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Hi there

http://www.bandbase.com/kravlegaarden/T ... ge-planer/

I've been experimenting a bit with different kinds of randomness in Live, which I haven't done much before. It ended up with this strange ambient and long track.

It's nothing very serious, but comments are welcome

Best regards Nikolaj

I was going to say it's a bit too long, but just noticed you did warn us

But I gave it a listen, and I quite like it. I like ambient stuff like this once in a while. A friend of mine does similar stuff - and this almost sounded familiar, made me feel at home...or something.
I know he makes MaxMSP patches and randomizes his banks of samples. How did you make this track? Care to share your workflow?

Has your friend got any music online?

All is made with Ableton's synths (I've actually used all of the synths in Suite 8 ), Simpler, and Ableton's audio and midi effects, no plug-ins are used.

I've used different MIDI effects to make many of the instruments play random notes at a random timing (not beat synced), and in the en of the chain I used "scale" to force the notes into a C minor scale.

I used follow action to make the drums switch randomly between several clips.

That's pretty much how the track is made

Hi Nikolaj. Okay...this time I won't say WTF like I did with your Goat Market post. Now I get what you're into including your post of 'Can Live play notes at a random rhythm?'. Understanding what you are doing adds new meaning to what I hear. There is a lot of interesting stuff going on in your track. Listening with an open mind the randomness had a certain appeal. Keep doing what you do. Thanks for sharing again.

Thank you, and I'm glad to avoid the WTF this time

No, surprisingly nothing available online from him, sorry. Thanks for the insight about your track. Definitely will try something like that and report back here

great stuff...I really like how you used only Ableton's synths which really helps show case them...all to often I open a softsynth or stick in a hardware one rather than look at what my own DAW can offer..

I enjoyed it...length didnt bother me

live-ticker:


-only at 0:34 and liking this already!
looking forward to the next 8:00...

-nice inclusion of vocals..

-yeah, this is great...

-3:40 now...

-like how you are messing with the 4/4 kickdrum

-have you considered automating reverb times to add varying subtle swathes in the background?
maybe it doesn't even need that

-hm, over already? (take that as a good sign & compliment!)


thanks for sharing & good night.

Thank you all

@ malutki: I like your idea about automating the reverb time. Actually I did something like that - I've put a distortion effect on my main reverb bus, and from about 5:55 to 6:16 the dry/wet is turned from 0 % to 70 % and then suddenly back to 0 %. Kind of the same idea