Explore Auto Filter, Roar, MIDI Tools and More with ELPHNT

Learn how to build distinctive grooves, experiment with Live’s distortion tools, generate chord progressions with MIDI devices, turn loops into full tracks, and much more in this series of video tutorials by ELPHNT – made in collaboration with MusicRadar. 

Create stereo width and groove with Auto Filter

Use Auto Filter’s updated modulation controls and characterful filter modes to add French house-inspired groove, crunch and stereo movement to your tracks.

Add punch and grit with distortion tools

Explore surprising sound design techniques with Live’s distortion tools: create gritty kick drums with Pedal, dubby delays with Roar, add lush modulated noise to synths with Erosion, and more.

Turn a loop into a full track with Session View

Sketch arrangements in Live’s Session View and quickly turn a four-bar loop into a finished track (or two!).

Create advanced chord progressions with MIDI effects

Use Live’s Expressive Chords device and other MIDI effects to explore and improvise with chord progressions.

Generate melodies with MIDI Tools and sequencers

Learn how to generate and transform melodic patterns in real time with MIDI Tools like Seed, Shape, and Recombine, or with acid-happy Max for Live sequencers like Sting.