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by markaugust
Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:18 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: MIDI sync weirdness
Replies: 39
Views: 8191

Re: MIDI sync weirdness

i always have a fluctuation of -0.5 to +0.5 bpm on my outboard gear. doesnt really matter if i have ableton 8 as master ( i can monitor the fluctuation on the machinedrum and monomachine) or as slave to the octopus; where i see the fluctuation in ableton live. (pc) also doesnt matter if the midi is ...
by markaugust
Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:05 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Post your set up and your sexy cat...
Replies: 5255
Views: 1776510

Re: Post your set up and your sexy cat...

you need to introduce the cat to the miracle of headphones, he's doing it wrong. tip - looks like a lot of hard surfaces, no carpet, no couch, siht like that to absorb reflections. I know you know yer siht, what's the verdict? well, what u dont see, is that the wall behind the studio goes in an ang...
by markaugust
Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:36 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Post your set up and your sexy cat...
Replies: 5255
Views: 1776510

Re: Post your set up and your sexy cat...

new town, new studio location http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/861/img1650w.jpg http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/img1650w.jpg/1/w640.png http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2498/img1664u.jpg http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/img1664u.jpg/1/w640.png http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7887/img1665o.jpg ht...
by markaugust
Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:48 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: RIP: Charlie Cooper of Telefon Tel Aviv
Replies: 38
Views: 8892

Charles Wesley Cooper, III Hello, Everyone. It breaks my heart to inform you all that Charlie Cooper, my better half in Telefon Tel Aviv, passed away on January 22nd. We have been friends since high school, and began making records together a decade ago. We have been so fortunate to tour the world t...
by markaugust
Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:29 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: OT Are all women mad?
Replies: 48
Views: 6123

of course this depends on your definition of mad, but for me it means temporarily putting all rationality and sanity on hold for at least one week of every month hell yeah! i've got two different girlfriends for the price of one the one I experience the week prior to stated above I would love to be...
by markaugust
Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:26 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Post your set up and your sexy cat...
Replies: 5255
Views: 1776510

I bought the desk via a friend form a bankrupt mediacompany for like 25 euros; awesome in its measures and good listening-angle and wrist height to prevent back-arm issues. I carpet-taped those wooden pieces on there, so the spectralis/monomchine/machinedrum would be nicely tilted in front of me. wo...
by markaugust
Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:26 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Post your set up and your sexy cat...
Replies: 5255
Views: 1776510

I moved, and was forced to make it all smaller and more compact half of my gear is stacked up now in a corner of the bedroom this is the new setup; and actually really liking the flow it creates http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9123/img1157kd9.jpg http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/7593/img1158fw8.j...
by markaugust
Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:27 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Are you an artist? Post your art work!
Replies: 69
Views: 9143

CR78 wrote:My Paintings
some awesome stuff
really cool
by markaugust
Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:12 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: UPDATE: 7.0.10 GEAR SYNC. It works. Anyone else?
Replies: 58
Views: 9103

+1 7.05 and 7.07 fuck all the syncing up 7.02 sort of does the best out of the 7 editions, but also this one goes sloppy after a while. this is the one I use; allthough here I have that "cannot preview samples" - bug and the "don't seem to remember anything as a undo" bug pretty ...
by markaugust
Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:32 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Post a picture of your city - what's it like where you live?
Replies: 151
Views: 29607

i just been to madeira last summer
amazing beautifull place
it mostly atracts elder tourism; because of the perfect temperatures; but dont let that fool ya..

i live just below the park in the left below corner
Image

nice thread
by markaugust
Wed May 21, 2008 5:17 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: mark august on cocoon
Replies: 0
Views: 654

mark august on cocoon

yoyo; fellow forum participant on cocoon!
1st track on my myspace
because of its dynamic nature the track sounds a bit squashed by myspace's compression..

hopefully you will enjoy it nonetheless

ciao!
by markaugust
Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:59 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: my rant about timbaland
Replies: 140
Views: 19608

* cry me a river * my love * are you that somebody all are, if all taste influenced opinions left aside, to be concidered little masterpieces. every true engineer or electronical musician will have to agree; or at least to the fact that it is very hard to achieve such a result. any-one claiming diff...
by markaugust
Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:35 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Every realised how bad you really sound?
Replies: 27
Views: 4887

hahaha even worse i was in this illusion for 2 weeks makin a remix with a tight deadline; only to discover two days prior to the deadline I had been on a dead end for those 2 weeks. what i made and thought was awesome was just plain rubbish; and i could not grasp why i was believing in it so much wh...
by markaugust
Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:00 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: gear whore and the synths of today
Replies: 47
Views: 11882

i think one thing people miss out on with vsts is that synth are actually instruments just like a violin or a guitar...the knobs/sliders/keys/cases/sound of hardware make each one a unique instrument. its not as big a difference as say a real guitar vs playing a sampled one on a keyboard, but there...
by markaugust
Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:40 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Woot your horn: YOUR best track of 2007
Replies: 34
Views: 5785

my best of 2007

old joy >> http://www.virb.com/markaugust (lot of compression because of the player, but hey; u can listen the whole track :-)

it even made it on sven vaths sound of the 8th season mix