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Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:12:10 +0000

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By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:08:17 +0000

Oh, and there are specialized tools for some of these tasks … but you might just prefer using Live. ;)

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:07:40 +0000

Need to close your tags. ;)

I’m certainly not saying that Live is only good for certain segments. What I am saying is that Live was originally built with a much narrower scope in mind — original prototypes were based on the needs of a couple of people. And initially even DJing didn’t really figure in. So, yes, it demonstrates that good, versatile design can have unintended uses — that’s a good thing.

By: pylbug

pylbug — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:05:03 +0000

eh. my blockquote tag went wonky. I meant to quote this passage from the post:

“But, of course, what makes this especially interesting is that Ableton Live was never designed to perform this task.”

By: pylbug

pylbug — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:02:55 +0000

Well, think about this for a second. The market for this particular use has to be so small that you’d be hard-pressed to find a software company that could afford to make products specifically for it. Especially when there’s already a good solution for cueing audio clips in real-time. I don’t think this use of Ableton comes as any surprise whatsoever; I, like other commenters, have seen it used in dance and theater performances – since version 1.0. Ableton designed Live to play audio clips with much versatility – it’s a tad narrow-minded to assume it’s only good for electronic musicians and DJs.

By: Modern Art Extendo Leaf Ableton Live… As heard in Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune!

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:22:22 +0000

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By: Rozling

Rozling — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:40:17 +0000

Someone was just mentioning on the Ableton forum yesterday about partial-match searches in iTunes (http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=87222). It would actually be a great database for tunes & samples in tandem with Live, as search results come up as-you-type (you can drag mp3s & aifs straight into Live – quite easy if you just drag it a mm or two and press Alt+Tab).

That is it would be great, if the track list view wasn’t so garish to look at and you could go into full-screen mode while perusing playliists… it’s currently too sanitised and locked down for my tastes.

I remember DJing a year or two ago in a club in Dublin & it was a really good night, one of my best DJ sets with Live in fact (which isn’t saying much!). Anyway there was a track which I’d bought on iTunes and really wanted to play out – I burned it to CD while I was playing the set and started re-importing. I was chatting to my mate about how well the night was going when over the system we heard a confident “ba-da-ding!!!” from iTunes to let me know the track had been imported…

We just looked at each other and went ‘oh sh…’, looked at the crowd and no-one had noticed. From then on I disabled my system sounds before sets!

By: (noou)

(noou) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:09:55 +0000

I know several people using Live for triggering samples (and more advanced tasks) during theatre/dance performances.
What I really like in Live is that, whoever you are (avant-garde composer, guitarist, dance music producer, etc.) and whatever you need (from mixing to composing, from audio mangling to sound design, from studio work to live performance), Live is there!

By: ronnie

ronnie — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:41:08 +0000

Great to see Ableton used in places you might not expect.

Loving the picture of the kid glued to the tube! LCD screens are steadily pushing CRT out so soon we’ll have to resort to carpets and balloons ^_^

By: panopticon

panopticon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:13:37 +0000

A few years ago I used a combination of Live and Reason to do the sound design and production for a production of “Frankenstein In Love”. It was the perfect combination for producing long, unevenly synched (for an organic effect) loops of ambient sound, and also being able to fire sound effects dynamically in response to the actors. It makes me feel good that the solution I came up with on my own for a local production is similar to that used by the big kids.