Let’s say you want to play clips with different tempi and/or time signatures all in a Live Set in Session View. This can be useful for Live Performances as well as DJ-Sets. Scenes are great for starting a whole row
There’s a few hidden features for tracks that not many people are aware of. All of them can be very handy for keeping track (see what I did there?) of where’s what and help with the workflow.
More and more videos about Live 9 a surfacing. One of the latest features Martin Clancy (Music producer and composer) and Vasileios Gourgourinis. Together they give you an overview of the new features coming with Ableton Live 9 Suite. Have
It’s Christmas Eve and I have a present for you already today in accordance with German tradition. ‘Clap Happy’, a free Live Pack with sampled real and drum machine claps featuring group claps (Ableton developers & me), single claps (me),
A few things about Sonic Bloom. I’m currently in the process of redesigning the website and adding more functionality to it. It’s gonna look so much better and it will go online right in the new year. At the same
There are two kind of envelopes in Live, clip envelopes and automation envelopes. These can be added via MIDI controllers or drawing. Or a combination of both. To draw envelopes, you need to turn on the Draw Mode by either clicking
In the latest artist feature video by Ableton, we get further glimpses of Live 9’s new features, especially Max for Live devices like Convolution Reverb and Note Echo. Robert Lippok, best known for his work as part of To Rococo
In a recent tutorial I explained how you can swap out the metronome sounds in Live with your own. I’ve now created three sets of sounds that only need to be copied into the right folder after unzipping. All contain
If you tend to use certain audio files as your favourite building blocks, you might want to store the clip’s settings. Especially if you adjusted the warp markers so the clip plays perfectly in sync.
The metronome sound in Ableton Live is pretty piercing and can easily bleed into your audio recordings. Especially when recording vocals. Have you ever wondered how you can change the sound to something more pleasing and less shrill? Here’s how:
Fabrizio Poce, musician and programmer has created a set of 7 Max for Live devices based on xy pad-style morphing. One of the devices in the Morph family, MorphJ is a freeware plugin that allows you to morph (control simultaneoulsy)
With the announcement of Live 9 also came the one about Ableton’s first own controller Push. Ableton likes mistakably calling it an instrument, but it will not come with own sounds and will (for now?) only work with Live. A
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