So, now that you’ve checked out how to make a Beat Repeat insert silence into a sound, what to do with it? Well, what I’m experimenting with is layering and offsetting several Beat Repeats set up in this fashion. Use the Group command to put the Beat Repeat into a Rack, then Duplicate the Chain […]
STRATEGIC GLITCH LOCATIONS
So, now that you’ve put together some version of the layered Beat Repeat Rack, it needs some performance control to make it a bit more dynamic (and useful on stage!). If you’re new to working with the Chain Selector, you might want to read this tip first. Here’s how I’ve set mine up so far: […]
MAPPING THE ACTIVATOR
Hey folks! Sitting in a cafe in Austin having partly recovered from an incredible weekend. Bassnectar show was really special – totally sold out, great energy crowd, and our set seemed to go over pretty darn well. Haj and I then headed over the Barcelona club to play a late night set for the afterparty […]
SIMPLE WET/DRY RACK, pt. 2
Not only do I find myself using Racks to add wet/dry control to devices that don’t have it, I’m often using it to manually control the wet/dry balance with devices that have a built-in control to handle this. The problem is that, in many cases, the Dry/Wet knob doesn’t do what I want it to […]
THE GO-ANYWHERE VOLUME CONTROL
Hello from Montreal! Banging out a couple of tips at the hotel (finally all caught up!), then it’s off to get my Mutek started with Mouse on Mars and Nathan Fake. Sweet. So: One problem with using a wet/dry rack to host a Ping Pong Delay is that you can’t control the level going into […]
DJ EQ: LESS BOOSTY
So, I’ve got a few more things on my mind about Analog that I want to share, but I’m interrupting that stream of consciousness to bring you the latest update to my DJ EQ. (You’ll definitely want to read those tips and get the basic EQ rack put together before digging into this one.) My […]
DJ EQ: LESS BOOSTY, DIFFERENT
OK, I’m gonna do it: show you a different way to do the same thing I did in the last tip. I know it might seem gratuitous, but I think it’s useful from a process perspective – the better you get about thinking through this sort of problem, the cooler stuff you’ll make. Also, this […]
DJ EQ: ADDING KILL SWITCHES
Another modification I’ve made to my DJ EQ is high and low kill switches. Let’s take a look at how it’s done. To get started, name two macros Lo Kill and Hi Kill: …and setup an unused filter on both EQ 8 devices like this: The frequency is the same as the Filters 1 & […]
DJ EQ: TAREKITH’S TAKE
So, today I downloaded Tarekith’s DJ racks. He’s been at this a good long while, and gives out all sorts of good information on the Ableton forums, but I had never checked out his racks. Well, lo and behold there is a DJ EQ in there, conceptually very similar to what I’ve been talking about […]
MASTERING FOR THE GIG
Before you export the arrangement you’ve created for your performance set, you’ll need to do a little basic mastering. Here, we are getting into one of those subjects where no matter what I say, someone will shriek with horror that I would ever suggest such a thing…so first off, lemme tell ya: I’m a pretty […]
