Not Enough Sleep

22Feb10

Recently I have been staying up really late messing with audio mixing/editing… I have been inspired by this group.. Simian Mobile Disco… you might not like the music, but it looks super fun to play with.  I have been working with ableton live and it is a pit of no return… once you use it it sucks you in and you wanna keep using it. Anyway, here is their set up for playing live.  There is always something that I love about bands that tell you how they play.

here is a video of them playing live,

Like I have said I have been playing with ableton live, I have been trying to figure out all of the ins and outs of the program (which is pretty much impossible).  One of my favorite new features for live is the Max software that now runs with ableton.  Max is a program where you can create pretty much any device, plug-in, effect, instrument you want.  One of my new favorite things is a step-sequencer.

You can pretty much control any midi instrument with that… or a sampler which can contain different audio samples.

I have been combining many midi effects to instruments and this is one that I’m kinda happy about…

this is helpful because I am still learning musical scales and chords… so you can add this to an instrument with other effects and get REAL crazy but it still sounds like it fits together and you can focus on how you want things to sound. It does seem like one would be “cheating” in music making… but hey, technology is here to help us right? That is one thing I love about ableton you don’t just have to play dance music, or jazz, or whatever… you can just play and blend styles….

That is what I have been doing recently!.. hope you enjoyed it!

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