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by onshiftingsands
Tue May 19, 2015 4:22 am
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: Losing your inspiration
Replies: 17
Views: 4523

Re: Losing your inspiration

There are times when you do need to treat music creation seriously, and set aside time for it. I too have toyed with giving up music on a number of occasions. Recently I took off a week from the full-time work grind and went and stayed with my best mate and musical collaborator at a friends vacant h...
by onshiftingsands
Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:18 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Making Music - the book
Replies: 161
Views: 37885

Re: Making Music - the book

Still no news on the digital edition?

I missed out on a physical copy, and was hoping to have the iBooks version for inspiration before I head away for 10 days in an isolated studio on Friday :(

Yes I know - all good things take time...
by onshiftingsands
Thu Oct 23, 2014 5:31 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: 3 person group, how to keep everyone involved?
Replies: 20
Views: 3465

Re: 3 person group, how to keep everyone involved?

I'm in a 2-piece electronic group and the base agreement is that we all maintain a base level of gear: 1. Logic Pro 2. Ableton 3. BFD 4. Kontakt. Everything else on top of that we freeze the tracks and transfer using Dropbox. When we need additional musicians I'll export stems and they'll usually re...
by onshiftingsands
Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:08 am
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: External Instrument Racks - Change patchs with clips
Replies: 0
Views: 506

External Instrument Racks - Change patchs with clips

Hey all, I'm fairly new to Live - just messing around with the demo to see if it's what I'm looking for. I use an OpenLabs Neko keyboard workstation / PC, and have been using Brainspawn Forte to host all of my VSTs / Virtual Instruments. Now, my band is going down a more 'electronic' route, and I wa...
by onshiftingsands
Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:01 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Using Small LCD Touch-screen w/Live
Replies: 3
Views: 1342

Using Small LCD Touch-screen w/Live

Hey folks, I'm looking to 'innovate' with my new gig setup...I'm building a Core 2 Duo rack-mounted PC, and I'm looking at getting an 8-inch VGA touchscreen LCD (screen res up to 1024x768) to monitor Ableton Live & Reason (i do 99% of my controlling via my midi keyboard). I'll be using Vista whi...
by onshiftingsands
Tue May 22, 2007 6:10 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Can Live 6 cope with this?
Replies: 1
Views: 803

Can Live 6 cope with this?

Hi folks, Currently I run a small rig (I play gigs as part of a band, so all of this is for use on-stage) using Reason 3.04. Hardware as follows: EDIROL PCR80 Midi Controller & Roland FP8 Digital Piano, Behringer BCF2000, Digidesign 002R, Dell Inspiron 8600 (Pentium M 2Ghz w/1GB Ram). I'm lookin...