essential tricks i've learned

broke_ATX · Post by **broke_ATX** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:37 am

hi,

thanks so much for posting the template. i used it tonight during a 5 hour ableton dj set... which just happened to be my first time to use live exclusively. (whew)

overall the settings worked great. i did end up adjusting the Q on the EQs to about .5. i dunno if it was the club system or what, but the resonance was a bit much on certain freqs. the crossfade trick came in very handy. it saved my ass actually after i ran out of pre-warped tracks and had to mask some near wrecks.

i also had the pleasure of using on one of these bad boys: http://openlabs.com/miko_p1.htm -- it handled 5 hours of music flawlessly.. shame i have to return it next week!

anyway.. thanks again for the tip..

broke_ATX

tricil · Post by **tricil** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:22 pm

spiral wrote:i dont get the midi track bit..
i've looked at the als and still computer says no..well my brain says no
anyone care to explain what is going on and why in idiot speak?

i made this template before i had a midi controller so i was using the computer keyboard for keys... and i wanted some pads, so i made a one-finger chordal thing... a lot like the old casio keyboards.

the key is determined by the scale plugin, velocity adds some variation and random embelishes.

tricil · Post by **tricil** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:27 pm

broke_ATX wrote:overall the settings worked great. i did end up adjusting the Q on the EQs to about .5. i dunno if it was the club system or what, but the resonance was a bit much on certain freqs. the crossfade trick came in very handy. it saved my ass actually after i ran out of pre-warped tracks and had to mask some near wrecks.

glad to hear it man!

about the resonance, try the settings i posted in the original post (which was my first post ever on this forum), it's transparent, has a q of .84 and sounds great.

once again, thanks.

davidnordstrom · Post by **davidnordstrom** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:35 pm

this is a ridiculous setup! big thanks for puttin it up!
just on question wt is suppa trigga? ppl seem to be ravin bout it got no clue of where or what?

bodo · Post by **bodo** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:59 pm

No clue? Well; supatrigga is the most overused (still fun) effect in recent years. It shuffles your beats, like beat repeat.
You can grab it here

coldrush · Post by **coldrush** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:52 pm

glitch effects suck like a whore on over time for proghouse, and camel space rocks when you map all the knobs to a controller and trip out in a crazy place called the dancefloor. I got a bit bored of everyone on the floor looking at me as if to say can't you afford new cds you tramp, whats with all that skipping business, eh?

tricil · Post by **tricil** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:10 am

if you'll notice in this template the supatrigga is not really glitching in a bzzzzzzzzt clak clak way but in a 8th note hiphop juggle kind of groove.

try it.

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:44 pm

<all together now>

wiiiiiith
a bzzzzzzzt clak clak
and an 8th note juggle

tricil · Post by **tricil** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:44 pm

davidnordstrom · Post by **davidnordstrom** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:03 am

it might be overused but for me who never seen this before....(!) i say amazin!! there goes another couple of hrs of my sleep. cheers for this!

started a thread for plugins. find it here: http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 690#448690

Jules100 · Post by **Jules100** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:05 am

loving this. thankyou!!!

tricil · Post by **tricil** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:57 am

amazing how some tricks will never get old

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:08 am

I've just tried your template. Good stuff, son! It brought together quite a lot of little things that I already knew, but didn't gel together until now.

Thanks, doooooooooooood!

tricil · Post by **tricil** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:57 pm

Daim wrote:the possibility to drop regions of frozen midi tracks to audio tracks

yes. that rules.

works on audio too.

tricil · Post by **tricil** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:37 pm

tricil wrote:
Daim wrote:the possibility to drop regions of frozen midi tracks to audio tracks
yes. that rules.

works on audio too.

but the midi goes away when you freeze and drop a track?