Ableton Live 8.2.8 released

8.2.8 has just been released.
I hope, especially, that this one doesn’t break anything related to max for live (LiveAPI in particular)
It could give me headache with my tools, in the other case :-/

There is now a feature to help directly support.
The program itself can pop out data to Ableton’s team.
It is provided as an option, which is very nice.

I guess some people could be annoyed by this concept.
Personally, I’m not annoyed but concerned because I don’t want to mix internet/network stuff with pure production stuff.
I’d like to know which kind of data would be popped out.
I’ll dig that

As written there, here are the light changelog:

Collaborating with Michael L Penman

I just wanted to announce a collaboration with Michael L Penman & Design the Media.
He designed 133 presets for the Ableton Live’s synthesizer Operator.

You can see a video made using this pack

Michael designed the presets and I produced the Operator Minimal Pack 01 product itseld
You can buy it or at least visit the page there.

Michael L Penman

Michael is a young ambitious producer/DJ, from Scotland but now based
in London. After many years of engineering other people records Michael
Decided to start producing for himself.
This has seen him release a number of tracks on Slovakian label
Leporelo. With each track possessing bouncy catchy bass lines, slamming
drums and a wide array of glitched out percussion and effect loops, this
has come to Michael’s signture sound.
It wasn’t to long till these little morsels soon tickled the taste buds of
many of the top djs, such as Richie Hawtin, Ambivalent and Dubfire to
name a few. With many of his productions being played week in and
week out.
Ambivalent was even so kind to have charted “Greasy Love” in his October
Glass Half Full Chart. And Michael’s unreleased track “WA” was played by
Richie Hawtin through out the summer of 2011 (and featured on pete
tongs radio one)

Designing minimal elements

Dear followers & friends,
I cannot tease too much, but a bit.
The word bit is important.
It defines “the smallest element in the digital world” named Binary digIT.

I love elementary structures, because Continue reading »

Bitwig studio … promising!

I heard about them, being myself inside technology but especially in all related to art & technology (as you knew…)

Bitwig studio website is : http://www.bitwig.com

Here is their first video

I read a lot of comments.
People complains, as usual, about the fact it “looks like” Ableton Live, etc.
Probably they forgot about the fact Ableton didn’t creates the “tracks” concept, clips concept etc.

Some people in Bitwig are former Ableton developers.
Some people knows that and they compare.

Of course we WILL compare tools, efficiency etc, but today there is only a teaser.
And it is very short and not very demonstrative (consciously, for sure)

As a music producer/composer/performer, I’d say: I ‘m very interested by new tools.
Indeed, some other  producer/composer/performer (I mean not the one who does that 1 hour very fast after his real day job, I mean people swimming in music everyday, like me) knows each tool can be used in particular cases … including the worst one.
At some point, you don’t even  think this one is the best,  this other one is the worst… you are more in the way where all tools can be used.

Thus, yes, I’m interested.

I just finished 2 live performances revamping, creation, merging, adding work.
I’ll play them on next weekend (basically tomorrow & saturday night @ http://maxuk.wordpress.com)
I really understood in some hard work sessions that while you are creating, some tracks, formerly used only for rhythms, became pads, or even voices tracks. All seemed to melt/fusion in a globality you feel and live as a whole piece of music.
In this kind of sessions, I’m exploring, sampling, resampling virtual machines, testing, merging, deleting, saturating, dithering (only for sound modifications purposes) etc
This is the precise moment where I like to open a tool, to use it in a total different way each time ;  this is exactly the moment where I could use a new tool like bitwig… not making a whole live using it at the first time, but maybe a sequence, a clip, piece of midi automation I could grab and put elsewhere…

I’m particularly interested by some features described on their website:
- multi monitor support
- per note automation
- modular system (does it includes an SDK to push the limits very far?)
- mixer clip launcher vs arranger clip launcher
- jamming over internet & LANs (does it involve servers ?)

The Modular native framework

The Point.
Don’t judge, don’t compare when you only have a piece of video with a duration smaller than 40 seconds.
Don’t think white or black.
Even if you are in love with Ableton Live and only it (it sounds crazy for me to behave like that but I respect totally that), then you may be very interested in using other tools !

And don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter to be a beta tester… I just did it

Preparing last stuff…

My 2 live performances are almost finished.
Almost because this kind of things are never finished ; but you have to decide, at some point, to say “ok, mates, it is finished”

It is more an internal struggle than a certainty but with practice, I can succeed to do that

Tools used are very interesting today because they offer ways to create copy, branch (in the case you are on a project and you want to explore a way knowing it won’t reach the final point but you want to explore) etc.

Tomorrow, flying to UK/London then train to UK/Leicester.
Cold places, afaik.

Trying to post from there