SOUND ON SOUND
These two multi-pattern valve (tube) mics are contrasted with each other in terms of both sound and design cosmetics.
In part two of our recording and remixing article, we examine how you can use Live's unique features to prepare a recording for remixing.
In the first instalment of this two-part article, we examine how you can use Live as a conventional digital audio workstation.
We begin this regular column on using Ableton Live by examining how you can increase your productivity whilst using the program as a writing tool.
Ableton Live is one of the software success stories of the last few years, with devoted users in fields as diverse as DJing, remixing, theatre sound and music production. Version 5 addresses requests from all these areas, whilst retaining the program's renowned ease of use.
For those who want to put a human performance at the centre of their sequenced masterpieces, Circular Logic have developed software that can understand and follow tempo changes in real time.
Learn how you can quickly program Transformer objects to mimic Ableton Live's useful 'user scales' feature, thus keeping transposed MIDI parts in key.
Although rather time-consuming, this technique for locking your sequencer to a live take is often the best.
Synchronising sequences in Logic to live audio tracks can really help give your music the edge, but what's the best way of doing this? We look at the options, and weigh up their pros and cons.
As a creative, stable and above all fun way of combining audio loops in real time, Ableton's Live has proved an ideal counterpart to Rewire-compatible applications such as Cubase. With version 4 offering a wealth of new features, including MIDI sequencing, could Live now replace traditional sequencers altogether?