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10 Ways To Improve Performance In Ableton Live. Today’s computers blow away the computers that were available in 2001, when Ableton Live was first introduced.

10 Ways To Improve Performance In Ableton Live

Back then, if your computer had a 1 Ghz CPU, 256Mb of RAM and a 20GB hard drive, you had it pretty good. Now, processors are 30-40 times faster, computers have 100 times as much RAM & terabyte hard drives are common. But, as computers have gotten faster, our DAWs have added features and our expectations have gotten higher. So, even with today’s faster computers, you’ll still run into situations where you need more power than your computer has to give. In this article, guest author Doug Beney offers 10 ways to improve performance in Ableton Live.

Introduction After you use Ableton for a bit, you might start to wonder why everything starts to run slow when you have a lot of tracks. In this article, I will talk about ways to fix these problems and, hopefully, make music production a much more enjoyable process. Easy Tweaks to Improve your Speed Loading audio clips into RAM.

50 Must-Read Pro Audio Articles from 2014. 9 Software Suggestions for Sound Designers : AskAudio Magazine. For the budding sound designer there is a world of software you can choose from to help you create and edit your sounds.

9 Software Suggestions for Sound Designers : AskAudio Magazine

Let me try narrow down the choices and give you some recommendations on what audio software comes in real handy for sound design. 1. Digital Audio Workstation Probably the most important piece of software will be the Digital Audio Workstation you use, or otherwise known as a DAW. This will be hub for your audio creative endeavors. 2. Video-Interview: Chris Liebing über Label, Producing und die Zukunft des DJings. De:Bug » NASA stellt Sounds auf Soundcloud. The Prioritizing Track Principle In Mixing [Video] Arturia V Collection 4.0/Ableton Push Integration Pack released.

Reaktor Users Can Start Playing with Komplete Kontrol Now - Even Without Hardware. Pretty lights are no fun if they’re off limits.

Reaktor Users Can Start Playing with Komplete Kontrol Now - Even Without Hardware

So, Reaktor gurus, your fun starts now. 5 Important Studio Essentials You May Be Ignoring - Pro Tools Expert - The Pro Tools Community. Fewer and fewer large professional recording studios are being built and many more are being set up in spaces not designed for the purpose.

5 Important Studio Essentials You May Be Ignoring - Pro Tools Expert - The Pro Tools Community

Professional recording studios are designed with several considerations, of course acoustics are high up the list, after all they have to sound great. However some unseen essentials are there too and often overlooked in smaller ad-hoc or home studio set-ups, but these things are essential if you want to make trouble free recordings.

Here are 5 you may be ignoring that you should consider getting sorted out. Studio Essential 1 - Power Conditioner And Backup The mains in many domestic properties or office units is simply not designed to account for the needs of audio recording. "Forget Genres. There's Good Music & Bad Music..." "Well, I have to say I was having a great time until I realised the DJ was playing deep vocal house when I'm sure the flyer said french funky house and nu disco!

"Forget Genres. There's Good Music & Bad Music..."

" We recently published a letter from a reader who was worried about not being able to tell the different musical genres apart, and about how this perceived lack of knowledge would affect his chances of getting club DJ bookings. 5 Production Secrets of The Beatles. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bands in the history of popular music, there is plenty of available literature on the techniques and equipment used to record The Fab Four, including my personal favorite Recording The Beatles by Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan.

5 Production Secrets of The Beatles

Here are some examples of creative production techniques used by the group and the talented crew of engineers that helped create a catalog of albums that have sold well over two billion copies: Buchtipp: Mastering Audio - Über die Kunst und die Technik. Musik sollte für verschiedene Szenarien präpariert werden, ob für den CD-Vertrieb, das Hören auf Smartphone, iPod & Co., Radio oder Internet.

Buchtipp: Mastering Audio - Über die Kunst und die Technik

3 Simple Strategies For Mixing On Headphones. Do you find yourself having to mix exclusively on headphones?

3 Simple Strategies For Mixing On Headphones

Are your mixes coming out all wacky? I think I can help. In an ideal world, you would mix primarily on a simple set of studio monitors and then simply check that mix on headphones. The Best RedNet Video To Date - Focusrite // RedNet in action at Sonic Fuel - Pro Tools Expert - The Pro Tools Community. We have to admit that at times the whole RedNet idea can leave us scratching our heads, we think it’s a brilliant way to connect stuff but it’s not always clear exactly what does what.

The Best RedNet Video To Date - Focusrite // RedNet in action at Sonic Fuel - Pro Tools Expert - The Pro Tools Community

This video is the best RedNet video to date and covers so many of the questions with clear answers and practical examples. RedNet At Sonic Fuel Studios Chris Lennertz composes music for film, TV and video games from his studio, Sonic Fuel, in Los Angeles, California. Groove » » ADE 2014 Fünf Gründe für einen Besuch in Amsterdam.

Auflösung: Vergleich Analog/Digital Video. Die Auflösung zum Vergleich: Analog/Digital.

Auflösung: Vergleich Analog/Digital Video

Analog vs. Digital Vergleich (mit Klangbeispielen) Analog vs. Workshop Musikproduktion am Rechner – Mixen in der DAW #4  5 Tips For Teaching Music Production. Yo dawg, I heard you like to teach. So I’m going to teach you how to teach. I am so meta. Yes, this article is not going to teach about production, rather, it will teach about teaching production. Sprich dich aus: Deine Top 3 Free VST Plugins. Band Recording Special 2014: Workshop - DAW vorbereiten. Sync Your Controllers in Ableton Live : AskAudio Magazine. When you’re playing from an expansive session view, it can be tricky keeping your controllers lined up to the same tracks. It’s especially awkward if you don’t have a visual indicator of whereabouts in the session view they are. At best, it’s frustrating. At worst, you can wind up launching or tweaking the wrong clip!

That’s why we’ve been working with Isotonik Studios, designing a solution in Max for Live. Tipp: Der Musiker-Kompass. Bei der Tonanordnung des Musiker-Kompass hast Du die Wahl – einerseits chromatisch mit den zwölf Tönen in der Tonleiter, aufgereiht am Zifferblatt der Uhr. Testberichte - Videoserie und Remix-Contest: Vom Demo zum Master. De:Bug » Samplitude Pro X2 ist da. Magix hat die neue Version von Samplitude vorgestellt.

How to Make MIDI Orchestra's Sound More Realistic : AskAudio Magazine. They're called MIDI mockups, virtual orchestrations, and my favorite, "orchestral realizations". But whatever you call them, one thing is for sure: the game of creating realistic-sounding orchestral music using samples isn't always an easy one to play. Playing the Players? To the layman, the idea of creating realistic-sounding orchestral music by knitting together pre-recorded snippets of musical performances—which you had no hand in producing or conducting yourself—might seem kinda nuts. Vocal_scapes for Kontakt released at ForceSampling. ForceSampling has announced the release of vocal_scapes, a sound library for Native Instruments Kontakt 5. vocal_scapes is a collection of soundscapes and pads created from raw recordings of the human voice.The sounds were created by sampling different vowels using an old-school sampler from the early nineteens and driving it trough a variety of effects including tape echo, tube distortion, lo-resolution reverb and many more effect units and pedals.

This resulted in lush swells, otherworldly keys and dark/droning basses. The sounds (a total of 3GB of content) were then programmed into 46 Kontakt instruments to provide flexibility and sound sculpting possibilities.The instrument offers a custom interface with 16 knobs to control 2 filters, drive, bit reduction, sample rate, delay, reverb, phaser, chorus and an amp envelope, so a user can morph and transform the sounds to create their own unique versions. The sample library is available for purchase for $15 USD.