I have been a fan of Sebastien Leger for a while now. I first wrote about his remix of Manson, The People last September.

Even before that I did a quick tech blog post showing him mixing some stuff in Ableton for his live show. In fact it sounds very similar to this song Plik Plok.

I really love the minimal feel of this. It still has very prominent sonic elements; this song fills your speakers out! What’s great about this song is its very DJ friendly. If you love electronic music this is the type of track you could play as a loop in your set and add SO much in terms of effects. Reverbs, Delays and a few glitch and volume modulation effects and you’ve got a banging live remix of this track . . . in the right hands of course!

There is a huge bass line that might get in the way. If you killed the bass all that would be left would be the high pitched pattern, instant DJ TOOL! Also, the did I mention that the percussion sounds really great?

What more can I say, Seb Leger tu l’avez fait trés bien!

Check out the song on YouTube below and support this artist on Beatport, iTunes etc! (and the audiophile in me also screams; BUY THE WAV not the MP3!! but thats a whole other problem)

Updated with YouTube video:

By Alex Massaad

Hey there, I have to be brief because I’m just leaving the studio to do yoga (down the hall but I wanted to share an awesome Ableton Live feature that I’ve been using almost every time I work on a Live project now. This my friends is a quick tutorial on linked and unlinked region loops within Ableton Live. I’m using Live 8, but this will apply to older versions, or just check out the demo free on the Ableton site.

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Normally when you click the little “e” in the bottom left of the clip window, you are taken to the clip envelopes page. This is really neat, because rather than deal with all the envelopes (read: all the automation) in the arrangement view, this can set up automation in the session view. It also helps when we want a repeating and looping modulation on a clip.

In the image above I have a simple kick drum pattern set up. Generally on the bass track I would set up volume automation to simulate the effect of a side chain compressor with a few advantages.

First, it takes up zero cpu.

If you think about that, you could have dozens of audio clips playing with all sorts of crazy modulation playing LIVE. Zero fear of a plugin locking up a live show or any of that junk. All you would have is a simple volume automation on a white noise clip to make it pulse to the beat. Actually, don’t do that, I’m going to do that!

Second, you only have to draw it once per clip, only one curve! See image below for an unlinked region loop

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If you “unlink” the region/loop button, and drag the loop brace to the first perfect loop you will notice it replaying the automation curve you drew once, on top of every consecutive beat. I hope I’ve explained this clearly and hopefully it helps someone save some time! I bet a video capture tutorial would have been more clear.

I use Ableton Live about 50 times a day sometimes. I have been using it since version 5 but I have only recently begun using it to obsessive proportions.

I will soon share this knowledge. I have already posted one tutorial from my efforts a few weeks back when I made this Ableton Live remix tutorial.

I’ve just finished working on my Moguai tutorial, so if I don’t win I’ll be making a tutorial about my process for that as well as a tutorial for a remix im working on right now of a French band called L’usine. I’ve been working on this remix since my trip to San Diego for a Magic convention to brush up my skills as Alexander the Great Magician – Ottawa magician. Pass it on!