I started today trying to look at more legit known decent chord progressions, then I realized I never learned roman numeral notation (see https://www.activemelody.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Chord-Numbering-System.pdf) but I got distracted and just kinda started throwing crap into abelton until something sounded coherent.

The bass sounds alright but it still is midi-ified because I opted to use a sampled bass rather than being less lazy to use my bass. I’m also moving down the path of using the arrangement view to handle making these loops from now on. It forces me to think of anything I make as a whole piece rather than a collection of loop states.

I also finished the blade itself (book one of this series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Law) which I enjoyed (also it was pretty much the only book I read in 2024) but it ended kind of abruptly. Felt as if the whole series was written at once and then arbitrarily chopped. I found out today that one of the side books is getting made into a movie so maybe I’ll try to read that before it’s made.

Full Racks:

Idk probably nether. I drove for 8 hours today so this is a very half assed loop, but I think I might spend a bit more time on it to get a decent house sound thing going.

Abelton changed the arpeggiator settings in live 12 but they look neat.

I got Abelton live 12 yesterday and it rocks, max starts up quicker, samples load quicker. Modulators are in their own subcategory. The only thing that I think kinda sucks is the tree view from the instruments is gone and replace with the tagging functionality which I personally don’t like (just because I’ve been doing the same thing since live 8).

Anyways here’s a quick thing I made using the orchestral set from Ablelton (which I didn’t realize was also available since live 7).

Also there’s native auto tune baby!

I’ve been using ableton for years and I never played too much around with the loop setting in operator.

What this does is that it loops the pre-release portion of the envelope for the selected oscillator. This lets you make generative sounds that are just a bunch of pops and clicks. If you get creative with the chain settings ( the yellow, cyan, purple and orange boxes)

You can really make some weird stuff.

I overcompressed the master channel so when the bass comes in everything else dips. But still I’m happy with the reverb-y stuff here (maybe if it didn’t crack as much….).