Ableton Live tutorials, posted soon
This friday I leave for L.A. for a short vacation, mainly to go to Universal Studios with my girlfriend.
While I’m there I might take sometime to do indepth tutorials on my personal (well accumulated) routing tricks in ableton live.
Ableton Live has so many varying routing techniques that they can boggle the mind, most are not readily apparent until you have been using the application for awhile. A quick one that I think I can explain without the benefit of screen shots is an impulse routing scheme that I use so that I can input midi data from my Triggerfinger controller at the same time I’m running other midi loops.
Here’s how it works.
Make a Midi track add your Impulse, we’ll call this Impulse.
Make another Midi track add nothing, we’ll call this Sequence.
Go to the channel settings for the Impulse track, set monitor to IN, under Midi channel select the input that you normally use for your impulse. In the Channel Settings for the Sequence track, go to the Midi Out and route the Midi Out to the Midi In for your Impulse track.
Make your Hi Hat pattern or whatever you needed to have automated in the sequencer track and then bang away with your fingers. Yay automation.
I also use this trick for Battery, or anytime I find myself needing to have both control and sequencing abilities.
yay, my first tip of this blog.
Blog Designs
Here are 45 Excellent Blog designs found this via Digg
I’ve seen alot of these around lately, Verlee’s Blog is excellent and is packed with great information, I had no idea that it ran on Expression Engine.
Really one of the most interesting things about this article is finding out what engine drives these particularly well designed blogs. Currently, I’m running this blog on wordpress, really this is a ‘back site’ and then I plan on using Flash to build a portfolio site and integrate this blog with XML-RPC.
But maybe I’ll give some of these others a spin at home.
Some reels
Inspiration
These are from the motionographer feed that I have in my google reader.
I have to really pace myself looking at things like this. These are comapanies with real staff, and real time. My time could best be spent storyboarding a few concepts and then creating clips to follow these themes. This weekend, at a friends house, I watched a short film by a photographer (not a person who is normally a director) he had a few amazing shots and then stiched the narrative together with some great after effects animations. I wasn’t really so impressed with the entire thing, the overall thing came of as cheesy and mistimed. I think that might be due to some of the themes chosen, but the real thing that made me excited was the concept of using aftereffects for the majority of the narrative.
In summation. I need to make small bite size animations, but for some reason making eye candy(randomness) lately isn’t that appealing.
Right where you are sitting now..
I started this blog as a backend for W. Crouse.net.. I guess a behind the scenes look more-so than a back-end..
Consider it the back lot, where I talk about Graphics, esoteric thought, and my slow process of building a new career for myself.