Tutorial: Using Sounder to Create Generative Music with Ableton Live

You can use Sounder to create cool ambient or generative music with Ableton Live as the sound source in Windows.

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Tags:

• ambient
• sounder
• ableton
• live
• generative
• music
• synthesizer
• computer

[jackrealdrummer]

Lots of musicians use it; give it a try with the free demo. @Mathadar, you can run it in Windows 7 64-bit, I believe, as long as you get the settings right.

[ginorgans]

Hey, I really liked the free trial. I'd like to purchase the software some place other than the store linked from your website. Could you possibly sell it through PayPal?

Thanks!

[jackrealdrummer]

Glad you like it! That store is the only way I handle sales at this time though. Did you have trouble with them?

[cenglish222]

is there a way that you could make Sounder work with not the device pitch trigger, but say one of the modulation properties? Perhaps a person could have a static drone note on a synth and you could set up Sounder to generate on the mod wheel or a filter pass, etc. --- is this possible?

[jackrealdrummer]

Right now it only sends out note values, but I wonder if you might find a utility that could map those to continuous control messages instead. I haven't tried. Great idea though!

[HotSaucinBoss]

hey jack, have a question bout recording audio using ableton7, when i talk into the mic theres a delay in with i hear it out of the speakers, while recording tryin to sync with music the delay throws me off big time, it seems like u dont have that problem, do u know what i can do to correct this problem?

[jackrealdrummer]

That delay is called latency, and is dependent on the type of audio interface you're using. I'm afraid that's an issue to take up with Ableton, perhaps in the users groups around that program.

[beku73]

this is not for musicians

[Mathadar]

if it worked for Windows 7 x64 then I would use it.

[zaerkus]

@HotSaucinBoss You must read info about "asio driver soft" to try to handle zero latency in your PC.

[soundsketcher]

If only there was a Mac version!

[elARTEdelPOOP]

DOPE MAN =^)

[faunflynn]

This is interesting.

You could get it to engender successive intervals rather than notes, But this is very cool indeed. Beautiful work, especially the scene shifts.

Thanks so much ,

[OfficialNeilGard]

The Drop

[liquidsounddestructi]

I would love to try this out, but am on vista 64 and it just will not work or install :(

Have tried compat mode using windows 98 and windows xp but no joy.

any ideas?

[ginorgans]

Not really trouble, I just noticed the page where you enter credit card info isn't encrypted.  I worry about such things.