Surreal Machines Releases Dub Machines Delay Effects

Surreal Machines,a new company co-founded by Ableton’s Matt Jackson and collaborator Pete Dowling, has released Dub Machines – Analog Echoes in Live, a new pack of two Max for Live delay effects, Magnetic and Diffuse. Modeled on classic tape-echo machines, Magnetic features multiple physical tape models and three virtual tape heads to choose from. Using… Read More Surreal Machines Releases Dub Machines Delay Effects

Pantha du Prince + The Bell Laboratory Do Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ (Behind The Scenes Documentary)

This morning Ableton debuted its new documentary, featuring Hendrik Weber, aka Pantha du Prince, collaborating with The Bell Laboratory in a performance of Terry Riley‘s seminal minimal composition, In C, at London’s Barbican Theatre. Riley’s In C, composed in 1964, consists of 53 musical phrases, to be played by any number of people on any… Read More Pantha du Prince + The Bell Laboratory Do Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ (Behind The Scenes Documentary)

Liquid Notes For Live Lets You Reconstruct Your Music On The Fly

Re-Compose has introduced Liquid Notes for Live – a MIDI effect that plugs directly into Ableton Live (using Max for Live) and lets you reconstruct your music on the fly: Edit your clips by making adjustments to the vertical sliders (chord function) and rotary knobs (chords, tension) while playing your song in Live. The changes become… Read More Liquid Notes For Live Lets You Reconstruct Your Music On The Fly

Free Ableton Live Rack

Audiomodern has release Snare Comp [Rack] – a free download for Ableton Live. The free Live rack is described as ‘a hard snare compressor’. To download, see the Audiomodern site. If you’ve tried it, leave a comment with your thoughts on it!