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June Atlanta Ableton UG with John Douglass of From Exile + More

Hello all, our next meeting is next Wednesday, June 29th with John Douglass of the band From Exile

Wednesday, June 29th at 7:00 PM

SAE Institute of Technology

215 Peachtree Street Suite 300, 

Atlanta, GA 30303

Cost: Free.

RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109360662487305

From Exile's keys/guitar/vox/tech guru John Douglass will be showing off his live rig he uses for keys, samples, and lights on June 29th at SAE Atlanta. I just spoke to John this afternoon, and he's bringing his live setup out to the meeting, including lights (minus the Marshall stacks)!
 

From Exile caught my attention at a live show in January, I saw their band set up on stage and the laptop was running Ableton Live! What I wasn't prepared for was the heavy triple-guitar sonic onslaught that ensued. What as most interesting to me though, behind the guitars and the metal were intricate melodies, and vocal effect and keyboard sounds that seemed to morph with the music. Again I saw them in May (actually I opened for them) and this time around, they used Live to control LED lights that synced with the music. Simple and effective.

We decided to invite John to come show how From Exile uses Live in a more "band" setting, and how these simple tricks to control and effect live instruments and voice and trigger lights via MIDI can all be done from Ableton.

From Exile recently released a Nine Inch Nails cover EP for free: http://fromexile.com/nin and it's really awesome.
Check it out for free right here:

So we'll see you in June and come on out and learn about Live Effect Automation, and MIDI Hardware Control from Live!

Additionally, we are very excited to announce on Friday July 8th, international Ableton superstar ill.Gates aka The Phat Conductor will be gracing Atlanta with an Ableton workshop! I posted the details on our blog: http://abletonatlanta.blogspot.com/2011/06/illgates-household-management.html

See you next week!

John Jacobus and the Atlanta Ableton User Group

ill.Gates / Household Management / AbletonATL present the ill.Methodology Workshop

Ableton sensei Dylan Gates aka ill.Gates (aka the Phat Conductor for any of you fellow old-school Ableton Forum foks) will be doing an exclusive Live workshop at The QUAD on Friday July 8th from 6-10PM 


Spring4th Complex

728 Spring St.

Atlanta, Georgia

Cost is $50/person or pre-register for 2 and get in for free. In other words $33.33 per person if you ride three deep, so bring the whole crew! The Atlanta Ableton Users Group will be on hand as well.


Included in the cost:

• Printout of the ILL.GATES Guide to Producing (with recommended reading + viewing)
• Subscription to the ILL.GATES Ableton Rack Collection 3
• Access to the world famous DJ Templates (a $50 value here alone)
• Misc Documents detailing workflow, 128s, etc...
• Remix Parts for the now-classic ill.Gates album Autopirate

Meeting Itinerary: 

1. Learning to Live Every Day as a Musician
2. Concepts of Songwriting
3. Workflow
4. Sound Design
5. Library and Organization
6. Tips, Tricks, Techniques
7. Promotion
8. DJing with Ableton Live
9. Q+A period

More information is here: http://illmethodologyatlanta.eventbrite.com/

RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=232520963430687

We recommend you check out his amazing music, Dylan has just released this free/donation EP called Schmunday School:

All donations from this EP go to the Goma Student Fund

See you at the QUAD,
The Atlanta Ableton Users Group

April 27th Atlanta Ableton Users Group with Sonny Hancock - Free!

Greetings all!

Our first user group of the season is happening on April 27th at 7PM at SAE Atlanta:

215 Peachtree St NE
Suite 300 (enter at callbox next to Azio)

Atlanta, GA 30303

Google Maps link

Sonny Hancock (Nophi Recordings, remix.TRICIL, Atlanta SoundClouders) will be on hand to demonstrate how he uses Ableton in a remix and composition setting. 

We'll be meeting at 7PM at SAE Atlanta and the event is FREE to the Public!

Check out Sonny's amazing website here: http://sonnyhancock.me

RSVP on Facebook

See you there!

John Jacobus and the Atlanta Ableton Users Group

http://facebook.com/abletonatl

http://twitter.com/abletonatl

http://abletonatlanta.blogspot.com

December Atlanta Ableton Group - Special Monday Night Meeting

What: 
December Atlanta Ableton Users Group

This is our year-end meetup, we are set to have an open discussion meeting in lieu of a speaker this month, where we all talk about how we used Live this year, what we learned and what we're up to: an "us" meeting. 

Members are encouraged to bring live sets in via USB keys or cd-rs to show to the group. Remember to render down any external instruments/plugins, the only ones we can guarantee will work are the built-in "Suite" instruments.

Also, SAE is a Toys-for-Tots drop off, so in light of the holiday season, bring something for the kids!

When:
Monday, December 6th at 7:00PM

Where:
SAE Institute of Technology
215 Peachtree St NE
Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30303

Cost: 
Free!

Info:
http://abletonatlanta.blogspot.com
http://facebook.com/abletonatl

October User Group with Respire - Roundup and next meeting announcement

Last week, local ATL Live user Paul Noonan aka Respire came in to show his DJ set up at the group.

As you can see on the left, Paul uses two Trigger Fingers, an APC 20 (just added), and a Native Instruments Kontrol 1 interface.

The Respire setup seems complex at first, but it's actually rather simple and symmetrical:

There are 4 decks on the left each with the same FX rack on each channel and color coded, a buffer track, 3 crate tracks (with clips also color coded to their Mixed in Key key code), and finally a custom "visual metronome" track that blinks lights on the APC to show which bar, beat, and measure you are in the mix - genius!

Here's the Live Pack: Respire Live Pack

You can find Mixed in Key at mixedinkey.com and the Put This Into That iTunes Script Paul used to copy the Mixed in Key's codes from "Comments" to "Groupings" Here

We had quite the turnout this week (this picture was taken at 9:30, after a few had already gone home for the night):

Also, on some tangent, we stumbled across my (tricil) remix site, which is here: http://remix.tricil.net

When Paul opened "The Emancipation" at the group, I realized I didn't make the Live Pack as universally compatible as I intended. That has been fixed, see the screen shot below for details. I used the open source soundcloud-remix code as the back-end to the site. Feel free to go to the site and download a Live Pack and submit your own remix. The Live Packs will work with any fully updated installation of Live 8 and beyond.

Follow Respire here:
http://soundcloud.com/respire
http://facebook.com/respiremusic
http://twitter.com/respire

Follow us (AbletonATL - 3 years strong!) here:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/abletonatl
http://facebook.com/abletonatl
http://twitter.com/abletonatl

Our next and final meeting of 2010 will be Tuesday 12/7/10 at SAE (as usual). Our speaker is TBA.
We scheduled it this way to be right between the two ending holidays to give everyone a chance to attend.

That's about it, thanks for coming and see you in December,
John Jacobus and the Atlanta Ableton Users Group

Respire has set up shop in here