Great Video showing you a way to set up your APC40 for a live show!

If you have an APC 40 or are thinking about getting one, you will love this video!

Here is a link to Riley and Durrants youtube account

Until next time

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Great Mastering Advice For All Ableton Live Producers

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

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NEW FREE Members Service To Promote Your Music!

Hi people!

I have been busy coming up with a marketing plan for all of us when it comes to getting your music more exposure on Soundcloud and Twitter!

I have created an excusive MEMBERS ONLY group on Soundcloud!

It is at The Members Only page I created for us all.

Please watch this Youtube video I have uploaded all the way through so you can see how this will benefit you greatly and give you massive value!

How do you fancy getting more people to listen and comment on your tracks?

How do you feel about getting more exposure?
We can all help each other massively, with hardly any effort and we can learn more about producing with Ableton from each other!

ENJOY

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Ableton Tutorial – Using Ableton As An Instrument – Setting Up Drum Racks For Live Performance.

Welcome Back. More of the great content you have come to expect.

One of my main aims is to get people using Ableton Live like an INSTRUMENT so you get good at performing your tracks live.

There are ways of working and setting up effects so you can really get involved in the mix of your track. This is also true of how you “perform” your drums. Once you get good at producing your tracks this way, you naturally become talented at DJ’ing using the program. You start to  apply production effects to entire tracks and live remix them etc.

This 3 part video series shows how I approach making beats using Ableton Live.  I’m not going to be showing how to construct a beat though. I’m going to show you what to do with your drum loop after you have created.

Have you ever wondered how the beats in some tracks have  so much variation? It is hard to imagine how they have been programmed. Well this is the answer.

People are performing amazing effects live over a drumloop.

This sounds amazing with just a single bar loop but even more impressive when you do a 16 bar or longer with some variations in it. There aren’t any limits to this really.

Please Retweet this post. At the top just click retweet. Help me get more visitors and I’ll keep making stuff like this.

Cheers

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