This is amazing!
Get started making music
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Re: Get started making music
#12I noticed many people commenting here think there's only one page.
There's more -- scroll down and click next.
Re: Get started making music
#13Ableton Live is my main daw. I use it every day, generally for hours, and for a wide variety of purposes.
The most depressing thing about ableton is made obvious in two seconds of messing with that tutorial. A complete disregard for music in the sense of pushing boundaries of time, or doing things that are not tied to any sort of grid, and the sense of music as an emotive form.
So many aspects of music are very annoying or borderline impossible to do in ableton. Yet in all these years, and with so many installations, they just never addressed those issues. Instead they vaguely pretend as if music that would require features they don't have is radically experimental. Which might become true if so many people learn music only through using their software.
Seriously, Ableton. Stop pretending making music is clicking on and off in little boxes. It's embarrassing.
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Edited to take out the "art" part and put in a couple of more specific criticisms.
Re: Get started making music
#14This is not the basics of making music. It's a super advanced technique using a computer. The real basics involve pencil, (staff) paper, and hard work. Downvotes please.
One could argue that the basics involve putting sounds together in the simplest way possible - something like this. And that it takes far more work and skill to get to the advanced, low level stuff like writing on staff paper (and on the production side, compression, EQ, mastering, etc.).
To put it another way: Is learning x86 assembly the "basics of computer programming"?
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#15Related, this is trending on reddit this morning. Just fascinating to watch someone build a catchy track up on such a (apparently) basic piece of equipment...
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#16Wow this is super high quality content. Props to Ableton. By far my favorite DAW, but I wish they would come out with a cheaper license.
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#17Ableton Live is my main daw. I use it every day, generally for hours, and for a wide variety of purposes. The most depressing thing about ableton is made obvious in two seconds of messing with that tutorial. A complete disregard for music in the sense of pushing boundaries of time, or doing things that are not tied to any sort of grid, and the sense of music as an emotive form. So many aspects of music are very annoy…
For those of us who haven't used Ableton yet, what is it missing?
Edit: fixed autocorrect typo
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#18As someone who has no musical talent whatsoever, I'm oddly intrigued by Ableton's products. I've occasionally stumbled across the Push[0] and been fascinated by it as an input device.
This site is another thing to add to my Intriguing Stuff list.
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#19Check out Jack Schaedler who works in this at Ableton https://jackschaedler.github.io/
He even made an interactive essay about the GRAIL text recognizer from the 1960s https://jackschaedler.github.io/handwriting-recognition/
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#20Related, this is trending on reddit this morning. Just fascinating to watch someone build a catchy track up on such a (apparently) basic piece of equipment... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK5cU9qWRg0
It's a cool video, but not really a very basic piece of equipment.
> That's actually a $900 synth/sampler/effects processing unit called the Op-1 by Teenage Engineering.
From this thread on /r/ArtisanVideos:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/comments/6a2yq4/guy_m...