Abletons and BBQs
By cTrix on June 24, 2012 5:12 pm
So tonight for weekly beats I went to a BBQ at Derris-Kharlan's new house where I met the very talented tiasu (another weekly beater!) and amongst many beers, I pulled out my laptop and got Dot.AY to show me how to use Ableton. I still don't find the program that exciting and am still holding out for Bitwig Studio. Anyway - even though it's a bit embarrassing, this is my first attempt at trying to use Ableton. It's the APC20 version which came free with my controller so I was limited to 8 instruments and I also don't have any VST's so it's all the preset synths which suck a bit. And one or two drum samples I pulled in from previous wb tunes. I wrote both these while drinking beers with the guys here over about 3 hours then jammed on the tune with the APC-20 in a live take. Simply recorded the output of Nathan's Presonus into my Tascam. (couldn't figure out how to capture audio in Ableton!)
This is actually 2 x generic sounding tunes in one. But generic is something I think that happens automatically when you are learning new software.
(radio coms sample is from NASA moon landing where the experience of walking on the moon is being broadcast)
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Nicely squelched.