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Ableton Live Quick Tip: Creating Inspiration With The MIDI Devices
Today’s Ableton tutorial is all about finding or creating inspiration on those days when writer’s block is kicking your ass. Anyone that writes music on a regular basis is going to run into this problem once in a while, but for working professionals, simply choosing not to write isn’t always an option. If you have [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip – Decluttering Your Arrangement With “Consolidate”
Today’s Ableton Live tutorial is all about keeping your arrange view neat and uncluttered. After moving, splitting, and rearranging clips on the timeline, it can start looking pretty messy. This gets especially bad when you’ve shifted the start point of a clip to overlap either the start or end of a natural loop or phrase. [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip – Resampling and Sample-Based Workflow
Resampling is an incredibly simple yet powerful technique in digital music production. The idea is straighforward: Record the output of one or multiple tracks into a new, editable audio file. It’s not much different than rendering your composition, except here you’re actually going to incorporate the new file into the current song. I employ this [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip: Demoing Note Velocity Values
When you’re programming drum lines, one of the easiest and most effective things you can do is add velocity automation. These subtle changes in velocity can take an otherwise bland loop and add a more organic feel. If you combine this with editing your note triggers off the grid, you’ve got a simple recipe for [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip: Resetting Default Device Presets
Have you ever loaded up a device in Ableton Live, only to have the default preset come up with all sorts of strange and arbitrary settings? This issue generally comes about when people unwittingly change the device default preset when they’re mousing around in contextual menus. The following video shows how to fix the issue [...]
Come Vote On My Next Sound Design Tutorial Series!
After doing 4 substantive Ableton tutorial series, taking a long “time out” to focus on the rest of my life as well as redesigning my site, it’s time to start brainstorming the next product. This time around, I’m going to do things a little differently: I want you guys to help me narrow down what [...]
New Site, New Look, Better Functionality!
Hey everyone, Thanks to receiving loads of constructive feedback over the last year about my site, I have greatly simplified the design to be far more user friendly than it was before. Too many people were having issues with the shopping cart software I was previously using, so I’ve switched to a simpler, slightly more [...]
Keeping Your Composition Moving Forward With Freeze and Flatten
Have you ever run into overcomplexity while arranging your latest piece of music? It happens to me all the time. It’s that phase of composition where you’ve got all kinds of automation going on, sweeping a filter here and increasing an effect trail there. In addition to automation data, you may have a dizzying array [...]
Darwin Grosse to present at Ableton Denver User's Group
Just a short post to point out that Darwin Grosse, Director of Engineering at Cycling '74 will be giving a free presentation on Max For Live at Ableton Denver on January 24, 2010. If you're planning on being in the area I highly recommend you check out the talk! The price is right and the [...]
The First Earthquake Submission
In my previous post, I re-shared a wonderful recording of an Earthquake taken underwater which was given to me by Jason Job. I invited you all to take a stab at manipulating this field recording into something new, and thankfully Mark T. took me up on the offer. Mark's work has rendered a swirly mix [...]