemble, featuring an all-star cast of trumpet players from America, Austria, Japan and France, presented with support from CMA/FACE French-American Jazz Exchange.

“Forward Flight is a collection of performances designed to highlight the forward-looking trajectory of current brass music,” Douglas explains. “The name is taken from a late fifties album by Booker Little, and like that trumpeter it shows the wide ranging possibilities for this instrument. In the context of alternative folk and rock, in contemporary classical composition, in international hybrids of improvised music and electronics, brass instruments continue to breathe air into the expansion of contemporary trends.”

He adds, “FONT Music is for the first time becoming a membership organization, and this festival feels like a part of that step. In our own community, longtime board member Wilmer Wise will be feted with a ceremony and special performance on January 13th. When combined with a series of workshops free to the public, this seems like a big step in a very special year for FONT Music as an organization and as a music festival.”

Forward Flight schedule:

Wednesday, January 13th at 7:30 p.m.
FONT Music Celebrates the Music and Legacy of Wilmer Wise
Featuring Dave Douglas, Wilmer Wise and several special guests

Thursday, January 14th at 5:00 p.m.
Free workshop: Oral History Project with Wilmer Wise
Anti-Social Music
The New York Trumpet Ensemble directed by Mark Gould
Wilmer Wise

Friday, January 15th at 5:00 p.m.
Free workshop: Ableton Live User Group co-hosted by Dubspot
Opsvik & Jennings plus the Ignite A Noise Trumpet Trio
Chicago Underground Duo
The Low Anthem with special appearance by Dave Douglas

Saturday, January 16th at 5:00 p.m.
Free workshop: Group improvisation with the York College Blue Notes
Mr. Tamerman’s Maggot and Sarah Ferholt’s Vevertise
Meridian Arts Ensemble with Dave Ballou
Open Circuit International Trumpet Ensemble

Thursday, Friday and Saturday night events will begin at 5:00 p.m. with a free workshop followed by an early performance in the Blackbox Theatre and headline performances at 7:30 and 9:00 p.m. on the Main Stage.

Tickets for the opening night benefit concert are $35, which also includes a membership in FONT Music and admission to the pre-concert reception. Tickets for the other three nights are $15 ($12 for students with ID and FONT Music members) per night. All tickets can be purchased at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/702215.

A festival pass is also available for $40 ($30 students with ID and FONT members). Passes can be purchased at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/store/209

The Abrons Arts Center is located at 466 Grand Street (at the corner of Pitt Street) on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Venue information is available at (212) 598-0400 and http://www.abronsartscenter.org

About FONT Music:

Twoje numery są płaskie, a echo nigdy ne daje Ci tego czego oczekuje się od dobrze ułożonego echa? No i Twoje koszule nie są już tak białe jak kiedyś? Poleca się byś zastosował stereofonię – system różnicowania dźwięku względem używanych kanałów. Dodam tylko, że efekt stereo to nie tylko panning. Tymczasem wszystko poniżej.

Nawet jeśli Ableton był by jeszcze prostszy w obsłudze i tak wielu osobom może wydać się zbyt trudny. Kiedyś w wolnej chwili obejrzałem wszystkie tutoriale jakie można znaleźć na jutubie i wiem jedno – 3/4 to strara czasu. Dlatego jako wo’selektor polecam poniższe klipy wszystkim tym którze myślą o szybkim starcie.

Wszystkie pochądzą z oficjalnego kanału Live’a link here, jednak ponieważ jest ich tam ponad siedemdziesiąt, mój wybór może okazać się przydatny

Loaded a bunch of new sounds into the laptop, including some instrument loops that I recorded in the apartment in Vienna, as well as in a cabin up in the mountains outside of town… The hills are indeed alive with the sounds of music samples! Importing them into live sounds cooler than cool!

Able10 celebrates 10 years of Ableton and to celebrate there’s free upgrades, special offers etc. plus some free Live Packs from artists such as Adam Freeland, Apparat, Swayzak and several others.

These Live Packs need the latest version of Ableton, which is 8.0.9.

