Fiducial Midi Controller for Ableton

Cool Ableton Live triggering system!

This is a quick demo of the Fiducial Midi Controller, a tangible controller built using ReacTIVision software with OSCulator to send midi signals to Ableton Live.

via gabeshaughnessy:

My DJ skills need some work, but you get the idea. One thing you can’t see in this video is the cards are color coded. They match the Ableton Tracks.

My ableton live mapping is not very sophisticated. Each clip has a card that triggers it, and you can rotate each card too, effecting something different on each track. The drum track, for example, changes the note duration, or time, when you rotate the card. On the bass track, rotating the card changes the vibrato, and for the bleepy melody, rotating the ard changes the auto-pan rate.

I’m using the free, open-source fudicial library called ReacTIVision. The folks who thought up the Reactor Synthesizer released ReacTIVision.

I’m using OSCulator to route the OSC signals from reacTIVision to Live as MIDI notes and CC values. I’ve also been messing with Quartz Composer patches using the OSC TUIO patch from Kineme (http://kinime.net).

Edited: January 20th, 2010

Pete Tong Essential Selection 11-09-2009

Yesterday’s Essential Selection from Pete Tong . . . As I listen through this mix I will be giving ratings of my favorite tracks and artists.

Good news for us North Americans, the show time will be at 21:00 from next week onward. That means for the Eastern seaboard (Miami to Montreal) we can tune in at 16:00 . . . JUST IN TIME TO START THE WEEKEND. Always keeping in touch, in Pete we Trust.

Tracklisting:

Ducksauce- ‘aNYway’ (Data)

Dizzee Rascal- ‘Holiday’ (Laidback Luke) (Dirtee Stank/ XL)

Snap- ‘Rhythm Is A Dancer’ (Armand Van Helden Remix) (Data)

Temper Trap- ‘Sweet Disposition’ (Axwell & Dirty South Remix) (Liberation)

Fatboy Slim- ‘Right Here Right Now’ (Skint)

Stardust- ‘Music Sounds Better’ (Roule/ Virgin)

Chase & Status- ‘End Credits’ (Universal)

Royksopp- ‘This Must Be It’ (Thin White Duke Mix) (Wall Of Sound)

Kings Of Leon- ‘Use Somebody’ (Tong & Rogers Wonderalnd Mix) (White Label

Retro/ Grade- ‘Moda’ (Retro/Grade)

Miike Snow- ‘Black & Blue’ (Caspa Remix) (Sony/ Columbia)

Analogue In A Digital World- ‘Circus’ (Ego Music)

Chocolate Puma- ‘I Wanna Be You’ (Cream Records)

24 Hour Party With Jack Penate

Jack Penate- ‘Pull My Heart Away’ (From The Beach Mix) (XL Recordings)

Richard Grey Vs Erick Morillo & Rose Nunez & Shawnee Taylor- ‘Life Goes On’ (Subliminal)

Steve Mac- ‘After Sundown’ (Tronic)

Energy 52- ‘Cafe Del Mar’ (Deadmau5 Remix) (White Label)

Boy 8 Bit- ‘Baltic Pine’ (This Is Music/ Co-Operative)

This Weeks Essential New Tune

Reboot- ‘Caminando’ (Sei Es Drum)

Classic Essential New Tune

Dennis Ferrer & Jerome Sydemham- ‘Sandcastles’ (Defected)

Classic Wonderments

The Streets – ‘Has It Come To This’ (Warners)

Silicone Soul – ‘Right On’ (Soma)

Sex-O-Sonique – ‘I Thought It Was You’ (FFRR)

New Wonderments

Claude Von Stroke – ‘Vocal Chords’ (Dirty Bird)

Ricardo Villalobos – ‘Easy Life’ (Reboot Edit) (White)

House To House – ‘Rushing To Paradise’ (Walking These Streets) (Whatever We Want)

Essential Hot Mix

Glocal – ‘After Midnight’ (AFFKT & Danny Fiddo Mix) (Rebirth)

Still Going – ‘Spaghetti Circus’ (DFA Records)

Reboot – ‘Enjoy Music’ (Cocoon)

Underworld – ‘Two Months Off’ (Tong & Rogers Underworld Mix) (White)

Sneaky Sound System – ‘Pictures On/Off’ (Funkagenda Bootleg) (White)

One More Tune!

Ce Ce Penniston – ‘Finally’ (A&M)

Edited: September 23rd, 2009

Laidback Luke – Club FG 30-08-2009

I would classify Laidback Luke as one of my “intermediate” DJ’s that I like to follow every now and again. I don’t track him as religiously as deadmau5, and he certainly is not as popular as Tiesto, but I find he still delivers. Sometimes this has some banging tunes dropped in the middle of an otherwise bonkers DJ set.

Most of the stuff he produces is a bit too banging for my likings, but there’s always a gem or two, take a listen and decide for your self!

Tracklisting (If you recognize any, leave a comment and I will edit)
01. ID
02. Florence And The Machine – Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
03. Kill Frenzy – 54321 (Voodoo Chilli Edit)
04. ID
05. Beni – Maximus (Harvard Bass Remix)
06. ID
07. Mom & Dad – Judas (SonicC Remix)
08. Muzzaik – Fat Patchy (Original Mix)
09. Fake Blood – Fix Your Accent (Original Mix)
10. Daft Punk – Crescendolls (Original Mix)
11. Average Composer – Da Funk
12. The Subs – From Dusk Till Dawn
13. ID
14. ID
15. Laidback Luke & Lee Mortimer – Blau (Original Mix)
16. ID
17. ID
18. Mind Electric – Rock Da House (Angger Dimas Club Mix)
19. MSTRKRFT feat. John Legend – Heartbreaker (Laidback Luke Remix)
20. Little Boots – Remedy (SonicC Remix) w/ Laidback Luke – My G.O.D. (Small Sample Cuts)
21. Laidback Luke – My G.O.D. (Guns On Demo) (Original Mix) w/ Jape – Floating (D.I.M. Acapella Version)
22. ID
23. Fake Blood – I Think I Like It (Original Mix)

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Thanks to electrostation.net for the tracklisting!

Edited: August 31st, 2009

Altar Synth feat. deadmau5, Sebastien Ingrosso, Pryda and more!

Recorded June 2009 in Ableton Live by firewire.

Tracklist:
1) Changes (The D. Ramirez Squeezebox Remix) – Dirty Vegas
2) Eat What You Kill (Part 1) – Olivier Giacomotto, DJ Tonio
3) Redic – WTF?
4) Senses & the Mind (Olivier Giacomotto Remix) – Syndey Blu
5) Stubby (Acquaviva’s 2009 remastered edit) – Mat Zo, Tyler Michaud
6) Physiological Rhythms (The Dark Night Mix) – D. Ramirez
7) Loops: Slip (Sebastien Leger Remix) – NuFunk (Deadmau5 Remix)
8 ) Laktos – Sebastian Ingrosso
9) Slip (Sebastien Leger Remix) – Deadmau5
10) Reeperbahn – Pryda
11) Last Life – BSOD
12) Call & Response – James Harcourt
13) Catbread – Deadmau5

Download Altar Synth – Mixed by firewire here!

Edited: January 22nd, 2009