Ableton Live 8 - The Top 8 New Features

Today is a good day to Live! You don't need a vocoder? It looks like you do. There are also crazy new effects, and one of the most exciting things: Max for Live coming later this year.

Sabina

Sabina by Dragoljub Ćurčić

November 7th 2008

Time flies

A lot of things have happened.

I bought a new portable sound recorder Samson Zoom H2. It's a very handy thing which can also fit in your hand. Records audio up to 96kHz 24 bit (WAV format), but can also encode straight to MP3 up to 320kbps. I plan to record many real world sounds and use them in my music.

There was a music workshop on our local Summer3p festival of electronic music. Some people and I brought our laptops and tried to connect using some MIDI over LAN tools. We mostly experimented and I learned how to MANUALLY synchronize Ableton Live to an external source. This new knowledge later fueled my experiments with radio. I discovered that I LOVE adding effects to voice of some speaker in some artistic radio show where hespeaks for longer periods of time about stuff - WITHOUT background music!

I started learning vvvv seriously. Made a few simple effects (some of them connected to MIDI notes from Live). I also want to learn MAX, but time is very scarce.

I stopped performing in Trubadur in order to have more time free for making new material. That old stuff is very boring to me now. I want more drastic changes, that cannot be made in between shows. It will take more time, but I think it will be worth it in the end.

I visited Exit, but didn't find anything interesting there. It was very disappointing, what was I expecting anyway?

I'm now looking forward to visiting dis-patch. I can see that last year's visit to that festival totally changed me. That's why Exit felt stupid now.

Also, I'm thinking about changing my "music project name" (currently it's "Bogiwoye"). A friend suggested I should use my own name, like "why do you need a new fancy imaginary name?". I don't know. What do you think?