Ableton Live 9, Push, Steven Slate Raven MTX, 1956 IBM 5MB HD

Reactable Systems has released a interactive album on their interactive music platform. Reactable Artist Edition: Oliver Huntemann places a range of objects at your disposal: Generate sound with a set of objects including synthesizer, oscillator, sample player and various loop players. Modify generated sounds with a set of effect objects including wave shaper, delay, modulator and filter….

Sonic Logic is a modular MIDI controller for iPad, it allows you to make a MIDI setup live from your iPad and control an external DAW with it (like Ableton, Traktor, Logic Pro etc…)

Of course we first look at the new Apple products 05:00, then a great fly on the wall video with Queen in the studio – hence the Brian May reference26:30, Native Instruments Action Strings 38:30 and a photo is worth a thousand words… 48:45

We are joined by Andy Shillito fresh back from engineering The Darkness supporting Lady Gaga, we talk of his work then how do you add tracks to a live gig recording, Felix Baumgartner’s incredible leap and what are the musical equivalents, the Studio Electronics Boomstar synths. Gaz tells us about his 12hour long single.

I did a video a while ago showing how to chop samples like an MPC in Ableton Live. In that video I showed how to create a default setting for Drum Rack samples to oneshot by default. I get a lot of questions on how to do this in Live 8, so here’s a video…