Downloads Free Stuff Friday: Essential Dance Music Sounds, Randomized Presets, and Sound Design Tools Here at Ableton HQ, we're on a mission to deliver free stuff to you, every Friday. What's more, we need the world to know just how diverse "free stuff" can be - it's Free Stuff for Everyone Friday, if you will. This week, we've got essential drum and effects sound...
Downloads A Tempest of Cinematic Drums Soundiron Apocalypse Percussion Elements is epic to its core - dripping with cinematic glory, it’s an onslaught of pounding orchestral bangs, resonant non-Western percussion, and more. And it’s all designed for sequencing and shaping with Live. Listen to a preview below: Want to dive deeper into Apocalypse Percussion Elements? Grab...
Artists Diggin’ In The Carts: Big Emotions With Primitive Tools Since the dawn of the eighties, video game music has been a ubiquitous staple of living rooms and arcades around the world. In fact, it might have been the music you heard most as a child; for some it was the soundtrack to growing up. The 8-bit, 16-bit and FM...
Downloads Free Stuff Friday: Commodore 64 Sounds, Analog Bass, and a Gate Sequencer With Free Stuff Friday now an established institution here in Abletonland, we’re curious to hear what you’ve made with all this stuff. So, as a B.I.G. man once said: if you don’t know, now you know: get at us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ and let us know what you’ve...
Artists Nicolas Bernier: Riding the A/V Continuum Nicolas Bernier caught our attention recently with frequencies, a stark and compelling series of installations that illuminate the continuum between light and sound. Inspired by complex theorems and presented with elegant simplicity, Bernier’s award-winning works communicate powerful concepts in a direct and tactile fashion. The latest instalment in the series...
Events Join Ableton, Dauwd, Kölsch, 4DSOUND, & More at Amsterdam Dance Event 2014 Come join Ableton at this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event for a series of workshops with artists Dauwd, Kölsch, and more, plus Certified Trainers, and hands-on stations for working with Push and Live 9 at our own ADE Playground Space. What’s...
Artists Santuri Safari: East Africa Rising A distinct musical identity is something that most musicians aspire to at some point in their growth. Usually this happens on an individual level, but occasional this drive operates collectively – helping to carve out a scene or a movement based in shared sensibilities. Rarely, however, do individuals take the...
Downloads Free Stuff Friday: Classic House Sounds, Generative Sequencing, and Instant Effect Textures Happy Free Stuff Friday! October is upon us, and as we enter the final third of 2014, there’s no slowing down with the free stuff sharing. If anything, we’re intimidated by the prospects of what’s to come for this series in 2015. This week, we’ve got classic sampled sounds from...
News Transistors, Tubes, & Beats: Vintage Drum Sounds from Goldbaby The classic sound of vintage gear is unassailable - just the right touches of harmonic saturation, unique EQ curves, a little bit of machine noise. The gear itself, however, is often temperamental, not to mention expensive. Working with an eclectic and enviable selection of vintage drum machines, synthesizers, EQs, compressors,...
Tutorials Play it Live: Tips from Certified Trainer Dan Freeman and Dubspot Ableton Live is a versatile tool for live performance - you might expect as much, given that “Live” is in the name! There are many ways to customize your performance setup with Live, however - and Certified Trainer Dan Freeman demonstrates some useful ones in a couple tutorials for Dubspot....
Artists 4DSOUND: A New Dimension While the tools to make music have evolved in leaps and bounds since the advent of electronics, it’s fair to say that listening configurations have moved at a less than revolutionary pace. Despite the emergence of professional and consumer surround-sound systems, most live performances still rely on stereo (or even...
Downloads Free Stuff Friday: Euclidean Drum Sequencing, 808 Grooves, and Samples from the Australian Bush As things get colder in our Berlin corner of the world, we’re spending more of our weekends indoors - which, coincidentally, is a perfect reason to spend more time making music. So, happy Free Stuff Friday! This week, we’ve got an intelligent drum sequencer based on a formidable piece of...
News IRCAMAX: Cutting Edge Sound Transformation in Live Since its late-’70s foundation, Paris’ IRCAM has been a center for forward-thinking electronic music research - it was with IRCAM, in fact, that Miller Puckette first developed Max. Building on this legacy, IRCAM presents IRCAMAX 1, a Pack of seven advanced Max for Live devices for transforming sounds in real-time....
Artists Recondite: Make Your Own Color Recondite In 2011 Recondite emerged from the south of Germany with a poised and elegant brand of techno. Marked by a distinctly animate emotional core, his productions blur organic and synthetic processes into a melange that has reached far beyond the narrow realms of heady, heavy techno. His releases on...
Events Ableton Day at Decibel Festival 2014 We’re excited to present a full day of seven events during this year’s dB Conference, part of Decibel Festival in Seattle, Washington. On Friday, September 26, Join artists, Certified Trainers, and educational partners for a set of workshops and performance demonstrations covering Live 9, Max for Live, Push, and more....
Downloads Free Stuff Friday: Punchy 808, House Drums Sequencer, and Generative Tones Happy Friday everyone! By now, Free Stuff Friday has become something an institution for the Ableton community - we’re thrilled to see people on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ taking to it, and love that you enjoy downloading the goods as much as we enjoy finding and sharing them. That said,...
