Oblique Strategies No. 15
Try an effect you haven’t used (in ages).
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
September 29, 2014
Try an effect you haven’t used (in ages).
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
Steps on a wooden floor, on gravel, treading into a puddle, shoe scraping, rubber soles squeaking on linoleum… those are the sounds that make up the latest Live Pack called “On Your Feet”. One Drum Rack, one synth Instrument Rack
K-Devices latest Max for Live effect is TED, a parameter rich LFO that can also be used as a function generator. With its signal, you can modulate any parameter in Ableton Live: other device parameters, any third party plug-in or
Part 1 of a mini series on Ableton Live’s Default Presets covers default presets for instruments, audio and MIDI effects to enhance your workflow.
Polyrhythmus is a fantastic free Max for Live sequencer for polyrhythms, arpeggios, automation of MIDI CCs and parameters.
What’s the story behind it?
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
This Live Pack is based on the sound of a harmonica. Three fully macro-mapped Instrument Racks, one great for bass, one synth-sounding and the other one for arpeggiated bell-like sounds. Made in and for Ableton Live 9.
Live Pong und Push Pong are generative Max for Live sequencers inspired by Batuhan Bozkurt’s excellent Otomata Generative Musical Sequencer. By clicking in the square area when Live is running, cells are generated which will create notes whenever they reach
MashUP, by Ned Rush, is a chance based sound editor for beat based edits, mangles and mashups. Drop in a loop, move the sliders, record what it does and then choose the best parts for your tracks. This could be
The free Live Packs that are not from Ableton or one of Ableton’s sound partners contain .als files (Live Sets). I’ve gotten a few questions along the line of the following one and thought I’d write a little tutorial about
Use field recordings as drum hits.
Prompts or constraints to foster creativity.
New Ableton Live skins anyone? These five new skins are all based on various neutral dark greys, each one with sprinkles of colour. My current favourite of them is ‘turquoise’. The skins are optimised for Live 9, but will work
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