
Oblique Strategies No. 80
All muscle memory, no mind.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.

All muscle memory, no mind.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.

I see a lot of posts in Ableton Facebook groups that make it clear that the poster doesn’t understand the signal flow in Live. The signal flow is the path that the audio signal takes from the input to the

Clean up. Organise.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.

Max has been a trailblazing visual programming software for musicians for 30 years now, steadily adding new possibilities like integrating various code languages, types of data and more advanced features for visuals, as well as giving us Ableton Live users the

Continue onwards.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.

With this video we’re completing the Beyond the One Bar Loop series that shows you all the ways in which you can transform a short audio loop to achieve slight variations or totally new sounding material. In part 1 we looked

I’m back this week with another video in Beyond the One Bar Loop. The tutorial series aims to give you insight into all the possible ways in which you can create interesting variations to short audio clips with Ableton Live’s

My new video tutorial series Beyond the One Bar Loop explores ways in which you can take a short audio loop and use various features of Ableton Live to modify if, if you wish so much its source no longer is

Beyond the One Bar Loop 1: explore Ableton Live’s clip Sample box features to create exciting variations from short audio loops.

A variation per bar.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.

Sometimes a change of colour can create a change of mindset. This is one of the reasons I started creating my own Ableton Live skins, now themes. I’m back with five fresh themes for Ableton Live 10 for you. They’re

Add or subtract.
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