Joining us for the May 2009 Seattle Live User Group meeting is producer and Ableton Live expert, Erik Magrini, aka Tarekith.

Erik will review the enhancements and new features of the Live 8, as well as any general mastering, production or Ableton Live related topics that emerge from the discussion.

Topics include:
- Enhanced warping
- New Live 8 effects
- Collision, the mallet and percussion modelling instrument
- The new Groove Engine
- Crossfades
- General mastering, Live, or production topics


Located in Seattle, Tarekith has been writing and performing electronic music of all styles for over 18 years now. His music has been released on numerous record labels such as Ritmic, Virus B-23, Working Beats, Litespeed Recordings, and currently he is one of the few independent artists with music for sale on Addictech.com. In addition to running a studio geared towards providing quality mastering for musicians on a budget, Tarekith is also one the driving forces behind AbletonLiveDJ.com, whose aim is pushing the art of DJing further as technology progresses.

http://tarekith.com/
http://abletonlivedj.com/

The December meeting of the Seattle Live User Group will be held Wednesday, December 17th at 7:00pm.

Matt Corwine, aka Mister Leisure, will be our guest this month. His presentation will focus on some of Live's improvisational features. We'll get a unique glimpse into how Matt arranges his Live sets in way that makes it possible to 'work the crowd', ie being able to adapt to audience and audience reactions.

A little more about Matt:
Before there was tech-house, minimal house, tribal house, deep house, acid house, micro-house, or electro-house, there was only house music. Dirty, sexy, psychedelic house music that brought people together and engaged their brains, bodies and hearts in equal measure. Mister Leisure (Seattle's Matt Corwine) thinks that categories belong in the library -- they have no place on the dancefloor. It's time to put all those fragmented subgenres back together, and his energetic live performances do just that. Drawing from a discography that spans more than fifteen years and crosses all genre boundaries, his sets are of that rare breed that brings cerebral techno heads and deep soul warriors together in one big, sweaty room. Corwine also works as a music journalist and commentator, and is currently a regular contributor to The Stranger and its music blog, Line Out. He also releases music on his Genericide label and has a new single ("Don't Clap Your Hands") out now on Uniting Souls Music.

http://soundcloud.com/misterleisure
http://www.myspace.com/misterleisure

Ableton Seattle Live User Group 3.2

"DJ EFX RACKS"

March 20th, 2008 7pm

Oseao - Electric Tea Garden

1402 E Pike

Seattle, WA 98122

"DJ EFX Racks"
For user group 3.2 we'll discuss the concepts behind the creation of audio effect racks for use while Djing and in the studio. Our guest for this session is Tarekith, and we'll focus on the efx package available from his site, download the package and check it out, it's in the upper right corner of this page.
Advanced Delays, Psychedelic filters, Looping and Chopping, we'll explore unique effect combinations and their application.

Our Guest:
Tarekith – A recent transplant to Seattle via Chicago, Tarekith is a DJ, Producer, Artist and regular on the Ableton forums. He also contributes to ALDJ and is an Ableton Live Expert.


Ableton Live

Seattle Live User Group

Laptop Battle

Oseao

Decibel Festival

Ableton Seattle Live User Group 3.1

Puremagnetik Sounds and EFX for Live

February 21st, 2008 7pm

Oseao - Electric Tea Garden

1402 E Pike

Seattle, WA 98122




"Puremagnetik Sounds and EFX for Live"



Puremagnetik is a unique service which offers a subscription to content for Ableton Live. Once a month the sound designers at Puremagnetik release a new Micropak, featuring essential collections of sounds and presets.



We'll listen to some of the modules that reproduce classic vintage instruments, like the PM Mark One and Clapbox and others like Technosphere, a toolbox of over 100 soundscapes, transition effects and ambiances. The EFX chains featured in the RackPak offer endless musical exploration and inspiration. Special attention will be given to the Retroputer, which features the Magnetik Step 16 sequencer capable of playing back 4 separate machines simultaneously on one track. If you've been looking for a step sequencer for Live, this is the one!



