Ski Beatz is a producer who’s worked with some of the biggest names in Hip Hop, including Jay Z, Mos Def, AZ, Foxy Brown, Lil’ Kim and Camp Lo. He has an unusual technique for beatmaking which is extremely fast and fluid. Watch the movie to see him in action and visit http://www.ableton.com/skibeatz to get the Ski Beatz slicing preset.

Exclusive to CDM (and Vimeo), Live guru Gustavo Bravetti offers a deep tutorial in sound creation in Ableton using “unlinked envelopes.” This workshop demo video is about using Live’s unique clip unlinked envelopes and Ableton’s effects to easily create elaborated sequenced sounds as well as a “how to” create a bass, a tuned bass drum, a clap and hi hats.

Watch it and read more @ CDM

This is a tutorial video that looks at how to DJ with Ableton Live, demonstrated with Tom Cosm’s free DJ Megaset 1.0. It’s a deep tutorial that should offer something for just about anyone learning DJing with Ableton Live.

[via Synthtopia]

Monday Kick.
A happy, positive craziness which helps to start an another week.

you always wanted to try beatboxing
so watch and learn
good luck!
I guess if you need tutorial for beatboxing you will need luck, a lot
send us your training vids
we might post them up as the next Monday Kick lauffff ;)

wanna sound hip and mega like Justice ?
here is the ultimate koolness VST
- pictured above by Celebrity Murder Party -
you better read this tutorial by Zettt
you can get the basics there

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

Dubstep might be the genre that everyone’s talking about at the moment, but unless you’re on the scene, you might struggle to describe how it sounds.

There are two primary characteristics. Firstly, it’s driven by a high-tempo bassline (138-142bpm as a standard), but with syncopated, shuffling beats that appear to play back at half tempo and loop over two bars instead of one.

And secondly, as the ‘dub’ part of its name suggest, it’s largely instrumental.

As with any style of music, though, these things aren’t written entirely in stone. Sometimes you get vocals; increasingly, you get MCs performing over the top; the basslines aren’t always fast; and very occasionally you get a four-four kick drum.

These are the basics – now let’s look at some specific things you can do to improve the quality of your dubstep productions. [read more @ musicradar.com ]

I guess I’m not the only one who is looking for more informations about the new Vestax DJ controller. djtechtools.com just posted a nice and really detailed review. Go and check it out!

The Vestax VCI-100 made quite a splash in the digital DJ market, selling a significant number of units and raising the bar for DJ MIDI controllers. The most significant difference between the VCI-100 and its larger cousin, the VCI-300, is more conceptual than physical. The VCI-100 is a multipurpose MIDI controller designed to interface with a broad range of DJ software by offering a generic palette of controls that could suit many purposes. The VCI-300 adopts an entirely different approach. It has been designed specifically to control one piece of software, the Itch program from one of the leaders in the DVS world: Serato. [read more @ djtechtools.com ]

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