New Ableton Push Videos

Ableton didn’t have a booth at NAMM this year, but Dennis DeSantis gave some demos on Push at Akai’s. Here are some highlights:

Imogen Heap & her Gloves at CTM Hacklab

Last week in Berlin as part of the CTM Hacklab, Imogen Heap and team gave a talk on the musical gloves. They’re developing them for her performance with Ableton Live and, as she told me in our chat afterwards, for

NAMM 2013 Trends – iOS Connectivity

In the last two posts I wrote about new analogue synths and touch sensitive RGB pads as two of the new trends seen at this year’s NAMM. The third and last trend I noticed are products that offer a new

NAMM 2013 Trends – Touch-Sensitive RGB Pads

In the last post about the trends at NAMM 2013 I wrote about all the new analogue synths. Another trend we’ve seen at this year’s NAMM are RGB pads with pressure and velocity sensitivity.

NAMM 2013 Trends – Analogue Synths

Even though I couldn’t be at NAMM I followed it closely. A lot has been already said about all the new music technologies so I won’t get into any details here. There seem to be three very exciting trends in

Playing Notes and Chords with Ableton’s Push

A while ago I posted the first tutorial video by Ableton on how to use Push. Now there’s a second one. This one explains how to play notes or chords and how to use pressure and pitchbend to modulate sound

Martin Clancy presents Ableton Live 9

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

New Year- New Website – New Freebies

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

Robert Lippok on Ableton Live 9

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

Making Beats with Ableton’s Push

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

Ableton Live 9 Beta Signup

Ableton Live 9 has been long awaited. Now you can finally sign up for the beta. There’s a few conditions though:

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