Events Ableton University Tour Are you looking to use Live for your degree? Or maybe you'd just like to explore music between classes? Get hands-on with Live 9 and Push during the Ableton University Tour. Throughout April and May the Tour will be visiting dozens of schools around the world. At each stop Ableton...
Tutorials Get That Swing: Drum Programming Tips Are your drums feeling a bit too stiff? Sometimes, that's an asset - plenty of classic electro is built on machine-perfect rhythms. But it's not for every case, and, often enough, you need a more "human" feel to your rhythm. That's where the tutorials in this post come in -...
News Drumdrops A Fistful of Drum Kits - Three Diverse Kits with Character, Plus Free Hybrid Drums A drum kit might be an essential kind of sound, but no two kits sound alike. Sometimes you need gentler taps on the drums, other times you want the smack of an overdrive kit. A Fistful of Drum Kits by Drumdrops presents three different kits, each for a different range...
Artists Tom Demac Goes Against the Clock with Push Time pressure can bring out amazing results from an artist - just ask Four Tet or Certified Trainer Michael Greig. With the series, "Against the Clock", FACT Magazine challenges musicians to make as much of a track as they can for 10 minutes.
Tutorials Free Webinars and Tutorials from Warp Academy If you're looking to learn more about Live - at any level - then you'll definitely want to check out the upcoming free webinars and currently-available free tutorials from the diverse instructors at Warp Academy. Featuring Certified Trainers Isaac Cotec, Vespers, Jake Perrine, Ian Gallagher, plus more experts, Warp Academy...
Artists Improvisation and Experimentation: Wesseltoft Schwarz Berglund With backgrounds in jazz and electronic music, Bugge Wesseltoft, Henrik Schwarz, and Daniel Berglund have individually established themselves as masters of cutting-edge improvisational music. Working together as a trio, the musicians find inspiration in experimental collaborative techniques.
Artists Push at Universities - Inspiring Performance Videos It's been inspiring to see the beautiful performances by Push players, as they've come to master the instrument. A couple recent videos from two different Universities show how musicians have made nuanced, effecting music with Push. First up, musician and biologist Omer Eilam performs "Electronic variations on a Bach Chaccone",...
Downloads Free Music from Cutting-Edge Controllerists of Warper Party For nearly a decade, Warper Party has served as a regular showcase for cutting-edge music, visual art, and performance in New York City. A number of premier controllerist musicians have played Warper Party - and many of them also appear on Comp #1, a new free compilation from the collective....
Artists Free Music from Tim Shiel When solo musician and Gotye-member Tim Shiel composed the soundtrack for the iOS game Duet, he designed one long piece of music to accompany the evolving gameplay. Telling us of his goal with the soundtrack, he reflected on designing music with a "fluidity and movement [that] often *feels* like it's...
News Darwin by Flatpack: Adapt, Evolve, Mutate Whether you need an epic sound for a beat, a deep pad for a techno track, or a suitable grandiose sound for cinema soundtracking, there’s plenty of opportunities to take advantage of lush, evolving sounds. Like its namesake, Darwin, a new Pack from Flatpack, is all about evolution - filter...
Artists Soundwalk Collective: Sonic Nomads Like the traveler who wanders through it, the audible world is itself a living, constantly changing entity. How do you capture a place, a region, a landscape in sound? To what extent is a place defined by the sounds that occur there naturally? Do the sounds made by its inhabitants’...
Tutorials Playing the Roland AIRA TR-8 with Live and Push With the release of the AIRA TR-8, Roland looks to bring the sound and feel of its classic drum machines (such as the TR-808 and TR-909) to a new piece of hardware. Working with Ableton Live and Push, you can record multitrack...
Artists Producer's Corner - The Frontliner Profiles EDM Artists We've been following The Frontliner as it's become a premier resource for the EDM world - including features and news on both established and up-and-coming artists. For an ongoing feature called The Producer's Corner, The Frontliner profiles a...
Tutorials Programming Melodies with Arpeggiator & Staying in Key - New Tutorials from Quantize Courses Live's MIDI effects are versatile on their own - and even more useful in combination. Using the Chord effect, we'd normally expect to hear a one-note chord, transposed according to the root (triggered) note. Add an Arpeggiator to the mix, however, and you get some more complex results - check...
Artists Kawehi covers "Heart Shaped Box" We've been following Kawehi for a while - the talented singer and multi-instrumentalist impressed us with her original songs and covers of the likes of Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. For her latest video, she's put her own spin on Nirvana's classic "Heart-Shaped Box". Watch and listen below: More from...
Tutorials Make a Feedback Synth Using Live's Effects - Tutorial from Skinnerbox Feedback is a pretty fascinating tool for sound design. With a tiny burst of sound and a delay with a long feedback tail, you end up with a tone that's known as Karplus-Strong Synthesis. In a new tutorial, Iftah Gabbai from Skinnerbox demonstrates how to create a feedback synth in...
