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Abletonlife.com is a great little site. If you’re into Ableton Live in any of its forms, be sure to check it out. But for now, just check out this great “screencast” done by the folk(s) at Ableton Life: an intro to DJing in Live.

If you need help building a Live DJ rig, be sure to check out my article about the subject here.

Part 2 after the jump!

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The Launchpad comes with a couple of “User Modes” which are modes made to be assigned to just about anything you can think of. This adds a lot of flexibility to the Launchpad as the video above demonstrates.

Question: How do I get the other outputs on Ultrabeat to work when using the Multichannel version of the plugin?

So Ultrabeat is a monster of a plugin, but there are a few simple tricks to using that save a lot of time and make the plugin really flexible for something that comes bundled with a DAW.

Setting up a multichannel version of Ultrabeat allows you to group your samples and play them out of ultrabeat into different aux tracks.  I chose to have kicks come out of the main track, snares out of another aux, toms a second aux and cymbals out of a third. Basically I can put different compressors and EQ’s on the kicks than I do on the snares.  Then I can tweak the hi-end of the cymbals and gate the toms – all on separate channels.  Pretty cool, right?  Check out the video!

Star Trek Sound Effects Editor Mark Mangini goes into the details of designing sounds for Star Trek Movies.  Pretty fascinating – there’s actually quite a bit of great information on Designing Sound, which is where I came across this video.

Oh and part two:

Definitely enjoyed his description of a giant biker beating the crap out of a dumpster to create “time waves” hitting a ship.

synthPond 2.0 Tutorial from zach gage on Vimeo.

Loving it!  It’s an interesting conceptual instrument – you place nodes on a surfaces that generate notes when hit by waves (ripples in the “pond”). Some nodes just produce notes, some emanate their own waves.  Anyway, its pretty awesome, check it out.