We'll discuss




















Our Guest:

Kris Moon – Ableton Seattle User Group Organizer










Puremagnetik


Ableton Live

Seattle Live User Group

Laptop Battle

Oseao

Decibel Festival

Ableton Seattle Live User Group 3.0

"Mass.Deconstruction – Evolved DJing with Live"

January 17th, 2008 7pm

Oseao - Electric Tea Garden

1402 E Pike

Seattle, WA 98122






"Mass.Deconstruction – Evolved DJing with Live"



Part DJ set, part live performance, "mass.dstrction" is Scientific
American's latest incarnation of how he presents music to an audience. For this edition of the Seattle Live user's group, we'll take a tour of how Live can be used to take the concepts behind traditional DJ'ing and combine them with Live's unique sound manipulation capabilities to continue the evolution of what defines live laptop performance.



We'll discuss

- Project organization

- Deconstructing tracks into constituent elements

- Using dummy clips and automation curves for automation
experimentation

- Hardware interface integration



Our Guest:

Scientific American - His solo productions, which incorporate elements of electronic dance music, hip-hop, and rock, have been used by The Seattle Art Museum, the Sound Unseen Film Festival in Minneapolis and for well-known television ads promoting Volkswagen, Hewlett Packard, and Discover. He has completed critically praised remixes for a number of indie favorites including Modest Mouse, 764-Hero, and Red Stars and shared the stage with Dabrye, Four Tet, Boom Bip, and Manitoba. His Mass.Dstrction mix series are meticulous deconstructions of sound, surgically reconstructed for your listening pleasure.



mssmvmnt


Listen to Mass.Dstrctn mixes




Ableton Live

Seattle Live User Group

Laptop Battle

Oseao

Decibel Festival

Ableton Seattle Live User Group 2.7
New Features in Live 7
December 20th, 2007 7pm
Oseao - Electric Tea Garden
1402 E Pike
Seattle, WA 98122

"New Features in Live 7"



There's a whole slew of cool new features in Ableton Live 7, including new features and improvements as well as the most requested features. We'll spend some time in the new Drum Rack as well, exploring the interface and REX integration.

Our Guest:
Kris Moon – Ableton Seattle User Group Organizer






Ableton Live

Seattle Live User Group

Laptop Battle

Oseao

Decibel Festival

Ableton Seattle Live User Group 2.6

Jazz Mutant's Lemur

November 15th, 2007 7pm

Oseao - Electric Tea Garden

1402 E Pike

Seattle, WA 98122








"Using the Jazz Mutant Lemur Controller with Live"



The Lemur is a top of the range control surface for audio and media applications, that breaks from the prior art on several grounds. Its major innovation consists in its brilliant modular graphic interface concept and its exclusive multitouch sensor technology.



We're going to take this one of a kind interface for a test drive with Live, exploring the possibilities for sound design and live applications using this unique controller.







Featuring



-Exploration of the potential for control and expression Jazz Mutant has opened up with multitouch technology interfaces, the Lemur and the Dexter.



-Design and assembly of faders, switches, pads and multi dimensional controls with the JazzEditor software interface.



About


Jazz mutant is company based in Paris and Germany that is at the cutting edge of
the electronic music world. They have developed and released 2 of the most unique and forward thinking interfaces seen to date.







Our Guest


Ari Joshua is the local Jazz Mutant representative. Ari is a South African born - transplant to the Seattle area who spent 5 years in NYC studying Jazz and Classical performance and composition at the New School. As a musician he has recorded and worked with such people as AriSawkaDoria, Robert Glasper (Blue Note Records), Michael Shrieve (Santana), The Benevento/Russo Duo, Skerik, Marcus Strickland, Blake Lewis, and recently Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam).








Jazz Mutant

Ableton Live

Laptop Battle

Oseao

Decibel Festival