How to Build a Drum Robot – Ableton Connection Kit
What is Arduino? Arduino is a Micro Controller which lets us connect many types of hardware gear like LEDS, Motors, Knobs, Faders, Sensors (proximity, humidity, light etc) and even Touch screens. We can then use the computer to program the Arduino to control or react to the connected hardware in any way we want. The possibilities are endless. There are many types of Arduino boards with different capabilities. For this video we are using the Arduino Uno R3. Check out this list of cool Arduino projects. LED Cube Auto Lacing Shoe The Eye Writer Twitter Mood Light Secret Knock Detecting Door Lock Turn Signal Biking Jacket And many more! You can find the Arduino in most online and retail electronic stores like: Sparkfun Adafruit Digikey But for the Arduino to do what we want it to do we need to program it using the free Arduino software. This requires some programming knowledge …
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Sound Recipes #2 – Trap Horns
Sound Recipes #2 – Trap Horns In this video we check out how to take the Orchestral Brass Live Pack (free download for Ableton Suite users) and process it using only Live’s built-in devices and Free plugins. The Plugins Softube – Saturation Knob The free plug-in Saturation Knob is a modeled output distortion that can be used anywhere you need some grit. Use it to fatten up bass lines, add some harmonics and shimmer to vocals, or simply destroy your drum loop. Nomad Factory – Bus Driver Bus Driver is an optical compressor that provides a wide range of compression effects, reminiscent of the best vintage compressors made in the ‘60s. Nomad Factory designed an Output Stage Soft-Clipping to eliminate digital clipping at any output level and produce a smoother distortion characteristic. This feature is in addition to the Tube-Driver Saturation Modeling included in Bus-Driver. …
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Metamorphosis – Free M4L Granular Looper
Metamorphosis – Free M4L Granular Looper Dillon Bastan AKA Integrate Live is a musician/developer from Los Angeles. He recently release a very cool and very free granular looper. Metamorphosis has a few options for playback mode: linear, sine wave, custom envelope (drawn with a multislider), and scan (which is a knob that can can through the samples). It has a built in filter and grain sequencer you can even record live input. Simply press “record” on the left. If the buffer is empty, make sure you resize it first to the desired length (in ms). Really great instrument that doesn’t require any MIDI notes to play because it’s based on playback mode and looping. You can come up with really interesting sounds in no time. And you can even drag & drop files! Free from Maxforlive.com Check out his other music tools on his website and if you want …
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Sound Recipes #1: Layered Future Synths (Free Download)
Sound Recipes #1: Layered Future Synths (Free Download) Bright super saw synths can be heard in some variation in almost all styles of music that involve electronic sounds. Many popular virtual synths are capable of making this type of sound, synths like Sylenth1, Massive, Spire, Serum, Dune etc. If you don’t have any of these plugins, or simply want to explore the potential of Live’s built-in synths, we got a step-by-step guide to take you through building this very useful sound. For this sound we will use 3 layers inside an Instrument Rack: Stereo Saws/Squares Heavy Detuned Super Saws Noise Layer Stereo Saw/Square with Analog For the first sound we’ll use Analog. Go to Analog’s Global Section by clicking next to the master volume in the grey area. Here we will change the Quick Routing to the first option. This will set up Analog to send each Oscillator to it’s …
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MIDI Tricks #3 – Grid Letters (Free Download)
MIDI Tricks #3 – Grid Letters (Free Download) Continuing our MIDI Tricks segment, this time we got something very special for PUSH (1 & 2) users. This week in MIDI tricks we’re giving you a template that includes MIDI clips for each letter of the ABCs. All you have to do is to switch to user mode and Launch a clip. You will see the letter of the clip displayed on your grid. Using Live’s Session View you can then start launching clips by order or even using the Follow Actions to automatically jump between any letter. You can also arrange any letter clips you want in the arrangment to construct words and sentences. You also get a custom MIDI Effect Rack to help you control the colors, flickering speed and LED order. Installation To use it efficiently create a folder on your computer and call it Templates. Then …
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