There doesn’t seem to be that much in 8.0.9 as is shown at http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=128509 
but I’ve downloaded it and its all worked nicely so far.

So my launchpad is not here yet. It seems it’s in store worldwide from 2 Nov, except Italy. Maybe Italy it’s not part of the world, or Novation is not from this world. By the way, I’m so excited about this device that I can’t stop my compulsive need to look around for it and its applications. So, here we go with my favourites!

Nonome, the Monome emulator

With all the protocol under the sun, it was just a matter of days. And infact Peter at Create Digital Music informs us that Piclae made ( and it’s currently updating quite often ) a cool Monome emulator for the Launchpad. It seems most apps run smootly ( the major problem seems to be 7up ), and you can choose your favourite colour too! And if you’re guessing it, yes, you can keep your Ableton modes while using it!

via Create Digital Music

Download Nonome application and updates’ log, monome.org forum

Below a video of Piclae showing us a Launchpad running Flin, and Sunup, a song performed in mlr by Thomas Piper

OSC Wrapper, programming made easy

This is my favourite one! It’s a simple app by Will Crossland which translates the MIDI communication with the Launchpad into OSC. So, the 12 pages of  the protocol are reduced to 2 simple messages, /press and /led! The program lets you use 8 different “layers” to address 8 applications for each Launchpad. And yes, yes… you keep your out-of-the-box Ableton modes too! The application is made in Max/MSP, but only for the communication’s buses. All the code is placed inside a Javascript file, which everyone can modify to his needs. Cool stuff, cool stuff.

via Create Digital Music

Free download Wac.Launchpad handler

The nice part is that Will decided to use the approach of monome’s protocol due to its logical simplicity:

“The Monome OSC protocol is clearly well thought and well suited to addressing a 2D grid so why reinvent the wheel?”

I can’t agree more. And it would be cool to have a unified protocol for every grid controller! It seems like Monome’s users don’t like the Launchpad too much, but I think that both devices ( and think of Livid Instruments’ Block and Ohm64, too ) are simply different forms of the same concept. Monome’s succesful work is about faith in a concept that big names rejected at first. I personally don’t think a grid of back-lit buttons is any kind of invenction you can patent, and that talking about “stolen ideas” is inappropriate in this context. Concepts belong to people who are using that stuff, the wonderful community behind Monome for example. Now the family is extended, and I’ll be happy to see a common language, and people sharing their work, in the name of a common evolution. Will’s choice seems a good start in this direction!

Custom Max controller and Max4Live porting of  Monome’s apps is ispiring

Surfin’ around YouTube brought me to this Max/MSP application which makes the Launchpad a custom controller! I can’t understand exactly the features, I don’t understand the language, but it seems he made pages of presets’ grids mixed with slider controllers, which makes sense in many ways, like if your using it with your favourite synthesizer or for some kind of experimental generative application!

And you know, Max4Live public beta is started and people are having fun! So check out these Max4Live ports of Polygome and StepFilter by Stretta! It will not be difficult to adapt these to the Launchpad, expecially now that we have our OSC wrapper!

via max for live blog by nick rothwell

and

So, what can I say… Maybe it’s better I come back to my wavelet’s book, waiting for the time I can press some buttons!

Uwaga!!

Ableton Live właśnie obchodzi swoje dziesiąte urodziny w związku z czym przygotował dla swoich użytkowników zestaw dzisięciu presetów, przygotowanych przez “gwiazdy”. Mum, Swayzak, Thavius Back, Apparat, Adam Freland i inni pokleili bity w Live’ie. Czasem widać rombek warsztatu, czasem nie. Za to wavy zawsze się przydadzą .

Do sciągnięcia TU.

Folkzzz,

long time no hear no see.  Hope you are well . I am still working a lot with the new Ableton 8 diving a bit deeper into its features day by day. Today I started to work on some very old ideas which have rot on my desk several months, some even several years already. It’s not my intention to build ready-to-go tracks but more track-like soundscapes which one (maybe you and I) could work on and perform later. This one is called “From Now On I Am A Rock”.  Have fun and take care!

