I spend rather too much of my time playing around with ableton live. Ableton live is a DAW (digital audio work station) which is rather unique in the way it is actually a musical instrument itself. You can setup a session and then using a midi controller, such as the novation launchpad, play and create music on the fly. I use it mostly in my band Semitt Falls, where we play samples, synths, guitars, brass instruments, drums, and loop everything in ableton live. Ableton live has integrated within it, max msp, which is a graphical programming language. This integration effectively means you can write your own custom plugins to do anything you wish, and makes ableton live incredibly powerful. This page host a number of my blog posts chronicling my adventures in ableton live.

Ultranova madness

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Currently learning loads of 90s dance music for a gig with the shodigy in a few weeks. So much gold, rhythm is dancer, there’s no limit…. Born slippy, a lot to remember, stick the arp […]

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Midi Clip Looper – Max for live

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I made a max for live plugin that lets me loop midi clips in a similar manner to the audio loop device in Ableton.  But allows me to have recording quantise.

Isn’t this what everyone wants?

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=2683

PK’s Midi […]

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Ableton live – plugin to delete clips within certain range

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So I use ableton live for live looping, building up a number of clips as I play song.  Using a launchpad, apc40, guitar, bass, bone, loads of stuff.  But when I reach the end of […]

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Max for live – Midi Tool

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So Max is a graphical programming language which specializes in audio midi  and video processing by drawing a kind of system flow chart.  It is now integrated into ableton live.  It is really powerful and if […]

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Stomp box effects in ableton live

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Hi,

I have recently been experimenting with using a midi foot pedal to control stomp box like effects in ableton live. And thought i’d share my findings. Firstly I wanted to set up a […]

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Ableton Live Midi Patch Change – Guitar Rig Program change messages

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I have spent quite a while attempting to automate guitar patch changes within ableton live using clips.  and have encounted all sorts of problems.  Anywho, I have it working but it is limited.  Hopefully this […]

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New New New….

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Semitt Falls has been busy writing some new material and getting up to speed with older material with Sam on Kit.  Old tracks are sounding pretty awesome and new tracks equally cool!

 Just ordered an Akai […]

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Tech update

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Hi all,
So we changed our setup again,

I now run ableton live and control the daw using an ipad using daw remote hd software.

It works well however I have been experiencing issues at gigs […]

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Ableton Live – Tips and Tricks

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In working towards this new set up where we want to integrate live electronics better with live music we have a learnt a few things that you may find useful.  This Blog will be updated as we […]

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More Ableton Liveness from Mo, M3P, or Jay…

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So I have been messing around again on Ableton Live, trying to write something for the band..

What I want to come out and what comes out are very strange and extremely far apart.

This morning I […]

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Ableton – hello world

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Spent a good few hours last night getting to grips with ableton live and the new semitt set up.

So I connected ableton live to an ultra nove keyboard, which I can use either as a […]

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M3P and Ableton Live

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Now I will be the first to admit that I am not really up to scratch on the whole electronic music making ability.

But we have decided as a band to drop the backing track because […]

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