New Track: Feedback appreciated - Live Ambient

beatific · Post by **beatific** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:35 pm

The track is called Ambivelent I and can be streamed/downloaded from www.btinternet.com/~beatific

Lots of firsts for me in this track:

- it's my first ever ambient track
- it's my first complete track composed in Ableton LIVE
- it's my first ever track recorded/played live.

Words of warning - it's a little rough around the edges - a few clicks and pops and no post-production.

It is live in two aspects. I recorded live improvised loops and then used these loops to record a track in Live. So the original sonic ideas are created live and then the arrangement is performed live. No editing in either case.

I've had a mental block on finishing tracks since the birth of my son in February 2004 - so playing live and coming up with completed track like this has been a bit of a relief/inspiration.

What do you think of the end result?

Cheers

beatific

Spiralgroove · Post by **Spiralgroove** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:03 pm

enjoyed it
very relaxing stuff
kinda tickles your ears

dont have any production comments though, sorry

ejectorset · Post by **ejectorset** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:24 pm

i dig it, did you create the ambient sounds live or is this from samples/softsynth?

mosca · Post by **mosca** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:34 pm

the bottom end gets out of control at times

mosca

eisnein · Post by **eisnein** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:04 pm

cool track.

how and what did use to "play" the material live to record it and then play it Live?

sounds cool and congrats on the kid.

beatific · Post by **beatific** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:05 am

Thanks for the comments guys

I admit the bass does get all flabby and out of control - adjusting res and frequency live is a dangerous game!

The piece was done in Live 4 and all the sounds are VSTis - Albino, Reaktor, impOSCar and Rhino - improvised live using my KS4 as a keyboard/controller to create long evolving loops recorded straight into Live 4 session clips.

I then moved straight to the live arrangement phase, triggering clips as and when I wanted them, fading them, adding fx etc leaving a recording of my actions in the arrangement view. Render to disk and it was done. All in all I reckon it must have taken me about an hour - the bulk of this time being sound/patch selection.

beatific

colin_h · Post by **colin_h** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:57 am

very cool track- sci-fi sounding and textured..thanks!

computertan · Post by **computertan** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:32 am

makes me think of Goblin or John Carpenter movies. cool.

mcconaghy · Post by **mcconaghy** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:51 am

Gave my sub a true workout - very nice track, very soothing!