Adult Situations is released!

My man Unagi and I produced this one for Motion Man. Funky, 90s style hip-hop, lots of love jams and innuendo as only Motion Man can spin it. We’re going to have some stems available as Ableton Live Sets soon. The dope cover art work was done by my brother the Urban Yetti.

You can listen to samples, buy the download or digipack here.

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Tri-state = Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey in case some of you are confused

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These slicing files let you chop beats like you’re used to on an Akai Professional MPC2000 in Ableton Live 8.
- you hit a pad, it plays to the end without having to keep the pad depressed.
- each pad chokes (cuts off the sustain of) the next pad you hit.

1) Right click and save to download the MPC Slicing files here if you own the add on Sampler instrument or here for Simpler (which comes with all versions of Live).
2) Put them into your Live Library:Defaults:Slicing

3) When you want to slice a beat, control (right) click a drum beat/audio clip in Session view in Live and select “Slice to MIDI.”

4) Choose MPCDrumRackSimpler or Sampler. You can select “Slice to 1/4″ to start with, but you may want to try Slice to Warp Marker, the way Ski Beatz does it in this video I worked on with the always hilarious filmaker Chandler Kauffman

5) Bang away with your beatpad, Launchpad/APC20 in Note mode, keyboard, etc.

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I’m doing some live remixing/DJing of the music of Felipe Dulzaides Sr., a Cuban pianist/bandleader.

My friend Felipe Dulzaides Jr. is putting on the show and a video/sound installation at The Hotel Club on Mariannenstrasse 26-A

Come by if you’re free…
Jethroe

www.felipedulzaides.com/
www.jethroe.com

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Our goal here is to set a ““Master”” clip in Live, so that other files you record or drag in will follow the original tempo of the master audio file.

1) Warp the audio file you’d like follow very tightly. You can follow my fast warping instructions to get started, and use Beats mode for the most transparent sound.

You may want to make other audio files follow the Master clip even tighter by quantizing the audio to 1/4 notes.

To quantize audio: Command-click on the audio file in Clip View:

I choose 1/4 note here, that should be fine enough for my purposes:

Now click Master — this sets this clip as the master tempo for the set, all other clips will be slaved to this clip’s tempo.

Note that if you have multiple clips set to master, the one highest in the set in arrangement will be master (there can be only one master at a time).

If you look at the Arrangement view’s tempo automation, it is following the tempo of this clip.

Next you’ll want to know about multi-track warping, coming soon…
Jethroe

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UPDATE 8/23/11:

There’s an easier way to do this. Follow J. Period’s instructions for multitrack warping (but you’re only warping the beat, then having the acapella follow those warp markers.

Old lesson just in case:

1) In Live’s Browser, navigate to the folder that has your acapella and instrumental (or the original mix). Hold shift to multi-select the instrumental and acapella and drag them into Live’s arrangement view.

Note that holding command/apple when you drag the files in brings the files in in parallel on different tracks.

2) Select both files and turn warping off.

Make sure the Start Marker flag in the clip waveform of both files is set at the very beginning. Press the space bar to listen.

If your acapella and instrumental don’t sync up unwarped, you have little chance of making them sync up warped. If they are out of sync, you can try moving the Start Marker flag of the acapella around to sync them up.

3) Once they are playing in sync unwarped, you need to make sure both files are exactly the same length. You may need to consolidate the files to make them exactly the same length. To do this, drag around both tracks in the arrangement view, with a length longer than the longest of the two tracks and Consolidate (Command-J).

4. Now select both files (select one and hold shift to select the second) and turn warping on again.

5. Mute the Acapella track and warp the Instrumental/Mix file as you normally would. See here for more info on how to do this.

6. Now we need to duplicate the instrumental track. Click on the Track Name

And press Command-D to duplicate the track:

7. Drag the acapella back into your browser to create a Live Clip and press enter:

8. Double click on the duplicated instrumental file to bring it up in the Clip Waveform below:

9. Now drag the Live Clip into the clip waveform of the instrumental track. You can delete the original acapella track.

10. Your acapella should be warped like the instrumental/original.

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1) Drag a Drum Rack preset onto a midi track
2) Make sure to open the Chain List view:

and Input/Output view:

3) Set your pads to a choke group, to say, have your open and closed hi-hats cut each other off:

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The CheeseteaKalbi is a fusion of two great cultures, Philadelphia and Korea. It’s self explanatory, and is the best thing I’ve ever cooked or eaten.

Kalbi

This is generally done to taste, so I don’t have the exact measurements, but…just wing it and it will taste good.

In a cuisinart or blender, blend:

1 Asian pear, peeled and cored (this tenderizes the meat)
1-2 cloves garlic
1-2 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon honey
Sesame seeds
Hot Sauce to taste
1/2 cup Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon Sesame oil

Then add:

4-5 Scallions diced

Meat
Use cross cut Korean ribs found at a korean market, cut about 1/4 inch thin, and well rinsed.

Marinade the meat for 4-5 hours (not too much more, as they get too mealy).

Grill the Kalbi until it just starts to singe/blacken in places and is cooked.

Remove the bones, and add fried onions and Cheeze Whiz.

Serve with Ketchup and enjoy.

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Clicking on the word Length snaps the Loop Brace to fit the Sample Editor window.

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