Oblique Strategies No. 40
Acknowledge your usual suspects of tricks and avoid them.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
October 5, 2015
Acknowledge your usual suspects of tricks and avoid them.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
Sonic Bloom is nearing it’s third anniversary and I’ve been pretty much working non-stop. Now that I’m here on Mauritius for three months, I’m realising the toll it’s taken. So I will take some time off to be back refreshed
We all have experienced this before. We finally have time to sit down to make music and nothing comes. The creative spark is simply not there. This article tells you different approaches to overcome this creative drought.
If you often work with Live Sets that contain a lot of tracks, you should definitely add this shortcut to your workflow which allows you to quickly hide or show the overview.
Freezer and BrownStutter are two free audio effects Riccardo Marogna aka argoman that I found immensely fun and useful. Freezer is a polyphonic spectral freeze effect, BrownStutter a stutter and beat repeater effect driven by a brownian rhythm.
BOOM, like LOOPO made by rbrt23, is a distortion audio effect with an attached feedback-circuitry that can do anything from not too bad sounding drive to total destruction. You can get rather interesting sounds and sound textures out of this
In this installment of the Ableton Live Quick Tips I’ve got a handy shortcut for you to seamlessly switch between a Drum Rack and the last selected pad in it. This way you’re much faster, when you’re tweaking your drums.
In July I had introduced the Max for Live devices which are available in Max 7. As suspected, Ableton has now released a free Live Pack for precisely these devices.
For those of you interested in OSCiLLOT that weren’t quite sure if it is the right thing, I’ve got good news. Max for Cats have just released a free Lite version of it. As the name suggests, it doesn’t come
LOOPO is a MIDI effect to make recording and layering MIDI clips in Ableton Live’s Session View much simpler and more intuitive. This makes it especially useful for improvisation.
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Features 28 powerful mid/side audio effect racks for Ableton Live 12.2, each with 10 variations. From precise control in mixing to instantly giving more interest to basic sounds.
