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natasha wrote:@ Mr Yellow - Seen that link many a time and the patronising story almost cracked a smile......

@ Nebulae - Superzowie just what ive always wanted a cowfart essay ... nice.

I understand the concept of Ableton Live and what it does regards to time stretching , pitch shifting and tempo etc it was just info on the audio engine i need to talk about slightly more in deapth as ive written lots on its features, advantages.

Thanks for your .... erm ... help. Il try and pick out the necessarys amongst the hamsters and methane.

The timestretching in Live is granular. There's pro's and cons to this method as opposed to peak detection.

I'm not the best person to speak about this, but do a search on "granular" or "grains" in the forum, there's some posts describing how the timestretching works.

And granular synthesis/audio is a topic on its own I believe, well worth looking into.

Yeh granular synthesis looks good fun from what i can gather, complicated as hell too... all fun though.

regarding the hamster midi engine

It reminds me of the way that google works

I'm sure you've all seen it before.

am i on this planet today? This is the Ableton Forum isnt it

Natasha,
I think your best bet is maybe to email one of the abletons direct... I'm sure they won't tell you anything about how it actually works, but I'm sure they can give you an outline of the technical aspects of the Live audio engine. It's certainly just the kind of engine I'd like to have in my car... I wouldn't know an audio engine if it bit my ankles...

Sorry, no farting cows or hamsters. Too sleepy to make up surreal shit. How cool to be writing an essay about Ableton Live! It must be great to be writing about something you're actually interested in, rather than what your tutor insisted you must write about...

good luck, make it grade A...
telekom

.... sorry I cannot resist:

if you want to know on what some people at Ableton are currently working and how it is done technically I would recommend reading carefully this page:

http://www.monolake-research.com/photos2005.html

And it sounds so natural !!!!

Robert
Head of research

Robert Henke wrote:.... sorry I cannot resist:

if you want to know on what some people at Ableton are currently working and how it is done technically I would recommend reading carefully this page:

http://www.monolake-research.com/photos2005.html

And it sounds so natural !!!!

Robert
Head of research

Dude, that's a LOT of oranges. Is that what powers Live? I distinctly noticed a citrus-like smell when I launch the app...

Nice oranges.

telekom - I emailed the site a while back and got some info on Gerhard Behles and how Ableton came about etc. All helped.

Ive picked up some little bits from this post anyway so should help.

Yes its great doing a subject im interested in, and i picked Live because its something i do want to get into, therefore understanding the concepts of it, why its used how etc etc is basically helps me for future.
It best be grade A, ive done mic'ing dodgy drumkits for crap players for far too long (and still doesnt know what shes doing hehe)

Thanks!

Yes, Nice oranges Robert - can you achieve the same effect with grapefruit?

How did your essay about Live work out Natasha? I hope your tutor has permanently pardoned you from mic'ing drumkits and promoted you to technowizard class 1.

Incidentally Robert, I posted elsewhere asking if someone from Ableton could come and make me something nice to eat (since we all expect so much from Ableton when it comes to software). I still haven't heard anything yet. I'm getting really hungry now...

M