acoustics - room modes finder m8r - helps you to find and identify exact frequencies of standing waves / room modes in your studio room - by ear and VU Meter. It is especially useful for bass / low frequencies.

1. Enable audio in on your track

2. Attach a measurement microphone (normal mics will do for test purposes)

3. Set sinewave to ON

4. Change the volume if necessary

5. Change the model of the VU Meter if necessary

6. Shift through the frequency up from 1 to 20k -> you hear loud peaks where the room modes / standing waves are. Note any peaks you find temporarily in the Notes field.

That's it.

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=1058

I 'd like to share some thoughts with whilst investigating the possibilities to treat my home studio acoustically:

1. It's not rocket science, but complex enough. Helmholtz Resonators, Basotect, Plate absorbers, all of those need careful reading, some maths, and if you don't want to spend a lot of cash, quite some time to build.
2. Professional work costs money, so if you want to treat professional, you have to pay professional.
3. There are many self-called pro's which basically turn facts around here and there, but know not more than you do.
4. All about trial and error: Build, try, rebuild, retry.

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Room Details:

The room is 5.4 x 3.2 x 2.5 m2.

Standing wave is at 80hz, normal room echo above 100hz

Tannoy Active Loudspeakers System 600a, no subwoofer yet.

I need it for composing electronic music with ableton live, and teaching (skype & in room).

3 concrete walls (painted bricks), 1 window front (behind loudspeakers), few furniture.

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Proposal of treatment:

- 10m2 Helmholtz Resonators, 100x100x10cm times x. They will have holes on the reso plate, below 1% of cover.

- 5m2 of Basotect, some plates of 10cm x 100cm x 150cm.

Do you have any other tipps? Would you do it differently?

Please let me know! 

modul8tor

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audio-treatment-of-m8r-home-studio-part-2-agpbykeniDHpafocceyw.zip (579 KB)

I have been asked many times why I don't treat my studio acoustically. The reason is simple: it wasn't a priority. Moving forward with this, I have attached the following links and tipps in an excel file.

- A lisf of cheap basotect foam vendors (germany)

- Formulas and links for helmholtz resonators

- Formulas and links to room calculation programs

- Calculation of my room measurements

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Stay tuned! :)

modul8tor

Click here to download:

basotect_und_links_helmholz_m8r.xlsx (669 KB)

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Click here to download:

basotect_und_links_helmholz_m8r.xlsx (669 KB)

Pitchbomb is a tool to attach the speed of Ableton Live Midi tracks to Audio tracks. This may sound unspectacular, but allows previously impossible tape stops and speed ups.

The speciality of this one is that you shift midi up and down at the same time as you pitch the audio, a feature which is not implemented in Live as for now.

How to:

• Add Pitchbomb amxd to any (Midi) track in the Ableton set. 
• Put an audio clip to Repitch mode in clip settings. They need to match pitch-wise, so you might have to bounce your audio. Percussive stuff like drums can be left in their Drums/Complex/etc mode. 
• Add a Midi tracks with synths and match their pitch to the existing audio clips at the given song tempo - Add a Live "Pitch" plugin to the Midi track 
• Click "Learn" in Pitch target 1 and click the Live "Pitch" plugins Pitch knob 
• Start fiddling with the semitone change field and do semitone target semitone & bang transitions

Download
http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=1014

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Anybody knows the guy in the Moog shirt? :)

Just ask me anything about acoustics now, I am an expert...

Thank you Hofa for the excellent workshop. My studio will never sound the same again...

http://www.hofa-training.de/pages/aktionen/gratis-workshops/workshop-week-2011/workshop-week-2011-form.php

The perfomance of Ander opened my eyes - again. Since the beginning of my controllerism freakism, I wanted to touch every parameter of my music live. 

Ander does just that, plus more: He builds his custom light controllers, see here: http://ander.fm

Here is what he says: "I designed and constructed this MIDI-Controller myself, based on the ucapps.de hardware platform. I use it for live techno performances with Ableton Live. It's not for sale."

Some thoughts about the performance (In german)

• Leuchtpult leuchtet Performer voll aus, lightshow
• Leute haben keine Ahnung was abgeht und sind erstaunt :) "Wooah, das Pult"
• Viel swooshes, buildups, einfach via touchempfindlichen pads, er macht gar keine buildups und crashes, sondern alles live
• Kommentare: Wie von CD, hörts gar nichts von Live Performance
• Unklar wieviel echt gespielt wird, wieviel ist von Konserve
• Es könnten noch ein paar mehr Variationen sein, klingt ähnlich, wiederholend
• Gut gemasterter Grundsound, es ist also offensichtlich möglich, vom Studio Raus direkt ins
• Jeder parameter der musik ersichtlich -> Meine Devise! :)
• 3 Pulte mit unterschiedlichen Ausrichtungen / Zweck:
•   - 1. Mixer
•   - 2. Fx Swooshes mit touch sensitive pads
•   - 3. Chromatic Recording

This is Part 2 of the Ableton Live Beginner Workshop in Zürich, Switzerland. It is held in German language