messing around with music and software mixers

[Triple Zero]

so yesterday i spent the whole day together with a friend playing with a piece of software called Ableton Live. it's a kind of DJing / mixing tool like Traktor, but able to do much, much more so it's more like a live producing / mixing / live performance / sampling / recording tool.

in fact, i haven't quite worked out how to easily live mix two tracks into eachother, like in Traktor. but i did work out how to use the "arrangement" view in order to mix, loop and cut two tracks into eachother, like i would do in traktor, but much more accurate cause you don't need to do it in realtime:

adult - hand to phone ==> daft punk - human afterall

it's one of the transitions i practiced a lot from a previous mixset i did with traktor. i'm probably gonna expand it until it covers the entire set, so i can render it to mp3 without any accidental mistakes.

anyway this is just a first try, what i can do with it so far..

next up is: seeing if i can use it for realtime mixing (otherwise i'll use traktor again, i gotta have a fresh set ready before march 5th), making some mashups, and the big project: together with my friend, he'll play live guitar riffs (slayer, among other things), that ableton will record, loop and get mixed with drumnbass beats in order to create a live chemical/dnb/breaks performance ..

[Cain]

I tried Ableton, the limited version that came with the NIN Remix album.  To be honest, I wasn't totally sure of what I was doing, though it sounded very good.  I'd let you listen, only it doesn't allow me to export files.

[Xooxe]

I don't know either tune so I don't hear exactly what you did but it sounds tight anyway.   

I think I had a tweak around with Ableton Live 4.0 a few years back but never really got anywhere.

[The Littlest Ubermensch]

Noice. Well done.

[Triple Zero]

i've been working on it some more tonight, this is the current version:

http://mihd.net/1anlx3

it's got 6 tracks so far but i'm working the mix backwards, which is not really the best way of going about it

it now starts with the soundtrack to the oldskool amiga demo "state of the art", which is oldskool rave.

(also, the first 10 secs are silent, just so you don't think it's broken or anything)

[Triple Zero]

my latest mashup, "song to the temponaut":

http://mihd.net/g7ledf

i'm rather happy with this mix, it really rocks and i'm sure it'll make the dancefloor go crazy next month.

it starts with Chemical Brothers - Song to the Siren, but splices in the guitarsolo from Eat Static - Temponaut to break up the repetitive part of song to the siren, before finally mixing over into the Bucketheads - These Sounds fall into my Mind