Sorry for the quiet spell, my daytime job is v.busy and (more interestingly) I have just bought Max for Live and therefore had to install another (but this time v.exciting) Ableton upgrade.

I hope to post something new here later tonight or early tomorrow. For now I will just be experimenting with what is available out of the box. As a Max novice it may take me some time before I create anything new myself, but I am hoping that others will share patches with me, so that I can continue to make the odd interesting sound here.

J x

More experimentation with the Conet number station samples, led me to try and reshape one of them so that it became something totally new and almost unrecognisable. It’s meant to represent the sound of the Earth lamenting her demise. Not cheery stuff, I know, but I love its melancholic feel.

All of the sound in this piece came from this Conet sample.

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I used Paulstretch to pull it apart, but everything else was done using Ableton Live.

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Sorry for the silence since Tuesday, but I have had ‘real life stuff’ take over my time yesterday and also today. To cap this, all day there were rumours that Ableton Live 8 was being made available. I only have version 6 and didn’t upgrade to 7. However, the new version has some features that I really want to try out. So, on finding it has been launched officially, I am downloading the demo and will play with it this evening and see what I can produce from it with Reaktor 5.

Thanks for your patience.