Category Archives: Technical Iussues

Going live without a laptop

Posted on September 26, 2018 by stuartrussellcomposer

For the last 12+ years whenever I did a live performance I inevitably based my rig around a laptop of some form, ableton Live, some controllers , a good soundcard and that was it. Gradually over the years as my … Continue reading →

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Using the Roland MX-1 in the studio: recording BFX and MFX into Ableton Live

Posted on April 10, 2018 by stuartrussellcomposer

  I own two pieces of Roland Aira gear (system 1 and TB3) and a Roland Boutique JX-03, all three of which I use live in CSMA together with my laptop running Ableton live. I bought the MX-1 to ease … Continue reading →

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Its 2017 and we still have USB conflicts in music technology!

Posted on October 5, 2017 by stuartrussellcomposer

Bloody soundcards what are they like? Or rather USB conflicts… I’m setting up my rig for upcoming performance with a borrowed soundcard, a MOTU ultralite MK3 hybrid. I’ve used this device before and it has worked well with my synths, … Continue reading →

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Arturia Beatstep Pro Part 2- CV calibration

Posted on April 11, 2016 by stuartrussellcomposer

A common problem with CV voltage control is notes playing in the wrong octave; when I first connected the Arturia microbrute I found the microbrute was playing two octaves higher, no matter what I set the keyboard range to. A … Continue reading →

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The dark enigma of USB hubs and Ableton Live 9

Posted on June 14, 2015 by stuartrussellcomposer

So I bought a new synth (Waldorf Blofeld, which Im very pleased with, see later blog review) but of course, now run out of USB ports to drive it. On top of that the old port is not powered and … Continue reading →

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Return of the Prodigal analogue Synth?

Posted on March 2, 2014 by stuartrussellcomposer

The return of the Prodigal Analogue Synth? The recent re-issue of the Korg MS20-mini synthesizer last year brought back a flood of nostalgia in me; the original 1970s model was my first serious synthesizer, bought in a music shop in … Continue reading →

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Csound for Live

Posted on November 29, 2012 by stuartrussellcomposer

I had been meaning to experiment with this for some time; Audivation have  brought out some Max for Live based plugins to embed Csound into Ableton Live. These are cross platform and basically you need Live 8.2+ max for live … Continue reading →

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Max for Dead- Live!

Posted on March 7, 2012 by stuartrussellcomposer

This blog is all about an overlooked install bug in Max for Live on the PC platform. I’ve created a variety of synth patches in PD (puredata) which I wanted to port over to Max for Live as a more … Continue reading →

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