Monthly Archives: January 2012

[Ableton] Normalize Recorded Audio Samples

Situation:

You recorded a nice sample from an external source (name it a bass synthesizer or anything else). After recording you see that the sample’s gain is too low.

Solution 1:

copy that pattern from the pattern view to the arrangement view
consolidate that sample in the arrangement view (CTRL+ J on Windows or CMD + J on Apple)
increase the sample’s own gain to 0dB
the tiny downside: bass samples get often distorted. If you don’t like auto-distortion take Solution 2 ;-)

Solution 2:

get yourself Audacity
load that recorded sample from Ableton into Audacity
go to Effects -> Normalize
et voilà: gain set to 0dB and no distortion

Enjoy…

[Science] ARTE/3Sat Dokumentation Expedition ins Gehirn…

Die aus dem Jahre 2005 stammende 3-teilige Dokumentation “Expedition ins Gehirn” ist endlich auch auf Youtube gelandet. Die Doku befasst sich mit dem menschen Gedächtnis und seiner Fähigkeit höchste Leistungen zu erbringen. Im Fokus stehen dabei als Abgrenzungskriterium zwischen der Leistung der Gehirne “normaler” Menschen immer wieder die besonderen Leistungen der inselbegabten Savants.

Zu Wort kommen u.a. die bekanntesten Hirnforscher der Welt:

Dr. Darold Treffert
Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen
Prof. Gerhard Roth

Jede Folge ist etwa 45min lang. Enjoy!

Expedition ins Gehirn – Teil 1 – Gedächtnis-Giganten

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[Muzaq] Bitwig Prepping To Launch Beta of Bitwig Studio Soon

The Berlin based company Bitwig has eventually presented some details about their upcoming music software BitwigStudio. Bitwig Studio is targeting at professional and semi-professional musicians for producing and using live.

Features in Version 1.0

In addition to what people would expect like VST support, there seem to be some groundbreaking new features to be coming already in version 1.0:

dual heading for the use of several displays
Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and LINUX support (!!)
working on multiple documents
multiple automizations

Upcoming Features After Version 1.0

Bitwig also announced features to be upcoming after version 1.0:

LAN multi-user jamming
multi-user music production via Internet
Native modular synthesizer/effects system

Background

The Bitwig company has been founded by former Ableton developers in 2008. They are located in Berlin/Germany.

Closed Beta Test

Although there is no reliable information at the moment about release dates, you can apply here for a beta test starting soon.

More Information

» Bitwig on the net

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_t8GfH-v4

Update [Jan 28, 2012]

Forum threads indicate there is a tiny chance that Ableton might sue Bitwig for cloning parts of Live’s GUI, in legal terms for violating the protection of registered designs.

[iOS5] Workaround for iPad and iPhone w/ iOS5 running Animoog

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Abstract

You absolutely like Moog’s latest iOS application named Animoog and wanna control it from your Mac but it doesn’t work and you are running iOS 5 or iOS 5.01. So at the moment it seems there is an issue in Animoog related to a modification in Apple’s CoreMidi stack. On iOS 4.3.x devices the CoreMidi connection worked.

Walkthru

I. On your iOS device do the following:

I assume you already installed AniMoog, didn’t you?
Please shutdown the AniMoog app, in case it is running. Don’t just put it into the multitasking background (or just reboot the iPad or the iPhone)
then open the AppStore
download Pad MIDI
run Pad MIDI
put Pad MIDI into the multitasking background
start Animoog

II. On your Mac/HackMac/iMac/MacPro/whatever do the following:

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