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2013-04-22T17:40:00.001-04:00

Ableton Live 9 Preview Event

2012-11-04T15:26:00.002-05:00

Ableton & Toontrack event on Tuesday, July 31st at Sam Ash-Atlanta at 7PM

2012-07-27T17:04:00.004-04:00

Join us for an exclusive Ableton & Toontrack event on Tuesday, July 31st at Sam Ash-Atlanta at 7PM. Ableton's Huston Singletary and David "Fingers" Haynes conduct an in depth workshop and clinic with both products along with ZenDrum and other cool controllers and techniques. RSVP here for a chance to win a copy of EZ Drummer, Superior Drummer 2.0, an Ableton messenger bag and other special giveaways: https://www.facebook.com/events/322712321149971/

Come learn some "one on one" Ableton knowledge with lead clinician Huston Singletary at Sam Ash Atlanta on Monday May 21 at 7PM

2012-05-19T10:52:00.002-04:00

MONDAY, MAY 21 at 7 PM

Sam Ash Atlanta, GA
Location: 2999 Cobb Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30339
Presenter: Huston Singletary, Lead Clinician & Southeast Territory Manager
Theme: Music production, creating instruments, beat-making and sound design for film with Ableton Live 8.
Note: Free Ableton shirt for all attendees

Please RSVP by sending an email with your name to usevents@ableton.com. Please put the Sam Ash store location in the subject line.

http://www.ableton.com/events/the-sam-ash-ableton-live-tour-free-ableton-workshops-across-the-us

Hmmm. Controller event tonight....

2012-05-17T12:58:00.000-04:00

What should I bring?

SoundCloud & Controllerism - May 17th at Atlanta Pro Audio

2012-05-02T12:29:00.001-04:00

Atlanta Ableton Users Group "Controllerism" and SoundCloud Meetup
May 17th at Atlanta Pro Audio
5:00 PM

Join us at Atlanta Pro Audio/MacroTek on Thursday, May 17th. at 5PM for the monthly Ableton-Atlanta User Group meeting celebrating SoundCloud Day & Controllerism techniques.

We'll be walking through the new upload SoundCloud feature in Live 8.3, discussing the upcoming Ableton-SoundCloud Remix contest and also collaborating with other remote Ableton Live users and regional User Groups. The second half of the event will feature various controller techniques and performances utilizing the exciting Livid products. Hosted by Ableton's Huston Singletary with guest artist presenters Geoff Collins and Atlanta User Group organizer John Jacobus.

Free Ableton t-shirts and a chance to win a custom Ableton messenger bag for all registered attendees. Please RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/events/217131091731795

Official SoundCloud Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/Soundcloud/Atlanta-GA/673022/

AbletonATL

2012-04-02T19:03:00.001-04:00

Missed last night's meeting? Here it is in its entirety.

2011-06-30T03:40:00.000-04:00

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

2011-06-22T22:06:00.000-04:00

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

2011-06-22T21:53:00.000-04:00

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:

Learning to Live Every Day as a Musician
Concepts of Songwriting
Workflow
Sound Design
Library and Organization
Tips, Tricks, Techniques
Promotion
DJing with Ableton Live
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:

<p>&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://falseprofitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/schmunday-school-ep"&amp;amp;gt;Schmunday School EP by ill.Gates&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;</p>

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!

2011-04-05T19:51:00.000-04:00

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

2010-11-18T17:35:00.001-05:00

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

2010-10-31T17:06:00.000-04:00

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

2010-10-26T19:07:00.000-04:00

Atlanta Ableton User Group 10/26

2010-10-16T18:32:00.001-04:00

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:

http://abletonatlanta.blogspot.com

http://facebook.com/abletonatl

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163100627052272&ref=mf

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.

Pro Ableton Tattoo!

2010-09-07T16:30:00.000-04:00

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

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

2010-08-30T21:39:00.001-04:00

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

Atlanta Ableton User Group - Monday Nophest Meeting REMINDER

2010-07-14T15:06:00.001-04:00

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

http://abletonatlanta.blogspot.com

http://facebook.com/abletonatl

http://twitter.com/abletonatl

http://soundcloud.com/groups/abletonatl

Atlanta Ableton User Group - NOPHEST EDITION - Monday 7/19

2010-07-06T15:59:00.001-04:00

Hey all,

We're having a special Nophest edition of the User Group this month on Monday, 7/19 at our usual location, SAE Atlanta.

Please note the NE in the address, for phones like the iPhone will take you to somewhere else if it is not part of the address (we are sorry about that):

215 Peachtree St NE

(enter on the callbox on the Andrew Young side and take the Elevator to the third floor)

Atlanta, GA 30303

The event is FREE and open for all to attend.

We will be meeting at 7:00 PM

We will be showcasing Ableton artists from the Nophest festival, a four day carnivale of awesome: http://www.nophest.com

Ableton Nophest Artists include:

Richard Devine

Ryan Noise

Threv

citizenGreen

Esoteric Drift

Liquid Apparatus

and much, much more.

We will have a roundtable meeting of the minds and focus on how we use Ableton Live, well... Live.

