Ableton Live Tutorial

Hi folks,

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It’s Alan here. I have had a mad month which included finally becoming self employed and also spending a week in New York for my brothers wedding. It was hard work wearing a kilt in that heat!

I have also been spending lots of time on Ableton after I got an Akai APC40 about 7 weeks ago. I would be interested to know how many of you have one of these. I would love to make tutorials looking specifically how to use your APC40 in a live environment.

I have been getting my head around having some bass synths set up and incorporating these, along with drum loops etc into a live DJ set. The APC40 makes these types of thing VERY do-able! I have been very happy with the results. If this sounds like something you’d like to do, let me know.

I thought I would put up a post about a great article I read recently.
Click Here to read it

It was written by a guy called Tarekith and it really is solid advice. If you have been having problems getting your tracks to sound as good as professionally produced tracks, you should have a good read at this.

I would like to expand upon one of the parts of the article.

He is talking about listening to your music on different speakers then making a mental note so when you go back to Ableton you can make allowances for your speakers. You know what it’s like when you have your track sounding perfect on your speakers at home, only to find that when you listen in the car it sounds no-where near as good?

He talks about the need for good room acoustics and I know for most this type of thing is out the question. However I recently bought a set of monitor headphones and they have really helped me sort my stuff out!

Get monitor speakers and follow his advice and you will be onto a winner. I always kept thinking about more gear for making sounds or controllers or soundcards etc when considering new equipment. By far the most valuable piece I have now is my monitor headphones!

For anyone who is interested, I use Sony MDR-V6 headphones. They are unbelievably good and as one CNET review said about them: “The best sound outside a studio”.

I am going to write a review on these headphones in the not too distant future for those who may be interested.

Enjoy the read and keep your eyes peeled for loads of new content that will be live over the next weeks including a tutorial on how to get massive bass out of Ableton live and how to manipulate the bass in a live set! You will love it.

Plus

I am starting a new Podcast with one of my good friends and the main focus of our podcast is going to be unsigned music from Soundcloud.

The first show is a stormer, just getting the finishing touches done to it. It will be free and I will let you know some real gems that are available for free download. But I won’t spoil the show by going into it any more right now.

Get involved on Soundcloud and join our group. I’ll listen to as many tracks as I can manage. You could be on it getting recommended to potentially a few thousand people. Sounds Good?

My soundcloud is @ CLARKNESS
My Twitter is @CLARKNESSMUSIC

Catch you later,

I’ve a lot of stuff to get ready for you.

Alan