Oblique Strategies No. 67
Process through effect chains.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
October 18, 2017
Process through effect chains.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
Saving your work in Ableton Live seems easy enough to not need a tutorial, but it’s something that comes up fairly often as a problem when I’m giving lessons. This is, because the file structure Live uses is more complex
Normally, an attack time of 0 ms would create a click, which is why the attack time of compressors starts only at 0.1 ms. With this workaround, you can achieve 0 ms and thus very tight sidechain compression. This Ableton
From now until Sunday night, September 24 at midnight CET everything in the Sonic Bloom shop is 33% off. This goes for all courses, Max for Live devices, Live Packs as well as bundles. Simply add the code sale2017eur or sale2017usd (depending on the
I recently did a very interesting freelance job for the German Telekom at the IFA (a huge consumer technology tradeshow). The brief was to produce a “digital jam session” that people from the audience could join and create a good
Follow your worst impulse.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
I always keep an eye out for interesting new Max for Live devices. These four utility tools by Loptimist, who admits to being new to Max for Live development, only have one function each, but are very useful in their simplicity.
After releasing the Mellotron samples separately, I’m doing the same now with all the original Fairlight CMI samples that were previously only available in my free Fairlight CMI Live Packs, so that you can use them in any DAW that you
Switch instruments.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
DEKOBOKO凸凹FX, a Max for Live audio effect by Tokyo based Art Frequencies, combines stereo state variable filters controlled by a step sequencer with up to 32 steps for both left and right outputs, as well as a degrader. This versatile
Since I was asked quite often if the samples of the Mellotron Live Packs were also available on their own, I’m releasing them today for everyone to use. In case, you don’t know what a Mellotron is, it’s an electro-mechanical, polyphonic
As you probably already know, I’ve created a lot of free skins for Ableton Live over the years. They’re the most downloaded freebies of mine despite all the free Live Packs I’ve made. So I’ve gotten lots of comments and
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