Studio Tips: No Presets in Effectrix or how to fix the problem with presets in Effectrix

Good Day fellow readers, today’s ableotn tip came after having a few problems running Effectrix. Basically the presets would not show up within the application, even though I have installed it properly (many times!).

The solution was found on the KVR forum by the Effectrix tech support staff:

on PC its enough just to uninstall and reinstall the program.

On mac the plist file must be deleted before reinstall, you
can find it here: USER/Library/Preferences/com.sugar-bytes.Effectrix.plist

Ahaaa, so apparently when I re installed my software on this system I did not delete the plist file first!

Bonus tip: in Finder on Mac OS X if you cannot see the library, hold ALT and click the “GO” menu in finder. Voila! Instantly your hidden user library folder is visible.

Edited: October 6th, 2012

Music Mondays: Check out the ATAM Productions releases from 2011

Hey there everybody,

I decided this year to set up a record label to release my own music and I thought I’d post a playlist of all the stuff so you can check out that music Listen to ATAM Productions on iTunes here

Edited: August 15th, 2011

Cthulu Sleeps fan cover

I’m a pretty big fan of cover songs given the fact that I just released a cover song of This Is Our Night on my own record label. Here is a cover of the deadmau5 song Cthulu Sleeps. Pretty quality work if you ask me!

Edited: May 4th, 2011

MIDI Synth in Max for Live

When Ableton first announced Max for Live I knew this plugin / add on would be a game changer. I had to get a copy as soon as possible.

For the uninitiated max for live basically lets you use a simple graphical programming language, called max/msp within Ableton Live. This lets advanced users program custom interfaces and controls that have access to every piece of information Ableton Live knows about the audio. The possibilities of extending the features of the application are limited only by the programming skill and creative needs of the user. I have used the software a little bit in school but I have not had the opportunity to program many of my own patches for any specialized function yet.

The following tutorial video shows how quick and simple some of these patches can be. Check it out:

Edited: March 3rd, 2011

Browsing the Information Highway of Good and Evil: Data Romance

Earlier on in December I came across this wonderful electronic xmas rendition of Little Drummer Boy. Very nice use of the monome and ableton!

Data Romance – Little Drummer Boy from Data Romance on Vimeo.

Edited: January 6th, 2011

Linked and Unlinked Region Loops in Ableton Live

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.

a linked region in ableton live

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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! :P

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

an unlinked region loop in ableton live

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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.

Edited: June 15th, 2010

Nyce Remix Project done!

Last night I submitted my remix for Moguai’s competition with Novation, Ableton, Soundcloud and mau5trap. I may later post a Remix Tutorial like I did with my other remix tutorials. I went through a few different creative stages to create this remix and it might make an interesting topic.

Edited: May 7th, 2010

Working Nycley

I’ve been busy working on the Nyce Remix competition.  I wrote last month about the new Moguai Album.

Regular posting shall resume soon

Edited: May 2nd, 2010

LiveControl lets you turn your iPad into a Lemur

This is the sort of thing I have been waiting to see. Functionally it is a replica of many of the things that the Lemur is trying to offer, but for a much smaller price.

The video below is a demo of the LiveControl application for the iPod and iPad, using TouchOSC.

It allows complete auto-mapping of Ableton Live to TouchOSC.

For more info:


LiveControl for the iPad/iPod from ST8 on Vimeo.

Edited: April 15th, 2010

How to use ReWire to record from Ableton Live into Logic Pro

By Alex Massaad

I just finished making a tutorial video that teaches how to use Ableton Live and its plugins as an instrument within Apple‘s Logic Pro 9. This is acomplished using the ReWire protocol (link to wikipedia description) to stream audio and timing information between the two programs.

Make sure to watch the video fullscreen and also make sure you are playing it in HD if your machine is capable.

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Edited: April 10th, 2010