Ableton Live 8 misuse tutorials

Our good buddies at the excellent Create Digital Music have posted a trio of video tutorials aimed at showing Live 8 users how to deploy various elements of the software in ways that could be considered 'not obvious'.
The first two see Ableton's Denis DeSantis using Live 8's new groove system as a 'dynamic quantisation tool', and a means of introducing random variation to rhythmically sterile percussion parts. In the third, Denis calls on Live's Frequency Shifter to fine-tune the separate elements of a drum loop. It's all good stuff, and recommended viewing for all Live 8 heads.

For the full CDM entires, see Ableton Live 8 'mistutorials' 1, 2 and 3.

A music and technology journalist of over 30 years professional experience, Ronan Macdonald began his career on UK drummer’s bible, Rhythm, before moving to the world’s leading music software magazine, Computer Music, of which he was editor for over a decade. He’s also written for many other titles, including Future Music, Guitarist, The Mix, Hip-Hop Connection and Mac Format; written and edited several books, including the first edition of Billboard’s Home Recording Handbook and Mixing For Computer Musicians; and worked as an editorial consultant and media producer for a broad range of music technology companies.

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