In addition to announcing Ableton Live 9, Ableton today announded Push – a new hardware instrument designed to solve an old problem: how to make a song from scratch. Ableton describes Push as “a new instrument that solves an old problem: how to make a song from scratch. With hands-on control of melody and harmony, beats,… Read More Ableton Push Controller For Live 9
Ableton Live 9 appears to be coming soon – because video and images of the updated DAW have leaked to the Internet. Above, a preview of Ableton Live 9’s ‘Glue Compressor’, developed with partner Cytomic. According to Ableton, it sounds good on everything, but is especially useful for drum tracks or ‘tightening up’ a whole… Read More Ableton Live 9 Lives! (Sneak Preview)
Ableton Live: How To Use Instrument Racks | WinkSound was uploaded by: WinkSound
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AfroDJMac has released a new Ableton Live Collection created from tuned metallic wind chimes, WindChime Synths: The Ableton Live Pack includes 5 Instrument Racks, 4 Drum Racks, 4 Effect Racks, plus 10 additional presets. These Ableton Racks are quite diverse and easily manipulated with macro knobs. A couple of the instruments use wind chime samples… Read More WindChime Synths For Ableton Live
Producer Francis Preve let us know that he’s put together a new free library of synth patches for Ableton Live, featuring the sound of the Roland SH-101 synthesizer. Here’s what Preve has to say about these Simpler instruments: SH101 Saw – Basic single oscillator SH-101 sawtooth. SH101 Square – Basic single oscillator SH-101 square wave.… Read More Free Roland SH-101 Synth Patches For Ableton Live
AfroDJMac has gone MacGyver this week, creating a free instrument for Ableton Live that’s based on the sound of a rubberband – as demonstrated by his cat in this video. Here’s what he’s got to say about this bizarre creation: AfroDJMac here, writing about my 65th free Ableton Instrument. It was made by recording a rubber… Read More Free Instrument Features The Sound Of A Rubberband, Played By A Cat
This tutorial, via AfroDJMac,looks at side chaining the gate in Ableton Live: Ableton Live‘s Gate effect is super useful for cutting out unwanted noises and cleaning up tracks. Basically, the gate stays closed, preventing sound from passing through, until the volume reaches a certain threshold. At that point the sound is allowed to pass through. The… Read More Side Chain The Gate In Ableton Live
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This reader video tutorial takes a look at using side-chain compression in Ableton Live with hardware, in this case a pair of Korg Electribes: Just wanted to share with you all my technique for doing side-chain compression on Electribes by running them thru Ableton Live. I use a combination of Audio and MIDI routing for… Read More Side-Chaining Electribes In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Tutorial: XSSR Academy instructor Alex Mars is back with another Ableton Live tutorial, exclusively for Synthtopia readers. Drums are among the most important components of any electronic dance track. Powerful, punchy kick combined with a good rocking percussion can work wonders – and this is particularly noticeable in the house and techno music, where… Read More How To Make House Drums In Ableton Live
