FaceNav 2.0 and Ableton Live

We will be adding a bunch of videos tutorials for ways to use Ableton Live as a way to perform with music and a way to use it as a tool for music composition. There are numerous ways that the program can be used and we're going to include a bunch of tutorials different levels of knowledge of the program.

Ableton Live is a really fun program to use because you can create different blocks of music and then you can place those together to form combinations of blocks of music that can be triggered by selecting a row of items. This type of setup is shown in the video below.

Utilizing Ableton Live with Eyeplaychords is a really powerful way to create ways to play music for people with limited dexterity or upper limb impairments. You can recreate the interface creating a virtual interface using Eyeplaychords.

+In this example, instruments are being played through Ableton Live’s software.

·       The notes are being played on a custom desktop that was created using EyePlayChords written by Tobias.

·       There are lots of functions to described in the example:

o   One of the innovations that Tobias created are custom sliders where you can smile and use a slider to map to numerous controls in Ableton.

You aren't limited and you could set up a number of sliders in different ways and you could map to different control simultaneously or separately.

o    Also in the example we change instrument sounds by mapping the output of the note to Ableton to be able to change functions and change instrument sounds there's numerous different ways to change instrument sounds in Ableton.

o    The video can be the subject to many different tutorials but an individual using assistive technology can switch instruments and presets and do many different powerful things with smiling or a mouse click. These may be fun projects to explore! 

Let us know if we can share ideas.