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The perfect fusion of keyboard and controller for Ableton Live
As an electronic music producer working entirely in Ableton Live, the last thing you need to be worrying about is your MIDI controller keyboard putting the brakes on your creativity by necessitating manual reassignment every time you add a channel to the mixer, switch between instruments and effects, or start a new project.
Combining a premium quality keyboard with a comprehensive array of automatically assigned faders, knobs, pads and buttons, Novation Launchkey gives you effortless and total control of you Live sessions. In a nutshell, it lets you spend less time mousing around and more actually producing music, all the way from initial composition to final mixdown.
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As perfectly suited to the job of operating a computer as your mouse is, it’s not something you want to negotiate any more than you have to when you’re lost in the musical flow. Launchkey unlocks your Ableton Live sessions for genuine hands-on control, putting tactile clip launching, device tweaking and mixing at your fingertips, and liberating you from the inspiration-damping inconvenience of the rodent.
Launchkey’s faders, knobs, buttons and pads automatically map themselves to Live’s mixer, devices and clip launchers in both Session and Arrangement Views, instantly reconfiguring to suit the task at hand at any given moment as you navigate your project. And since it’s Launchkey doing all the mapping, not Live, it ‘just works’ without any setup required when starting a new session.
With Launchkey, making music with Live feels more like playing an instrument than operating a DAW – your physical relationship with the software becomes almost symbiotic.
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As anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of using a Novation synthesiser will expect, Launchkey’s keys feel great to play. Light but solid, with synth action, they can be switched between four preset velocity curves to suit all playing styles and ‘weights’, and three board lengths are available:
25-, 49- and 61-key.
The rest of the controls are of equally high quality; and with its sturdy, roadworthy exterior casing and brilliantly bright backlit RGB pads, Launchkey is built for life on stage as well as in the studio.
Combine with other Launch Series Controllers
With its powerful Novation stablemates Launchpad Pro and Launch Control XL specialising in clip launching and mixing respectively, the more versatile Launchkey is designed to sit at the very heart of your Ableton Live rig, covering all production bases. The keyboard and transport controls enable quick capture of musical ideas; the faders, knobs and buttons give modal access to the mixer; and the 16 velocity-sensitive RGB pads take care of finger drumming and clip launching.
Once you get used to Launchkey – which takes about ten minutes – you’ll come to see it as an extension of Live itself. And if you already own either or both of its aforementioned siblings, add Launchkey to them for the ultimate in Live control.
How many times have you listened to an immaculately produced track and wondered how they did it? Perfect mixdowns can seem mysterious and unattainable, especially when you’re using the same production tools as a top-flight producer, but your results don’t sound that way. Perhaps a look under the hood of a big artist’s Live Set would shed some light on the techniques that separate stadium bangers from a humble demo.
Lucky for us, Dutch EDM veteran Laidback Luke has obliged our curiosity. You can download and examine the Live Set for his production “Stepping To The Beat” via the creative sharing platform Splice and see how it’s all done. You’ll need to sign up for a free account and download the Splice app to get at Luke’s Live Set, and try out his techniques for yourself.Deckadence flooring for sale.
We took the opportunity to chat to Luke about the Live Set, the perils of mixing in stereo, the importance of layering, and mixing down for club systems.
Download Laidback Luke’s Live set via Splice.
There is a whole lot of layering in this track. Are you spending much time working the EQs and envelopes to get these elements to sit together? Do you have any go-to methods for achieving balanced layering?
The key to proper layering is to find the gaps in the frequencies and then fill them up with sounds that specifically stand out in those frequencies. It can be as simple as saying, “Oh, my lead sounds a bit thin right now,” and then looking for an additional sound that has a lot going on in the 300-Hz range. If it were only those two sounds, I'd EQ out some 3 kHz in the 300-Hz-type sound. And in my thin lead, I'd make sure there were no 300 Hz sounds. This way, the two would fit together like the pieces of a puzzle. Group them in one channel, put a little bit of compression in there as glue, and they'll operate as one unit.
You’ve mentioned the importance of testing out your sub levels on club systems. Do you have any advice for those who don't have access to big stacks on a regular basis? Cheaper monitors with ported bass cavities can confuse your perception of the low end, so perhaps a good pair of headphones are more appropriate.
I produce everything on my SOL Republic Calvin Harris XC headphones. Even in the studio! So yes, I'm very much a headphones type of producer. You know what? Over almost two decades of producing music, I've developed such sensitive ears that I can't deal with the “sweet spot” in a studio environment. To me, having a sweet spot in a room means that if I move my head, the sound will change. My whole mix will sound different all of a sudden! I can't deal with that anymore. This gets eliminated by using headphones. Afterwards it's good to check on any system you can. On your laptop speakers, in your car, on your phone.
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One main thing I do on my headphones in order not to lose track of excessive frequencies is to constantly A/B test my production with professional tracks that I know sound good everywhere. Those tracks are the law, your maps, your guidelines to a great sound.
So how they sound on your headphones is how your track should sound on headphones as well. On headphones, mixing in mono is key though! I always say: “Mono is the truth.”
The stereo image of a track can easily fool your ears. So basically I put everything in stereo at the very end of finishing off a track.
How do you keep in touch with the energy levels required in the club when you're sitting in your studio? For some it's easy to lose perspective when you're on your own trying to imagine what's going to work for a crowd.
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Absolutely, so that's why I can't stress enough that you need to keep comparing your work to tracks that you know sound good in a club. That's your guideline. If your tracks sound more subby, more mid-rangey or more intense than those guide tracks, you'll know you'll have some very wrong and harmful frequencies when you’re playing in the club.
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Keep up with Laidback Luke on his website and Soundcloud