Something that’s easy to miss about the Insert Silence command is that it has two modes. If, instead of making a selection in the timeline, you simply click in the arrangement to place the blinking playback cursor, the Insert Silence command looks like this: Invoking the command will bring up a window allowing you to […]
THE LITTLE NUDGE
Nudging can be done in small values as well – not just by the bar like I mentioned yesterday. The advantage of working with smaller quantize values (try 1/16), is that you can intentionally offset clips from each other by launching them at different points in the bar. If your new to this, its well […]
THE BIG NUDGE
Even with my tracks broken down into multiple clips, I still want a bit more flexibility in terms of getting around a clip on the gig. For example, I might want to mix in a song from a position other than the four that I’ve already picked out. This is where the clip nudge controls […]
LOOP IT LIVE
If you look at the Clip View for any clip in my current Hobotech set, you’ll see that I have several controls MIDI mapped: The Loop switch is used to enable or disable the clip’s loop points, while the Set buttons are used to set loop points interactively while the clip is playing back. […]
SAVE A (SUB)SET
Once you know the secrets of Importing from the browser, there are all sorts of interesting things you can do. In particular, you can save Sets that are designed strictly for importing into other Sets. For example, take a scenario such as the one I described in One Song, Multiple Clips. Once I’ve broken down […]
IMPORT A TRACK
In yesterday’s tip, I mentioned a situation in which you will need to import a track from one Live Set into another. This is done via the browser. If you locate a Set in the browser, you’ll notice that it can be opened as if it were a folder: Opening a Set reveals all of […]
CUT THE BOOST
Yesterday we left off having created a custom DJ EQ with +/-30dB on each band. Today we’ll modify it so there’s 30dB of cut but only 15dB of boost. The trick lies in the technique I demonstrated in Adding Auto-Bypass. The first thing you’ll want to do is rename the second EQ 8 – otherwise […]
BOOST THE CUT
The next step in building the custom DJ EQ we started yesterday is to put the EQ 8 into a Rack, and map the Gain of each band to a Macro, so it looks like this: (If you’re new to building Racks, take a look at One Knob, Multiple Functions) The problem with this EQ […]
LAYER IT UP
OK, one more Operator tip. Can’t resist. Part of the fun of working with the algorithm we used yesterday is that you can run all four oscillators in parallel to create some really thick sounds. Also, once you’ve set up the LFO to modulate the oscillator feedback, it modulates the feedback for all four […]
LOOK MA, NO FILTER
One obvious thing to do with an aggressive bass sound is to use a modulated filter to make it “wobble”. Since that’s something that’s been done quite a bit lately, I’ll show you an alternative method to get a subtly different effect. Start off by following yesterday’s tip to get some oscillator feedback (about 25%) […]
