Comments on: How Do You Perform? Show Us Your Ableton Live Live Set

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By: Michael Greig

Michael Greig — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:14:08 +0000

Trust me not to leave the link, sorry guys

http://www.cuttingsounds.com/tutorials/view_tutorial.php?id=161

By: Michael Greig

Michael Greig — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:13:31 +0000

Hi, this video is more or less having a bit of fun with ableton and a smart board.

Not seen anyone else do this yet.

By: paddy

paddy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:33:05 +0000

Hi, the video of the Live workshop I mentioned above is now online and available to stream or download here:
http://www.pitchblack.co.nz/Default.asp?s1=downloads&s2=abletonlive
It’s a one hour 539Mb WMV file.

For the first half-hour, Tom Cosm takes you through the basics of getting a track out of your Audio/Sequencer software and into Ableton Live.
For the second half-hour, Paddy (that’s me) and Mike demonstrate their no-looking-at-the-computers hardware setup, dub mixing, and MIDI-triggered visuals.

It goes from the very basic to the quite complex, so there should be something for everyone!

Cheers!
Paddy, Mike and Tom

By: poorsod

poorsod — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:16:41 +0000

I’d call myself a fairly advanced user (I’m just getting into building with Reaktor but I’m very competent when it comes to building songs from scratch and I never use presets).

My live set focuses more on remixing and mashing-up my existing songs with production quality that sounds like studio work, rather than putting songs together with live instruments.

This means that the running order is fully prepared (within Session View), which I guess makes me a “set-freak”, as I recall a commenter on a prvious post termed it. Besides that, all the levels, EQs, compression etc has already been sorted out so I all I need to do is rock up and play.

Most of the clips consist of several instruments already mixed and bounced down to one loop (to conserve CPU/RAM), and each set of instruments occupies one track. This means I have a set of about 40 tracks in total, with minimal processing to be done in real time. I also run about five soft synths.

This leaves me to mess around with the way it sounds. Each song, although the flow into each other, has two or three elements that I focus on tweaking live, from my BCR2000.

I also control the speed at which I go down the scenes which means if the audience seems to be loving one track I can stay there for a little longer, and also skim over the bits that seem to be boring.

I have one break in the middle of a set, in which I switch to another Ableton file. This is mainly in the interest of conserving CPU, and I like the way it allows me to build up a new mix with a different character.

If I had a faster computer and a more flexible controller (I WANT A LEMUR!), I’d consider putting together a more “live” live show.

By: onor bumbum

onor bumbum — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:42:26 +0000

hello i created a live set which has only 1 clip you can check it out from my blog cheers

By: Create Digital Motion » Are You VJing Live With Processing?

Create Digital Motion » Are You VJing Live With Processing? — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:06:24 +0000

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By: pete

pete — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:04:45 +0000

Know beforehand that this isn't any kind of dance music, or rock, or whatnot. Well, maybe it is whatnot.

By: pete

pete — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:56:10 +0000

I recently used Ableton Live exclusively to create a composition of sequenced audio which was part of the “20 Extraordinary Renditions” compilation (Track 10) http://idiotbastard.com/20xIBS.htm . I used no MIDI and no external controller. The audio was all field-recorded, some done in Germany and FTP’d to me, and I handled all of the editing and sequencing afterwards. So much of the information about Ableton is centered around dance music and live DJ/PA that I felt like I was on a bit of an island working this way. I am more about musique concrete and improvisational ensemble work, so blasting away at 120bpm with a 303 beat isn’t a big help to me.

A few things that Live did for me:

I loaded a scene with clips and used follow actions to blast random clips all over the arrangement. They could be edited later. Most of that was deleting clips until I had the rhythm and phrasing the way I wanted it.

The 1/2x and 2x tempo warp function really worked beautifully for me on a few clips.

The arrangement grid is excellent, and the way it integrates with independent pitch and tempo shifting is very liberating.

FWIW, I am still working on some live performance techniques, mostly session view stuff and beatslicing. Live is one heck of a flexible and powerful platform.

I’ll get a screengrab up on my Flickr site, and post a clip of the track, soon. I’m too spent to do it right now…. wahhhhh

By: paddy

paddy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:27:03 +0000

Hi, I hope I’m not being too forward here, I’m in a band called Pitch Black from New Zealand. We are currently touring in Europe and have organized doing a couple of workshops this week, along with our friend Tom COSM showing how we play live (and also doing a gig in the same venue later that night).

The dates are:
London: Thursday July 24th @Cargo
Amsterdam: Friday July 25th @The Winston.

Full detail here: http://www.ableton.com/pitchblack-tomcosm-workshop

I hope if anyone is interested they can come down – we’d love to meet more of the Euro-Live community!

cheers
paddy