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Hey Jesse, how about a video series on users from the Ableton forum? Start out with Schack - www.schack.dk... that guy's a nut with Live!

****ing excellent!!! I want more, more god damnit! Bring on the movies! Keep em coming, the more obscure the better!

Jesse wrote:Greetings Ableton Users,

An interview with Ableton conceptualist Robert Henke (aka Monolake) has been posted on our artist page. Additionally, two new videos are available for download in the sidebar.

Monolake on Monodeck: Robert Henke talks about his custom made controller.
Robert Makes Rain: Watch Robert simulate natural reverb with effects chains and sends.

Read the interview and download the movies here


New York City Ableton fans, please check out Monolake in action at three special events:

Thursday, August 25th: Guest appearance by Robert Henke at the monthly Ableton clinic at Sam Ash Music, Manhattan, 160 W 48th St, 5-7 PM.

Friday, August 26th: Atlantic Waves performance at SubTonic, featuring Robert Henke in NYC and Scott Montieth (aka Deadbeat) in Tokyo. Located at 107 Norfolk Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. $5 with special Ableton prizes. 9PM-4AM.

Saturday, August 27th: Monolake performs at PS1 Contemporary Art Center. $8. Located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Ave, Long Island City, Queens, New York. 3-9 PM.

Hope to see you there!

Jesse Terry
Product Specialist/Artist Relations

Phew, calmed down a bit now, still, really good to see that stuff, specially the thunder cracks and rain, nice to see how other people are doing things.

hoffman2k wrote:

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http://users.telenet.be/Vayner/From%20Machinate/pic.jpg

Does it work now? It works with all my browsers.

does work now!

I think monolake is lying when he says he's happy with the version 5 release because THIS picture proves he's not using version 5. damn!

mmm, or is he using on of those tweaked paramter files, maybe?

Y'know, the best thing about these videos is how much fun Robert is having. He just seems like he really enjoys what he does, which is great.

.lm.

I can assure you Robert loves and uses Live 5, that video, however was made when Live 5 was just an alpha baby.

To open two copies of Live, make an alias. Open as many as you want, though you won't be able to copy and paste between them.

Best,
Jesse

Yo Jesse can you elaborate on this please?

Thanx

On a MAC, control-click on the Live icon, and select "Make Alias." Not all elements are available, but you can open multiple instances of Live, though you can't copy/paste between them.

Best,
Jesse

Jesse wrote:I can assure you Robert loves and uses Live 5, that video, however was made when Live 5 was just an alpha baby.

OK right.... did you shoot the video?

I thought the video was pretty cool personally.

As for me, I'd be interested in seeing how other artists are actually using Live, well... live. How do they have the software set up, how many tracks are they using, midi and audio, or just audio?, what controllers are they using and how are they mapped to Live, etc.

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FORMAT wrote:

Jesse wrote:I can assure you Robert loves and uses Live 5, that video, however was made when Live 5 was just an alpha baby.

OK right.... did you shoot the video?

sounded like that was dave hill jr in the monodeck vid

anyone know if there will be any visuals sat. @ PS1

and if you could go to either atlantic waves or PS1 which

atlantic waves is at subtonic (club)

PS1 (musem)

ryansupak wrote: I've found 6 tracks to be sort of a magic number as well...

I was reading this book a while back called "Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy", very good book, and in one part it mentions that the mind cannot hold more than 6-8 things at once. Most people can't have more than around 6 things going at once, and very intelligent people, such as Einstein, cannot have more than 7-8 things going at once (by Einstein's own admission). What makes a person like Einstein capable of so much is the depth of organization going on in his mind. Information is stored in such a way that it can be accessed and correlated to a much higher degree than the average person.
The same seems to apply for music...its hard to fully hear every voice going on in a dense orchestral music. For me, I would usually hear a few voices and inter-relationships at a time, but never the totality of everything all at once.
Going off on a tangent there, but it seems that the trick is to get the most mileage out of each track, rather than having a ton of tracks. (Sorry for not using metric metaphors there)