On March 8, International Women’s Day, there will be two workshops happening as part of the Reflecting Perspectives event at ://about blank in Berlin. One is an introductory workshop for Ableton Live, the other focuses on PR for artists.
“Chord Machine” comes in a variety of two Max for Live devices. The original one is a chord sequencer with 4 different parameters made for the Monome 256. “Chord Machine Midi” is a MIDI effect version for everyone who doesn’t
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.
The written version of this tutorial is the first and most visited post on Sonic Bloom. For all of you who prefer to watch tutorials, I’ve made a video tutorial about it.
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
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
Here’s another brand new “Ableton Live Insider Tips” episode. This one shows you a neat little shortcut to quickly adjust the Q value of the EQ Eight.
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”.
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
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.
Did you know that you can quickly copy the envelope of an Operator oscillator to another? Here’s how…
Want to start Global Record from Ableton Push? How about touch-sensitive step sequencers? “Push Script Mods” by nativeKontrol offers that and a bit more. And it’s free.
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