Folkzzz,

can we call this a track? I am quite unsure. Basically I just wanted to try out the vox compressor inside Ableton Live. In the end I liked the “product” that much that I have put it on MyTube. Have fun, hope you like it. And yezzz, i can’t sing at all .

Ableton wird 10 Jahre alt! Zur großen Feier bietet der Entwickler von Live-Musik-Technologien eine Hand voll spannender Angebote:

1. Extra günstig! Live 8 und Suite 8 zum Bombenpreis!

Dieses Angebot gilt nur für die Dauer der Able10-Party – vom 4. November bis 15. Januar 2010 – Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit noch heute. Ableton Live 8 finden Sie >>hier<< und den Bruder Ableton Suite 8 >>dort<<.

2. Einführung von Ableton Live Intro

Ableton Live Intro – alle wesentlichen Funktionen von Ableton Live zu einem unschlagbaren Preis. Ob talentierter Newcomer oder erfahrener Anwender – Live Intro hat alle notwendigen Werkzeuge für Komposition, Beat-Programming, Aufnahme, Remixing, DJing und Live-Performance auf der Bühne. Live Intros flüssige Bedienung, Echtzeit-Audiobearbeitung und ein beeindruckendes Paket mit Loops und Instrumenten sind perfekt für den ersten Schritt in die Welt der Musikproduktion und des digitalen DJing geeignet. Etablierten DJs und Produzenten bietet Intro die Möglichkeit, Lives gefeierte Kompositions- und Performance-Features in das eigene Audio- oder DJ-Setup einzubinden. Live Intro liefert vollkommen neue Möglichkeiten für Komposition und Performance und ist dabei günstiger als ein Plug-In. Ab 10. November startet Ableton eine deutschlandweite Live Intro Release Tour mit Einsteiger-Workshops u.a. in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, Karlsruhe, München und Leipzig. Weitere Informationen zur Tour auf: http://www.ableton.com/nl431-live-intro-workshoptour

3. 10 Live-Packs von Ableton-Künstlern gratis

Wir verschenken 10 Live-Packs von Ableton-Artists – Songs und Sounds von 10 innovativen Künstlern, darunter Múm, Apparat, Thavius Beck, Swayzak und Junie Morrison (ehemalig bei den Ohio Players). Die gibt es hier zum Download!

4. Launchpad ist gelandet – neuer Controller jetzt im Handel

Ab sofort lieferbar ist das Novation Launchpad: der neue Controller für Ableton-Live mit 64 flexibel belegbaren Tasten, der in Ihre Laptop-Tasche passt. Perfekt zum Triggern von Clips der Session-Ansicht und optimal zur Steuerung von eigenen Max for Live-Geräten.

5. Machen Sie sich bereit: Max for Live ab dem 23. November

Max for Live ist beinahe fertig – als Release-Termin steht der 23. November 2009. Der Beta-Test hat begonnen. Klicken Sie für weitere Infos auf diesen Link.

Alle Produkte von Ableton finden Sie bei uns im Musikshop Leipzig.

Ableton wird 10 Jahre alt! Zur großen Feier bietet der Entwickler von Live-Musik-Technologien eine Hand voll spannender Angebote:

1. Extra günstig! Live 8 und Suite 8 zum Bombenpreis!

Dieses Angebot gilt nur für die Dauer der Able10-Party – vom 4. November bis 15. Januar 2010 – Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit noch heute. Ableton Live 8 finden Sie >>hier<< und den Bruder Ableton Suite 8 >>dort<<.

