Live Beat Series Europe tour

After several successful events in the USA earlier this year and an appearance at the Midsummer Music Conference in Portugal, Ableton & Novation are bringing their Live Beats series to Europe this September, with 14 events across 8 countries........read on.

The Live Beats events are designed for musicians and producers of all skill levels to learn more about using Ableton Live and Novation hardware. They provide an opportunity to receive training from demonstrator Thavius Beck, who will mainly focus on the hands-on music making potential of Live and Launchpad, but will also be showing off other Novation hardware and demonstrating how Automap - the control software that comes with Novation's controllers - can be used to take your Ableton Live sessions to the next level.

At each event, Thavius and local Ableton & Novation demonstrators will be on hand to answer questions, as well as offer tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your software and hardware. There will also be a chance to win a Novation Launchpad and Ableton Live 8 at each event.

Dates & times for Live Beats events:

• Tuesday 7th September, Production Room, Leeds, UK, 18:30
• Thursday 9th September, Digital Village Clapham, London, UK, 18:30
• Saturday 11th September, Teach Music, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 19:00
• Monday 13th September, Just Studio Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany, 18:30
• Tuesday 14th September, Just Music, Hamburg, Germany, 19:15
• Wednesday 15th September, Hard Rock Cafe, Cologne, Germany, 19:00
• Saturday 18th September, Just Music, Munich, Germany, 16:00
• Monday 20th September, microFusa, Madrid, Spain, 19:00
• Tuesday 21st September, microFusa, Barcelona, Spain, 19:00
• Thursday 23rd September, SAE Institute, Milan, Italy, 18:00
• Friday 24th September, Percorsi Audio, Acquapendente (VT), Italy, 18:00
• Monday 27th September, Rytmus Aula, Stockholm, Sweden, 18:30
• Wednesday 29th September, ProLyd AS, Oslo, Norway, Time TBC

"Live Beat Series Europe tour" > read the full post

Free Production Masterclass from Apple

A Grammy winning producer will be giving a free talk at the Regent Street Apple Store....read on




An Apple Made-On-A-Mac Masterclass with Grammy-award winning producer Kipper & producer/musician Phil Taylor will be running at the Apple Store on Regents Street.

Kipper will take attendees through an entertaining journey explaining how he works creatively with Logic Pro to create music for artists such as Sting and James Morrison.

The masterclass opens with a performance of the Sting track '1000 Years', co-written and produced by Kipper, with the creative journey explained using the original recordings and including never-heard content discarded in the creative process (including a recording by the London Symphony Orchestra).

Other topics covered include composing for film making in Logic, internet recording, remixing and backup.

The class is highly revealing and entertaining, with live performances by Kipper and Phil including a track especially written for the class. Along the way you will learn how award-winning producers work both creatively and technically with invaluable advice and tips for any aspiring or established producer, musician or recording engineer.

The event will run on Tuesday 27th April, 3 - 5pm and entry is FREE.









"Free Production Masterclass from Apple" > read the full post

Foosball night

Thursday night was Foosball night at the London School of Sound south campus. Thanks to all who turned up - was a fun night.

Though most people thought the deserving winner was robbed (knocked out in a semi-final round sudden death point), the reigning champion is me!

As it would seem a bit mean for staff to take the cash, the prize money is being put into a beer fund for the next planned night - Doubles matches. All current and former students are welcome - details will follow once we iron out the details.

For the few of you who are interested, you can check out the final match here.

"Foosball night" > read the full post

Freemasons Master Class (Become a Dance Music Superstar)

The British Music Experience are presenting a unique chance to interact with one of the UK's most successful DJ and Producer teams, The Freemasons.....


Dance music superstars Freemasons are giving a masterclass on Thursday 26th November 2009 at The British Music Experience. Sounds like decent value for £8 and access to the exhibition as well, see the BME hyper link for more details.






"Freemasons Master Class (Become a Dance Music Superstar)" > read the full post

Brian Eno on the Moon (at the Science Museum)

There is an exciting event being organised by the Science Museum and Sound and Music. This will be, according to the press release, "a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and the premiere of a new live arrangement of Brian Eno's 1983 album ‘Apollo’. The performance by amplified ensemble Icebreaker, with BJ Cole on pedal steel guitar, will be accompanied by original footage of the Moon landings by director Al Reinert."

The concert will take place on the 21st and 22nd July at the Science Museum IMAX cinema and ‘Making the Modern World’ gallery. Full details here.

"Brian Eno on the Moon (at the Science Museum)" > read the full post

Korg DS-10 Plus

The new version of the Korg DS-10 for the DS1 gives you 12 tracks, 4 synths, 8 drum tracks and real-time editing capabilities. For those of you who never saw the first version, it's a sequencer and modular synth system for your Nintendo DS.

Check out the Steve Jobs style intro from Sanodg (Nobuyoshi Sano)- the man behind such computer game soundtracks as Ridge Racer and Teken :

"Korg DS-10 Plus" > read the full post

Korg Nanopad Master

Those of you at LIMS this weekend should check out David Haynes at the Toontrack booth. For those of you who can't make it, here's the man in action at Namm earlier this year.


"Korg Nanopad Master" > read the full post

Free Tube Pass Holder

Those of you heading to LIMS this week, keep an eye out for these rather funky London School of Sound tube pass holders being given away at the tube station. They're being handed out by some of our students, so why not find out what we're like from the people who know best?

"Free Tube Pass Holder" > read the full post

Ableton Controllers

Quick reminder about the launch of the Ableton APC40 on Saturday the 6th of June, held by the London School of Sound in conjunction with Digital Village. I've had a quick play with it already, and it's very cool.

If you're hunting for this kind of thing, why not also take a look at the Livid Ohm 64? Also a pretty nice looking piece of gear, but won't hit the shops for a couple of weeks yet.

"Ableton Controllers" > read the full post

Akai APC40 Launch at Digital Village

Join us on Saturday 6th of June for the launch of the Akai APC40 Ableton Live controller in Clapham Common (London School of Sound South Campus).

Here is an extract from the official press release:

DV launch the AKAI APC40 Ableton Controller in the UK
AKAI is co-ordinating a simultaneous worldwide shipping launch of the AKAI APC40 Ableton controller on Saturday 30th May.
The AKAI UK and Ableton official launch event will be held at the DV Retail Warehouse in Romford, East London on this date.
Further events are also scheduled at DV Birmingham, DV West London (Acton) and DV South London (Clapham) during the first week of June. London School of Sound's Ableton Guru Federico Bersano Begey will be a special guest at the DV Clapham event.

All events are free but for more information and to pre-register visit http://www.dv247.com/news/APC40/132030

You could win a London School of Sound One Day Intensive APC40 Ableton Training Course if you attend any of the events. No purchase necessary, just register and turn up!

Special Akai and Ableton deals will also be available at all events and complimentary beverages will be served with the beats!

http://www.dv247.com/news/APC40/132030
http://www.apc40.com/
http://www.londonschoolofsound.co.uk/akai_apc40_ableton_masterclass.php



"Akai APC40 Launch at Digital Village" > read the full post