#VST STAGELIGHT PLUGINS FOR ABLETON LIVE DRIVERS#
#VST STAGELIGHT PLUGINS FOR ABLETON LIVE FULL#
#VST STAGELIGHT PLUGINS FOR ABLETON LIVE PRO#
#VST STAGELIGHT PLUGINS FOR ABLETON LIVE SOFTWARE#

#VST STAGELIGHT PLUGINS FOR ABLETON LIVE FULL#

However, I don’t think it needs to go full screen like that.The 'alt-key' method is a safe way to reopen a session, however it will not fix the problem on it's own, because you won't be able to use the plugin within that session. This then replaces the grid with something line a velocity controller lane giving you the gloriously easy velocity editing over the selected row that’s sorely missing from the piano roll. A button next to this looks like an automation button but when you press it you are given options for velocity and pan editors. I guess this enables you to change the note length although I’m not sure that’s very important with drum hits. At the bottom of this window is a “Note Edit” button which when pressed shows the grid more like the piano roll. However you have control over the gain and tuning of each drum sound, you can set a high and low pass filter point and choose a pan position. Each drum sounds appears to be made up of a single sample, no velocity layers and no sample editing. Unfortunately you cannot import any of your own samples. First of all you can change the sound and swap it for any drum sample from the inbuilt library or downloaded sound sets. Opening up the secret side panel you’ll find some controls over the individual drum sounds. When adding notes building up a loop this is perhaps where you don’t want to have then sound as you add them – so again I wish they’d make that setting a button rather than hiding it in the settings. It’s not a function I’d have thought of and it’s nice to see some innovation in an area where you’d thought everything’s been done already – so that’s pretty cool. I can see how it perhaps can make things a bit samey and obvious but it takes the donkey work out of making patterns and with a tiny bit of editing they sound fresh again. You don’t have to fill the whole bar, it starts from where you tap and fills in more as you drag. So you want 8ths on the hi-hats – no problem, tap and drag and they’ll appear – or 16ths or triplets or something crazy. Autofill allows you to fill in a bunch of hits on a particular sound just by dragging in the editor. There’s a new feature in version 2.1 called “Autofill” which sounds an awful lot like the sort of automatic drum fills you get on electronic home keyboards – but it’s not that – it’s much groovier than that. The editor presents you with the classic step based rhythm pattern programmer of up to 8 bars in length and as you’d expect it’s darn easy to use and you’ll be grooving up patterns in no time. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push() ĭrum tracks are particular to the inbuilt sample based drum engine covering all the usual genres. Ok, perhaps it doesn’t have the intensity of those programs….

#VST STAGELIGHT PLUGINS FOR ABLETON LIVE PRO#

This projects it out of the fun music making app category like iPad apps and catapults it into the realms of Cubase, Pro Tools, Ableton Live and Reason….

#VST STAGELIGHT PLUGINS FOR ABLETON LIVE DRIVERS#

Stagelight, being a desktop program fully supports ASIO drivers and multi-channel in/out, supports VST plugins and instruments, can run in the background and operate just like a regular bit of software. Modern Windows apps run in their own eco system and are restricted in what other things on the computer they can play with – they can’t use non-windows audio drivers like ASIO, they can’t pull in VST plug-ins or connect to other bits of software. It’s designed to look and feel like an app, it has a complete internal in-app purchasing system and follows the app business model – but it’s a desktop program and this is very important. The first thing to understand is that this is not an app. (text continues after the video version). There’s a free trial version so there’s no excuse not to check it out…… But actually, underneath the glamourous exterior lurks a very interesting and capable bit of music production software.

#VST STAGELIGHT PLUGINS FOR ABLETON LIVE SOFTWARE#

And that’s just about all you get from the website – there’s lots of glossy images, lots of focus on the Timbaland and Linkin Park tie-ins, lots of lovely top produced videos but very little detail about what the software can do.

So what is Stagelight? Apparently it’s the easiest way to create music, which is nice. Today I’m diving deep into version 2.1 of Open Labs Stagelight.

Vst stagelight plugins for ableton live