Tag Archive | "ableton live"
Posted on 11 July 2011. Tags: ableton, ableton live, acoustix, live 8, samplelogic, soundsandgear
Hey what’s good fam, back with another review for you About a month ago, Ableton had a huge sale on their upgrades, so I finally upgraded my version of Live to 8, I think it was like 36 bucks or something (before the sale it was only around 60 or so but I hadn’t upgrade [...]
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Posted on 25 January 2011. Tags: ableton live, creating your own instruments in ableton, everythingableton, simpler, sound design
So, when you have a website related to audio you come across or get introduced to quite a few people, some with ok content, and some with great content. You never really know until you spend a little bit of time checking out some of their posts and articles, from various periods from their first [...]
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Posted on 05 June 2010. Tags: ableton live, maschine, maschine midi, music production, Native Instruments, soundsandgear
I know I just posted a video of how to sequencing plugins in Live from Maschine standalone. But this is a little different. This if for those that want to use Maschine as a plugin within Live, yet not use Maschine’s sequencer. This will let you record the midi data into Live’s sequencer while still [...]
Posted in Native Instruments, Production Tips, Videos and Tutorials, VST Plugins
Posted on 24 May 2010. Tags: ableton live, live 7, live 8, maschine, maschine with ableton, maschine with vsts, native instruments maschine, ni maschine, soundsandgear, soundsandgear.com
Yall know I’ve been working out different ways to use Maschine to the fullest and still have proper integration with my plugin collection. I’ve finally found it! Using Maschine standalone, and using Ableton Live as a rack…but what I also found out, is that you can sync live to Maschine’s clock! Using midi drag and [...]
Posted in Native Instruments, Production Tips, Videos and Tutorials, VST Plugins
Posted on 31 January 2010. Tags: ableton live, akai mpc, akai mpc 1000, akai mpc 2000, akai mpc 2500, akai mpc 4000, akai mpc 5000, beat maker, chop samples in ableton, making a beat, manually chop samples in ableton, roland mv 8800, sounds and gear
This is just a quick video showing how to chop samples manually in Ableton Live then assigning them to a drum rack. It’s a quick way to slice samples and still have control over your sections. I showed how to automate chopping in the video how to use ableton live to chop samples like an [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2009. Tags: ableton live, beat maker, chopping samples, making a beat, making a pop track, ni maschine, novaloops.com, pop samples, sounds and gear, soundsnadgear.com, urban pop egos vol 1
Got a new collection of videos coming to ya, where I’ll be “In The Lab” with Nova Loops, reviewing a bunch of products they sent over for me to checkout. They have a ton of sounds in various styles, so I’m going to go through a bunch of their construction loop sets and makin a [...]
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Posted on 11 November 2009. Tags: ableton live, asr 10, asr x, beat making, chopping samples, making a beat, mpc 1000, mpc 2000, mpc 2500, mpc 3000, mpc 4000, mpc 5000, mpc 60, mv8000, mv8800, software mpc, soundsandgear.com
I get a lot of folks askin me about how to use ableton live like an mpc. Specifically how to play your chops so they cut each other off. I also cover how to make your own custom presets for when chopping samples. If you want to chop and automatically add fx and such, you [...]
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Posted on 06 November 2009. Tags: ableton live, big fish audio, big fish fridays, bigfishaudio.com, chopping samples, east coast samples, hip hop samples, making a beat, ni maschine, nyc samples
It’s the end of the week so you know what time it is BIG FISH FRIDAY BABY! I got some fresh fish for ya today… this time we gonna get a lil more rugged and look at some hip hop samples big fish sent me. Straight Outta NYC baby! What’s up with Straight Outta NYC? [...]
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Posted on 30 October 2009. Tags: ableton live, beat making, big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, chopping samples, making a beat, native instruments maschine, off the hook 1, off the hook 2, off the hook 3, off the hook guitars, off the hook sample cd, off the hook samples, sounds and gear, soundsandgear.com
It’s Friday again, so you know what that means! Time for another Big Fish Friday! This week they sent me a guitar sample collection from the “Off The Hook” Series. This is a well known series in the sample cd market for urban and hip hop production. Let’s check it So what exactly is Off [...]
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Posted on 23 October 2009. Tags: ableton live, bass samples, Big Fish Friday, bigfishaudio.com, chopping samples, drum samples, guitar samples, hip hop samples, keyboard samples, making a beat, mpc 1000, mpc 2000, mpc 2500, mpc 4000, mpc 500, mpc 5000, mv 8000, mv 8800, rnb samples, soundsandgear.com
Welcome to the first official “Big Fish Friday” Each Friday I will be taking a look at something from bigfishaudio.com They are one of the largest and most well known providers of sample cds and sample libraries in the industry. I have established a relationship with the company where they will send me out various [...]
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Posted on 14 October 2009. Tags: 50 cent samples, ableton live, akai mpc, beat making, chopping samples, flstudio, hip hop samples, jayz samples, making a beat, making beats, mpc 1000, mpc 2000, mpc 2500, mpc 3000, mpc 4000, mpc 5000, native instruments maschine, ni battery, ni kontakt, ni maschine, novaloops.com, nyc anthems, reason 4, roland fantom, soundsandgear.com
Aight, got a new company for ya today. Today we are checking out the first pack I’ve used from novaloops.com The co owner Don used to be the ceo/pres at p5audio and also brought out a lot of that library while there. That don’t really matter though, what matters is if these sounds are dope [...]
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Posted on 12 October 2009. Tags: ableton live, akai mpc, asr 10, big boss sounds, dirty south, flstudio, hip hop samples, hip hop sounds, hood anthems, korg triton, logic, motion samples, motionsamples, motionstudio, mpc 1000, mpc 2000, mpc 2500, mpc 4000, mpc 5000, mv8000, ni maschine, reason, roland fantom, roland mv8800, street samples
Once again we are back with some more samples for ya. This time, I’m checking out a company that I’ve been a customer of for a while. I was a customer when they first started selling samples on eBay and now they’ve turned into one of the premiere sample providers online today. Motion Samples provides [...]
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