I proudly bring you the first released Ableton Recording from my first session with client Michael Thariath.  This was producing and recording lesson 1 with that covered how to record an instrument with live and produce electronic beats to accompany it.  EQ'ing, automation, midi, commands and  overall creative flow were the main focuses of this session, and were demonstrated at the pace of the client.   I am really looking forward to sharing the music made in with Creative Minds!

Producing Session 1 with Michael Thariath

This was the first production lesson that inspired me to make a soundcloud page.  It was made from my first recording in ableton lesson, demonstrating how easy it is to record an old juno keyboard and creatively build beats behind it.  I plan on posting the progress so the transformation is apparent.

Juno GI at the Playground Session 1

This is the result of able 2 play's session 1 of our comprehensive music production workshop at Illinois State University. This is a large group seminar introducing Ableton to a minority of experienced users, and a fair majority of people who have never used the program. The goal of this workshop is to motivate individuals to unlock their creative process as a song writer, beat maker, or artist of any type. In addition to composing a song with the class, we are providing an intuitive walkthrough of the program and explaining the concepts of basic audio engineering. Session one involved creating loops with vocals and bass to a metronome to layer ideas and create a canvas to work from. We used a drum rack with samples to make the beat, and just introduced audio effects and use of a MIDI before we ran out of time.  There was minimal arrangement done, as that will be a large focus in session 2.  Stay tuned

Workshop Session 1 at Illinois State University

At our last workshop at ISU, we built a song from scratch as a class. We invited volunteers to create layers of loops; we recorded bass, finger snaps, claps, bells, a set of car keys, guitar, trumpet, vocals, and a death-metal style scream that surprisingly blended in quite well. Everything was improvised in class and no one was instructed what or how to play.  All the mixing and minimal processing was done in class as we went along. Bonobos song "Ten Tiger's" was sliced to a sampler that we introduced at the very end, that blended with the chord progression we used.

ISU Workshop Final Session

1 hour Lesson building a song from scratch together with Cesar.  Techniques demonstrated were creating midi chord progressions and layering with multiple differen't tones, Resampling audio from midi, and slicing audio to midi.  We also managed to have time to sequence midi drums/percussion, as well as build a couple of lead melodies with different layers and mix everything with stock ableton tools.  This will later be developed into a complete song

Jazzy Downtempo Jam ft. Cesar Pino

Binding Of Issac Remix ft. Bryan V

Slow dub ft Bryan V

I Die Fye Eye (massive, Maschine Audio Loops And Boops)

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