bimach - mitchell bederman

Reverb and Primetime and Flying Faders, oh my

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:28:13 +0000

If you ever get a chance to use one of these, I highly recommend it. Especially the Quantec. Gives a reason why outboard gear is still relevant.

For Someone Who Calls Themselves a producer, I produce surprising little content….

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:24:19 +0000

Nuff, said. Hopefully it comes together soon. Practicing a lot, though.

Max for Live beginnings

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:57:44 +0000

I finally figured out how to put a few of the Max for Live API abstractions together. It would be great to make it so automation of one parameter on one device can easily control that of another parameter within Live. Kind of make it like a modular DAW. I have a few ideas on how this can be extended, but I would love to hear from other Max for Livers on what they think would be great additions.

My Favourite Things About Ableton

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:10:37 +0000

So I think I may have people thinking that I’m anti-Ableton. I know that every DAW has its drawbacks and I am not going to stop using a great piece of software because of shortcomings. But it is the responsibility of the user to let the programmers know what they want and will or won’t stand for in their product. May have come off a little harsh, so here’s what I love about Ableton…(btw, I have a lot more beefs to bring up, I just think it’s time I did some bigging up before knocking down).

1) Forums – The fact that its forum users are so loyal and will jump down your throat as soon as you say anything bad about them, even though you might have a valid point. That is something great.

But more seriously…

2) The Live Device Browser –

You can search your whole computer for samples, other projects and Ableton has done a great job at integrating the system folders at your finger tips.

3) Max For Live –

By combining Max/MSP/Jitter and Ableton Live, they have reached a new frontier of Live presentation and even for module-based digital processing that is not available anywhere else. Bravo.

4) Resampling –

There’s often that weird sound in music sequencing where you don’t know how you got it but you want to exploit it. The resampling capabilities in Ableton make this so easy to capture.

5) Easy consolidation –
So great to be able to click and drag your MIDI and Audio into your other projects so that you can combine those old beats and loops into something new and exciting…Uh oh, but why can’t you drag your Return tracks in also?? C’mon, that should definitely be an option.

Sticking It – Reclaiming Live 7 Instruments

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:49:58 +0000

So I am pretty upset about how these guys did this to loyal Ableton users. Luckily I kept my Ableton 7 files in tact so I can transfer them over. But they don’t make it easy…I’m pretty choked. The least they could do would be to make it easy to transfer over the instruments after they deleted them from the list. But no…We have to do it ourselves, the hard way.

Here are the steps.
1) Download the Ableton 7 Library .zip here and unzip it
2) Find where your Ableton 8 Library is located in your computer browser (on my mac laptop, mine was in mitchbederman/Library/Application Support/Ableton
3) Drop your Ableton 7 Library folder in your 8 Library
4) Locate the instruments presets you want from Ableton 7 and copy them into your 8 library
5) Go into your Ableton session, click on your live 7 instrument presets. There will be a status bar update at the bottom of your Live session that says samples are missing.
6) There will be a bar on the right that opens asking you where to with three YES/NO toggle buttons. Set the bottom two to NO and keep the first one on YES.
7) Set the folder to search for the missing samples as the location where you just dropped your Ableton 7 Library inside your Ableton 8 Library.
Activate the search.
9) SAVE THE INSTRUMENT!! Or else the samples will go missing again. (I chose to overwrite the instruments with the same name)
10) Repeat steps 5-9 for each instrument.

There are WAY fewer Impulse and Simpler instruments in Live 8 than Live 7. The instrument racks contain much more. To update my Live 7 instruments into 8, it took me a little over an hour. I believe it’s worth it.

Ableton Live 8 – Less Impulse Instruments than Live 7? Why?

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:44:58 +0000

So I’ve been trying to make some beats in Live 8 for an assignment of my new work. And what I’ve found is that the number of premade instruments in live 8 is rediculously depleted. Why would they do this? I think it’s a ploy to get people to buy the Ableton Suite, which is kind of a disgusting move on Ableton’s part. They think if we have fewer selections of instruments to use, then we’ll turn to their fancy add on instruments instead. This is stupid and kind of sleazy. If there is another reason for this, I would love to know.

Check out this post to get your instruments back: http://is.gd/e7OhH

Ableton Live 8 Impulse Instrument List:

Ableton Live 7 Impulse Instrument List (too big to fit on the screen):

Also, in Live 8, all of the instruments are now based on the proprietary synths (i.e. Analog, Tension, etc) instead of the Simpler sampler. That means that you can’t edit them at all and therefore once again need to turn to Suite to get into the major editing parts. It’s mostly a cash grab if you ask me.

Thank You, New Yorker

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:14:17 +0000

I love this. Thought I should share. From the New Yorker’s around town listings. It’s the only disclaimer that’s a part of the whole section.

The New Digs

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:14:11 +0000

For the past week I have been helping my new boss move into his new studio. Some parts are fun. Some parts are not. Spaghetti is not my favourite meal when it comes to putting a studio together.

Baby, Baby, Baby, Oh!

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:55:26 +0000

Needs to be mixed again, but whatever. Hello, Ableton.

sprintf object

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:15:17 +0000

If I had known about the sprintf object before today, I probably would have saved 3-4 hours of going through the cycling74 documentation. I’m trying to piece together the id tags for the hypothetical track, device, and parameter that I want to control my other control, and to no avail I was left scrolling through the ancient files about as fast as someone who’s never used email.

Someone really needs to develop a proprietary search engine where you can describe what you are looking for when you don’t know the name and it comes up with what you want from your description. Is that really so far off?