Hope to see you there!

Facebook Event page (same info, no RSVP needed for entry, but feel free to spread the word): http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131024780271266

John Jacobus and the Atlanta Ableton User Group

Atlanta Ableton Users Group this TUESDAY!

2010-06-17T12:34:00.001-04:00

Hey all,

This is a friendly reminder that we will be meeting this Tuesday, at 7PM at SAE.

The event is open to all and free for all to attend.

215 Peachtree Street Suite 300 (use callbox on Andrew Young side)
Atlanta, GA 30303

Event RSVP for you Facebook types: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104496462929123&ref=share

More info: http://abletonatlanta.blogspot.com/2010/05/atlanta-ableton-user-group-rescheduled.html

Have a great weekend and we'll see you Tuesday,

John Jacobus and the Atlanta Ableton Users Group

Atlanta Ableton User Group - RESCHEDULED to June 22nd

2010-05-24T21:45:00.000-04:00

Hey all,

We regret to inform you, due to circumstances out of our control, we are forced to postpone tomorrow's meeting to Tuesday, June 22nd.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope that you still may attend. If you couldn't attend tomorrow, we hope to possibly see you next month!

Corrected information below:

Ableton's Huston Singletary will be on hand to cover the basics of Live 8's Session View plus Automation for mixing tracks and LaunchPad control. We'll also do a raffle for a cool new ableton t-shirt at the end, so stick around for that!

Corrected Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104496462929123

We'll be meeting on Tuesday, June 22nd at 7:00PM.

The event is open to all and free for all to attend.

As always, we'll be meeting at SAE Atlanta (www.sae-atl.com):
215 Peachtree Street Suite 300 (use callbox on Andrew Young side)
Atlanta, GA 30303

You can follow us online here:
Blog: http://abletonatlanta.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/AbletonATL
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/abletonatl
Twitter: http://twitter.com/abletonatl

Also, we have a SoundCloud group set up here to showcase local Atlanta talent: http://soundcloud.com/groups/abletonatl/

add your tracks to our dropbox and they'll be embedded in our shiny players on the sites above - free promo!

See you next month!
John Jacobus and the Atlanta Ableton Users Group

April Atlanta Ableton Users Group - 4/13/10 - Special guests Richard Devine & Ryan Noise - Lemur/iPad Control

2010-04-05T18:03:00.000-04:00

Hey all,

We meet again next Tuesday, April 13th at our usual spot at SAE at 7PM.

215 Peachtree Street
Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30303
Tel. 404-526-9366

Our special guests this month are Richard Devine, sound designer extraordinaire, and Ryan Noise, a local VJ/audio artist here in Atlanta.

This month Ryan will show off his brand-new iPad using the program
TouchOSC and others (including the Live API) as a Lemur-esque method
of controlling Ableton.

Watch here for a preview:

Richard Devine will also be on hand to show off the new Jazzmutant Mu-Max for Live stuff with the Lemur, which is pretty cool: http://www.ableton.com/pages/2010/jazzmutant_mu

For more on Ryan:
http://ryannoise.com
http://twitter.com/ryannoise

Facebook event page here
See you next week!

24 Tutorials by Ableton's Huston Singletary

2010-03-16T03:25:00.000-04:00

Atlanta UG members: If you are new to Ableton Live, here is a listing (24) of various tutorials by Ableton's Huston Singletary

Or, watch them in an embedded playlist below.

A Day in the Life with Goodie Mob

2010-02-27T22:54:00.000-05:00

A couple of weeks ago, I got a phone call to "come help Goodie Mob in the studio with some Ableton help." That's not really a phone call you can say no to, so I jumped right in.

The objective was to get all the tracks live-ready and locked into a click track. Since Goodie was playing a variety of tracks from their (and solo) catalogues, no two tracks would have been produced the same way. Some tracks were based on vinyl samples, some were recorded analog, etc. Goodie has a live drummer (which makes a huge difference in live shows, I wish more electronic acts had live drums) so all tracks had to be aligned to a click.

On Super Bowl Sunday, I went over to their studio and the entire afternoon (with the game muted on the studio TV towards the end of it), we "warped" all the tracks, 8 bars at a time. I fell asleep that night with the "Ableton click track" song stuck in my head. Some programming by yours truly was done here and there as well, you'll have to go to the show to hear it.

Goodie Mob live is all 4 original members: T-Mo Goodie, Khujo Goodie, Big Gipp, and Cee-Lo.

Their backing band is Mark Mays on Drums and Aaron Clay on Bass and Korg MS-2000 (still a beefy little synth) with DJ Princess Cut on Serato and Ableton (two separate machines, wouldn't it be nice to Bridge them together one day).

Ableton, Serato, Bass, Drums. What else do you need?

Mark

Aaron

Ableton and the APC40 (and our hard drive)

The Band

"P-Cut," Cee-Lo and "Some Guy"

We arranged the tracks in scenes, so the setlists can be dynamic and changeable. This also opens up room for improvisation and ad-libs.

