Mastered by me.  “We’ve gotten to know Lovelife very well over the past couple years since they shore-ditched London and moved to Brooklyn to write the next great American tragedy. So we’re over the moon to announce our next 7” release from the men in black, “Your New Beloved” / “Dying to Start Again”, a double-trouble bundle of sinister pop that encompasses our most macabre daydreams and darkest nightvisions. Lead single “Your New Beloved” is one of our absolute favorite songs of 2013 and sounds like electronic gospel from the distant future, as Lee Newell’s yearning voice is filtered through a black-and-white vocoder over an industrial backdrop of dystopian synths. The flipside, “Dying to Start Again”, is a more upbeat, brass-laden number that brings your old flame back to life like a mood ring flickering between shades of grey. The whole package drops on June 17th with preorder available now.
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Mastered by me. 

“We’ve gotten to know Lovelife very well over the past couple years since they shore-ditched London and moved to Brooklyn to write the next great American tragedy. So we’re over the moon to announce our next 7” release from the men in black, “Your New Beloved” / “Dying to Start Again”, a double-trouble bundle of sinister pop that encompasses our most macabre daydreams and darkest nightvisions. Lead single “Your New Beloved” is one of our absolute favorite songs of 2013 and sounds like electronic gospel from the distant future, as Lee Newell’s yearning voice is filtered through a black-and-white vocoder over an industrial backdrop of dystopian synths. The flipside, “Dying to Start Again”, is a more upbeat, brass-laden number that brings your old flame back to life like a mood ring flickering between shades of grey. The whole package drops on June 17th with preorder available now.

The Ableton Cookbook: Using the Velocity Effect in Ableton

basslinesandbanter:

What is the nature of the soul?

Sorry if that sounds deep, but this is a question that comes up a lot with programmed drums. Some people will always have a prejudice against programmed drums for the reason that they lack “humanity,” but what is really meant by that?

I’ll tell you: mistakes.

Human drummers make all kinds of tiny little mistakes, most of them almost unnoticeable. These mistakes make them sound like, well, them. And one of the most common of these mistakes is that they never hit the drum at the same velocity (or volume) twice. But how can we duplicate that without a whole bunch of really tedious programming?

We have the technology.

And that technology is called the Velocity MIDI Effect in Ableton Live.

I’ll show you how to add a little “humanity” to any drum by using this effect to randomly change the volume of sequential drum hits.

To do this, you’ll need a MIDI drum clip already programmed.

First, decide which drum you’d like to randomize. I chose the hi-hats, because those puppies can sound REAL annoying if they are always the same volume. Remember that you don’t have to randomize the volume of the whole clip!

Now, drag the Velocity effect onto the drum cell that you want to randomize.

See the little knob that says “Random,” go ahead and tweak that a little while the clip plays. Do you hear how the drum hits are less consistent. I go with the rule of thumb that, the more frequently the drum hits, the less random I make it. So, hi-hats on the 1/16ths get less random, snares on 2 and 4 get more random.

Reminder! Make sure that the velocity percentage on your Simpler (double -click the cell if you can’t see it) is set to at least 50%. Otherwise the simpler disregards velocity variation, and that is just a waste of time.

If you have any questions, or if you have another use of the velocity effect, make sure to leave a comment!

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