Ableton Live+Novation Launchpad+ZeRO SL MkII= "Rolling with Strings" Nigel Sifantus live mix from Nigel Sifantus on Vimeo.

Novation Launchpad+Ableton Live "Beat Repeat" and Live V-Drums by Nigel Sifantus from Nigel Sifantus on Vimeo.

Novation Launchpad+Ableton Live+Akai Mpd 24="Progtronica" by Nigel Sifantus from Nigel Sifantus on Vimeo.

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Tom Cosm has put together another video collection of Ableton Live tips.

See his previous videos 10 Ableton Live Tips In Six Minutes & 10 Ableton Live Tips for more.

And see Tom Cosm’s site for more in-depth details for his tips.

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Saturday Synth Porn: Think Ableton Live 8 can’t get any sexier?

Think again.

JazzMutant has released this teaser for Mu – an Ableton Live control app for the Lemur multi-touch control surface. Mu brings a Star Trek interface to Live, letting you trigger clips and scenes with glowing Chiclets and mix with luminescent sliders.

While this is a teaser for a Lemur app, it also gets me excited about the potential of the Apple iPad. It can’t be long before similar apps are developed for the iPad, bringing relatively inexpensive multi-touch control to your sequencer, soft synths and even hardware synths.

Mu runs as a Max for Live plugin – so you’ll need Ableton Live 8 and Max For Live to be able to use it.

No official word on pricing or availability for Mu is up yet on the JazzMutant home page.

Excited about the potential of multi-touch controllers for music? Leave a comment with your thoughts!

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This video demonstrates how to make vocoded snares in Ableton Live.

via DubSpot:

Michael Hatsis shows off one of the many uses of Ableton’s Vocoder. In this Video, he demonstrates how to thicken up a snare – Dubstep style.

Togeo Studios has the Simple Synth Live Pack Bundle – a bundle of TS products from 2008-2009 cleaned up and repacked as a single Live pack that will install automatically into your Ableton library.

It includes:

• SST BASS – 500 bass instruments.
• SST LEADS- 350 Lead instruments
• SST KEYS – 375 Keys , organs and electric pianos.
• SST GENS V2 – 1085 Atmospheric pads, drones textures and soundscapes.

The Simple Synths bundle Live pack contains a total of 2269 instrument presets, 480 samples and weighs in at just 247 Mb unpacked. The library includes a large assortment of drums, basses, synths, keys, leads, pads and atmospheric soundscapes.

Note: The Togeo Studios Simple Synths Live Pack requires Ableton Live 7 or higher.

Ableton Live Looper effect with the Novation Lauchpad and Live V-drums- Progtronica "Looppool" from Nigel Sifantus on Vimeo.

Ableton has announced Ableton Live Intro – their new entry-level version of Ableton Live.

Live Intro has the same basic features as Ableton Live at a lower price and comes with 7 GB of Sampled Instruments, Drum Loops, Beats and Breaks, 200 Audio and MIDI Racks and Effects and 500 Instruments and Drum Kits from the Ableton Live Suite library.

So you’re probably wondering what the differences are between Ableton Live Intro and Ableton Live.

The biggest differences are:

• Live Intro is limited to 2 stereo inputs and outputs
• It’s limited to 8 Ableton instruments per project
• Live Intro doesn’t include the Looper or the Vocoder
• Live Intro is limited to 4 VST/AU instruments and effects per project
• Live Intro is limited to 8 scenes per project
• Live Intro doesn’t support External Instrument and Audio Effect devices
• No video import/export

Full details on the differences are available in chart format at the Ableton site.

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This video demonstrates how you can use the Bliptronic 5000, unmodified, to sequence drums in Ableton Live.

VJFranzK uses WidiSoft’s WIDI Audio to MIDI plugin, a realtime Audio to MIDI conversion plugin, to convert the audio output of the Bliptronic 5000 to MIDI that can be used in Ableton Live.

It’s a bit convoluted, but it doesn’t require modification of the Bliptronic 5000, and a free demo of WikiSoft is available, so you can try it out and see if latency for this is acceptable on your system.

If you give it a try, leave a comment with your thoughts on using the Bliptronic 5000 like this.

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This set of videos captures Mark Mosher’s presentation at the Ableton Live Denver Meetup, demonstrating how Percussa AudioCubes can be used with Ableton Live.

The video quality and sound on this aren’t great, but Mosher’s discussion of the AudioCubes is.

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In the second part, Mosher performs his new track, First Orbit, using the AudioCubes, a Novation Launchpad & Ableton Live.

Don’t miss Mosher’s blog, ModulateThis!

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Ableton users, apparently put out by the company’s recent decision to focus on fixing Ableton Live bugs over adding new features, have issued their demands:

Ableton,

We are tired of your endless excuses and inability to deliver. The pain you have caused many of us is inexcusable, insensitive, and thoughtless.

Therefore, we’ve put together the following DEMANDS.

We are watching and waiting.

Seem reasonable to you?

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