Current Ableton Live example projects for Music Production course at Gould Academy. Eventually these will all be student projects.
Brooks Layman – remixes (Fall trimester 2012)
http://zerokidz.com/music/?p=202
Seven Nation Army
http://zerokidz.com/music/?p=158
Saxophone Loop thing
http://zproject.wikispaces.com/live+saxophone+loops
Several versions on the black macbook – the recent files menu should give a clue.
Some notes about an unfinished version…
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=1973
Kinect Air Piano adapted from Ryan Challinor
Example of playing a Midi Instrument using Kinect sensor
Components
- Ableton Live
- Max for Live
- Kinect
- Synapse
File Location: kinect/myLiveSets/lefthandpiano Project/leftHandPiano.als
Use left hand to play a few piano notes by horizontal movement
Dubkinect by Ryan Challinor
Example of playing a Midi Instrument using Kinect sensor
Components
- Ableton Live
- Max for Live
- Kinect
- Synapse
Location: kinect/synapse examples/dubkinect Project/dubkinect.als
More information about Synapse and Ryan Challinor: http://synapsekinect.tumblr.com/
Instructions
It tracks lots of joints, but to start, place hands together above head and pull apart quickly, then use left arm (vertical) for volume, right hand horizontal for wobble, right hand vertical for pitch, and so on.
“Shining Star” (slice to midi)
How to warp an entire song, then make it into a keyboard sampler by using slice to midi and applying it to a sampler or simpler device
file: ableton teaching projects/shining star Project
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=2427
Singing Dunes
Simulation of the eerie sounds of shifting sand dunes using Analog and Operator synthesizers.
file: ableton teaching projects/singing dunes project
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=3620
Call Me Maybe remix set
Examples of setting up beats and melodies to do a remix
file: ableton teaching projects/jepsen2/test1 Project/callMeMaybe3.als
takes a while to load up… This was one of my first attempts to use Ableton to do something like this and now in retrospect, this sounds a bit lame, or tame.
Warping
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=1424
Clip envelopes
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=1419
project notes
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=1415
Also check out this example of using grain/warp stretches in this same project folder
file: ableton teaching projects/jepsen2/test1 Project/callMeMaybe3.als
animal beat
example of making a beat with animal sound effects
file: ableton teaching projects/animal beat 1 Project
gangnam style
example of how to make the synth bass riff for “Gangnam Style” – includes, side chaining compressor.
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/g3.als
without side chaining:
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/gangnam style.als
Infinite Gangnam Style
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=3945
How to make Gangnam style bass with Sylenth
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=2264
peas morph
An example of remixing by transposing samples in a Black Eyed Peas song
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/peas morph.als
Foster The People (warp and remix by adding drum machine)
“Call it What you Want” by Foster the People – warped and then combined with a drum machine beat
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/call it what you want example.als
Another jazzy example:
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/sunny side.als
bieber fills
Example of how to slow down an entire track by loading into sample and using pitch bend
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/bieber-fills.als
Notes: Ableton – special effects, slowing down the master track
An interesting cover: dirty loops “Baby”
dummy clips field recorder (and launchpad)
What happens when you apply a set of envelopes and effects to some random source, like a band warming up or an orchestra tuning?
file: ableton teaching projects/dummy clips example Project/dummy clips band recorder 11-08.als
A dummy clip is actually an empty audio clip which contains some kind of processing – so what ever gets routed through it is processed as if it were the clip inside of it. This allows you to automation on various samples without hardcoding the automation into the track.
Read notes carefully before trying to use this
notes: Ableton dummy clips field recorder
An example using above set and jamming it with launchpad:
More notes on dummy clips to do fades or select a path in an effects rack
making beats
A quick example of beatgridding plus effects
file: ableton teaching projects/makingBeatsAbletonLesson Project
multitrack recording
A very rough example of some audio recording mixed with Midi tracks
file: ableton teaching projects/multitrack recording arrangement Project
obama vocoder example
How to modulate a synthesizer with spoken word.
file: ableton teaching projects/obama vocoder example project
Ableton vocoder example and tutorials
sound fx beat
Using annoying sound fx to create a drum beat
file: ableton teaching projects/sound fx beat Project
sununu project
Using Ableton to edit a news program
file: ableton teaching projects/sununu project
twitter vote
Play different midi notes based on twitter feed.
Uses ‘processing’ to grab twitter information and send it to Max for Live using OSC messages. There is a multiplexer receiver which gets all the twitter messages, then breaks them out by sending them to separate UDP ports for each midi “channel” since Live doesn’t allow multiple midi channels per track.
NOTE: to make this work you need to change the midi channels in the m4l twitter recv devices so they are different for each track you insert them in. It works with up to 3 channels
file: file: ableton teaching projects/vote Project
processing file:
file: documents/processing/osc_max_testing
This processing file is basically the same code as the mood lamp. But I changed the hashtag to #gop so it would keep working.