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Shove Lemur from an iPad on a Mac

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Adapted from this Windows tutorial…

It is much the same procedure but as the Mac speaks fluent MIDI there is no need to add anything.

Ingredients:

A Mac
Ableton Live
iPad
Lemur app
Shove template
ClyphX/Push folders
(Requires a RAR Unpacker if you do not have one)

Procedure:

Right click on the Ableton Live icon and select Show Package Contents

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Drill down to the MIDI Remote Scripts folder

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MIDIrem

Rename the Push folder as Original_Push

Unpack the RAR file containing the ClyphX/Push folders and put those folders in the MIDI Remote Scripts folder

If your WiFi network is liable to interference/lag you should create an ad-hoc network. The video below just connects via the regular WiFi network.

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In the iPad’s WiFi settings select your ad-hoc network if you created one

Start the Lemur app and load the Shove template from the Lemur editor on the Mac

In the Mac’s MIDI/Audio set up Utility select the Network button

Connect the iPad to the Session

Open Ableton Live and then its Preferences

Select Push and Cyphx as Input Devices and the network session as Input and Output

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Shove away…

Ray Collins

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Ray Collins November 19, 1936 – December 24, 2012

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Once upon a time there was a band called The Soul Giants. After their guitar player quit the band’s vocalist, [wikipop search=”Ray Collins (rock musician)”]Ray Collins[/wikipop], asked a guy called [wikipop]Frank Zappa[/wikipop] to join the band. The band’s name was subsequently changed to [wikipop]The Mothers[/wikipop] and the rest is history…

Collins had been working as a vocalist during the late 1950s and early 1960s adding his high backing vocals to I Remember Linda by Little Julian Herrera and the Tigers…

He had featured on recordings made by Paul Buff at his [wikipop]Pal Recording Studio[/wikipop] which Buff would later sell to Zappa, who renamed it Studio Z, and the rest is history…

Here is Collins singing Deserie…

…which he would later record with The Mothers (having frequently been in and out of the band) for Cruising with Ruben and The Jets…

It was the How’s Your Bird that he recorded as Baby Ray and The Ferns…

that Zappa was promoting with his performance on bicycle on [wikipop]The Steve Allen Show[/wikipop] in 1963…

Dave Brubeck

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Dave Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012)

A 1964 video of Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello performing Take Five (written by Desmond) which had been a recent visitor to the “pop hit parade” as presented by Steve Race in those distant black and white days when presenters, performers and audience wore shirts and ties.

 

The 1971 fight (or is it sex?) between the piano and drums at the Newport Jazz Festival from The Last Set At Newport is a favourite version…