Live 8 Beta in action - Thanks for your contributions

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:11 pm

This is some nonsense featuring the Live 8 Beta, just a couple of hours to throw this grimey little sub 1 minute 50 second groove together, no great musicianship as I did it using my laptop and played keys off the lappy keyboard. It has a gritty industrial type feel, with drums thrown through the limiter plugin for a hard compressed sound and the use of the new overdrive plugin on the bass line.

Features - Group Tracks (2 drum tracks grouped into 1, 1 operator kit, 1 drum loop, the operator kit was also groove changed, using an 'extract groove' function from a swinging audio loop, over a more static audio drum loop), 2nd group track 3 synth parts, 3rd group track 3 FX parts.

Also used - Vocoder - listen to the mild mannered Operator Pad (used the draw function too, very cool) change into a swirling wind noise when the beat changed up with automation on the vocoder. Also - I recorded a sample of a TI Speak and Spell saying 'repeat' and put that through the vocoder at the end which sounded awesome. The new warping transient beats algortihm was used on warping one of the breakbeats and the crossfades on arrangement can be seen in the arrangement .jpeg as 2 loops nicely crossfade).

Not really mixed or mastered properly. Just EQed groups and the bass line and threw a limiter on the master buss to pump up the volume a bit.

Song File
http://distinguishedrecordings.com/mp3/ ... 8testr.mp3

Session View screenshot
http://distinguishedrecordings.com/live8sesstest.jpg

Arrangement view screenshot (I unfolded one group track)
http://distinguishedrecordings.com/live8testarr.jpg

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:39 pm

Cheers. I am definately liking Live 8, could well be the best live ever - and this is even before we see MfL.

Homebelly · Post by **Homebelly** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:11 am

The last thing I put up on my soundcloud page (link in sig

"Call it what you want") was all done in Live 8. I used the multi press and the overdrive a lot. Experimented with the vocoda and messed up a bunch of stuff with the frequency plug.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:36 am

Here's a couple DJ sets I did with the 8 betaL

Start Time - Artist - Track - Label
00:00 - Sabi - Dried Flowers Mirrored World - Sutemos
06:48 - Wildach Sonnenkraut - Calypso - Sutemos
09:52 - NGC 1365 - Second Coming - Sutemos
12:56 - Dub Trees - A Way Of Being Free - Liquid Sound Design
17:41 - Soulsonic - Itau - Sutemos
20:01 - Tarekith - Stracue - Independant
23:42 - Leon Somov - Who R U (Ijo Remix) - Sutemos
29:04 - Quantic - Life In The Rain - Tru Thoughts
35:12 - Tarekith - Formata - Independant
39:14 - Enigma - Sunrise - Virgin
41:56 - Sasha - Midnight - Emfire

http://tarekith.com/mp3s/Tarekith_-_Sha ... DJ_Set.mp3

Start Time - Artist - Track - Label
00:00 - Yagya - rigning einn - Sending Orbs.wav
05:35 - Leo Cavallo - Null 03 - Independant
08:37 - Grad U - Knob III - Sutemos
15:41 - Yagya - rigning brju - Sending Orbs
18:39 - Sraunus - Practica - Sutemos
24:48 - Leo Cavallo - Null 01 - Independant
30:09 - Yagya - rigning niu - Sending Orbs
33:16 - Sasha - Eclipse (CM Remix) - Emfire
39:43 - Laura Palmer - Borderline - Thinner
46:34 - Leif - The Tempo Of My Indicator - Thinner
51:47 - Myroslaw Bytz - Amfuem (Fine Cut Bodies Remix) - Chi
58:23 - Grad U - Dviese Prieglobstyje Nakties - Sutemos

http://tarekith.com/mp3s/Tarekith_-_Dee ... DJ_Set.mp3

kb420 · Post by **kb420** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:23 am

You BETA guys are having way too much fun.

Foldin' tracks, Vocodin', crossfadin' and whatnot.

It's just not fair!!!!!!!

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:37 pm

Nice track Homebelly

Homebelly · Post by **Homebelly** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:25 pm

leedsquietman wrote:Nice track Homebelly

Why thank you...
There is another new one up there if you wanna go listen.

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:20 pm

http://www.ioav.com/ethios4/ObamasBitch.mp3

Just messing around....
New ladder filter in Operator for the bass
Frequency shifter
Vocoder
Peach Fuzz slicing preset
Groove applied to drums
Complex warping
Limiter on kick+bass and Master
No outside plugins except the kick generator (psykick3)

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:04 pm

yeah, I can see that we are all liking vocoder and the new Operator !

Here is a totally different track from me, it's a kind of Santana inspired latin feel guitar instrumental, with synths provided by Operator and Analog, and features use of vocoder (vocoded some bongos at the end of the track), and especially grooves - the track is a constant tempo, but you really notice the groove changes in this track, and this beta was the first to provide some groove presets so I used some of those from the MPC presets. Also some of the new sounds, being a chimy bell sound from the 'world class library' of all those percussive metal tubing hits etc.

http://distinguishedrecordings.com/mp3/ ... es%201.mp3

Lazos · Post by **Lazos** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:19 pm

Great work everyone! BUT is no one using the Looper?

I managed to download the beta while in Transylvania a few weeks ago, and this is my fav feature by far. Just didnt bother to save any work

So lets hear some Looper action!

Homebelly · Post by **Homebelly** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:24 pm

Lazos wrote:
while in Transylvania a few weeks ago,

Your name isn't Brad or Janet is it?

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:23 am

I would like to see more Looper action too. I don't have a MIDI footswitch to control the recording on/off which is why I haven't done anything with Looper yet.

Lazos · Post by **Lazos** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:04 am

Homebelly wrote:
Lazos wrote:
while in Transylvania a few weeks ago,
Your name isn't Brad or Janet is it?

Zane, actually.

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:28 am

http://www.djgroovy.com/public/Live%208%201.mp3

That's a small piece of track done on Live8, feature:

Library content (mostly modified)
Operator
Overdrive
MultiBand Dynamics
Frequency Shifter
Sampler (custom sound design)
Tension

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:06 am

http://distinguishedrecordings.com/mp3/ ... whirly.mp3

this is my latest quick little live 8 ditty. The new Collision instrument and Corpus are featured, vocoder on the filtered piano and various audio loops (mainly FX loops) warped using Complex Pro (Elastique Pro), some as much as 35bpm out and 6 semitones off originally (pro is amazing). Also featured some of the new content - Presets for Analog (bass) and Operator and Sampler from the new content library were used. Limiter used on the master channel. I did use some 3rd party FX on this to test their efficiency in Live 8, of which all went fine, Sonalksis SV315 mkII compressor and SV517 mkII EQ, Audio Damage Reverence plate reverb being used here.