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Ableton Live
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. Welcome to the Live Tips! Below you’ll find a big list in chronological order from the day I started writing them. You can also navigate using the tag cloud or search box at the right. 365 Ableton Live Tips? Back to arrangement, pt. 1. BACK TO ARRANGEMENT, pt. 2. GET YOUR BUFFER RIGHT. GET MIDI SET UP RIGHT. ROCK THE DELAY MODES. USE THE INFO VIEW. ONE SONG, MULTIPLE CLIPS. ONE KNOB, MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS. FLIP IT, DUB IT.
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Live 9 Power! LA Release Event – June 13
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. LA Release Event – June 13. It’s a fact: when you’re writing a book, you just don’t get out very much. That’s why I’m extra excited to leave the house and link up with the Los Angeles Ableton community to talk about making music, sign a few books, and have some free beer. Please come down and say hi! June 13, 7:30-9 pm Jarritos Pop Up Gallery 7020 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles 90038. 8211; it’s next door at 7020).
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BUILDING THE MIX ROOM: MONITORS AND CONVERSION
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. BUILDING THE MIX ROOM: MONITORS AND CONVERSION. To build the first version of my mix studio, I knew the priority would have to be monitoring. This means great speakers, the best acoustics possible, and excellent A/D conversion. There were a few big questions at the outset, such as whether or not to do analog summing, and if the budget would allow for a second pair of monitors on day one. Sound comes out here. The answ...
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Hobotech — Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness.
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. USING PUSH TO STEP SEQUENCE BASSLINES AND LEADS. After folks spend some time step sequencing drums with Push, they usually do a little chicken dancing and fist pumping. Once they get that out of their systems, however, a troubling question arises: “how do I do this with melodic parts? 8221; The answer, strictly speaking, is: you can’t. However, the better answer is: with science! Welcome to Hobo Technologies! We’...
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Campfire
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. BUILDING THE MIX ROOM: SUMMING. This article offers a little background on what analog summing is all about, for those new to the concept, and explains a bit about the decisions I made when setting up the new mixing studio. I went into this project not at all sure if I would buy a summing mixer. My initial […]. BUILDING THE MIX ROOM: MONITORS AND CONVERSION. BUILDING THE MIX ROOM, Pt. 2: DECISIONS. For the last month ...
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Common Grace
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. Sometimes, a song springs forth fully formed, and all you have to do is grab an instrument, set up a microphone, and make history. Ultimately, I had to rely a lot on my bandmates to keep me from losing my mind, and also on the wise words of great producers. In both cases, I’m paraphrasing. I once read a Rick Rubin quote where he made the point that there’s no. A mix is a performance. Remixes of Govinda and Mr Jennings.
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Remixes of Govinda and Mr Jennings
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. Remixes of Govinda and Mr Jennings. While plugging away on the next Hobotech and Tiny Machines releases, I took some time out to do remixes for Govinda. And Mr. Jennings. Both tracks were a lot of fun to do. In each case, I decided not to worry about how they would fit into a particular dancefloor context and just made music! Govinda remixes on Beatport. Mr Jennings remixes on Addictech. Welcome to Hobo Technologies!
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Building The Mix Room, Pt. 1: WHY?
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. Building The Mix Room, Pt. 1: WHY? Still life with studio equipment and iced coffee. It’s all been pretty fun and exciting, even with the stress and exhaustion that comes with a big project. I’ve been sharing my progress with friends as I go, and in general their response tends to be “cool! 8221; Friend: “Why? Having settled his hash, I decided to give the question some further thought. The question came from some...
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BUILDING THE MIX ROOM: SUMMING
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. BUILDING THE MIX ROOM: SUMMING. I will say that I’ve already had a couple of experiences of my clients saying “Wow! A BRIEF HISTORY OF SUMMING. There’s an app for that. Many feel that they don’t entirely hold up when compared to mixes done at least partly in the analog domain. The Dangerous 2-Bus was the first summing mixer. Created to address this problem. The theory is this:. So you know who to blame. Some mixers sw...
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lab
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Hobo Technologies from Jon Margulies and friends. Ableton Live tips, music and madness. Jon is an Ableton Live wizard, an awesome musician and a great dude to work with. I’ve been a fan for a long time, and over the past few years have relied on him heavily for technical assistance navigating the wild waters of Ableton for my live sets. Hobos are here to help. The music you make while you’re still honing your skills as a composer, arranger, sound designer, mix engineer and studio technician.
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