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….).

I had another loop that I made a few days ago, which I didn’t like at first because it sounds very much like a videogame background music. However, I spent some time Eq-ing it and it’s quite pleasant (But it does sound like video game background music).

It reminded me of some early 2000’s indie games. Specifcally FEZ:

Which the comparison is definitely an insult to fez haha.

Well it’s still simpler but the “slide” mode of the sampler where essentially each segment of the sample gets broken up into chunks that correspond with midi notes. Pretty sick if you’re looking for the linkin park effect from numb.

Pretty cool, I tried playing bass over this and I cant take the damn sound its making. I gotta feeling the fx board that was on the high knob is bad somehow and I need to replace it with just a capacitor somwhere else ala

https://www.premierguitar.com/diy/mod-garage/wire-a-passive-treble-and-bass-circuit

This song is great, you should buy and listen to this song.

The primary synth is awsome, I’ve listened to this song like 100 times and it sounded like operator (subtractive synth) so I thought I would give it a shot.

I’m pretty sure I’ve got it 80% of the way there:

Pretty awesome sound, basically it’s a gross as hell chain that then gets some LFO automation on each note.

Here’s me cycling through the operator settings

Pretty awesome I think if I tweaked it further I could get it perfect but ripping someone elses synth is only cool for pure education purporses.

Stream the real song.

I bought a bass with rusty pickups without testing it. The guy I bought it from seemed like he knew it didn’t work so he threw me a t-shirt on the way out (probably as some moral compensation). Went home, plugged it in, no sound, bought pickups, swapped pickups, no sound, plugged in cable half-way, sound. I found out that this bass 1.) had bad pickups and 2.) had a improperly soldered line out. Already fixed the pickups and the line out was a polarity swap, so I fixed that just by swapping to a mono cable.

Next tale here is that abelton has a built in tuner so I jacked into my focusrite and went to tune up the provided strings.

I saw my E string was F so I naturally assumed that it was an octave lower (I had music playing so I wasn’t really “listening” to the strings). The second I turned it, snap, annnd I broke the E string. The rest of the strings ended up fine, I do have replacements but I was too anxious to get something recorded so I went hard with just ADG. (By hard I mean as hard as a 16 year-old who just picked up a bass).