Learning Push Ableton 9

Check out the entire series HERE. We are still waiting to see for the compatibility with the bridge and mixtape. You can still use ableton 9 and scratchlive the old fashion way. Meaning you have to mix with your ears and not depending on syncing. This has been done for years before the bridge and is still done today. But keep in mind that the itch users have been waiting for years and still is :(.

The Bridge offers Scratch Live users the "Ableton Live Panel " and the "Mixtape" feature.

Ableton Live 9 has just been released and things have changed slightly for Mixtape users. Users of the Mixtape feature will find they receive an error message when opening saved mixtape files created in Scratch Live (.als format), when using Ableton Live 9. You can workaround this issue by following these steps: 1. Save your mixtape as .als format in Scratch Live. 2. Open the .als file in Ableton Live 8. 3. Now, from the toolbar, select "File" and then select "Save Live Set" 4. Close Ableton Live 8. Your Mixtape should now launch correctly when opening the file in the 32 bit version of Ableton Live 9. We hope to resolve this issue in an forthcoming release of Scratch Live. NOTE: This method only applies to the 32 bit version of Ableton Live 9. The Bridge does not work at all with the 64 bit version of Ableton Live 9.

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Gotye - The Human Factor

After composing and arranging his songs in Ableton, Gotye now takes them to the stage with the aid of Live. The congenial shooting star and his bandmate Tim Shiel strike the perfect balance between spontaneity and attention to detail.

Read our interview with Gotye at www.ableton.com

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DJ REVOLUTION Human Beat Box -The Bridge

This is pretty funky right here with DJ Rev. working the old Fat Boys human beat box. In the forum somebody had said is the bridge played out or just went dead. I'm here to tell you NO! We are in the studio, in are bed rooms trying to figure out the ultimate set.

Beat Box Set from The Cut on Vimeo.

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How Do You Do

This is just one in a million ways you can use these two glorious programs together. You can learn these ways in the ableton community and also Serato forums.

1. I open up scratchlive and go into to my history. And pic the night that I knew I rocked out.
2. Select all of those files, copy and make a new folder on the desk top and paste them in that new folder, and export the playlist.
   
3. Exit out of scratchlive and open up itunes and take the files in the folder and drag and drop into itunes.
4. Select all files in itunes you just dropped in and convert files to waves.
5. Open up ableton, and drag all the files into the audio channel. Arrange them by looking at your playlist you exported. "By doing this you already know these songs work toghter cause that's how you played them in front of a crowd."
   
6. Insert more track to work with files while warping, cutting, and cropping different tracks. Just taking the break or the hook of the song, or all of the above.
   
7. Insert a midi track with a drum, double click on clip to make a blank midi clip.
8. This you will need a midi controller push in to select midi notes using as a step sequencer. Or having the bar length set to repeat for as many bars you wish. "For playing live drums over your clips"
9. Insert one audio input track, and two audio channel.
10. Change the input of the two new audio channels to the input channel.
    
11. Add another sound card to route the record,or booth output of your dj mixer into the input track. To trigger a clip to loop from your turntables. "This also can be done using the looper device in ableton also with just one track.This is just a preference."
    
12. Now add effect devices to your channels, group to use certain parameters on certain effects with the macro knobs.
    
13. Collect and save. "Name Set"
14. Delete new folders on desk top.
15. Open up scratchlive.
16. Select all on the crate browser in scratchlive.
17. Start to beat grid all your files or the main ones you know your gonna play.
18. Set save loops, cue points.
19. Make a crate just for your live set for the file you will use for the live set.
20. Only loop at your laptop when finding, or selecting the next song.
    

There are many ways out there you can use the bridge. There's no wrong way or a right way. It's how your gonna use it, and how you dj what works for you. If you know scratchlive in and out ok. Leave it alone for awhile and work on ableton to increase your craft of performance. So if you think you know ableton good enough ok. Leave that alone and PLEASE work on basic scratching and mixing skills. When its all said and done, put all you have worked together into one flow of continuous head banging party rocking club on fire you will remember me after this.

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Serato & Ableton present DJ Revolution - King of The Bridge

DJ Revolution, the King of the decks, puts Ableton and Serato's partnership, The Bridge, through its paces in this new performance video.

DJ Revolution Artist Profile: http://serato.com/user/theREALdjREVOLUTION
The Bridge: http://serato.com/thebridge
Ableton: http://www.ableton.com

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DJ blu - The Bridge Minimum

This gonna make ya think about what the hell am I doing with this. DJ Blu with the minimum can't wait too see the full. This is what we talking about right here when we say find out what type of dj do you want to be. This type of set takes time and hours to perfect. Well for most anyway, you have to learn ableton before the bridge.

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DMC Entrey 2011 BREAKFADER

I been watching this guy for years on youtube. I watched him progress using ableton and serato with out the bridge. This was his routine for the DMC dj online championships. This video was posted on Feb.16 2011, kinda reminds me of eskie83 routine but there is no foul play on biting in this video.

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The Bridge (Ableton + Serato) Showcase @ Musik Messe 2011

Some parts of eskie83 showcases at the Rane & Serato booth at Musik Messe 2011 using Serato Scratch Live with The Bridge (Ableton Live).

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Big Wiz's setup for The Bridge

Big Wiz shows us through his setup for The Bridge on the Rane Booth at SXSW. Wiz routes his Scratch Live audio through Ableton effects, all via one USB and using The Bridge at the same time!

