
Oblique Strategies No. 41
Fill every beat.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.

Fill every beat.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.

Hard to believe, but Sonic Bloom already turns 3 today. A big thank you to everyone who’s been following this blog, registered or got one of my courses or Max for Live Packs by Max for Cats. Thanks as well

The Starter Kit 2 PeRColate by Maxology gives you the possiblity to explore the new physical modeling capabilities in Max 7. The PeRColate objects stem from the Synthesis Toolkit by Perry R. Cook and Gary Scavone, including physical modeling, modal,

This episode of the Ableton Live Quick Tips brings you another workflow tip in the form of a shortcut. This time I will show how you can quickly reset device parameters to their default value. This can be extremely handy

The Swooshes Live Pack is based on 31 sounds made from belts, rope, sticks and wire being swung around to create various swoosh sounds. A Drum Rack as well as a fully macro mapped Instrument Rack with added reverb and

A Max for Live user has created a huge collection of Ableton Live presets for the Max for Live instrument Opfour by Katsuhiro Chiba, a fantastic emulation of the classic FM synth TX81Z from Yamaha. It contains a total of

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.
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