Copying Other Producers Music | Vespers.ca

Signs you are not on the path of your highest purpose

• You frequently experience stress, lack, or worry
• You look forward to the weekend and loathe Mondays
• You feel that you are capable of being and doing more than you currently are
• If you were to look back on this moment from your deathbed, you would experience regret about what you are doing
• You do what you do primarily to meet your personal financial needs
• You are experiencing frequent obstacles and challenges that seem to make your current path difficult or belabored
• You frequently get sick or experience health conditions that seem to inhibit your well being (these are gentle, or not to gentle, signs from the greater consciousness that you are straying from your true path)

Signs you are on the path of your highest purpose

• You feel a deep sense of fulfillment
• You really couldn’t care less what day of the week it is, because you’re amped to get up and rock your day
• You feel that you have tapped into your true potential
• If you could imagine yourself looking back on this moment from your deathbed, you would still be doing the same thing
• What you do with your time and creative energy contributes to enhancing the world as a whole
• You feel abundant and freely give gifts in the form of love, compliments, recognition, money, support etc.
• You are enjoying your journey and experiencing bliss in the present, rather than seeking “happiness” by reaching some destination or goal in the future
• You are healthy, full of energy, and vibrant
• You see things that others may call “challenges” as tests that you are intended to learn from and seek to divine the lessons and soul growth that are available to you by transcending them

If these resonate with you, I applaud you for your courage in following your path and commend you for following your intuition.  Keep stepping into your path and, by doing so, you will inspire countless others to give themselves permission to do the same.

Love and light,

<3 Vespers

Signs You Are Following Your Highest Purpose | Vespers.ca

I recently traveled down to Orcas Island in the US to interview Jake Perrine, author of the book Producing Music with Ableton Live. Jake is a Certified Ableton Trainer who leads the Seattle Live Users Group. In this book he brings a unique approach to the table. Many books on Live are laid out similarly to the manual, explaining what each device and parameter does, but not how to USE them. I tire quickly of these types of books as they offer no practical examples whatsoever. Jake takes a different angle though, and walks you through producing a track while reading the book. How refreshing! I certainly dig it. Wish there were more authors and educators out there who show us how to implement the theory; who take us to where the rubber hits the road.

This book is the first of three that will be released on Hal Leonard Publishing. This one is aimed at providing you with a solid foundation in Live, while the second book goes into more advanced aspects of the program and covers some elements of mixing and mastering. Oh, did I mention that Jake is also a professional mix and mastering engineer and that he taught the electronic music production program at the Art Institute in Seattle for 10 years????? Hello!

The third book will be on Ableton Live 9 when it gets released. Don’t ask me when that will be…none of us know ;) Waiting patiently on that one… So, if you’re a musician looking to produce music with ableton live, this book will be a formidable aid in building your knowledge about the program. I hope you check it out.

Buy the book: Producing Music with Ableton Live

Interview with Jake Perrine, author of the book Producing Music with Ableton Live | Vespers.ca

Free tunes for download: CLICK HERE

Here’s a video of the live performance by myself & Kelsey Grant, with Parker at the Red Room in Vancouver for Regrooved, hosted by the Funk Hunters Jan 28th, 2012.  The performance is done entirely in Ableton Live 8, using the Looper device and Sugar Bytes Artillery II for live glitch & controllerism effects.  Big thanks and shout outs to the Funk Hunters, Regrooved, and the Red Room, Vancouver.  Big ups to Parker, who killed it on the 1s and 2s!  It was the first time I’d seen him live and he was ace!

The set we played was 95% original material.  This video also features a bunch of new tunes from my upcoming album Sax my Glitch Up.  I’ll be releasing a 3 track album sampler EP soon, so stay tuned and keep an eye on the site.  You get to hear them how they sound live with sax overdubs.  The Red Room was an amazing venue to play.  Tons of sick lighting and their “stage monitors” were more extensive than most club’s entire sound systems.

Ableton Live performance video with sax | Vespers.ca

In the following series of tutorial videos, I will walk you through how I use them to mix my percussion in Ableton Live’s Drum Racks.  You will learn how to add attack and sustain to your beats using the SPL transient designer, how to fatten things up with the 1176 compressor, how to add room sound and ambience with the EMT250 digital reverb, and how to dial in some tape saturation and harmonics with the Empirical Labs EL7 Fatso Jr.

Part 1: Plugins Intro & SPL Transient Designer Tutorial

Part 2: SPL Transient Designer & 1176 Parallel Compression Tutorial

Part 3: EMT 250 Reverb Tutorial

Part 4: Empirical Labs EL7 Fatso Jr/Sr Tutorial

How to Mix with Universal Audio Plugins in Ableton Live | Vespers.ca

How to make delicious, home made chai tea. The perfect alternative to coffee!

Chai Tea Recipe

1. 2 litres of almond milk
2. 1.5 tbps corriander
3. 2 tbsp allspice
4. 25 cardamom pods
5. Rounded tbsp of cloves
6. 4-5 whole cinnamon sticks
7. 2 buds of nutmeg
8. 4 star anise
9. Thumb sized root of ginger, sliced finely
10. 1 tbsp black pepper corns
11. Agave nectar
12. 1 cup water
13. 3-4 tbsp loose green tea
14. LOVE!  (this one is important, use as much as you want, the more the better)

Extra flavours (optional):

1. Lemon grass OR
2. Vanilla bean

How to make amazing chai tea and kick the coffee habit | Vespers.ca

This video is about focus in the studio and how to deal with distractions. Enjoy!

Here’s an awesome blog post from a neuroscientist about this topic as well.  Click here to read.  Big ups to Josh Hinden from Twisted Tools for sending me the link.

Focus in the studio while writing music | Vespers.ca

Here’s the update on my new Open Source album concept. Get ready for it! Love and light.

Big changes, get ready for a Vespers album! | Vespers.ca

How to make turntable effects sounds in Ableton Live using clip transpose envelopes, Simpler pitch envelopes and Sampler pitch envelopes and attack slope.

How to make turntable sound FX in Ableton Live | Vespers.ca

Part 2

An exclusive video interview with Opiuo where he speaks about the launch of his career, playing at festivals such as Burning Man and Shambhala, and how he produces his unique style of glitch hop.

www.opiuo.com

Interview with Opiuo | Vespers.ca