Thursday, November 18, 2010

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

Sunday, October 31, 2010

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

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Atlanta Ableton User Group 10/26

What: 
Atlanta Ableton Users Group featuring Respire
When:
Tuesday October 26th at 7:00PM
Where:
SAE Institute of Technology
215 Peachtree St NE
Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30303
Cost: 
Free!
Info:

Theme:
Atlanta DJ Paul Noonan aka Respire (http://www.r3spr.com/) will be on hand to show his DJ via Ableton setup. Respire recently won a showcase at the Atlanta SoundClouders meetup at the SoundTable alongside producers Beef Supreme and TRICIL.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Pro Ableton Tattoo!


This is on Zac Baird's friend Warren's leg. Warren is currently the Ableton tech for Adam Lambert's band.

Extra Atlanta Bonus Points for the MASTODON sneaker!! Where can I get one?

John

Monday, August 30, 2010

September Atlanta Ableton Users Group with Tricil and more - September 21

What: 

September Atlanta Ableton Users Group with John Jacobus aka Tricil and more TBA


When:

Tuesday, September 21st 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


Theme:

As a continuation of July's live performance themed meeting, Atlanta Ableton Live superuser John Jacobus will show off how he set up his live set for performance. Thanks to fellow Atlanta User Group member Bradford Rogers, John will also show how he synced two full-show HD video captures to the original live session and made a retail-ready concert film, beginning and ending in Ableton Live as seen on http://www.esotericdrift.com 


Other users are encouraged to bring in their sets to show them off to the group and the sharing and exchange of live performance tips, Q&A, etc.


Thanks and see you there,

John Jacobus and the Atlanta Ableton Users Group

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Atlanta Ableton User Group - Monday Nophest Meeting *REMINDER*

Hey all, just a reminder that we are meeing this Monday at 7:00 PM for a special Monday Nophest-themed edition of the Ableton Users Group.

The theme is based on next weekend's Nophest festival, an annual showcase of local talent: http://nophest.com

We meet at SAE, and here's the Address (don't forget the NE, google maps will take you somewhere else if omitted):

215 Peachtree St NE
Atlanta, GA 30303

SAE is on the third floor, above hard rock.
You enter at the callbox on the Andrew Young side, next to Azio and across from the parking garage.

As always, the even is free and open to all.

Hope to see you Monday, hit me up if you have any questions.
John Jacobus and the Atlanta Ableton User Group