#Phoscyon ableton software#

We were able to have Ableton do some customization and build a special version, which did special MIDI functionality, sending out MIDI triggers when audio clips were triggered and changed. I turned to it a lot last year because I was doing the Plastikman live show. The last few years it progressed into adding a couple of sound effect clips to add things on the top, and then in the last year or so, really building up my Live Sets into full-on DJ type sets. It was basically just a more efficient and more flexible way to carry effects possibilities rather than just carry, say, a Lexicon or Yamaha effects box. My first use of Live was just as an external signal processor where I would load different plug-ins and route different things from my DJ mixer into Live and back out, setting it up in such a way that I could set up feedback loops and do some interesting things. When the first version came out, I was doing this Decks, Efx & 909 show I was carting around some external effects boxes and effects pedals and using them to add in different effects over my DJ mixes. It's kind of progressed over the last two or three years. I didn't start using it immediately on the road or anything, but I was definitely just experimenting with it and seeing what kind of power it had. I was probably one of the first beta testers to get onboard, having known some of the guys at Ableton, and I got straight into it. I think two months later a program called Ableton Live came out. I finished my last Decks FX 9 album Re-edit, and the whole idea of the album was that, in the future, people would be cutting all the tracks down into loops and recreating them and building them into new compositions. Hawtin took time to talk to Ableton about his inventive Live sets, innovative DJ technology and the future of music. His recordings are released under many monikers, most notoriously as Plastikman and F.U.S.E., and he has created, remixed and spun minimal techno heavily influenced by Detroit techno with a touch of Chicago acid.

#Phoscyon ableton software#

Armed with Ableton Live and Touch software alongside Serato Scratch LIVE and a custom Allen & Heath mixer, Hawtin has created a multimedia show with a high level of hands-on involvement. As an early adopter of new technology, Richie Hawtin has always had the latest gear running to take his live shows in futuristic directions.