LiveCut
Livecut is based on BBCut the BreakBeat Cutting library written by Nick Collins for SuperCollider
The BBCut Library began out of work on an algorithm to simulate the automatic cutting of breakbeats in the style of early jungle or drum and bass Nick Collins.
Livecut is only a small subset of what is possible with BBCut, but as it is available as a VST plugin, it is much easier to start experimenting with it.
It is a live beat-slicer but instead of manipulating equal chunks of audio like most beatslicer do, it works on the notion of audio cuts whose length and number of repetition depends on the context and the cutting procedure. cuts are organized in blocks which then form a phrase. see Image below. And each phrase can be ended by a roll or fill.
Downloads:
- LiveCut-0.9.dll.zip win32 VST 2.4 Not Backward compatible
- LiveCut-0.9.dmg Universal Binary for VST 2.4 and AudioUnit Not Backward compatible. The AudioUnit version now works on MacIntel.
Documentation
Livecut page on the mdspedia wiki documentation
Press
- MusicTech magazine april 2006, page 29-30
It seems that LiveCut isn't a very unique name so if you were after live concerts or video editing, maybe you'll find what you were looking for on one of those 2 sites:
http://www.livecut.com/ or http://livecut.sourceforge.net/
Labels: Livecut
35 Comments:
I love you... really I do... As much as one man can possibly love another man without getting in trouble with his girlfriend.
Keep up the great work!
I'll send you some recordings after our next gig.
Very good job!!!
i'm waiting for the 1.0
salut!
on s'est vu sur l AES vendredij'y etait en tant qu exposant egalement pour A-volute qui fait du son 3D (et pas binaural)(on a egalement parler de musique venetian snares...)et tu m a conseiller de jeter un oeil a ton plugin et franchement il est terrible!!!!
1000 merci mec fini de devoir slicer mes breaks pendant des heures!
Et comme tu me l a dis:ne fait plus que des plug-in et ne perd pas de temps a composer ca nous fera plus de plugins!
Ameucaoboy.
hehe,
je savais que çà te plairais :)
peut-etre à mardi si tu peux passer au technical tour à l'ircam.
a+
remy
Hey,
I just started using LiveCut. I'm so glad there are people like you out there putting this stuff together. Fantastic!
I just sent you the balance of my paypal account. It isn't much, but I just wanted to say thanks.
So...THANKS!
:D
amazing! nice work and thank you!
Yes! Finally.....how long have we been waiting for another update.....getting closer to 1.0..........hell yes!
Shouts, DRONE
Absolutely brilliant. Thanks!
Hi just tested your plug in logic 7.2 on a macbook but i crashes the au validation.
Is mise an madra mor. Ta liathroidi mor agam. Go hana maith. Ca bhuil in leithreas.
Go raibh maith agat!
yessss! audio unit version. you rule. this plug kicks so much ass!
sure your only an oul bollox
great again mdsp
hope version 1.0 will be end of the year at this ryhtm of works
salut et continue le travail de cette qualité
;)
alors là... je suis soufflé !
ce plugin est énorme !
c'est VRAIMENT du AFX ou du squarepusher!
reste quand même à organiser tout ça, mais en live, ça peut bien mettre le feu !
Je pense que géré par un joystick dans Bidule, c'est "show must go on !"
Merci bcp en tout cas, et félicitations
You DID IT!!! Yeah! Thanks for the AU Version...!
u guys have done it again. thanks you SO much for all the hard work you put in. my understanding of my ideas mutate and grow everytime you offer your tools. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
DiRGE
Great job!
It works on logic 7.2, but apparently it's impossible to save or recall presets.
Awesome Plugin. It works fine with Ableton Live 5.2. Keep up the great work!
great plugin.. any hopes for an intel mac version soon?
I cant get this to work in Ableton 5 or Audio Mulch. Is there a minimum processor requirement? it simply dosent show in Ableton, does in Mulch but cant open it.
Que dire ? Ben oui : mille et mille merci Rémy pour ce plug absolument génial ! Voila, encore un sound-bidouilleur heureux ! Je viens de passer la journée à bosser un titre breakbeat avec Livecut que je découvre, et c'est ENORME ! Tout ce dont j'ai pu réver depuis des années pour bidouiller des boucles est là dans Livecut !
Et puis avec l'enregistrement de l'automation en plusieurs passes, on arrive à des choses vraiment géniales question arrangement.
