Humanize Your Drums: Four Videos to Help You Swing
Four video tutorials that show approaches to humanizing your drums and introducing swing in Ableton Live.
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Slices, Samples and Layers – Inside the Track with TecBeatz
Atlanta to LA producer TecBeatz breaks down his workflow on Push and provides a free downloadable Live Set of chopped samples, drums and synths
Beat Tools: A Creative Toolkit for Beatmaking
Beat Tools: complete toolkit for beatmaking, now included with Push and Live 9 Suite. Drum kits, instruments, loops and effects – all primed for hands-on play.
Christopher Tignor: Risk and Reward
Composer, violinist, and programmer Christopher Tignor on his live performance and composition process. Free download of custom Max for Live devices included.
Nick Hook: Collaborator In Chief
Producer Nick Hook talks about collaborating with Run The Jewels, Azealia Banks, Action Bronson, Novelist and others from his New York studio.
Bonobo: The Path to Migration
Bonobo talks to Ableton about the Migration album, his sampling techniques, workflow and career evolution.
12 Live Packs are Now Available for Intro Users
12 Ableton Live Packs are now available for Live intro. Check out the full list of Intro-ready sounds, tools and instruments designed for Live.
Searching for Sound: Return to Palenque with Simón Mejía
Colombia’s Simón Mejía shares a free library of tropical samples and remix stems collected as part of Red Bull’s Searching for Sound documentary series
Los Guaqueros: 100 Years of Sampling
Los Guaqueros on sampling their way through 100 years of Colombia’s recorded musical history in their experimental audio-visual collage La Tragedia Rustica
Hypermorph: Mutating and Evolving Sounds at Your Control
Hypermorph by Sonic Faction: Mutating and evolving sounds at your control
Insights and Inspiration: Five of our Favorites from 2016
Our favorite 2016 articles, artist features and movies include production insights from Grimes, free sounds, strategies for collaboration and more.
Searching for Sound: Listening to Bombay with Sandunes
Bombay, India’s Sandunes shares a free library of samples she collected as part of Red Bull’s Searching for Sound documentary series
Searching for Sound: Mitya explores Tatarstan
Kazan, Russia’s Mitya Burmistrov shares a free library of samples he collected as part of Red Bull’s Searching for Sound documentary series
Push Performances: Five of our Favorites
We selected our five favorite Ableton Push performances from the past 12 months.
A look back at Loop 2016
Images and quotes from Loop 2016 including participants DJ Jazzy Jeff, Lee Scratch Perry, Daedelus, Fatima al Qadiri, Elysia Crampton and others
Marc Houle Presents Buji Tek: A Free Live Set of Techno Tools
Marc Houle shares a free Live Set full of beats, bass lines, and breakdowns perfect for adding extra punch to your tech-house tracks.
Copy Right: Imitation, Inspiration, and Creativity
Imitation as a tool for learning often gets overlooked in the rush for originality. We look at sampling, editing and copying techniques as a path to creativity.
A Brief History of The Studio As An Instrument: Part 3 - Echoes From The Future
Part 3 of A Brief History of The Studio As An Instrument features King Tubby, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Conny Plank, and Patrick Cowley and other audio pioneers