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My quest to make the best use of Ableton Live and acquire a reasonable level of home studio equipment continues. I still don’t possess a decent pair of studio monitors and so have to play my tracks through as many different audio systems as I can to glean any understanding of their sonic characteristics before finalizing them.
However I did add a critical piece of equipment a couple of weeks ago; a brand new Tascam US-366 Audio Interface.
Anyone who has tried to record real world instruments into a computer will probably wonder how on earth I managed to do anything at all without one. Basically it replaces the low quality built in computer sound card with professional quality audio handling and takes a big load off the computer’s CPU at the same time.
This vastly reduces latency, (the time lag between playing something and the sound being processed by the computer and coming out of the speakers), and has the spin off benefit of making any music I play on my computer sound fabulous!
This is what it looks like.
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It was simple to set up and I’d recommend these to anyone.
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I soon discovered that as well as routing an electric guitar signal into Ableton Live via the USB enabled Fender Mustang I amplifier or my old Zoom G2,1u effects pedal I can also access Ableton’s brilliant array of Audio Effects by plugging the guitar cable directly into the Audio Interface.
I put this to use on my latest track, A Glitch In The Matrix, completed on Saturday 01 June 2013.
The track comprises:
A MIDI kick drum,
Field recordings of the church bell outside my house,
Field recordings from the rookery down the road,
An electric guitar drone fed through a resonator and processed in various ways,
A three note electric guitar figure suggested by the notes in the drone,
The guitar drone processed almost to destruction to produce glitchy beats to compliment the kick drum.
Listen or download on Bandcamp below. It’s name your price which includes zero. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to embed the player if you do.
A Glitch In The Matrix by Mark Ward is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.
This basically means you are free to download it and use it however you wish proving that, 1- You credit me as the originator and, 2- Do not use it for commercial gain
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