Over the years I’ve created lots of Live tutorials here on Sonic Bloom. This includes a sizeable amount of tutorials for beginners. By now you can find more than 180 Live tutorials for beginners, intermediate or advanced users on this
In the last few years Ableton have introduced two fantastic interactive learning resources, Learning Music and Learning Synths, that I already have written about. Now they’ve revamped their offerings for Ableton in the Classroom. Technically, these are aimed as teaching
This question keeps coming up, which is why I decided to do this tutorial. This Ableton Live Insider Tip is about how to record what changes MIDI notes or velocity a MIDI effect adds. Incidentally, this not only works for
This time in the Ableton Live Insider Tips, I address that you can specify a default warp mode in the preferences and why it’s a bad idea to use Complex mode for it. Unfortunately, when someone asks in various online
So you’ve found a great Max for Live device that does what you want, but one or more parameters can’t be automated or mapped. This is fairly often the case and I keep getting emails about this, so I’m going
This time I have a quick tip about a new workflow feature added in Live 10 that allows you to quickly (de)activate or reverse part of a clip in Arrangement View quickly omitting a now unnecessary extra step. Of course,
We’ve all been there. Sometimes we just don’t feel very creative. The thing is we’re not robots. It’s simply part of being human. Don’t beat yourself up about it or it might turn into a creative rut (here are some
In this tutorial in the Ableton Live Quick Tips video series, I’m showing you how you can access the mixer modulation envelopes – volume, panning and the send modulations. This one should be particularly interesting for anyone who works quite
Now that I’ve updated all relevant tutorials to Live 10, I’m back with the Ableton Live Quick Tips series. This time, I’ve got a little tip that can be useful for your workflow, but isn’t documented in the Live manual.
While doing technical support for Ableton, I encountered a lot of users who’d wanted to have their own folder structure in Live Projects. Most of them simply moved around files in the Windows Explorer or Mac’s Finder to achieve this. This approach,
With Live 10, skins are now called themes, and they also have a new format. Live 9 skins still work, although the transport bar at the top will appear grey, no matter if it fits with the rest of the
This is part 3 of the File Management series. Before you start archiving you might want to tidy up first as described in parts 1 (Collecting Files) and 2 (Finding and Deleting unused Files). Archiving as Live Packs Whether you
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