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Hey decepto thaks for teh advise buddy. Where can I learn python? ANy links you can provide or books? Is it self learnable or I need to go to school? I'm not from a programming background- am an accountant! so is it something easily learnable? ( I know its not a very objective question, sorry) Also...

interesting discussion. Curiousity- how long and how difficult is it to learn such stuff, meaning someone lik eme who has no prgraming background and just begining to learn MAX/MSP but very interested in coding software for music/midi. Where do i begin? Help me guys It's hard to point you in a dire...

That's interesting, because I've done a lot of 2D work in OpenGL, and I've never been able to get an interface as clean as theirs. Obviously though, they have talented people at their company.

kristian wrote:OpenGL

Can I ask how you know this?

Hi, A hobby of mine for a long time has been software development. It's always amazed me how Live is able to present the same exact graphical experience on both Mac and Windows. How do you guys do it? Most so-called "cross-platform" graphical libraries don't actually offer the same exact e...

My bad. I must have misread. Thanks for the compliments. My goal is to provide a user community site driven by the users needs. So if the users don't want something, it won't be implemented. If they ask for something, I'll deliver. Right now, I'm trying to keep the visual design as minimal as possib...

hoffman2k wrote: But there are already like 5 rack sites out there.. Nothing happening on them.
Point and case, here's a new one. http://www.livetweak.com/

Give me a break, man. I launched my site two days ago.

Don't worry, there will be plenty of patches soon enough.

Hello everyone, I've been working on a website for quite a while now that acts as a repository for Ableton Live patches. The website is LiveTweak.com I've gone ahead and uploaded a few racks found on this forum. However, LiveTweak is meant to be a community site. So please feel free to upload your o...

Hi Everyone, I've got another tutorial for you all. This time, I'll be showing you how to get that famous electro house bass sound out of Live. Here is the YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0NDA8CJBY8 And to view the Hi-Res version and download the live set, head over to my website: http...

Thanks guys. I'll keep posting tutorials. Stay tuned.

As for a freeware Mac compressor with sidechaining, try DualComp from these guys:
http://www.teragon.org/

I still prefer the Japanese one I used in the tutorial, but DualComp will get the job done too.

dab wrote:Thanks Decepto, you did a good job in explaining this one, I hope you do more tutorials.

dab

I've got quite a few I'm working on at the moment. I'll update everyone when I've posted more.

Sorry about that, it's fixed now.

Also check here:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56303

Which basically points to here:
http://www.abletonguru.com/tutorial-sid ... mpression/

No problem.

I plan on adding tutorials on a regular basis. I'll let you know when I have some more up.

Hello, I've produced a short 5 minute video on how to perform side chain compression in Ableton Live 5 & 6 using a freeware compressor. You can see the YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5eep4inXYs Or you can head to my site to view the hi-res version and download the live set a...