My weapon of choice lately has been almost exclusively Ableton Live. I still love my pro tools 10 for tracking and editing audio in a robust way with top sound quality. But for quick results, creative flow, easy mangling of samples and keeping everything on the one, nothing beats Ableton Live. It’s just incredible and the deeper you go the more you love it
This past month I’ve been producing many tracks for The drum machine project by drums master Oded Kafri. Kafri plays a solo live show using Ableton with an 8 pad controller by Alessis. One of the tracks I produced for him is called “Find lasting happiness” and it uses an interesting side chain compression effect on pads. I played around with the side chain parameters and reached a very interesting type of sound. I set up two pads that are basically alternating between each other by getting a negative feed from a side chain compressor. Check it out:
Screen shot of live set by Yuvi Gerstein
Sounds complicated? Well, it isn’t. This could be a bit advanced for novice users but I made this simple tutorial that should get you going if you follow 8 simple steps.
Watch the tutorial and download the live set free so you could try it for yourself immediately ( Download link below ). The set also has a cool dub style drum rack and some original guitar recordings made by myself.
Download the complete side chain Live set by Yuvi Gerstein for free right here.
Well this sounds creative and very useful and it gives me an idea. Could i trigger those track with an midi sequencer? I mean a digital one..
Anyway I think you are damn right when you wrote >>the deeper you go the more you love it<< and if I may add, Ableton gives a new setup idea every once in a while..
Good work.
p.s. could i get that nice ableton skin from you? It looks pretty easy on eyes that need to look @it for hours..
Cheers