Oblique Strategies No. 26
Limit yourself.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
March 2, 2015
Limit yourself.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
EaselWeasel 1 contains three fully macro mapped Instrument Racks for Ableton Live 9 and up: fat bass lines, spheres and melodies, brassy.
Salami Division by skinnerbox is for all of you who like slicing to MIDI, but would like more extensive features. The Max for Live MIDI effect adds things like sample-hotswap and a dynamic slice number. And if you use Push
Did you know that you can lock automation envelopes to the song position? This can be useful when you want to replace a clip in the arrangement, but retain the various automations in this part. Here’s how it works:
Alias Clips is a Max for Live device that brings the functionality of what are commonly called “alias clips, ghost clips, mirroring” etc. to Ableton Live. It can be a real timesaver when you’re working with plenty of small MIDI
We’ve all come across videos in which someone creates a track on the fly against the clock. First it was an hour, then increasingly less time. And quite frankly, most of them are more like sketches or demos, unfinished and
Look at the Spectrum.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
If you’re like me and spend a considerable time of music production in the Arrangement View and have an Ableton Push, this Max for Live device is for you. It basically gives you an additional Arrangement Mode on Push, which
This episode of the “Ableton Live Quick Tips” shows you a little trick to quickly change clip parameters of grouped clips at once on a per scene basis. This can be especially helpful when preparing a live performance set.
If glitch is your thing and you always wanted to be able to manipulate audio on the fly, then Grooveslice could get you quite excited. It functions as a parametric delay with separate parameters for recording and playback, and gives
Don’t forget the dynamics.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
I’ve seen quite a lot of questions about the exact modules that are included in OSCiLLOT by Max for Cats. Here’s the module list of the v.1.0 release (click on the module group titles for more information on the individual modules).
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