Ableton Guitarists

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kanuck
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Ableton Guitarists

Post by kanuck » Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:23 am

I'm a guitarist and have started dabbling in electronic mainly due to ableton but anyways I recently saw what Christopher Willits does. He was just such an inspiration for myself and I was wondering if there were any other Ableton artists that used their guitars. Thanks.

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by carpekd » Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:28 am

Right here

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by kanuck » Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:39 am

carpekd wrote:Right here
haha, do you have any demos?

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by carpekd » Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:09 am

kanuck wrote:
carpekd wrote:Right here
haha, do you have any demos?
Not yet... still trying to get everything right (a never-ending task it seems...)

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by kanuck » Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:29 am

carpekd wrote:
kanuck wrote:
carpekd wrote:Right here
haha, do you have any demos?
Not yet... still trying to get everything right (a never-ending task it seems...)
curious, how do you get the guitar to ableton? mic or simulator?

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by Homebelly » Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:39 am

Guitarist here..
Check my soundcloud link for my musings diabolique.
Fire off your questions, i'll see if i can help.
15" 2.4 MBP/Live/Sampler/Operator/ Home made Dumble clone/Two Strats/One Jazz Bass.
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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by carpekd » Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:48 am

kanuck wrote: curious, how do you get the guitar to ableton? mic or simulator?
RME fireface 400. Pretty much any interface with instrument level inputs will work. I live in an apartment so miking an amp isn't really an option yet.

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Post by Anubis » Fri Nov 12, 2010 5:18 am

I record all manner of instruments with Ableton Live. Real and unreal. Here's some slide guitar.
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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by kanuck » Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:10 am

carpekd wrote:
kanuck wrote: curious, how do you get the guitar to ableton? mic or simulator?
RME fireface 400. Pretty much any interface with instrument level inputs will work. I live in an apartment so miking an amp isn't really an option yet.
mm, i can't stand my interface's preamps for guitars. but then again I grew up playing through tube amps so I'm probably being anal.

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by Winterpark » Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:11 am

part of an improvised live processed guitar and vocals, live + maschine... on youtube...

right here
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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by Simbosan » Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:20 am

My most guitarish track before I got side-tracked by the ukulele.

I used to use an old Line6 Pod till I got GRig, not sure which is best, GRig is versatile and pretty fkn great, but the Pod can be stuck in a gig bag and used live a bit easier than my monster sized desktop. YMMV.

I just use a cheap MAudio Fastback Pro audio interface but it does me well enough, one day I will get a proper audio box that can do 96k tho

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by kanuck » Fri Nov 12, 2010 7:45 am

am wrote:part of an improvised live processed guitar and vocals, live + maschine... on youtube...

right here
my goodness, your stuff is brilliant. Curious where do you gig? And how do people take it? I come from a band background where it'd be high energy and I'm wondering if playing ambient music live is a good idea.

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by leedsquietman » Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:38 am

There are lots of guitarists who use Live. Including myself. Although sometimes, with Live, I tend to get more carried away with synths and FX.

However, there is prominent guitar on the following tracks, which are various electronic fusions.
http://umbrielrising.bandcamp.com/

album : extraterrestres - tracks 3,4,6,8,12,13 (this album was produced with Live 5, Live 6 and the odd Reason rewired and feels very old now) !
wunda - tracks 6 (in the final portion of the track),7
retrosonique - tracks 3,4
littoral awakening (maxi single) - track 4


Or my alternative rock project, all tracks.
http://liquidmetamorphosis.bandcamp.com/

Which is also composed and arranged in Live.


Check out Pasha, Homebelly, UKRuss and plenty of others as well.
http://soundcloud.com/umbriel-rising http://www.myspace.com/leedsquietmandemos Live 7.0.18 SUITE, Cubase 5.5.2], Soundforge 9, Dell XPS M1530, 2.2 Ghz C2D, 4GB, Vista Ult SP2, legit plugins a plenty, Alesis IO14.

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by coldbuggin » Fri Nov 12, 2010 2:07 pm

I use guitar with live. You can listen here:
http://elika.bandcamp.com/

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Re: Ableton Guitarists

Post by distaudio » Fri Nov 12, 2010 2:26 pm

I've found the perfect results with an digital daw is layers and a good amp sim. I have used no mics amps at all in my album. (Which will be out on the 20th). With enough tweaking you can get a good tone quickly.

IMO Amplitube has it over Guitar Rig but the downside is that Amplitube LOVES the Ram.

Anyway check out my website for results.

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