New Just Blaze Interview on Ableton Live

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Full interview:
http://remixmag.com/artists/hiphop_R&B/remix_jedi_force/index1.html

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Just Blaze:
"The next step was to take all those sounds and dump them into Ableton Live, which is a sequencer that also allows you to do independent pitch and tempo shifting for every track in the session. So I took the stem session I had in Pro Tools, which consisted of WAV files, and transferred them to Ableton Live; that gave me one set of stems for the song. You can draw another set of stems into Ableton as well. So now you have two songs with two mixed multitracks — your kick, snare, bass, samples, keys, all mixed in one session. Then I can start playing with that. The possibilities are endless. Say one song is 93 bpm; the other is 89. Doing it subtly, we can blend the songs together in Ableton, though I can't show you exactly how we did it!”
 
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Thanks for posting this article. Really really interesting. What did he mean by breaking the beat into stems? Anyways thanks!
 
Joel Noel said:
Thanks for posting this article. Really really interesting. What did he mean by breaking the beat into stems? Anyways thanks!
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Stems are individual elements of a track. One is a kick track, another is a bassline, etc.
 
Ableton Live sucks and it highly overpriced. Kids, stick with FLS and look out for Reaper and XT2 in the future.

My sequencer is better than yours....
 
Howard Stern said:
Ableton Live sucks and it highly overpriced. Kids, stick with FLS and look out for Reaper and XT2 in the future.

My sequencer is better than yours....
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oh so wrong...but i don't feel like explaining....
 
Howard Stern said:
Ableton Live sucks and it highly overpriced. Kids, stick with FLS and look out for Reaper and XT2 in the future.

My sequencer is better than yours....
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I laughed out loud at that, lol.

The price tag fits for what it can do. No other program has the warp feature that LIVE has... that's what Just Blaze used to blend the 93bpm song with the 89 bpm song. You just warp the 89 bpm song.

I'm still a newbie with it, it's almost overwhelming... kinda makes me want to stick to something simple but I must persevere... the payoff of forcing myself to use it will be worth it.
 
Howard Stern said:
Ableton Live sucks and it highly overpriced. Kids, stick with FLS and look out for Reaper and XT2 in the future.

My sequencer is better than yours....
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Ableton Live doesn't suck. Its probably got the most creative and unique flow of ay DAW and tons of other features that Fruity Loops can only dream to have.

However I do agree it is overpriced. It actually works out as the most expensive DAW if you take into account the price of the sampler and the Operator synth that comes with it.
 
just remember, me and rome been ****in with Live before Just said it was cool....
 
Jersey8five6 said:
just remember, me and rome been ****in with Live before Just said it was cool....
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just a couple of years after me.

Howard Stern is right........and you will find it out in a couple of years or whatever latency your brain's interface has. :D
 
He's getting crazy with the product placements. I would too for the right price.
 
Jersey8five6 said:
just remember, me and rome been ****in with Live before Just said it was cool....
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That's right!

pretty soon... everybody will get the picture. I wish I had started out with LIVE... I probably would've still bought REASON...

those two companies should merge or something, lol.

JeanLuk let me hear something...
 
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I dont care if it can metamorph a conscious sampled soul track into a Synthersized club banger witha click of a button.

I will stick to my logic platinum.. Been usng it for 6 years and its skeez on anything out there.

Nice interview tho.
 
Da-Boss said:
I dont care if it can metamorph a conscious sampled soul track into a Synthersized club banger witha click of a button.
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It can do that. RTFM.








j/k
 
Daft Punk has been saying they use Ableton live for ages as well. :P

I love Just Blaze, but I still will rock the MPC till I die, personally. (I won't go into explaining why, I've probably already said it in other threads).
 
I tried Ableton 4 i think it was, last year, and I personally didnt care for it. It wasnt bad, I just didnt see where there was anything it could do that I couldnt already do in FL. And I know FL inside and out, my workflow is better with it, I give a damn what anyone says about it, it gets the job done for me.

Not knocking Abelton by a long shot, just saying what I always say, its not the tools, its the artist. I prolly would have given it more of a chance but my computer was having trouble meeting the system reqs, Ableton is a memory and CPU hog. At least it was when I tried it. At any rate, im not gonna use some **** just cause Blaze does.

Props to everyone no matter what you use.

Rome that warp thing sounds pretty much like beatmatching software, am I right? Can see where its useful, I usually do that the old fashioned way though, I like the "hands on" nature, though Im sure the warp thing is alot more precise.
 
Da-Boss said:
I dont care if it can metamorph a conscious sampled soul track into a Synthersized club banger witha click of a button.
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i've done it... in fl that is. gotta love vsts :D

it is funny how just blaze is doin alot of product placements. he's catching up to the RZA lol.

ableton looks interesting. i tried it once cus i had the demo from my m-audio **** but it was kinda weird. i think i might try it again sometime.
 
Howard Stern said:
Ableton Live sucks and it highly overpriced. Kids, stick with FLS and look out for Reaper and XT2 in the future.

My sequencer is better than yours....
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Do you ever make a valid point? Or do you enjoy sounding like a dip****?
 
I think FL could do that via automation...Seems like much more of a pain though. Ableton Live is cool, whatever works. Big ups to Just Blaze too.
 
biggrome said:
That's right!

pretty soon... everybody will get the picture. I wish I had started out with LIVE... I probably would've still bought REASON...

those two companies should merge or something, lol.

JeanLuk let me hear something...
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Ableton and Cycling74 (the dudes that sell Max/MSP) work together on some future releases. if you know Max/MSP and what its capable of, you know what that means: other companies are literally f*cked.:victory:

tell me what you wanna hear. I'll send ya a Live file to play with.
 
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A stem can also be define as: a stereo bounce of one element of a mix. usually after a mix is done the engineer will seperate the tracks into groups like "strings" or "bass" for example in a mix you have 9 tracks with different string parts, those strings are all processed with plug ins and running into the ssl and a bunch of outboard gear back to pro tools. So to ensure that there is a mix of what the strings sound like as a whole you comp them to a two track. its a bigger version of a bounce on a 4 track. so at the end of the day your 140 track session winds up being a few comp'd tracks. all 4 of my bass tracks are now one stereo mix. my background vocals are one stereo mix, my lead vocal is one stereo mix, my drums are one stereo mix, my synths are stereo mix and so on. you can bring up a stems of a mix in your home studio and not have access to the ssl, plugins or outboard gear and line the stems up at 0 on the mixer and have the final mix. its serves many different features mainly back up feature for not having access to all the same gear in another studio! its a standard for mix engineers to create stems!
 
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