Since we’ve been discussing some issues related to Simpler and velocity, I thought I’d show you a rack I made for a remix I’m working on. There’s a section of this track where we need a really loose sounding hand clap section. At the moment, it’s not practical for me to get a room full […]
SENSITIVE SAMPLES
Today I’m going to write a little about Simpler, Live’s basic sample playback device. In particular, I’m going to clear up one common area of confusion: how to make sample playback velocity sensitive (so the harder you hit a drum pad or keyboard key, the louder the sample gets), and how to set this as […]
WHAT ABOUT MIDI?
So, i thought I was done talking about exporting stems, but someone emailed in a question that’s worth addressing: What about MIDI? Generally speaking, when we’re talking about creating stems or archiving a project, we’re talking about creating audio files. After all, part of the reason we do this is to avoid having to have […]
STEMS: WHY BOTHER?
So why bother printing stems? There are a bunch of reasons to be familiar with the simple techniques described in the last couple of tips. Some of them may not apply to you, one of them applies to everyone. Mixing and Remixing. If you ever have to mix your stuff in a different sequencer, you’ll […]
PRINT STEMS, OLDSKOOL
As I mentioned in the last tip, there are some cases where printing stems the automatic way doesn’t cut it and you’ve got to take a more manual approach. Cases include: You didn’t group or submix tracks in the set You did group or submix, but you need a stem to include more than one […]
PRINT STEMS
For the love of god people, please let’s print some stems, OK? For any of you new to this newfangled studio lingo, printing stems means taking a multi-track session and rendering an individual audio file for each track or submixes of tracks (i.e. Drums, Vocals, Guitars, etc.). Uses for stems are myriad: remixing, mixing in […]
AFTER THE GLITCH
So, you’ve gotten the Warp Engine to do some wacky stuff, but you’re now left with a loop that’s either at a tempo that’s completely wrong, or perhaps you’ve pitched the thing up so far that it now sounds like the percussion section for a munchkin opera. The trick here is to take your mangled […]
PITCH UP TO GLITCH UP
So, now that I’ve gotten myself going on the transient loops and envelopes, I can’t stop myself…if you’re just tuning in, I’d suggest reading the last two days tips first. Yesterday I suggested that you slow down the playback of a loop in order to hear what the various Transient Loop Modes do, but in […]
TRANSIENT LOOP MODE: WICKED GLITCHA
Hopefully yesterday’s tip inspired you to experiment a bit with the Transient Envelope. Today we’ll take it a little further by digging into the Transient Loop Modes. With some material, switching between the various Transient Loop Modes may not seem to have much effect. In particular, when you play a drum loop back at it’s […]
TRANSIENT ENVELOPE: WICKED GATE
One of my favorite features introduced in Live 8 has been the revamped warp engine, and the introduction of Transients mode for warping Beats. This mode has some great creative potential, so it’s well worth taking some time to understand and explore it. Live used to always use a straight division of the beat to […]
