Creative MIDI CC’s in Ableton Live – On-demand
If you’d like to support the Music Hackspace to continue to build a program of free workshops, a voluntary contribution would be much appreciated.
Level: Intermediate
Ableton Live offers a vast playground of musical opportunities to create musical compositions and productions. These include techniques to deploy MIDI Control Change messages (CC’s) to manipulate and transform musical ideas. In this workshop you will creatively explore and deploy a range of MIDI CC’s manipulation tools in a musical setting. This workshop aims to provide you with suitable skills to utilise the creative possibilities of MIDI CC manipulation in the Ableton Live environment.
Session Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session a successful student will be able to:
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Identify MIDI CC’s messages
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Map MIDI CC’s to parameters
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Manipulate Clip Envelopes and dummy Clips via MIDI CC’s
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Utilise MIDI CC”s to create novel musical and sonic elements
Session Study Topics
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MIDI CC messages
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MIDI Mapping CC’s
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Clip Envelopes and dummy clips and CC’s
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Creatively using MIDI CC’s
Requirements
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A computer and internet connection
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A web cam and mic
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A Zoom account
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Access to a copy of Live Suite (i.e. trial or full license)
About the workshop leader
Anna is a London based producer, engineer, vocalist and educator.
Anna is currently working as a university lecturer in London, teaching music production, creating educational content and working on her next releases as ANNA DISCLAIM.
Creative Audio and MIDI in Ableton Live – On-demand
If you’d like to support the Music Hackspace to continue to build a program of free workshops, a voluntary contribution would be much appreciated.
Level: Intermediate
Ableton Live offers a vast playground of musical opportunities to create musical compositions and productions. These include converting audio based harmony, melody and rhythm to MIDI, alongside techniques such as slicing audio into sampling tools which can be triggered via MIDI. In this workshop you will creatively explore and deploy a range of Audio and MIDI manipulation tools in a musical setting. This workshop aims to provide you with suitable skills to utilise the creative possibilities of Audio and MIDI manipulation in the Ableton Live environment.
Session Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session a successful student will be able to:
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Convert Audio to MIDI
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Slice Audio to MIDI
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Manipulate Audio via MIDI slices
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Utilise Audio and MIDI to create novel musical and sonic elements
Session Study Topics
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Converting Audio to MIDI
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Slicing Audio to MIDI
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Manipulating slices within Simpler
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Creatively using Audio and MIDI
Requirements
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A computer and internet connection
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Access to a copy of Live Suite (i.e. trial or full license)
About the workshop leader
Anna is a London based producer, engineer, vocalist and educator.
Anna is currently working as a university lecturer in London, teaching music production, creating educational content and working on her next releases as ANNA DISCLAIM.
Getting confident with Max – On demand
Level: Beginner
Cycling 74’s Max / MSP offers a vast playground of programming opportunities to create your own sound design and multimedia applications. In this workshop you will build a patch using items from the Max tool bar such as Beap and Vizzie as well using media from your own collection, plus explore ways to open up, reverse engineer and modify existing resources within the Max.
Series Learning Outcomes
By the end of this series a successful student will be able to:
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Confidently navigate the Max environment to quickly gain access to content and learning resources.
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Deploy resources into a patch.
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Connect and explore these resources to develop ideas for sound and media design, composition and performance.
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Navigate the help file system and reverse engineer existing content in the Max application.
Session Study Topics
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The Tools available in a Max such as Beap and Vizzie modules.
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Playlists and drag and drop media.
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Bpatches, prototypes and snippets.
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The helpfile system.
Requirements
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A computer and internet connection
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Access to a copy of Max 8 (i.e. trial or full license)
About the workshop leader
Duncan Wilson (aka Ned Rush) is a musician, producer and content creator based in the UK. Whilst perhaps largely known for his Youtube channel, he has also released music independently as well developing content for Isotonik Studios.
Artist workshop with Ned Rush: Live Sample Mangling in Max 8 – On demand
Max is Ned’s go to environment to realise concepts for sound design and performance that are not available in other programs.
In this 2-hour workshop you will learn ways to sample and loop incoming audio from the outside world. You will create a fresh sonic palette from mutating the sound, using a variety of techniques aimed at performance and improvisation, whilst also discussing and solving problems related to improvisation set-ups and how we can meet those needs.
You will explore a variety of ways to interact with sampled sound to find which method suits you best so you can realise your vision with a unique performance sampler.
Requirements
– Max 8
– Basic knowledge of Max
About the workshop leader
Ned Rush aka Duncan Wilson is a musician, producer and performer. He’s most likely known best for his YouTube channel, which features a rich and vast quantity of videos including tutorials, software development, visual art, sound design, internet comedy, and of course music.