Most plugin companies want you to believe that the default Ableton FX devices and presets are not going to help you achieve professional results on your song's mixdown. Every year they send a barrage of marketing emails and discount codes trying to entice you to buy a new plugin. With Ableton Live's latest updates to their stock devices I'm finding that I am using stock … [Read more...] about The Best Ableton FX Presets to Improve Your Mixes
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Better Snare Rolls with Sampler in Ableton Live
Ableton has multiple sampler devices as part of its core device library. As of Ableton 12.1, the Drum Sampler device has been added however in this post we're going to talk about why Sampler can still be the most powerful instrument for snare rolls when using multiple snare samples to introduce variation to the snare roll. Create a blank MIDI Track (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T) and … [Read more...] about Better Snare Rolls with Sampler in Ableton Live
Organizing Samples & Presets with Ableton Live 12
One of the biggest features in Ableton Live 12 are the improvements to the Browser inside of Live to organizing samples & presets Ableton Live 12 is on the horizon and I was fortunate enough to get invited to the beta program. In this article I'll dive into a few tips, quirks, and quality of life improvements I expect to see in future updates to Ableton Live … [Read more...] about Organizing Samples & Presets with Ableton Live 12
Max4Live Creativity Unleashed: Top 5 Devices
Max4Live is a custom version of Max/MSP, a node based programming language that allows you to build custom devices for Ableton Live. I rounded up my top ten most used Max4Live devices that I use for writing any style of electronic dance music. 1. ACDGEN If you've been on Youtube you've no doubt seen countless producers discuss writing basslines using a Max 4 Live device … [Read more...] about Max4Live Creativity Unleashed: Top 5 Devices
Nail The Mixdown
I've been producing music for twenty years at this point, and long gone are the days of only finding forum posts telling you to "Use your ears" when I tried to find information about mixing tracks so they would sound good. It wasn't until the last few years with the explosion of the creator economy has there been a plethora of information (good and bad) regarding how to nail … [Read more...] about Nail The Mixdown