V-Station with Ableton Live

[color color=red:1yps5cst]dj bassy, i’ve edited your subject title to try and get you a better response.[/color:1yps5cst]

I don’t know about Ableton, but I know the V-Station has some very good sounds, and is capable of being manipulated, through automation, to very good effect. I would suggest messing with the filters etc.. if you get to know how to automate them in Ableton.

[quote quote="dj bassy":uue6efff]thanx for changin mi subject title anisina
Im tryin to make the wah style tones used in speed garage.
i know what to do to get that sound but cant do the most basic thing… produce any sound at all lol
ive been using acid pro for about a year and only just moved onto ableton so dont really know all its functions n features yet.

dj bassey[/quote:uue6efff]

could you follow the 1st part of my response? after you’ve installed V-Stat, open live, you will see an audio & midi channel by default. on the left, the 3rd circle down under File & Tap is your Plugin Device Browser. Find where you installed V-Station – then double click it & it should load into the session view. You’ll see it load it on a channel – now next to the highlighted button for the channel, the solo button & all of that – you’ll see a button with a round black dot – clik it & it will highlight red. You control V-Station now on your computer keyboard & any installed controllers hooked up to your system. To record what you’re playing, click the master record button on the upper toolbar & click play. That should put you in business my friend

no problem – midi stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Its basically a signal that transfers musical info from a controller like a keyboard into an audio application like Live 5. Add a MIDI channel/track by going to insert>insert MIDI track. You must load your VSTi(Virtual Studio Technology Instrument) into a MIDI track & highlight the record button for that channel – hit the master record & play button (like a tape recorder) when you want to record into the project. you are basically recording in a signal that controls your instrument as the live set plays – the signal can control other things but thats a little more complicated. once you’ve recorded something you can make changes or fit the notes to time. i think by default the middle & upper rows of your typing keyboard will control MIDI.

If you’re still having trouble learning how to use certain parts of Live dont be shy of the tutorials – they walk you through with very easy to understand directions & dont take up much of your time at all. I think there is one focusing on using MIDI in Live. They are in your Ableton program files.