Big Wiz's setup for The Bridge (Serato/Ableton) from Serato Audio Research on Vimeo.

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Max for Live: Kapture by Plastikman & Liine

Richie Hawtin's legendary performances as Plastikman are a world-wide phenomenon. To pull off his ambitious 2010 tour, Richie enlisted longtime technical collaborator Gareth Williams to build a Max for Live device that could manage the complex configuration of parameters necessary to make the show happen. Get that device, Kapture, for free here: http://www.ableton.com/kapture

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Max for Live: Alexkid Instant Haus

Producer Alexkid is a master of house music. He's put that knowledge into his 'Instant Haus' Max for Live device, which instantly generates drum patterns to craft into your own house track. Get the device for free here: http://www.ableton.com/instant-haus

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Serato Audio Reserch

Here's some fly stuff right here.

Serato Audio Research - Live Remixing with the Bridge

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Demo for The Bridge in Barcelona Microfusa

Here's a new video if you speak spanish. She goes through all the functions of each programs. With only the basics if you already know both programms. Something good too watch for all the feins. And it a hour and some change long also.

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ESKEI83 REMIX SHOW IS @ IT AGAIN

This guy be making it do what it do from what I been seeing.
"this is a 5min trailer to show you my new "REMIX SHOW"

i used two Turntables, a Rane TTM57-SL Mixer, Serato Scratch Live, Ableton Live, an Akai APC20, a Akai MPD24 and the Novation DICER to remix and re-produce well know Hip Hop tracks.

This recap contains parts of a 40min "REMIX-SHOW" session recorded at my studio.

for booking requests visit my website: http://www.eskei83.com



You have to give it up to this dude is jive alright if you ask me. Hopefully we could get a interview from him when he's not busy. We'll see so check out more of his videos on youtube and go to his website. And leave comments also.

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GET IN TUNE WITH WINTER

There are only a few days left to take advantage of Ableton's winter sale. Until January 15th you can still get big discounts on Ableton products, including upgrades to Ableton Suite 8 and Max for Live.

Don’t hibernate. Act now to get up to 25% off on an upgrade to Ableton Suite 8 or Max for Live:
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Ableton Live Video Tutorial: Beat Deconstruction by Dubspot

Have you ever wondered what your favorite producers are thinking when they’re making beats? Dubspot instructor, Ableton Live expert and award winning music educator, Pat Cupo, explains his concept of “Beat Deconstruction”. In this tutorial, Cupo takes a two measure loop of Flying Lotus’ “Camel” from his Los Angles LP (2008) and breaks down the beat into it’s four main components: kick, snare, hi-hat, and percussion, each having it’s own dedicated clip in an audio track. By using Warp Markers as visual place holders to highlight when and where each component occurs in an audio clip, we can begin to understand how the beat was conceptualized. Using the Slice to New MIDI function in Live set to slice the audio at the “Warp Marker”, new MIDI clips are created that contain a series of MIDI notes corresponding to the Warp Markers from their original audio clips. Once this has been done, all of the MIDI information is taken to the Arrangement View to view the clips as a musical score. After a little editing, the music seems to pop out from the screen and we can see the beat in it’s entirety face.

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The Bridge Walkthrough With Joe Caserta

Here is a walkthrough of Joe Caserta bridge setup. Like we all know and as he also said. "it takes time to put a routine together". So lets make sure all our warping is correct and beat grids are setup correct. And let's just sit and wait for the ultimate Ableton Serato The Bridge routine.

The Bridge Walkthrough 12/3/2010 from Joe Caserta on Vimeo.

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MPD 32 With Yellow Box For Ableton

Doing a little Ableton and Serato surfing and ran cross this. This is really cute just to have a 4x4 block in ableton using a akai mpd32. Not sure if it works with the bridge yet though. But from my experience remote scripts don't work in the bridge GUI. Hopefully this will not last long cause there are a lot of custom scripts out there.

A few things you need to know:
- The script only uses control bank A and pad bank A. If you want to use the script as is, you need to set up the sliders and buttons so they send messages on midi channel 1:
F1-F8: CC12-CC19, S1-S8: CC32-CC39, K1-K9: CC22-CC29, Transport Buttons from left to right: CC115-119, PAD1-PAD16: Note36-Note51
- The pads control a 4x4 clip matrix. The red box can be moved by using S5-S8. S1-S4 select the 4 tracks in the red box. F1-F4 are mapped to the Sends A in the red box, F5-F8 to Sends B. K1 to K8 control the device parameters of the selected track.
- << and >> are used to go up and down the scenes, STOP is stop al clips, PLAY is launch selected scene and REC is overdub
- When using this script, I set all tracks to "sends only". I use Return A as a kind of a master bus. In my opinion, this has some advantages (e.g. avoiding the "problem" that the volume faders go up to +6dB)

The buttons work like this:
- S8: shift button
- if shift is not pressed:

- S1-S2: select left/right track
- S3-S4: select left/right device
- S5: clip/track
- S6: detail
- S7: on/off

- if shift is pressed:

- S1-S4: move red box up/left/right/down
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Controllerism for Ableton Multiple Beat Repeats

All of you Ableton heads out there have probably used the beat repeat effect but I suspect most have never strayed far from the basics. By activating beat repeats manually (instead of by chance), you can take away the randomness and make the repeats happen when you want. When you use more than one copy of the effect you can create multiple layers of beats. Then work in a controller to interact with the beat in a really tactile and expressive way. In today’s article we will explore this basic but creative controllerism technique for Ableton Live.

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