Exactly 15 years ago to this day, Ableton Live 1 was released - on October 30, 2001. The Session View with the grid layout for clips and scenes was a fundamental change in the approach to working with music. As
Have you ever noticed that a sound is different when you run it through effects at a high or low level? That’s one of the reasons why gain staging is so crucial. However, 80% of the time I’m mixing someone else’s work,
While the Simpler now offers pad slicing, you still can't record into it, but need to drop samples in. This is where SlicR by Benjamin Van Esser comes in. It's a simple slicing device, great for some quick and dirty
ModeAudio is a loop and sample provider that specialises in a number of soundware types, including audio and presets for Ableton Live. They offer a 500 MB sized download that includes music loops, drum samples, SFX samples, sampler patches, MIDI
There are always situations where you'd want to route the audio from another software, such as YouTube, into Ableton Live. This tutorial explains how you can achieve this on a Mac.
From September 12 to 14 the Perspectives Festival will take place in Berlin at //:about blank, celebrating female perspectives on electronic music and digital arts. There will be live performances and DJ sets, talks and also various audio and video
This tutorial shows you in easy steps how the recording process in Live 9 works. If you want to record real instruments or vocals, you should consider getting a decent audio interface as a built-in sound card won't give you
This is video 4 out of 4 in my Ableton Live 9 Beta series which shows how to use the different Convert Audio to MIDI features in a creative way to start a song or track. This one explains how
This is video 3 out of 4 in my Ableton Live 9 Beta series which shows how to use the different Convert Audio to MIDI features in a creative way to start a song or track. This one is about
K-Devices, a French company developing Max For Live devices, has recently released Drumk 2. It's the update of their Max For Live device that allows for glitchy beat-oriented sample manipulation. As the name suggests, you can manipulate drum loops with it,