I don’t know exactly when that happened, but I recently discovered that Om Records has now also joined the Spotify-game. That, of course, means that LifeB is now also on there. Feels kind of nice.
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If anybody out there puts together a playlist, where my track sits in neatly (besides the original compilation), I’d love to hear it.
As some of you know, I’m still a student of what is called “Communication and Multimediadesign“. There you learn dealing with all different kinds of media, no matter if it’s print, web, film or audio. Unfortunately I never touched much audio during the studies. I had no room for it. But I gain more and more confidence, that there should be much more music and sound surrounding me in my everyday life.
After purchasing the lovely Tascam DR100 I found myself enjoying the very fundamentals of sound. I guess you could also tell that by listening to my recent work. Just running around, recording everything I can find, as long as it has some remarkable character.
All that collecting of sound-fragments has proven meaningful, as I now got myself working on a first sound design project: Making small animated Typo-Idents audible. They are meant to promote the fonts of a new typo-webshop called Hype For Type. Animated by bauwrk, this clip introduces their best-selling Neo Deco:
The best possibility to grasp the nature of this work is to watch it without sound. This is where i started. Then gradually made my way to that “spacey” feel. Find the match! Tell me what you think!
In Summer 2008 I first explored, how noises and random sounds can form to rhythm and go along with calm acoustic sounds. That concept took hold on me for some time. Now and then I did some small sketches, that would fall into that category. I had two of them already on Soundcloud, Cleansing and Ursulurn. Recently, I uploaded this early first piece (Morgenschillgit) and decided to make them all free to download. I won’t put work into these anymore and they won’t appear in future releases. So if you like them, go grab!
There are many people out there using the Novation Nocturn (me included), since it was one of the first controllers that did a lot for little money. The tight integration between hardware and software does the trick. Having read about the Automap-feature made me really looking forward to get this device into my hands, since it’s always such a hassle to manually assign each and every control you have.
However, the Automap-feature turned out to be useless for me. It works only with AU/VST-Plugins. Not right in Ableton itself. You can control Live with it, though: Turn on a Midichannel in the Automap server software and manually map Midi-controls within Live (see Novation FAQ for this). But this technique clearly has not the same ease-of-use and awesomeness as the Automapping feature.
I want to easily control Rack-Macros on the fly. Without assigning the knobs individually! And guess what? There is a way! There is a small hidden feature inside Live called Midi Remote Scripting. I recently read about it on CDM, did a custom script for my Nocturn, and – tadaa – Automapping inside of Live. Peter shared his Config-files for both Korg’s nanoPAD and nanoKONTROL. So I will share mine for the Nocturn, so you will not have to read the whole article on how to do it yourself. Just follow the steps!
I don’t know exactly when that happened, but I recently discovered that Om Records has now also joined the Spotify-game. That, of course, means that LifeB is now also on there. Feels kind of nice.
