PAVEMENT TO PRESET FIELD RECORDING IN ABLETON LIVE

Field recording is an artform in itself. It can be about capturing immersive, lengthy chunks of natural sounds – the ambience of a specific time and location – or grabbing raw material to recycle into short samples for your music productions. I made a test recording in my local park for this story and had to deal with noise from wind, aircraft, revving motorcycles, and a ride-on lawnmower. Try to record at best quality when you can, and consider your options regarding recording in stereo, though it’s arguably less important if you’re recording short samples.

THE SOUND OF THE STREETS

We’re working with three copies of the same sample in this tutorial, although I’ve included some other samples for you to experiment with. Live is the perfect tool to manipulate the resulting material – it’s fast and easy to import, crop, and quantise audio and