When you’re not a great keyboard player or accomplished at playing beats, but want add more elaborate chord progression or beats to a song or track, don’t worry. There’s a great feature in Live called MIDI Step Recording that you
In Part 3 of the series “Programming in Max for Live” by Cycling ’74, we learn from the effects that we have programmed ourselves in Part 2 how we can customise the user interface. The colour modification of all elements
Video 1 of this Ableton Live series explores Convert Drums to MIDI, helping you start tracks creatively, featuring an Aphex Twin example.
When working on music, you quite often deal with big file sizes and lots of files can get accumulated rather quickly. Sure, computer hard drives offer increasingly more space, but as with anything, some tidying up becomes necessary and should
In the last tutorial I explained how to achieve time signature and tempo changes in the Arrangement View. The latter only works with newly warped clips and you can only achieve abrupt tempo changes. In this tutorial I will show
After the introduction of the video series “Programming in Max for Live” by Cycling ’74, it goes straight to the point in Part 2. It shows how you can program three simple audio effects in Max for Live: an Audio
In this tutorial we’re looking at how to create automatic tempo and time signature in Ableton Live’s Arrangement View.
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.
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),
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 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
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