This Friday, Point Blank Online will be holding a special session on live performance with Live -- Ableton Live Performance Masterclass: Cut-Up Tricks On The Fly. Led by Ableton expert and international DJ Steve Travell (also known as Travski), this course will showcase some of the most current Ableton Live DJ performance techniques.

Ableton Live Performance Masterclass: Cut-Up Tricks On The Fly will be held July 15, 2011 as a Livestream session, which follows other popular sessions which have thus far featured the likes of Ashley Beedle (X-Press 2), Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets), and Alex Phountzi (Greenmoney, Bugz in the Attic).

In this Livestream session, DJ Steve Travell will demonstrate DJ performance techniques in Live, using various MIDI controllers, including the Novation Launchpad, an iPhone, and even a Wii controller. According to Point Blank, Travell will show viewers the innovative ways in which these technologies are being used by laptop DJs to mash and mangle audio loops and samples into exciting live performances. Point Blank notes that you will learn how to route effects through various controllers, manipulate any parameter as you like, and create intricate electronic soundscapes that will never sound the same twice.

Overall, this session will teach beginning and advanced DJs alike how to do more than just work with two decks and a mixer.

The session will stream online on Friday, the 15th at 8 a.m. (EST). For more information on Ableton Live Performance Masterclass: Cut-Up Tricks On The Fly, visit Point Blank Online.

At pointblankonline.net, you can check out some of Point Blank's intensive, four-week courses on Ableton Live designed to get you further within the DAW. Current courses include Ableton Live - Production, Live Performance with Ableton, Dubstep Course - Ableton Live, EDM (Trance & Progressive) Course - Ableton Live, Minimal Techno Course - Ableton Live, and Mixing Dance Music Course - Ableton Live.