The Audio File
Here's my project for this week - it uses a bunch of samples from a recording of a school concert, a musical, and a rock band.
The warp markers were extremely useful to me. This interface for matching loops is so intuitive and accurate and makes it easy to work with looser beats that may fluctuate in tempo. It is so quick it would be feasible to do minor editing with this feature while playing live. I think the performance aspect of this software can be good when working with samples, because often really interesting combinations are found by trial and error which is easy in a performance environment.
I find myself losing touch with the macro form of the piece when sequencing live, however this is easily tidied up in the arrangement view. In creating this 45 second piece, I actually created a 2:20 groove and then raised the tempo and judiciously used "delete time" to get rid of the less interesting parts.
I had to just go for it and work quickly knowing that I couldn't save and improve the song incrementally over many sessions. This approach forced me to be more productive, creative and heavy-handed.
Reference: Christian Haines. "Week 7 Creative Computing - Ableton Live". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 6 September 2008.
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