2. Einführung von Ableton Live Intro

Ableton Live Intro – alle wesentlichen Funktionen von Ableton Live zu einem unschlagbaren Preis. Ob talentierter Newcomer oder erfahrener Anwender – Live Intro hat alle notwendigen Werkzeuge für Komposition, Beat-Programming, Aufnahme, Remixing, DJing und Live-Performance auf der Bühne. Live Intros flüssige Bedienung, Echtzeit-Audiobearbeitung und ein beeindruckendes Paket mit Loops und Instrumenten sind perfekt für den ersten Schritt in die Welt der Musikproduktion und des digitalen DJing geeignet. Etablierten DJs und Produzenten bietet Intro die Möglichkeit, Lives gefeierte Kompositions- und Performance-Features in das eigene Audio- oder DJ-Setup einzubinden. Live Intro liefert vollkommen neue Möglichkeiten für Komposition und Performance und ist dabei günstiger als ein Plug-In. Ab 10. November startet Ableton eine deutschlandweite Live Intro Release Tour mit Einsteiger-Workshops u.a. in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, Karlsruhe, München und Leipzig. Weitere Informationen zur >>Tour<<!

3. 10 Live-Packs von Ableton-Künstlern gratis

Wir verschenken 10 Live-Packs von Ableton-Artists – Songs und Sounds von 10 innovativen Künstlern, darunter Múm, Apparat, Thavius Beck, Swayzak und Junie Morrison (ehemalig bei den Ohio Players). Die gibt es hier zum Download!

4. Launchpad ist gelandet – neuer Controller jetzt im Handel

Ab sofort lieferbar ist das Novation Launchpad: der neue Controller für Ableton-Live mit 64 flexibel belegbaren Tasten, der in Ihre Laptop-Tasche passt. Perfekt zum Triggern von Clips der Session-Ansicht und optimal zur Steuerung von eigenen Max for Live-Geräten.

5. Machen Sie sich bereit: Max for Live ab dem 23. November

Max for Live ist beinahe fertig – als Release-Termin steht der 23. November 2009. Der Beta-Test hat begonnen. Klicken Sie für weitere Infos auf diesen Link.

Alle Produkte von Ableton findest du bei uns im Deejayladen.

Ableton wird 10 Jahre alt! Zur großen Feier bietet der Entwickler von Live-Musik-Technologien eine Hand voll spannender Angebote:

1. Extra günstig! Live 8 und Suite 8 zum Bombenpreis!

Dieses Angebot gilt nur für die Dauer der Able10-Party – vom 4. November bis 15. Januar 2010 – Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit noch heute. Ableton Live 8 finden Sie >>hier<< und den Bruder Ableton Suite 8 >>dort<<.

2. Einführung von Ableton Live Intro

Ableton Live Intro – alle wesentlichen Funktionen von Ableton Live zu einem unschlagbaren Preis. Ob talentierter Newcomer oder erfahrener Anwender – Live Intro hat alle notwendigen Werkzeuge für Komposition, Beat-Programming, Aufnahme, Remixing, DJing und Live-Performance auf der Bühne. Live Intros flüssige Bedienung, Echtzeit-Audiobearbeitung und ein beeindruckendes Paket mit Loops und Instrumenten sind perfekt für den ersten Schritt in die Welt der Musikproduktion und des digitalen DJing geeignet. Etablierten DJs und Produzenten bietet Intro die Möglichkeit, Lives gefeierte Kompositions- und Performance-Features in das eigene Audio- oder DJ-Setup einzubinden. Live Intro liefert vollkommen neue Möglichkeiten für Komposition und Performance und ist dabei günstiger als ein Plug-In. Ab 10. November startet Ableton eine deutschlandweite Live Intro Release Tour mit Einsteiger-Workshops u.a. in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, Karlsruhe, München und Leipzig. Weitere Informationen zur Tour auf: http://www.ableton.com/nl431-live-intro-workshoptour

3. 10 Live-Packs von Ableton-Künstlern gratis

Wir verschenken 10 Live-Packs von Ableton-Artists – Songs und Sounds von 10 innovativen Künstlern, darunter Múm, Apparat, Thavius Beck, Swayzak und Junie Morrison (ehemalig bei den Ohio Players). Die gibt es hier zum Download!

