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Jazzmutant says
this is the first truly integrated Ableton Live touch controller
wohaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Ableton Live on a Lemur?
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Ableton and Serato present The Bridge—the first result of the partnership announced in October 2008.

The Bridge spans the gap between music production and DJing, creating a natural link between Ableton Live and Serato Scratch Live or ITCH. The Bridge provides a powerful fusion of DJ and production tools, opening a world of opportunities for DJing, remixing and live performance.

You can cross the Bridge in either direction:

Ableton to Serato
The Bridge provides Ableton Transport Control (ATC), giving you turntable-style control of your own multitrack productions. Simply drag an Ableton Live Set to a deck in Scratch Live or ITCH and use your turntables, CDJ or ITCH controller to control the transport.

Serato to Ableton
The Bridge provides the ultimate mixtape creation tool. DJs can perform mixes in Serato Scratch Live or ITCH and save them as an Ableton Live Set. This way, the DJ can still perform the mix—better than cut and pasting it together in a DAW—but also has detailed editing options.

The Bridge is free for anyone who owns both:

- A registered version of Serato Scratch Live or ITCH hardware and
- Ableton Live 8 or Suite 8

as we reported it back in October 2008
Serato and Ableton announced creative partnership to rule the DJ worldand
there is an announcement and a dedicated website for the first events
Synthtopia hints that it might mean bringing vinyl control to Live

we will know more for sure pretty soon
meanwhile check out the ableton-serato.com for more details of the event

The Vestax VCM-600 DJ MIDI controller has joined the list of hardware controllers offering instant mapping for Ableton Live. The VCM-600 provides 160 controls including dedicated EQ and filter sections, clip launch capabilities, transport controls, sends/returns and more, all illuminated by sleek, dual-side LED lighting. The controller, already being used by the likes of Carl Cox, Kevin Saunderson and Paul van Dyk, is club-ready and puts the power of Live at your fingertips like never before.

… and not like any other controllers, the VMC-600 has EQ knobs for each channel!! I’m in love and and my feelings are deep :D

Have a look at the new features of Ableton Live 8 courtesy of Sonic Academy. The second part of the video is after the jump. [heads up by wire to the ear ]

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We gave you PR info’s and videos already , but now here is a pretty detailed video demo from the Skratchworx ’s NAMM 2009 collection. Eric McGregor from Akai demos the new Akai APC40 Ableton controller.
Your pants will be wet by the end of the vid.

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Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative , real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements.Ableton Suite 8 is a package which gives you a rich world of sound, perfectly complementing the tools and features in Live 8. Suite 8 provides all the instruments a musician could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a powerful sampler, electric and acoustic drums, mallets, numerous sampled instruments: 10 instruments in all. If the official info is not enuff, check out what the CDM has to say about Live 8.

Here are three video demos if you are unpatient or lazy like we are ;)

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The kind people of Grooveboxmusic.com are giving Ableton users free access to a collection of high-quality Ableton Live tutorials running over three hours in length via the Ableton Web Pass. This collection of tutorials covers topics such as how to record and edit, virtual instrument basics, warping, designing electronic drums and much more. The videos are hand-picked from the extensive Ableton Live tutorial collection available at grooveboxmusic.com. This offer provides seven days of access from the day you sign up and enter your access code. Offer valid until December 31, 2008.

Ableton NFO page – Grooveboxmusic promo page

Recently I had the chance to
tour with Delerium and play theaters and ballrooms across the U.S. and
Canada rather than the usual DJ booths in clubs. It was a refreshing
change, but also an important reminder that you need to keep your live
shows fresh and interesting to crowds who want to see a compelling
performance.
Simply spinning on a pair of CDJs isn’t really the most exciting thing
to watch, so I wanted to share some tips and techniques on how to spice
up your rig.

My
DJ setup consists of an Allen & Heath Xone 3D mixer and Ableton
Live 7 software.  The beauty of the software world, when paired with a
hardware controller – is that you can change your setup to suit your
tastes. You’re not married to the effects on your DJ mixer, and you can
piece together your dream mixer from scratch, making changes on the
plane or in the hotel room minutes before a gig. Everyone does it
differently, and most people immediately take off the preset overlay
and stash it with the manual. Here’s some ways I set things up for my
shows:

- Drop the faders. Cap everything at -6 or -4dB, even the effects,
and keep the master at unity to ensure good gain staging so you don’t
clip the internal mix bus. You can crank the main mix on the DJ mixer
(in my case the Xone 3D) or the house mixer – which is usually a
DJM-800. As always, try to avoid clipping at all stages of the mix.

- Choose your effects carefully. Try to think what effects are
really going to make a difference and excite the crowd.  My bread and
butter effects are beat repeat, delays, filters, and reverb. These help
to build anticipation and tension throughout the set. Experiment with
combining different chains of effects – this is where software really
triumphs over hardware mixers.

– Multi-Assign. One of the biggest advantage of hardware MIDI
assignable controllers are the creative possibilities of twisting two
or more controllers simultaneously, liberating you from the constraints
of a single mouse click. Additionally, you can create massive control
chains in Ableton Live by assigning several values to one knob. I use
the various knobs on the Xone 3D to control different values of beat
repeat, changing the note divisions and timbre of the sound. It sounds
simple, but this really brings a performance aspect to your DJ’ing and
turns your controller into more of an instrument than a simple mixer.

More importantly, you liberate yourself from staring at the computer
screen and can focus your eye contact and energy on the DJ mixer and
the crowd in front of you.

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Tactile vs. smooth touch. I really like having tactile response when I
press a button, but many Ableton Live users prefer controllers like the
Lemur that have a more visual display, but instead provide a smooth
flat surface. Find which one you like and run with it. The best setup
is probably a combination of both worlds, as one of the problems with
the Xone 3D and other controllers is that you can’t see the current
values and active assigned controllers without shuffling around on the
computer screen.