Song :: Dark

I sat on this song a long time.
Made real progress for a month, and then sat on it for awhile.

Today, I am forcing myself to be done with this and move on.
I think I was getting to micro-focused on parts of this song.

There is a lot of stuff in this song, that I like, and a few thing that I wish I could do again. oh well, right?

I could not get the sounds dialed in fully for what I wanted at the end of the song. The last little melody that starts on a string patch, and moves to a combination of sounds.

Ableton Collections

Discovered a new thing this morning in Ableton. Collections.

So when I hovered aroudn the word, a little 'edit' button became visible.

Of course I clicked it.
This lead me to a series of colors, that I enabled.

I then surfed around to a plugin, and was able to add a color to it by right clicking on that plugin. I went back, and right click on the color, or 'Ctrl + R' let me rename it.

Demo :: Circus Clowns

 Posted the latest on a new song I am working on still. I actually came up with the riff during one of the silly debates this fall in the US.

Take a listen and let me know your thoughts

Good compression tutorial

https://youtu.be/LX-DMXKWeNs

Freddie Joachim - Made in Ableton series

Grabbed some tips from this. 

Thank you.

https://youtu.be/kadQYV3yLwU

Thanks for the video

Chris Punsalan TV
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In this episode of Figure It Out, I show the EASIEST way for me to sample using the Time Warp function in Ableton Live and how I chop samples using the slice to new midi function in Ableton Live.
"""

Thanks for this. Was helpful and gave me some new ways to look at ableton and music writing.

Song :: I Recognize Her

There is not much to this one. Was exploring some elements with Massive. Maschine, and then finally Ableton. This is another thing that I sat on forever, so really just want to be done with it I think.

Song :: Still Not Satisfried

This is a song of happy accidents again.

Also one, that started with a whole bunch of steam, and kind of petered out. I have started my usual process of sitting on a song, so I am releasing it today, just to be done with it.

So, was trying to find an effective means of practicing a muted thumb technique on the bass guitar, and the bass line came from that. The chords came next. When I began to put this into ableton, the melody elements was the first accident. Saving the file was the second. The percussion bits were the third. All of these in a row.

Drums I feel needed more work. I am not happy with the sounds, but again I need to stop sitting on songs.

The guitar parts were all played straight into Ableton through my PreSonus interface. I have had the 22VSL for some time now and I have been happy with it. Especially its portability. That has come in handy quite a few times.

https://soundcloud.com/31ric/still-not-satisfried

Drooble Link

Mr. Bill

I have just discovered Mr. Bill the artist, and his you tube channel has quite a few Ableton videos on how to get better, so I am looking forward to the next track where I can incorporate some of these.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDxTQYPyq4JTRvdmYDiykyOdoEjjyuQgI

First Song

No, this is not the first song I wrote, but it is the first song I have completed since purchasing Ableton. The first song of 2020. I am calling this one finished, as I just am not 100% sure what to do next with this. Thus it is also the first song on a resolution to start finishing things, and not just endlessly tinkering with something, and not really doing much with it.

I learned a lot while working on this track. A lot of the quick shortcuts or keyboard combinations to move through Ableton quicker. Still lots to learn about FX, arranging, producing mixing, etc. The quest continues.............

I originally started this track a few years ago, when I was just tinkering around with the NI Maschine. It is greatly inspired by my good friend and drummer Jon Leavit who I have worked on many theater shows. The line that he inspired originally was the bass line, but I switched an instrument, moved it up a few octaves, and it becomes the melody. There is a delay on the melody, but many of the notes are not the delay, but me programming them in, and then lowering the volume to give the element of a decay.

In the past the Maschine has always been the quick way for me to create a drum part, while I work out the guitar or bass line to a song. This is the first song that I combined Maschine and Ableton, just to see what would happen. (and completed!)

Anyway, here is the first song I am putting out there in many years.
Hope you enjoy.