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Metronope: Free Max for Live Effect to Automatically Turn off the Metronome

Here’s a handy little Max for Live effect by Tom Cosm. ‘Metronope’ lets you set the numbers of bars after which the metronome will turn itself off.

February 13, 2014

The Computer Keyboard as a MIDI Controller in Ableton LIve

If you don’t have a MIDI controller or not handy, you can always use the computer keyboard as one in Ableton Live.

February 11, 2014

Free Ableton Live Pack “Rub-A-Dub/SnowStep” (No. 26)

It’s winter here in Berlin and quite dark, grey and grim. The perfect time to create a winter themed Live Pack. “Rub-A-Dub/SnowStep” contains two fully macro mapped Drum Racks, one made with sounds of hands rubbed together to keep them

February 5, 2014

J74 HarmoTools – Free Max for Live Devices for MIDI Harmonising

Fabrizio Poce is well known under his moniker J74 in the Max for Live scene and I’ve written about some of his devices before. While most do cost a little, they’re really fantastic (check them out) and must have taken

February 3, 2014

Quickly Set the Q in Ableton Live’s EQ Eight (Video Tut)

New Ableton Live Insider Tip: discover a quick shortcut to adjust the Q value in EQ Eight for faster, precise equalising in your mixes.

January 30, 2014

Hiding Jekyll Remix Competition – Prizes by Ohmforce, Sonic Charge, Fabfilter & XILS-Lab

If you want to practise and fine-tune your remixing skills and possibly win some nice prizes, have a look at the remix competition for Hiding Jekyll’s minimal house track “Lable Tennis”.

January 29, 2014

ImpulseDuo: Drag & Drop Impulse to Drum Rack

A while ago I posted a video explaining how you can quickly convert an Impulse preset into a Drum Rack. Eric, on the Ableton forum known as 8MoreBits, has shared his workaround with me. ImpulseDuo is a Drum Rack that

January 24, 2014

Free Max for Live Phase Distortion Synth

I came across the “Phase Distortion Synth” because Christian Kleine excitedly told me about it. The Max for Live Instrument is a polyphonic wavetable synthesiser which uses various techniques of phase distortion in a feedback loop.

January 22, 2014