Any good ableton tutorials or hands on seminars (UK/Wales)?
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:11 pm
Having just bought a new Lappy and with the band now heading out to start jamming, I was wondering if anyone here knows of decent tutorials, other than the obvious one's on youtube or better still, hands on seminars somewhere in the south of UK? I have a hard time following some of the one's i've seen on youtube, mainly due to working out routing options for live situations, which many of the video's explain just fine for DJ's but not to well for bands who will be using ableton to process vocals live, whilst running minimalistic sequences along with live synths and not forgetting being able to make sure the band can hear it all, especially the sequenced bits >..<
Any help would be Great...
Bit of info on setup I shall be taking onstage with me...
Lenovo T420 8gb i7
M-Audio fast track ultra
Live 8 (No additional plugins yet, trying to pay for flightcases at the mo haha)
Yamaha CSX2 (May be swapped out for Novation Impulse and all sounds needed sampled/replicated and played in kontact or ableton/reason)
Korg Prophecy
Roland SPD-S
2x Korg Kaoss Pads
Didgeridoo
Trumpet
Melodica
Kalimba
Various percussion (small shakers, tamborine and so on)
Numark CDX & Pioneer DJM707
All this will run through my Trilogy 166 (10mono line/mic-in's, 2xstereo line-ins 6 aux's, 4 sub's)
Main vocalist will be processed via ableton for tempo sync'd delays and hopefully (if i can work it out) either switch preset effect on scene launch, or midi controller for singer to apply effects (obviously limited in dry/wet range & a compressor on either end of the chain so there's no overs as this will be going straight to front of house.
As it stands currently trying to sort through all the songs we have and then working out whats needed or not, Some may only have a click just for the drummer to hear and possibly not at all, tap tempo for vocal effect timing sync.
As you can see it's a lot of work lol, so any help would be greatly appreciated, usually I would just chow down and make it all up as I go along, but I really don't have much time to do that and I doubt it would be as productive or as efficient and resource saving if I asked ya'll who know best.
Any help would be Great...
Bit of info on setup I shall be taking onstage with me...
Lenovo T420 8gb i7
M-Audio fast track ultra
Live 8 (No additional plugins yet, trying to pay for flightcases at the mo haha)
Yamaha CSX2 (May be swapped out for Novation Impulse and all sounds needed sampled/replicated and played in kontact or ableton/reason)
Korg Prophecy
Roland SPD-S
2x Korg Kaoss Pads
Didgeridoo
Trumpet
Melodica
Kalimba
Various percussion (small shakers, tamborine and so on)
Numark CDX & Pioneer DJM707
All this will run through my Trilogy 166 (10mono line/mic-in's, 2xstereo line-ins 6 aux's, 4 sub's)
Main vocalist will be processed via ableton for tempo sync'd delays and hopefully (if i can work it out) either switch preset effect on scene launch, or midi controller for singer to apply effects (obviously limited in dry/wet range & a compressor on either end of the chain so there's no overs as this will be going straight to front of house.
As it stands currently trying to sort through all the songs we have and then working out whats needed or not, Some may only have a click just for the drummer to hear and possibly not at all, tap tempo for vocal effect timing sync.
As you can see it's a lot of work lol, so any help would be greatly appreciated, usually I would just chow down and make it all up as I go along, but I really don't have much time to do that and I doubt it would be as productive or as efficient and resource saving if I asked ya'll who know best.