Downloads Experimental Scores in Ableton Live - on John Cage's Birthday Prepared instruments. Noise as music. Field recordings. Randomization. Electronics, tape machines and record players as musical instruments. Even if you have never heard his compositions, it's hard to overstate the influence John Cage has had on modern music. Looking to implement some of Cage's pioneering ideas in your own music? ...
Artists Christopher Willits on Collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto Christopher Willits and Ryuichi Sakamoto recently released Ancient Future, their second collaborative album. In assembling this album, Christopher edited his and Ryuichi's parts for all the tracks within one Ableton Live set. In this video, Christopher demonstrates how the closing track, "Completion" was assembled. Watch and learn how Ryuichi's piano, ...
Tutorials Gating 101 with Loopblog Loopmasters' Loopblog goes back to basics with this tutorial, taking a look at Live's Gate effect. While simple on the surface, there are a number of applications for Gate in Live - from cleaning up a recording to classic effects like gated reverb. Learn more at Loopblog
Tutorials Classic Bassline - Play Daft Punk's "Around the World" in Live When we last caught up with Point Blank instructor Ski Oakenfull, he was demonstrating the lush electric piano chords behin Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder's "I Can't Help It". Now, Ski's back with another classic - this time, he's tackling the funky bass line from Daft Punk's "Around the World". ...
News Explore New Worlds of Sound - Specially Priced Sample Logic Bundle Now Available Adventurous producers, take note: Until September 12, get Tronix, Acoustix and Metalix from Sample Logic for a special bundle price.Featuring nearly 6 GB of sounds, these Partner Instruments offer a diverse set of tools for any musician or sound designer. Whether you’re looking for delicate acoustic plucks, atonal industrial noise, ...
News Sasha and John Tejada on Puremagnetik Partner Instruments Until August 29, MachineKits and Retro Synths 1980s by Puremagnetik are available for a special bundle price. Read what a couple of artists had to say about these Partner Instruments. First, legendary producer and DJ Sasha weighs in on Retro Synths 1980s: “Retro Synths 1980s has some amazing pads, grimy ...
Tutorials Pogo's Movie Mashups Explained Nick Berke aka Pogo has made a name for himself creating audio/video mashups that take musical sounds from unexpected sources. In this video, Nick demonstrates his method for sampling sounds from TV and movie clips, then assembling these sounds into a mashup using Live and Audition:
Tutorials Slicing and Key-Mapping - Two New Tips from Thavius Beck Ableton Certified Trainer and Dubspot instructor Thavius Beck has been on a roll recently with his "Did You Know?" series of tutorial videos. These small tips can make a big difference in how you work with Live - here's a couple of the latest. First, double your key-mapping possibilities by ...
Tutorials Frequency Shifting for Virtual Analog Warble Sometimes the tiniest changes to a sound can really enhance it - such as when you want a subtle bit of imperfection to give a digital sound a more analog character. In this quick video tutorial, AfroDJMac demonstrates how subtle settings on Live's Frequency Shifter effect can give sound a ...
Downloads Solo with One Knob - Jazz Me, a new Max for Live Device Ableton Certified Trainer Yehezkel Raz has released a number of simple and powerful free Racks for Live on his site, 4live.me. For his latest release, he's designed a Max for Live device, "JAZZ ME", for playing notes by moving a knob. Paired with a custom version of the Max Pitchscaler ...
Downloads Short Sounds Expanded - New Free Granular Live Pack from Detunized The creative minds at Detunized are back with Blackbird, another free Live Pack. Starting with short, chirp-like samples, the granular-style effects chains of Blackbird can be sculpted into buzzing, whirring and cascading instruments. With an installation size of 1.1 MB, Blackbird has a small footprint with a large range of ...
Tutorials Ins and Outs of Multitimbral Instruments in Live Many of you have encountered multitimbral instruments in Live - these are plug-in instruments which have multiple audio outputs, and may also accept multiple MIDI inputs. While this might seem odd at first, it's quite easy to set up a template in Live to incorporate these multiple ins and outs ...
News In-depth with SonArte Crystal Sounds and Sound Objects with Huston Singletary Veteran composer, producer, sound designer and Ableton Lead Clinician Huston Singletary knows what makes for good, usable sounds. In this post, he's shared some of his experience in working with Crystal Sounds and Sound Objects by SonArte - two Ableton Partner Instruments which are available for a special bundle price ...
Puremagnetik MachineKits and Retro Synths 1980s - Synth Bundle Available Now Puremagetik’s MachineKits is a high-quality library of multi-sampled vintage drum machines, including a massively nuanced set capturing the quality of MFB Modular analog drums, plus quirky classics like the Acetone Rhythm Ace, Simmons SDS and more. Retro Synths 1980s, another Partner Instrument from Puremagnetik, features sounds from a decade that ...
Congratulations Paul Dateh - Winner of Beat the Clock After a difficult deliberation, the artist jury of M83, Junior Boys and Nosaj Thing have picked Paul Dateh as the winner of Beat the Clock. Listen to Paul’s winning entry, “16 Hours”:Stay tuned for more about Paul and his music to come on the blog. Plus, check out the 2nd ...
Tutorials Beatmaking with Found Sounds - Inspiring Idea from Point Blank Most Live users are familiar with the classic drums sounds - whether it's a pounding studio kit or tinny, popping drum machine. Point Blank instructor Ski Oakenfull challenges you to think outside the box (and inside the vending machine) when it comes to percussion sounds, in a new tutorial video ...
