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The building blocks of a live set up in Ableton Live, courtesy of Beem.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to play live in Ableton Live. And I mean really ‘live’. Inspired by Mr Invisible’s Justin Aswell, I want to use the sounds I’ve created in Ableton without resorting to hitting ‘play’. In fact, until I’d seen Justin’s video at Dubstop…
Cinematographer and documentary producer Max Sayganov
Sounds-Underground.com is the official domain for the music documentary series I’m working on. Eventually it will be a subdomain of MusicProducersForum.com, Sounds-Underground.com will announce the progress of pre-production, filming and post production.
Currently in the midst of development stage I’m happy to say that the official production crew has now doubled. Max Sayganov (Pictured left) is an experienced media producer, who has a great eye, good ear, knows and appreciates great storytelling.
Every month, we pick out our five favourite flavours from the artists followed by rUbba nEck on Soundcloud; songs we think have something that makes them ear-bendingly brilliant. Here are the favourite five flavours for April:
Rise and Fail: Lowbob
This is a freebie from the guys from Hamburg. Opens with a double time bass drum and blippy percussion. There’s a really nice rush of pads that take us into more blips and something that sounds like someone playing their teeth.
Taylor Swift Live - Image: Ronald Woan - Click image to view the video
Taylor Swift’s multi award winning career, has made her one of the most successful singer-songwriters before the age of 21. In January 2010 Nielsen SoundScan reported Swift as the most successful digital artist in music to date with over 34.3 million digital tracks sold*.
I must admit, I have never given a minutes attention to the music of Taylor Swift. I was pretty much put off by the hordes of screaming 12 year old girls, and had written her off as another manufactured pop princess. But this 60 minutes interview changed my thinking. It seems, there’s quite a lot that can be learned from her story, for ANY artist currently making or wanting to make a living from music.
Here are a messages that are worth listening to from this video segment.
Dec 2011: The Music Producers Forum group on Linkedin has launched a User Group for users of Logic midi and audio recording software.
Apple’s Logic is one of the music production industry’s leading software platforms for digital audio workstations. The product has its beginnings dating back to the early 1990’s, and was acquired by Apple in 2002. With a strong legacy of users and a mature platform, it was the choice for the first user group as a subgroup of the main Music Producers Forum base (Over 3,000 members).
Mixing beats - Image Credit: AcidPix
Dedicated Groove boxes meant that the DJ producer had less to lug while doing the rounds for the club Techno and Dance scene. The main manufacturers and brands such as Korg, have wasted no time in developing ‘Retro apps’ of their physical products for that little game changing device, the iPad.
Music Producers Forum European editor Chris Lee Ramsden is looking for entries using the Korg’s Electribe on the iPad for the rUbba nEck initiatve. He has also shared his experiences and challenges with his old hand, in using the layout and importing sounds.
Click here to read about Chris’s experience with iElectribe.
In the meantime, the below guided tour from Korg, gives you a good look at getting started.
Barry Southgate's Epitome EP
True success is well and truly earned, and that journey means taking initiative and simply getting things done. Songwriter, producer and vocalist Barry Southgate is living by these rules. His motto is ‘bring change somewhere’, which is a simple yet profound philosophy. As an independent artist with a solid fan base, he’s producing his own catalogue of music as well as co-writing with fellow artists, Stan Walker being one of his most successful collaborations to date.
Barry’s online research for Bruno Mars stories brought him to our article post Bruno Mars, the next generation of hybrid producer, songwriter and artist. In taking the initiative to contact us in a personal email, (and no where in his email did he use the ever so annoying phrase ‘Hey, Check out my music’), I invited him for a conversation interview for our newly launched podcast series (Music Producers Forum Podcast 2011 Epsiode 3 - Coming soon).
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