Ableton Live 8: Housekeeping via the File Manager Part 1

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

Playing Notes and Chords with Ableton’s Push

A while ago I posted the first tutorial video by Ableton on how to use Push. Now there’s a second one. This one explains how to play notes or chords and how to use pressure and pitchbend to modulate sound

Nifty Tricks for Tracks in Ableton Live

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.

Ableton Live Workflow Tips Part 10 – Drawing Envelopes

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

Ableton Live Tutorial: How to Change the Metronome Sound

The metronome sound in Ableton Live is pretty piercing and can easily bleed into your audio recordings. Especially when recording vocals. Have you ever wondered how you can change the sound to something more pleasing and less shrill? Here’s how:

Making Beats with Ableton’s Push

With the announcement of Live 9 also came the one about Ableton’s first own controller Push. Ableton likes mistakably calling it an instrument, but it will not come with own sounds and will (for now?) only work with Live. A

Ableton Live Tutorial: Rewire with Logic

Ableton Live can be both Rewire Master and Slave. However, Logic can only be Master. This tutorial will explain how to get Live rewired to Logic. So let’s cut right to the chase…

Ableton Live Tutorial: How to avoid missing samples

Ever seen the message that media files were missing? When you make music you want to be sure that none of your audio samples are missing. Ableton Live – just as other DAWs – only references those audio files. This

Ableton Live Tutorial: Setting up Plug-ins

If you want to use plug-ins in Live, they need to be set up first whether it’s VSTs or Audio Units (Mac only). It’s an easy and quick process when you know how. This tutorial will guide you step by

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