RSVP

• Sunday 11Dec 2011
• RSVP here http://www.meetup.com/Ableton-Denver/events/42927042/
• Where : Walnut Room 3131 Walnut street
• FREE, 21+
• 7 pm

Part I, Back Story :

Chase Dobson, Chris Lawhead and myself (Marc) have been working with the Looper for Ableton heavily for the past 3 months.  In short, we have been collaboratively assisting Chris in creating a live  performance template that combines a standardized environment for prepared material and a framework to record, treat, and perform with audio as loops and in real-time (captured on the fly).

Part II- The Event

For anyone who joined us three on Friday November 18 at the Living Room for a (free) performance you would have witnessed use of Looper and capture in a team environment.  This was a performance with a hidden testing agenda.  In that performance we each extended out normal set and approach to work on 2 important goals:

1.) Using the Ableton Looper in a live environment

and

2.) Begin experimenting with musical collaboration between electronic musicians

Goal 1 is the focus of our December 11, 2011 Meet Up.
Goal 2 is an area of great research and discussion between all members of our User Group.

Beginner :

Chris Lawhead will introduce the Ableton Looper and core functionality.  This includes the controls, methodology, and application of the Looper as it pertains to legacy (guitar, flute, piano, etc) instruments. Chris is an accomplished Flute, Saxophone, and Guitar player who has recently migrated from hardware solutions (as presented for out first meet up) to the Ableton solution where he is able to record, control, play, clear, undo, redo, and effect loops and sounds from his performance rig.

Chris has essentially tried nearly every looper  on the market and just recently made the complete migration to Ableton based looping. Chase and Marc both have invested time in developing this customized template.  Chris has been chasing the “Perfect Loop” for years as a multi-instrumentalist and the work in Ableton represents a new level of control.

Chris is also one of the many qualified instructors who teaches Ableton in the Denver area. He has been teaching music professionally for over a decade.

Marc will also step in to discuss drawbacks, errors, and caveats for the application. Additionally, legacy DJ world and operating inside the digital realm will be explored.  Marc also has a new Looper template for the APC about to be released; grab a free beta release and the quick overview while you are down.

Intermediate :

Chase Dobson will talk about the “Now What” issue of Looper.  Chase is a prolific sound designer, musician, and Ableton architect.  His work as a performer, capture artist, and collaborator is only overshadowed by the skill and ingenuity he imparts to the audio passing through his channels.

Chase will unveil some secrets and methodologies for processing and Loops and samples. A post-performance decompression is also in the works with the three players (from 18Dec performance) about working with a sampler artist.

Chase is one of our instructors for Ableton and electronic music in the Denver area. When he is not globetrotting on tour as a tech for acts such as Mike Posner, we enjoy his company in the Mile High City as one of the elite electronic musicians focusing on sound design, stunning IDM orientated arrangements, and the ability to make an FM synthesizer do anything.

End Game :

Since the initial release of Max for Live we have considered this application to be every bit as much Ableton as any other effect or part of the native tool kit.  David Viramontes joins us again to walk through his work in looping and real time sampling in Max.  In particular he has taken the audio buffer to a new level using it for capture, playback, and as a platform for manipulation.

We are excited to work more with David as a main staple of our User Group taking the lead on the Max side of life who both offers and takes challenges with great pleasure.

David is working on his degree and also instructs and consults on topics such as Max and installation work for audio/visual.  He is part of a cadre of Max and Arduino folks in the Denver area who are making serious progress with smaller chip-sets and new ideas.

Also in the house, try out the Vmeter (NOW IN DENVER). I will have some units to demo and they are available in Denver at iComputer.

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BONUS HIDDEN TRACK:

Marc has been working on an APC40 Looper template.  After the meet up he will go over the basics and deliver the beta build (including manual and coloring book). His Looper template  is extraordinary using a 4x4 matrix to select any of 4 target inputs for any of the 4 Loopers in effect.

Our Soundtrack is provided by Chiris Lawhead who will be performing via his live performance template and take questions.

If anyone has something to add please don’t hesitate to contact me.