I’ve just finished another tutorial which focuses on how to use cubase to play with a drummer live. The tutorial shows you how to setup and configure cubase so that you can play live with a drummer, using a metronome or click track. This is a great way to play samples or pre recorded parts with a live band and all keep in time.
Using cubase to play live laptop set with drummer
Enjoy
Zander
Ableton Live 8 has some new functions on the midi & audio front. Midi grooves can be created from an audio file, audio files can be sliced & mapped it to a midi file and midi & audio parts can be quantized live. The midi editor window has also had an overhaul and has improved dramatically which is good as i always thought Live’s midi editing was poor.
Ableton Live’s warp engine has always been exceptional in most situations but could sometimes let you down. In Live 8 theres been an overhaul of the beat slicing and complex warp modes and you can also adjust the warp events directly.
Live 8 sees the introduction of new effects.
Vocoder
Live 8 vocoder
Multiband Dynamics
Live 8 multiband dynamics
Overdrive:
Live 8 overdrive
Limiter
Live 8 Limiter
Frequency Shifter
Live 8 frequency shifter
Live 8 looper
Live 8’s new looper looks interesting. The looper works like old sound on sound tape machines which allow you to overdub loops in realtime. The looper is set up to use remote operation, i.e. a footpedal, which would make it very useful for live performance. Looper has many advantages over the old tape methords like drag and drop loop organisation, layer editing and automatic bpm detection.
Ableton have also changed some of the layout in Live 8 and added some much needed features. You can now zoom in on the project window, jump to any place in an audio file when previewing, group tracks together and control multiple parameters at once.
The full version of Cubase 5 retails at a woping £470 with updates from cubase 4 at about £150. Stienberg have also released Cubase studio 5 which is a striped down version for £329.
Heres some videos explaining the new features.
I must admit i’m tempted by the beat slicing tools, as it can be a royal pain in the arse to manually chop export & import beats but they also said this about hit points which far from worked well in my opinion. For that amount of money the question is …
Zander
So you want to play VST instruments live with your band. Well you can use cubase to do this quite easily. This tutorial will walk you through how to get low latency, set up the project, set up the outputs and how to setup the instruments.
Midi mapping is a great feature of Ableton live. It allows you to assign a midi controller to control different parameters. This vastly improves a perfromance especially when just perfroming a laptop set. We show you how to do it, including walkthough and screenshots.
File management is a very important factor when preparing your computer and projects to play live. File management is often over looked or ignored, which is a shame as it is very easy to do and will make your project much more secure and stable. In this tutorial we will discuss what file managements all about, why its important, what you can do to stop it happening and the advantages.
Key mapping in Ableton Live is a very useful feature of Live In this tutorial we will look at what is key mapping, starting key mapping mode, assigning keys and a conclusion.
Ableton Live has a built in crossfader which is very powerful. It has 7 different curves, can mix any number of tracks together and is midi mappable. In tutorial we will guide you through what is a crossfader, Ableton Live’s crossfader, the different crossfader curves, key and midi mapping the crossfader and some fun tips.