Our Live use didn't stop with just the backing and click tracks. On the day of the Atlanta show (2/20, rescheduled due to the snow on 2/12), we started up at 9:00AM getting the stage ready and synching the APC40 machine to the video machine.

A familiar look on the LED screen.

My showday workspace, synching to the Mac Mini, two copies of Live running.

On the video machine, the songs' corresponding videos were loaded up in Arrangement view with a Marker as the launch. Master quantization on the video machine was set to "None" and each Marker had a specific MIDI note assigned to it (C1, C#1, etc).

On the APC machine, there was a blank MIDI track with each tracks' MIDI note in a clip, launched with the scene. (Pro-Tip: leave Loop OFF when triggering video unless you want your video to start over every bar ;)

So by using Ableton and it's built in Scenes, we had control over the Songs, the appropriate BPM/click and the corresponding video to it.

The calm before the storm.

Soundcheck in twilight, quite a cool vibe inside the Tabernacle.

Finally: Showtime. Here was my view on stage.

The Mob is currently on the West Coast rapping up their Reunion tour, here are the remaining dates:

Sunday in San Francisco @ Ruby Skye - Get Tickets

March 10th in Washington DC @ 9:30 Club - Tour Info here

Exclusive rehearsal video and some "spoiler" pics and videos after the jump.

Many many thanks to Maceo, DaVinci, Mark, Dan Z, and the rest of the Goodies for this amazing opportunity.

Midset wardrobe change:

The Dungeon Family (actually on Cool Breeze's record) classic, "Watch for the Hook;"

Cell Therapy:

3rd Annual City Skies Electronic Music Festival, April 29-May 1, 2010

2010-02-17T08:33:00.001-05:00

The 3rd Annual City Skies Electronic Music Festival will be held in the Atlanta area on April 29-May 1, 2010.

Kavarna in the Oakhurst section of Decatur, GA (minutes away from Atlanta) is once again the venue for the Festival Event. Kavarna gives us a perfect vibe for the performances, with great sound and a nice selection of food and beverage for festival attendees. Kavarna is a non-smoking and all-ages venue.

The list of performers include some of the best electronic musicians from around the U.S. heard on radio stations like Music From the Hearts of Space, Echoes, Star's End, Soma FM, StillStream, Galactic Travels, and more, and are from Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Musical styles range from ambient to downtempo chillout to Berlin school to IDM to space music to experimental. This is not a DJ event.

For more information, ticketing, and performer bios and event schedule:

http://www.cityskies.com

Real electronic music performed live by humans!

Performers and schedule for the three-day event are:

Thursday, April 29, 2010

8pm- The Wiitles (Georgia)

10pm- Paul Vnuk Jr (Wisconsin)

11pm- citizenGreen (Georgia)

Friday, April 30, 2010

6pm- Slate (Indiana)

7pm- Klimchak (Georgia)

8pm- Xeriod Entity (Pennsylvania)

9pm- Emerald Adrift (Kansas)

10pm- Tony Gerber (Tennessee)

11pm- R_Garcia (Georgia)

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Afternoon session

1pm- dRachEmUsiK (Indiana)

2pm- Burning Artist(s) Sale (Georgia)

3pm- Earthgirl (Indiana)

4pm- 84001 (Tennessee)

Evening session

7pm- Mark Mahoney (Tennessee)

8pm- M. Peck (Tennessee)

9pm- Richard Lainhart (New York)

10pm- Richard Devine (Georgia)

11pm- Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel (Georgia)

All proceeds from ticket sales will go to performers for this event.

Tickets for each session are $5.00 and will be available at the door.

Venue location -

Kavarna, 707 East Lake Drive, Decatur, GA 30030

Thanks Jim Combs for the info!

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Ableton Live 9 Preview Event

Ableton & Toontrack event on Tuesday, July 31st at Sam Ash-Atlanta at 7PM

Come learn some "one on one" Ableton knowledge with lead clinician Huston Singletary at Sam Ash Atlanta on Monday May 21 at 7PM

Hmmm. Controller event tonight....

SoundCloud & Controllerism - May 17th at Atlanta Pro Audio

AbletonATL

Missed last night's meeting? Here it is in its entirety.

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

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

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

December Atlanta Ableton Group - Special Monday Night Meeting

October User Group with Respire - Roundup and next meeting announcement

Respire has set up shop in here

Atlanta Ableton User Group 10/26

Pro Ableton Tattoo!

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

Atlanta Ableton User Group - Monday Nophest Meeting *REMINDER*

Atlanta Ableton User Group - NOPHEST EDITION - Monday 7/19

Atlanta Ableton Users Group this TUESDAY!

Atlanta Ableton User Group - RESCHEDULED to June 22nd

April Atlanta Ableton Users Group - 4/13/10 - Special guests Richard Devine & Ryan Noise - Lemur/iPad Control

24 Tutorials by Ableton's Huston Singletary

A Day in the Life with Goodie Mob

3rd Annual City Skies Electronic Music Festival, April 29-May 1, 2010

Atlanta Ableton User Group - Monday Nophest Meeting REMINDER