Of my own productions, Sick’O'Six is my personal favorite, it’s unreleased as of yet.. (Keep an eye out for a certain 12″ in 2012!). But you can hear it in my Cloudcast: 303 Decks Don’t Need FX. Apparent in this track is my transition from digital to analog production over the year. 2012 will be mostly analog, a happy perspective.
The biggest loss of this year was NOT re-visiting Japan! I miss the place and people and I really hope to be there again soon..
However, the biggest win was going to Paris with @Mooiechocolat. And I’ve been to Paris again with @CaroSiburny. And I’ll go again this very week!!! I ❤ Paris!
01. Omar S – Sarah 02. Acid Andee – Feelin’ Me 03. Jordan Peak – Brutal Life 04. Teva – I Wanna Be 05. Black Box – Everybody, Everybody (JordyVision’s 2011 Digital Shoeshine) 06. Eli Escobar – Desire (Ian Pooley Dub) 07. Jay Tripwire – Spaced Out 08. Manuel Araneda – Plato Tipico (Sheehan & Clausen Remix) 09. Timid boy – How To Kill A Piano In 3 Lessons (Dana Ruh Black Flowers Remix) 10. JordyVision – The Grind (V.1 M01) 11. Deep Future – Do It all Night 12. Wehbba – 3 Days 13. Timid Boy & Alex Costa – My Girl 14. Marc ‘o’ Tool – Me 15. Benny Rodrigues – House Music (Surrealism’s Daft Punk Remix) 16. Kris Wadsworth – It’s time 17. JordyVision – White Tie 18. Jay Tripwire – Acid Babies 19. Gingy & Bordello – Amino 20. JordyVision – Sick ‘o’ Six 21. SOL – The Morph Balls
I was cleaning-up my samples folder and ran into these samples I once made, probably back in 2007 or 2008. Simple and funny, the dial pad of a telephone can be used to add a whole different beep to your bang.
Theoretically you can sequence a telephone-number in Ableton and initiate a call! Just hold the phone’s receiver up to your speaker while playing back the sounds and the call should commence. Oh, this will work only with a landline, mobiles don’t dial that way. I have little experience with VoIP phones, so I don’t know if they work with DTMF tones. Head on over to Wikipedia to learn more about DTMF.
Once downloaded, put the folder “JordyVision” in the samples folder of your Ableton Library, usually found at:
Ableton/Library/Samples
Put the drum rack file (.adg extension) in the correct presets folder of your Ableton Library. That would be “Drum Rack” in this case, typically located at:
Ableton/Library/Presets/Instruments/Drum Rack
You can make your own folder within the Drum Rack folder if you wish. Most of the time I call these “My Presets”, “My Patches” or something along these lines, pick a name you’re comfortable with.
Free Ableton Live Drum Racks: Roland® TR-505 & TR-606
The sample packs I’ve been handing out the last few days, in Ableton Live drum rack format, free of charge!
The installation notes are included in the download, but here’s one with pictures:
Put the folder “JordyVision” in the samples folder of your Ableton Library, usually found at:
Ableton/Library/Samples
Put the files “TR-505.adg” & “TR-606.adg” in the correct presets folder of your Ableton Library. That would be “Drum Rack” in this case, typically located at:
Ableton/Library/Presets/Instruments/Drum Rack
You can make your own folder within the Drum Rack folder if you wish. Most of the time I call these “My Presets”, “My Patches” or something along these lines, pick any name you’re comfortable with.
If Ableton gives you a “Samples couldn’t be located”, then let Ableton search the library and they should pop-up. Feel free to ask for help in the comments.
I was changing some things around in my studio when I noticed I haven’t used my Korg Kaosspad in quite a while. I started wondering what I could do to integrate it into my everyday producing workflow. I always used the device as a send/return effect on my DJ-mixer, or as a master effect after the mixer. But since I hardly DJ at home anymore I figured I’d reinstate it’s purpose on the production side of things: How to use the Korg Kaosspad (or any external sound-effect) as a send & return effect in Ableton Live. And then I remembered I still had a (cheap) spare sound-card lying around somewhere…
I bought this simple USB audio-interface when I still had one of those iBook G4′s with only a line-out but no line-in. (What were they thinking at Apple HQ?) You can get one for about €35,-/$40,- but any soundcard with at least one line-in and out will be able to pull this simple trick off.
Now, before we start I wanna mention that this will only work on a Mac, since they’re able to use multiple sound-cards at the same time as an aggregate device. Once you’ve got such an aggregated device up and running, you should have at least 4 outputs (or 2 stereo outputs) and 2 inputs (1 stereo line-in.) I did this by combining the Griffin iMic and the build-in soundcard (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Aggregate Device
Connect the line-out of the external effect to the line-in of the sound-card and the line-in of the effect to the line-out of the sound-card. When using a simple device like the one above together with the a Kaosspad, use a stereo RCA cable with a stereo mini-jack at the other end. But this might vary depending on what audio-interface you are using as well as what effect you are connecting it too. A mono effect like a distortion pedal (for a guitar) works a little different, but it’s perfectly possible with most sound-cards.
Now set-up a channel in Ableton and use the “external effect” device. And select your freshly created send and return channels Like this (Figure 2):
Figure 2: External effect in Ableton Live (Click to enlarge)
Now you should be able to use the effect. If not, try different channels but watch out for creating feedback loops! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me in the comments!
All About Music, News | JordyVision | 
01/01/2012 17:53 | 
Comments (0) 