4. Launchpad ist gelandet – neuer Controller jetzt im Handel

Ab sofort lieferbar ist das Novation Launchpad: der neue Controller für Ableton-Live mit 64 flexibel belegbaren Tasten, der in Ihre Laptop-Tasche passt. Perfekt zum Triggern von Clips der Session-Ansicht und optimal zur Steuerung von eigenen Max for Live-Geräten.

5. Machen Sie sich bereit: Max for Live ab dem 23. November

Max for Live ist beinahe fertig – als Release-Termin steht der 23. November 2009. Der Beta-Test hat begonnen. Klicken Sie für weitere Infos auf diesen Link.

Alle Produkte von Ableton finden Sie bei uns im Musikhaus Korn.

Just got a new controller from Novation called the Launchpad. Check out the video… This should be a blast in performance. With a long USB cable, I can walk out into the crowd and jam! Found out that I can use it in combination with my MIDI guitar. Technology… Yeah, baby!

Another piece of movie music

Yezzz. Well, this time it is quiet a strange piece of music. So far I like it. Give it a try and listen to the final part.

Acessem nosso novo site

www.cursoonlive.com.br

Check out this track that I produced, that features sick rhymes from my homie BYONEST.  Columbus, Ohio representative collaborating with the Miami Native, Sha’ul.  Sample-based flavor for your ear. I hope you enjoy.

The track is on www.shaulmusic.com

And also, if you’re on Facebook you can become a fan of our page, and we will have plenty more collabs in the future.

Peace.

Sha’ul

Headed to NYC for the weekend, so I’ll be out of touch. Just know that thinks are CRUISING over here. Shows offers, album progress (The Console War and solo), starting of a new project, finally getting to start on my aforementioned blog project… it’s great! I might take the NYC opportunity to grab some new visuals… it’s so great for people watching.

The Max4Live beta test is out. For those of you that don’t know, Ableton Live is my sequencer of choice (although primary DAW duties still usually fall to Adobe Audition), and Max is basically a programming environment that lets you mess with, expand and improve Ableton in basically any way you see fit. As the beta is short, and the program is $299, I’ll probably be spending my next few day playing with it to see if I want to save up for it. My goal is to get it to work really well with Resolume via OSC. We’ll see! After seeing Max, I’m a little overwhelmed, and have spent more time figuring out ways around it to do what I’d envisioned instead of actually using it! Haha.

More updates on all  of these projects soon, I promise. They’re just keeping me so busy! Soon I  should have all kinds of things to put out.

One last note—I found an EXCELLENT VST pack the other morning, especially for people interested in electronic and hip-hop production (what could that have to do with my latest project? Hmm.) Check out the tape saturator and time stretcher here.

Just added a new electronica track to soundcloud. Aadd9 is the chord returned to at each phrase. Yea, so maybe I’m not great at coming up with names…

As you are probably aware, wer are big fans of Soundcloud and use it frequently for our competitions and to host our sample pack demos.  Good news is that they are coming to the Iphone.  SoundCloud is due to launch  its official iPhone app Nov.17th, letting users access tracks sent to their account from their device as well as their desktop. It’s aimed at artists, producers, A&R folk and label managers.

The app also allows people to send tracks via email from their iPhone – its App Store blurb suggests this is likely to be done “while meeting potential clients or partners right on the spot”. Naturally, the app requires an existing SoundCloud account to work. It’s will be available in the app store for $0.99. What better way to keep up with our demos on your way!

On another topic, as you know I’ve recently discussed the new Abletoncourses.com discount available from Loopmasters (just use the code LM20).  In that vein, I thought it might be useful to include a useful Ableton Twitter list worth following.  The great thing about these lists is that you can just click to follow the list and you are able to get tweets from a wide range of useful Ableton-related sources.

Technology marches on.
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royalty free loops from Loopmasters – the sample boutique.

For the Able10 anniversary, I made a Live Pack that expands on some of the kits, grooves and Live Racks in my scrapyard of sounds. I built the song ‘Metropolis’ around the sounds and called in Atarah Valentine to lay down the vocals. The Live Pack is filled with very expressive kits that you can download for free here: http://www.ableton.com/able10-artist-packs