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The mebers of Kraftwerk are really scientists who built a time machine and went ahead 30 years in time. When they regenerated they realised they had come to being in a hotel in Berlin called the Schall Und Rauch.

Looking out the window they saw a sign saying "Kraftwerk".

So they decided to wander down the road and see what has become of Berlin in the year 2006.

They head down Schonhauser Alle towards Alexanderplatz and decide to have some thai. Across the road they see a bunch of weird musician looking types (even though everyone in berlin looks like a musician).

So they get curious and approach the musician looking types, one of whom is drinking a bear and when asked who they are, one of the Kraftwerk members tries to fill in the blank and calls upon his love for riding bicycles and says "Hi we are technology people (assuming technology is big in 2001) from .. Cycling err... seventy four!"

So the scientists were taken upstairs, given a tour of the Live office. Had some dinner and they took demo copies of Live and one of them even stole an ibook he saw lying around.

After they left, they went back to their hotel and went back in time to 1974 and released their albums made purely in Ableton Live in demo mode on a stolen ibook (presumably the chefs as it had bits of carrot and beetroot on it).

True story.

Please share other little known Ableton facts here.

sweetjesus wrote:... (even though everyone in berlin looks like a musician)

It's true!

I invented Live
Well,,,
Okay,, maybe not actually invented it,, but i did come up with the initial concept.
Any way,,
About ten years ago i was in Berlin.
Around this time i had been trying to sell this idea i had had of taking little pieces of tape and making loops out of them so they could be played back on a modular deck made up of as many miniaturized tape machines as you could afford.
I'd been around the obvious manufacturers that you would imagine might be interested,, sony,, TEAC,, and so on,, and was in Berlin to try and shop my idea to Struder or Phillips.
So,,
I'm in this regular ordinary S&M bar in some quiet out of the way part of the city having a quite beer and a sound thrashing, and i start making eye contact with this rather attractive bald woman wearing spectacles,,
any way, i'm sitting there with my beer enjoying the crack of the whip and the sting of the salt,, you know,, like you do,, right?,, and this chick comes over and we strike up a conversation,, and i'm immediately attracted to her cause, you know, i really dig a gal with a deep voice and big hands,, so we have a couple of beers and start talking about different stuff,, the quality of Spanish or Portuguese leather,, the merits of AC over DC current for auto-electroshock therapy,, just regular old boring boy/girl small talk, i'm sure we've all been there right?,, well it doesn't take long before she's gotten me well and truly shnozzeled on the old amber loosener and i'm spilling the beans on my revolutionary performance tool idea using the modular miniaturized tape decks,, so she produces a set of green and black colored pens and a couple of napkins and asks me to draw my idea so she can get a better idea,,
Any way,,
Long story short,,,
Next thing is i wake up naked and cold on the cracked and stained tile floor of a bath room in some cheap, pay by the hour hotel on the out skirts of Berlin, and i'm thinking to my self,,,"Why does German beer always leave me with a torn and bloodied anus and a nasty taste in my mouth?" So i clean up, get dressed and go to my meetings with Phillips and Struder,, nothing comes of them so i go home to London.
So,,, fast forward a couple of years and i'm looking through a copy of sound on sound that some one has left on the bench next to the tissues in my favorite peep show booth and there is an article about this revolutionary new performance tool called Live,, and there it is!!
MY FUCKING IDEA !!
Only,, it's been made to work in a computer,, (very clever that bit),, and of course, i have no way of proving that any of this is true,, so here i am a paying customer just like the rest of you,,, And the only other person that might be able to confirm any of this is that cute bald chick in the glasses with the deep voice and the big hands,, and I of course, rather stupidly,, didn't bother to get her number.

actually.

live is nothing more than the lesiban half sister of microsoft excel.

little known fact

in arrangement, if you scroll about 50.000 lightyears to the right, you will find the automation of various monolake tracks. He forgot them there after alphatesting on a generative liveset.

[quote="sweetjesus"]So they get curious and approach the musician looking types, one of whom is drinking a bear ...[/u]

Hehe, I guess all people in Berlin prefer drinking a bear instead of a beer since the bear is the heraldic animal of Berlin.

Homebelly wrote: Around this time i had been trying to sell this idea i had had of taking little pieces of tape and making loops out of them so they could be played back on a modular deck made up of as many miniaturized tape machines as you could afford.
I'd been around the obvious manufacturers that you would imagine might be interested,, sony,, TEAC,, and so on,, and was in Berlin to try and shop my idea to Struder or Phillips.

You invented the mellotron!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron

brightonalex wrote:

Homebelly wrote: Around this time i had been trying to sell this idea i had had of taking little pieces of tape and making loops out of them so they could be played back on a modular deck made up of as many miniaturized tape machines as you could afford.
I'd been around the obvious manufacturers that you would imagine might be interested,, sony,, TEAC,, and so on,, and was in Berlin to try and shop my idea to Struder or Phillips.

You invented the mellotron!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron

Yeah,,
But then i have the same problem,
How do i prove it?

hoffman2k wrote:

awesome pic in context of SJ's supernatural journey.

alas, we wait for C74 and Ableton's lovechild. early ultrasounds already indicate vastly enhanced genetics from the C74 parent while the Ableton DNA has climbed yet another step in its evolutionary ladder.

In one of the original brainstorming sessions, legend has it, Live was going in the direction of being a real-time TV cooking-show software. It was to be named AblewontonSoup Live, but when they realized the market for strictly soup recipe shows was limited, they re-thought the concept.

Fortunate for us! (but no fortune cookies for us).

Due to Logic's price drop, Live's audio engine automatically sounds better and warp doesn't introduce artifacts anymore. It has something to do with Live's copy protection running a script that checks the competition's sites and adjusts the software accordingly...






...or because everyone knows cheaper = worse

b-ump

nuperspective wrote:actually.

live is nothing more than the lesiban half sister of microsoft excel.

If you search for 'ableton monolake' spelled backwards, 'notelba ekalonom' in Google, it provides you with the alternative 'did you mean notes ekonom'. Clicking on this link, the first ranked item links to an 'interactive video', a blurry video of an apparently european tennis court where one of the players is a mysterious bald-shaven man!!.