Tutorials Free Live Pack with Royalty-Free Sounds from Spektre and Loopmasters One of the best ways to improve your own tracks is to look at how another artist's tracks come together. With that in mind, Ableton artists Spektre and our friends at Loopmasters assembled Spiral Pulse, an exclusive and unreleased full track, available as a free Live Pack. Take a look ...
Remove Stop Buttons in Session View - New Tutorial from Thavius Beck Do you want to trigger a new Scene in Live without affecting all tracks? Continuing his "Did You Know?" series of Ableton Live tips, Thavius Beck shares this tutorial video about removing stop buttons in Live's Session View: More info at Dubspot
Ambivalent Beats - new Lemur-ready Max for Live Drum Machine and Samples Minus-artist Ambivalent, in partnership with Liine, has contributed samples to a new free Max for Live drum machine, Ambivalent Beats. The device comes tailor-made for use with Liine's Lemur controller app for iOS, and comes with a set of Ambivalent's drum sounds to get you started. Learn more about Ambivalent ...
Sidechain Compression as a DJ Tool - New Tutorial from Jonny Miller Sidechain compression is a pretty common production technique, and is often used to add some movement to one part, or to prevent two parts from battling over the same frequency range. In a new tutorial, Point Blank instructor Jonny Miller proposes another use for sidechain compression - transitioning in a ...
DubZilla - Free Operator Rack from AbletonOp AbletonOp's latest free Rack is a wild synth capable of a diverse range of sound. Featuring Operator, plus a host of custom Rack effects to distort, warp and delay the sound, DubZilla is true to its name. Make standard dub-techno chords or go nuts with endless echos. Check out some ...
Impulse and Twitch - Advanced Novation Controller Mappings for Live Our friends at Novation have a couple recently-released controllers that play very well with Ableton Live. First up, the Impulse keyboard: Additionally, the Novation Twitch DJ controller can control Live easily, using the Live Twitch Translator (download it here). Check out a tutorial of the set up: Lastly, here's controllerist ...
Create Digital Music on "Max for Live Gems" As Create Digital Music blogger Peter Kirn notes, Max for Live "has played host to a growing wave of brilliant custom tools – enough so that it can be hard to keep track." In a new post, Peter singles out three particular devices - Clip Automation, Mapulator, and The Protoclidean ...
Hardware Friendly: Using External Instruments and Effects in Live - New MacProVideo Tutorial Ableton Live is a versatile application for a range of plugins and other hosts - it runs VST and AU plugins, and can be used as both a ReWire master and slave. Outside of the software box, Live can also incorporate external hardware instruments and effects. MacProVideo's Rory Dow takes ...
Make a Melodic Step Sequencer in Live - Two-Part Tutorial from The Ableton Cookbook If you've been making electronic music for a while, chances are you've come across a step sequencer. In these videos, Ableton Cookbook blogger Anthony Arroyo demonstrates how to make a melodic step sequencer using Live's native devices. Even if you're not sure why you'd want a step sequencer, check out ...
Special Presention - Prof. Robert Henke on "Software for Musicians" at London IET In 2012, it’s easy to take the possibilities of computer music for granted. With capabilities and processor limitations increasingly less of a question, the new frontier is in building tools that work well for making art. Professor Robert Henke, known for his music as Monolake and for his seminal role ...
Tutorials Hi-Quality EQ and Chaining Return Tracks - New Tutorials from Thavius Beck Sends and returns are pretty basic in Live - you set the level for a MIDI or Audio Track to send, and that effects how much goes through the corresponding return track. In part 3 of his series, "Did You Know", Ableton Certified Trainer and Dubspot Instructor Thavius Beck looks ...
Draw Custom Control Curves with Mapulator - Free Max for Live Device from DJ Tech Tools You're probably familiar with changing control values in real time in Live, as well as sequencing them with envelopes and automation editing. Mapulator, a new free Max for Live device from DJ Tech Tools contributor BentoSan, is a hybrid of these two methods. Set a custom control mapping (similar to ...
Deep House Chord Generator - New Tutorial and Free Rack from Ski Oakenfull Point Blank instructor Ski Oakenful is back with a tutorial on deep house chords in the style of Jimpster. Check out a video demonstrating the construction of Ski's new deep house arpeggiated chord rack: Get the Rack for free from Ski's website (requires Live 8 and Analog or Suite 8).
The Perfect Kick - Layering Tutorial from Quantize Courses For such a fundamental element of a track, a kick drum sound can be difficult to get just right. In this tutorial, Ableton Certified Trainer Keith Mills looks at how to layer kicks by treating samples at three different frequencies - resulting in just the right sound:
Explore New Scales - 40 Free Presets Ableton Live's Scale device restricts all MIDI notes to a defined scale - it's a great way to ensure that what you're playing is always in line with what you'd like. You can also use Scale to explore new scale sets, including ones you may not have experienced before. Tobi ...
More Info on ProjectSAM Orchestral Ensemble Essentials We've been pleased to see such a positive reaction since the release of our latest Partner Instrument, ProjectSAM Orchestral Ensemble Essentials (OEE). We'd like to address some questions we've received about the differences between OEE and the Ableton Orchestrial Instrument Collection (OIC). Please see the following comparisons: OEE and OIC ...