Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga Poker Face - Live remix

I wanted to do something a bit different this time and give a demonstration of Ableton Live's stretching abilities.

As you'd know, Ableton Live has some pretty impressive time stretching and audio manipulation tools. I decided to take Christopher Walken's recent poetry reading of Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face' song and retime it. I think this really demonstrates quite how much you can stretch things around and move them. Even doing this sort of thing in Pro Tools is pretty tricky, but Ableton makes it pretty easy.

As you hear in the song, the first sample played is the way Christopher Walken actually read the text. Emphasis, spacing, and the length of words are completely different. Next I moved and stretched everything around and you can hear the new emphasis on top of Lady Gaga's voice.

Seeing as this was a pretty basic remix, I decided to throw in a bit of something else as well. Here you can hear a Yamaha WX-11 wind controller playing a Yahama VL70m sound module. This is a physically modeled sound device, and the wind controller is able to make great use of it. You can hear how the expression available with a wind controller is much more than you would get out of a keyboard. I might do a few more videos showing this unit in action!

Overview of Ableton Live Software - Part 1

This is part 1 of my breakdown of the Money for Nothing remix. It shows how everything is put together, and the way that the APC40 is controlling Live. This is a good intro for anyone who has never seen the Ableton Live interface before.