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Breaks & Beats Podcast #11
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I went lighter on the breaks this time, reason being the new Fanu album is dropping soon, which will most definitely make listeners overdose on drums and breaks for a while. Plenty of dubs here from dope artists and labels: Fracture, Astrophonica, Cosmic Bridge, Etch, Moresounds, etc…so this one will provide you with a lot of something you haven’t heard yet. Also has two forthcoming Lightless things. Keep your eye out on all those, as all the unreleased tunes will be dropping soonish.
TRACKLIST
Fanu – Bad Dreams [Coleco remix] (Lightless)
Danny Scrilla – Riddim (Cosmic Bridge dub)
Etch – Back On The Planet (dub)
Etch / Big L – All Black [Etch reshade] (dub)
Sully – Crystal Cuts (Astrophonica dub)
DJ Madd – Duppy (Cosmic Bridge)
Overlook – Distant Blues (31 Records)
ReDraft x HP. Ritch – Champion Killa (dub)
Moresounds – Etho (31 Records)
Sam Binga – I Tol U (Critical)
J:Kenzo – Rum Punch (31 Records)
Overlook – Gumshoe (Rupture)
Seba – Jungle Music (Secret Operations dub)
SDS – Shadow People (Lightless dub)
Fre4knc – Rotor (Critical)
SDS – Andromeda (Machinist Music)
Moresounds – What A Party (Cosmic Bridge dub)
Module Eight – OK With That (Exit)
Neuropol & Om Unit – The Rise (Cosmic Bridge dub)
Alix Perez – Losing You (Exit)
Fracture – Remember The Time feat. Lucie La Mode (Astrophonica dub)
Fanu – Winterlude feat. Sarah Kivi (Lightless dub)
Ableton Live 9.5 Simpler: warping breaks and using Glide for effects
Demonstrating here how the warping capabilities of the new Ableton 9.5 Simpler are great for warping drumloops, and with the Glide function, a ”timestretch” sort of effect can easily be achieved while still keeping the beat on time.
Ableton Live 9.5 Simpler: warping vocals to do chords
I did a video on how the new Ableton 9.5 Simpler + warping is great for doing chords with vocal samples. This technology did not exist until 9.5.
Quick Ableton Live 9.5 filter tips
Ableton Live 9.5 is out – with nice new analog-modeled filters.
Here’s two quickies relating to them.
1) The new analog-modeled filters can self-oscillate, so by setting the resonance really high (goes up to 125%) and adding some drive (by using the MS2 filter, for example), you can create sinewave type of sound if you play a sample that’s silent.
2) If you have a sample that’s just noise or something similar, crank up the LP filter resonance all the way up to 125%, add some reverb, and you can create a nice bleep sound that you can play melodies with.
Badass plugins post
This one’s been in the air for a while: to write about the plugins I use the most. I don’t have an absolute massive ton of plugs, and as I’ve become more experienced, I’ve tried to adapt the “less is more” and “learn a few tools inside out” philosophy with plugins, but I suppose still have/had a few too many “waiting to get used” (I actually ended up deleting a few while going thru the list, trying to pick the ones I’d write about).
For this one, I’ll concentrate on the effects Continue reading Badass plugins post