Want a good reason to use Ableton? Here's one!

Ableton and Serato -- two of the biggest names in live music production -- have been working in stealth mode over the past year to create what they've been billing as "the future of digital DJing," and today that new product has been revealed as The Bridge. Basically, you've got a thin layer of software that sits between full versions of both Serato Live (or Itch) and Ableton Live that allows output from both products to flow into the other -- DJ sets can be imported into Ableton with full control over effect parameters, tempo, pitch, and so on, and Ableton instruments can sit inside a Serato session. It's an interesting advancement, and the way the companies are talking, this is just the first in a string of products of the partnership; the good news is that The Bridge will be free to owners of both products, but unfortunately there's no release date yet, so raves are going to have to soldier on using last year's technology for at least a while longer. Hang tight, we're told it's "coming soon."

Here's a demo video they put up, it's not the greatest but it will give you a feel of what this can do. Unfortunately one of dude's mics is absolute shit!

Logic 9 Shortcuts Brought to You by AudioTuts+

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Here is a sweet little compilation of the shortcut commands for logic 9. Yes I realize these can be found in the manual but I figured this as good as any time to put ya'll on to their site!


Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
You can see all of Logic’s keyboard shortcuts in the Keyboard Manager. I’m listing them here because there are so many, you many have trouble figuring out which ones to memorize. The follow shortcuts are the ones that will really make working with your projects much quicker. Secondly, you can print this reference out and look at it as you use Logic — as far as I’m aware there’s no keyboard shortcut cheat sheet that comes with Logic.

We won’t cover the standard File menu shortcuts that you should know from using computers in general, though I will reiterate that Cmd+S is the shortcut to save your project and you should make it a goal to get this shortcut to become a subconscious habit so you’re saving your work all the time and don’t need to think about doing it.

Record Enable Track: Ctrl+R
Record: R
Toggle Mute Track: Ctrl+M
Toggle Solo Track: Ctrl+S
Play/Stop: Space
Rewind: ,
Fast Rewind: Shift+,
Forward: .
Fast Forward: Shift+.
Create Marker: Ctrl+K
Rename: Cmd+Return
Toggle Cycle Mode: C
Open Mixer: Cmd+2
Open Arrange: Cmd+1
Close Window: Cmd+W
Toggle Bin: B
Bounce: Cmd+B
Zoom Window: Shift+Cmd+M
Import Audio: Shift+Cmd+I
Learn New: Cmd+L (for learning hardware controller signals)
Toggle Zoom: Z
Quantize Selected Events: Q
Select Previous Region: Left Arrow
Select Next Region: Right Arrow
Select Previous Track: Up Arrow
Select Next Track: Down Arrow
New Track: Option+Cmd+N
New Track with Duplicate Settings: Cmd+D
Hide/Show Track Automation: A
This is by no means a comprehensive listing of shortcuts. It’s not meant to be — these are the ones that are actually useful in a day-to-day project setting, with none of the more obscure and less useful shortcuts in the way