
Autosputter – Free Max for Live Glitch Stutter Effect
After a fairly long break due to ongoing health issues I’m back with regular posts about cool new Max for Live devices. A lot of them free. Autosputter by ldmdevices is one of them. It’s got a design more in

10 Hidden Features in Ableton Live with Options.txt
It’s been quite a while since I made these video tutorial about all the extra features you can unlock with the help of the Options.txt in Ableton Live. Back then they made a huge splash. You may already know them,

Lots of Push Improvements with Ableton Live 9.6.2 Update
The latest update for Ableton Live was quietly released and it brings a host of improvements for Ableton Push. Things like Scales Layout settings being stored within a Live Set, but lots of small, but incredible workflow changes. It is now possible

Free Fairlight CMI Live Pack Bundle (10 Packs)
The Fairlight CMI is legendary. So it wasn’t very surprising that the Ableton Live Simpler presets I made with all the sounds of the model CMI IIx made quite a splash. Back then I released them as 10 individual Live

Oblique Strategies No. 51
Is it human enough?
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.

Color Bots by Diego Stocco – Fantastic Sound Design Tool For Ableton Live
Some of you may already be aware of Diego Stocco’s work for Spectrasonics, various scores and his own idiosyncratic compositions. Now he’s developed a Live Set called Color Bots with a new technique he calls Adaptive Tonal Processing. A combination

Your Track Imagined as a Story or Character
This music production tip is going to be a bit different from what you’d expect. This is less about how to make something sound good, but more about looking at a piece of music from a different perspective. And using

The Guide to Ableton Live File Formats
When I was asked about the different files types in Ableton Live in two consecutive Skype one-to-one sessions recently, I figured that it might be useful to write a tutorial about them. Because admittedly, there are quite a lot of

Oblique Strategies No. 50
Be inconsistent.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
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