Juste un problème de sauvegardes de presets (dommage... obligé de faire des captures d'écrans pour garder ces précieuses heures de bidouilles :-), pour info sur Win XP, SX3.
Bien à toi, et encore MERCI ! ;-)
JC
http://mp3.deepsound.net
this vst isnt realy all that great. i couldnt see myself usueing this in any of my music. no one on warp would waste their time with it either. if all these people think this thing is so awsome, heres a hint: go out and pick yourself up a copy of native instruments reaktor 5. the only vst FX plugin ive ever seen even half worth useing is glitch. vst FX mostly suck. this thing sounds like a bent walmart toy. def not worthy to appear in any real idm or electronic tracks. just sounds cheap.
this is an awesome plug in - merci beaucoup :)
i was working on a live set and looking for a beat repeat/chopper kind of thing.. besides the usual glitch (which i find abit too uncontrolabble/random for me live except for very sparse fx)
with abit of tweaking i had the livecut set up very nicely on my drums submix doing really nice cuts and edits which i was very happy with :)
anyway - this is a mp3 of a rehearsal i did for my gig - it's abit crazy and random as i was jamming around allover the place.. i'll post the proper mix once i've finished editing it
http://www.landofworms.co.uk/mp3upload/tekkaz2197%20-%20ShADOWLANdZ%20PA%20_test%20run_.mp3
all done on live 5.2 with a korg microkontrol for knobtwiddling,track selection,mutes,activating fx,eq cuts,crossfading etc etc..
again - thanks for making such a usefull little plug - cheers :)
LiveCut 0.9 Audio Unit Validation crashes. Tested on MacBook Pro, MacOS 10.4.7.
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AU Validation Tool
Version: 1.1.2c11
Copyright 2003-4, Apple Computer, Inc.
Specify -h (-help) for command options
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VALIDATING AUDIO UNIT: 'aufx' - 'lvct' - 'MDSP'
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Manufacturer String: Mdsp @ Smartelectronix
AudioUnit name: LiveCut
Component Info: AU version of LiveCut from Smartelectronix
Component Version: 1.0.0 (0x10000)
Component's Bundle Version: 1.0.0
* * PASS
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TESTING OPEN TIMES:
COLD:
AU VALIDATION CRASHED.
thanks so much... finally works with Logic... !!!!!!
The plugin sounds really good.. it actually generates EXACTLY the kind of sounds that I'm looking for...
BUT...
It's random, I need 100% control over what it's doing. Does anyone know how to manually do this kind of thing. The extremely fast repetitions that it produces seem difficult to achieve manually... especially when programming drum patterns. Simply repeating a particular drum hit by drawing it in the sequencer multiple times just doesn't give the same sound as this plugin. Would anyone like to share any words of wisdom about manually producing these kinds of sounds?
Thanks for doing it. But as someone else said there are still some problems with Logic Pro 7.2.2
- presets saving does not work correctly (some parameters seem to be saved, others not)
- most important: sometimes, randomly (I still did not get when exactly it happens), it "dies". I mean it stops making sound (so the track becomes silent if it's the only insert plug), so the only chance is to delete it from the insert and put it again. Just bypassing and reactivating it is not enough.
OH MY GOD!
Thank you SO much for doing this!
Ooooh, the joy...
REALLY GREAT WORK!
So sad only because on Logic 7.2.2 PowerMac G5 DualCore OSX 10.4.7 i cant save my own preset... SAVE FUNCTION NOT WORK... :((((((
Fix soon as possible! Pleaseeeeeeeeee!!!!! ;)
saving/loading presets is fixed
it makes some interresting sound, but is unusable because you don't know what really happens. If you ever used Artillery to cut your beats with your keyboard you know what beat cutting can be.
it changed my music! =D
This is one of the coolest plugins I have ever come across, free or commercial. It is fantastic for adding interest to loops in real time. The trouble is, I often times experience the plugin stopping the audio stream (I know its the plugin because audio returns when bypassed). Perhaps the problem is with Ableton Live, but I can't imagine a better host for using this particular plugin...
Hey man!!..Kick ass Plugin!! works well on logic 8 :)..cant wait for ver 1.0..i hope u guys can kick that dblue's ass and release one better than that Glitch Plugin :)
Ce plug est l'un des plus utiles que j'aie jamais entendus... ca donne sur les beats, les nappes de synthés, les voix et tout ca donne la dynamique dont un live electronique peut manquer vu le nombre de trucs a gerer...
merci pour ce projet...
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