Use the Utility Effect for Better Mixing in Ableton Live
Instead of automating the track volume, you can use Ableton Live’s Utility effect. So volume is freed up for mixing.
October 24, 2013
Instead of automating the track volume, you can use Ableton Live’s Utility effect. So volume is freed up for mixing.
As promised, new week – new Fairlight CMI Live Pack. This second one contains 63 Simpler presets full of guitar and bass sounds from an original Fairlight CMI IIx compiled in four Live Sets for Live 9.
The first Fairlight CMI Live Pack includes 42 free Simpler presets of keyboards and pianos across three Live Sets for Ableton Live 9 and up.
At least in the northern hemisphere, the cold season is coming closer and closer. A great time to start a new indoors project. Like learning how to programme Push with Max for Live. The folks at Cycling ’74 have started
Sound Chopper is an application built in Max/MSP and for Mac OS X by sound designer Matteo Cerquone. It allows you to manipulate and transform pre-recorded sound through its many sound effects such as pitch shifter, reverb, delay and looper
A lot of people use Ableton Live for DJing. If you also have Max for Live, you can now use “Pseudo Scratch” to simulate scratching. It was created by Akihiko Matsumoto, who has more interesting Max for Live devices available
Recently the Music Hack Day Bologna 2013 happened. Nick Dima’s contribution is a version of Tetris for Ableton Push that he dubbed TETRiSH. Yep, he built a playable version of Tetris. For Push. And put it up online.
This fourth and last tutorial in my mini series on how to use LiveControl 2 deals with the Modulate Layout that most seem to find tricky to fully figure out. The video shows you all its features and functions.
Spektro String, a lovely Max for Live string synth, is based on the Karplus-Strong string synthesis method. Depending on the settings it can sound like bowed, plucked or twanged strings.
This week’s free Live Pack is made out of recordings of me singing “aah” an octave apart. The three fully mapped Instrument Racks for Live 9 can achieve sounds from ethereal choir to synth-style.
Ever wanted to transpose all clips in one scene on the fly? The Max for Live MIDI effect Scene Transposer makes it possible.
Blue Hawaii are released on Kompakt, but in album format they are definitely not techno and not very danceable. When Raphaelle Stan Dell Preston and Alex Cowan are playing live, they sound quite different. The duo from Montreal have played
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