Comments on: Trifonic: Rhythmic Gating in Ableton Live

By: Trifonic: Multi-Band Rhythmic Gating in Logic | Next Step Audio

Trifonic: Multi-Band Rhythmic Gating in Logic | Next Step Audio — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:08:07 +0000

[...] interested in exploring the subject further, make sure to also check out Trifonic’s previous video on rhythmic gating in Ableton [...]

By: Daryl

Daryl — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:08 +0000

Hi Brian,

As a musical hobbyist, I'd like to thank you for producing these tutorials. I have found every tutorial helpful, insightful and inspirational. I often watch these videos at my day-job and then yearn for quitting-time so I can run home and play with this stuff.

Keep up the great work!

Daryl

By: Morphido

Morphido — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:41:01 +0000

A setup example for Logic & Ableton use could be a main DAW with Logic and a laptop with Live!… I'm still trying to practice with this setup, but in my opinion Live could work better than Logic in a Laptop.
Ableton Live brings a lot of simple creative features, perfect for include them to Logic projects

Congrats! trifon bros!
Morphido

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:52:28 +0000

I thought of that too, but I don't think it applies here because

1) The relative volume of the input to be gated will be controlled in the track the source audio comes from rather than in the dummy clip and

2) With the utility plug-in only cable of -35 db it's not capable of fully gating the audio.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:19:20 +0000

Great tutorial, thanks! You seem to heavily rely on volume automations, so I thought this article may perhaps be of interest for you: http://sonictransfer.com/ableton-live-mixing-ut.... Keep up the good work!

By: Milan

Milan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:10:31 +0000

Thank you for answer Brian..You guys are truly inspiring us.. Keep up great work..

btw. Trifonic is the best thing I discovered recently..

greetz

By: briantrifon

briantrifon — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:11:57 +0000

thank you, I really appreciate the comment! I firmly believe that if you or I gave our favorite artists/producers the crappiest set of tools…..they would come up with something incredible. Ideas and the patience to execute them properly is much more important than any particular piece of gear or DAW or plugin.

By: briantrifon

briantrifon — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:59:57 +0000

Hey Milan, I don't rewire Logic and Live. ReWire is a great solution, but on an old G5 mac it uses a bit too much CPU to have both programs running. Sometimes I'll start ideas in Live and export all the cool bits as stems and then go to town in Logic, bring back to Live later and then end up in Logic again!

By: briantrifon

briantrifon — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:56:25 +0000

thanks! That is a good idea for a tutorial. I don't have an objective opinion about our music, but I think our ambient sounds and textures are possibly our greatest strength and I definitely will do some tutorials about ambient sounds/pads/reverbs/delays etc.

By: briantrifon

briantrifon — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:53:42 +0000

Cool! There are lots of ways to do gating effects, but like you said, the advantage to this method is that you can always reuse your custom gate for later or even reuse it for a different parameter… the sky is the limit. I haven't noticed any weirdness about Live's master level meter, but I don't really mix in Live etc.

re: number of project files for a given song – Lots! On more complicated tracks we end up with over a hundred versions. I like to make bounces along the way and make sure that as I continue tweaking a track that I'm not making it worse. 'Save As' is my best friend. That being said, wherever possible it is good to make decisions and stick with them and not look back.