I’ve been working for a game studio as a Jr. Audio Designer, and it unfortunately has been taking up most of my time, that I would normally utilize to work on music. With the drive, and the the amount of hours I’m working, I have 2 hours a day to live.

When things get a little less busy, I will return to creating music again… If not, I will try to find the time.

There is nothing new on there yet, but there may be sooner or later…

Someone was looking for an easy way to switch Ableton Live Preferences.cfg files for multiple midi configurations, so I was bored and decided to make it happen… It’s fairly simple to setup, just carefully follow the instructions.

Ableton live Preferences Switcher for 8.0.4 (Windows)
http://www.shuutobi.com/stuff/prefSwitcher8.0.4.zip

Update:
Pref switcher for 8.0.8 on Windows XP
Pref switcher for 8.0.8 on Windows 7

The gist of the script…

echo 1. Use Preferences A
echo 2. Use Preferences B
echo 3. Exit
echo;
set /p choice=Press enter after input:
if %choice%==3 goto end
if %choice%==2 goto PREFSB
if %choice%==1 goto PREFSA

REFSA
cls
xcopy Preferencesa.cfg "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Ableton\Live 8.0.4\Preferences\Preferences.cfg"
goto LIVE

REFSB
cls
xcopy Preferencesb.cfg "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Ableton\Live 8.0.4\Preferences\Preferences.cfg"
goto LIVE

:LIVE
"C:\Program Files\Ableton\Live 8.0.4\Program\Live 8.0.4.exe"
exit


I came across an old track of mine(At the Crack Of Noon) that was featured in a Make Magazine video. In the video Becky Stern makes a furry scorpion out of an ATMEGA168 based robot kit.

You can check the video here…
Twitchie Scorpion

New official release of “old” material.  I meant for this to be a 4 song release, but one track has a sample I need to get cleared.  Just wanted to get this stuff out now, and I may add the track later when all is clear.

Anywho enjoy!

Sick and tired of not getting a BETA invite for Darkfall Online, and receiving tons of spam mail rather… I’ve decided to put together 31 tracks of generative music (mostly made from spam mail), to keep me from going insane.

One track a day for 31 days…

I was looking for an easier and quicker way to achieve the 50Hz sub kick trick in Ableton Live, rather than have to duplicate a kick track, filter out the frequencies and delay the whole track…

I have come up with a solution with the Filter Delay.

I will assume everyone knows what the sub kick trick is and when it is necessary to use it, so with out further ado I will just present this trick as a handy little screenshot.

Filter Delay Settings:

• L+R  ON
• Filter ON
• Filter Freq @ 50Hz
• Q @ .50
• Delay set to Time @ 20ms (This is the 50Hz wavelength)
• Feedback set to 0
• Pan to the center
• Leave dry volume @ 0dB
• Adjust delay volume to taste, but use 0dB as a starting point and go from there.