Ableton Live: Resampling 101

This week we're taking a quick look at re-sampling. If you've been wondering how to bounce your stems to consolidate or simply reduce CPU load, this is the way to do it. Also a good way to streamline your production flow once you start hitting a "mix-down" stage in your tracks and songs.

Enjoy!

FeudalSounds #1

FeudalSounds #1: Previews by intergalactErrorist

FeudalSounds #1 is now available!

54 Drum Loops
IDM/Breakcore/Hip-hop/Experimental

10 Bass Loops
Analog/Spazzy/Textural

15 Synth/FX Loops
Keys/Atmospheres/Trippies

19 One shots (tonal)
FX/Synths/Bass/etc

All for CHEAP! $7-11 sliding scale.

This is the first installment in this series of samples and loops. Look forward to full 24bit/96khz in future and implementation for Maschine and possibly Kontakt.

On a budget?

I'm on food stamps $7.00 USD I'm rich, bitch! $11.00 USD

Outlook 2012!

Trying to land a slot, help me out by giving this mix a play and possibly a favorite if you dig it?

Cheers
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Outlook Festival 2012 demo mix by Batholiths on Mixcloud

Sampler and envelope automation

Today I've designed a Live Pack for all of you out there who have wondered how to mix and/or blend between effects racks using automation in your production sessions or live performances.

The pack is designed around a Dave Smith Instruments pulse wave sampled from the MoPho.

1) Download the DSI Acid Pulse Live pack.

2) Install the ALP in a convenient location (e.g. //Tools/)

3) Watch the video!


4) Feel free to send me your questions and comments.

Enjoy!

In these dark times...

There exists a crew of outrageous, loving beings from galaxies unknown who have come here to plant hope, joy, and uninhibited adventure in your heart. They arrive by intergalactic booty bus and will put on a show you'll never forget. Right now, they need a little help though. Even if it's only $5--they'll make it worth your while. I promise.

Beat and sample packages

I just began work on a collection of original beats and sample loops that I will be posting for sale through UPLOADnSELL.com and by PayPal one-time payment - they will be completely royalty free, and available for you to cut, chop, or simply drop in your original productions or DJ mixes and mashups. Various genres and styles will be covered from hip-hop, glitch, IDM, dubstep, and more.

Stay tuned for details...already got some seriously sinister beats that destroy!

Brain-music and emergent control technologies

When I was a little kid, I used to daydream and wonder about crazy, impossible things. As young as three, I remember stubbornly mulling over existential problems like: “if there is such a thing as God, then what God created that God?” Over the years, that tendency to dream big, crazy, and sometimes surreal things has proved itself a motivating force in my pursuit of challenging the limits of what is considered “impossible.”

By the time I reached my late-20s, I had become engrossed with electronic music and fascinated with this realm of music as it inched closer and closer to a synergetic immediacy between composer and computer. I found myself dreaming about the day I’d be able to connect my brain directly to a computer or synthesizer and transmute my thoughts, emotions, and the correlative harmonies and melodies they triggered in my head into a tangible waveform. And lo and behold…that day has arrived

My desire towards a “synergetic immediacy” is now mirrored in contemporary EEG and eye-tracking technology. The BBC released a short news reel video Tuesday on their website that takes a look at these rapidly developing technologies and their application as control devices for computers and interactive media.

What was once only dreamed of is becoming physically extent and apparent. As we further develop our understanding of the subtle bioelectrical circuitry of the brain, we will be able to provide more accurate tracking of thought, emotion, and concentration, thereupon breaking through the “impossibility” barriers of all fields of science, art, and present-day techno-culture. Only two years ago, Robert Schneider, a toy-hacker and musician from the band Apples In Stereo, created what he calls the “teletron.” His experiments and performances were covered in this Wired article.

Anyone who has ever experienced a psychedelic trip through the vast unknown territories of the human mind can only imagine what might be possible once we are able to reverse the journey of those brilliant, hyper-intense fractal landscapes that are traversed when music collides with an altered human bio-computer. When that wormhole of terror, delight, and vision can find its way conversely back through the connective apparatus (EEG and similar tech) that will soon bridge the internal microcosm with the external creative and engineering tools, who knows what kind of hyper-real macrocosm will be possible? We might find ourselves looking into some crazy existential mirror of another sort—watching our collectively “wired” culture creating the next offspring in a virtual world of light and sound, becoming gods in our own right, over the domain of the imagination and what it might manifest. Brain-music is only the beginning…