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by DeadlyKungFu
Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:25 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: Effective song writing
Replies: 31
Views: 14915

I've exported midi from band in a box into Ableton. I don't play keys (midi guitar on the way) but I've 'created' some really dreamy melodies in BIAB (jazz styles slowed to ~35bpm). I've also used it for reggae bass and drums, a style that's not so easy to reproduce. Most of my satisfaction comes fr...
by DeadlyKungFu
Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:07 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: Samples on seperate keys?
Replies: 12
Views: 3709

Yeah, I missed the Impulse reference and read it as Simpler. I never knew you could drop samples into Impulse, that's beautiful. For years I've tried clicking all over the instrument to load a sample, I missed the obvious solution, Impulse has a new meaning to me. Definitely time to RTFM. So the oth...
by DeadlyKungFu
Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:08 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: Samples on seperate keys?
Replies: 12
Views: 3709

thanks for the replies. I don't have Ableton with me now (at work) but if I remember right I couldn't get Simpler to behave so that each simpler responds to a different note and only that one note. Then there's the pitch shifting (each simpler is on a different note, ie not on C where the pitch is u...
by DeadlyKungFu
Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:35 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: Samples on seperate keys?
Replies: 12
Views: 3709

Samples on seperate keys?

I'd like to do some negativeland type vocal manipulations, basically take a conversation between two people, rearrange the words in the fly and come up with new conversations. I can do this by putting each word in a different clip and launching clips from the keyboard but my actions aren't recorded ...