Live! is a digital audio workstation made by Ableton that changed the life of a lot of musicians with its unique workflow. Compared to other software as Logic, Cubase, Sonar, Audition or whatever you use, Live! offers to its users, in addition to the classic workflow, the capability to organize the song as a “sequence of scenes”. Each scene is made by one ore more clips, for a maximum of one clip for each track that composes the song. Each clip is a small fragment of audio data or midi data. You can play, record, stop or reverse each clip…

After our first discussion about programming a synth lead on the Novation’s baby, the Mininova, in this brand new appointment we’ll try to program a punchy synth bass taking advantage of the powerful and efficient synthesis engine of this machine. Programming a synth bass is generally a quite straightforward process because the rules to follow are not too many, but I think one good rule to follow is “simple but with a lot of possibilities under the hood”. What does it mean? Well, it means that, in our opinion, the timbre should be built using a few sound sources but…

Mininova is a powerful mini synth-vocoder made by Novation whose popularity has rapidly grown between musicians, due to its extremely versatile character, to its very good sound quality, to the goodness of the materials used to build it and, last, but not least, to its very affordable price. Furthermore one of the most exciting features of this “small monster” is the very efficient vocoding system it offers... let’s say it is definitely an icing on the cake for the "Novation baby". Having chosen one of these toys as a part of my own setup and having appreciated it’s power in…