I Made a Playable Bass Guitar Out of an Ableton Push – Meet “Blinky”
Watch me perform on a new hybrid playable hardware instrument that approaches solving some of my biggest performance issues with digital music.
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How to Make Custom Slice to MIDI Presets in Ableton Live
Soundfly course producer John Hull walks us through how he creates a Slice to MIDI preset in Ableton Live so you can build your own customized version.
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Talking Points: Ableton’s Music Education and Technology Panel
In this edition of “Talking Points,” we take a look at a panel held at this year’s Ableton Loop Conference on the uses of technology in music education.
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Talking Points: Caterina Barbieri Explains Her Psychoacoustic Approach to Music
In this edition of “Talking Points,” Berlin-based electronic artist Caterina Barbieri explains her psychoacoustic approach to making machine music.
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Teaching Myself the Bach Chaconne With Ableton Live
From a South American dance to a romantically rubato performance piece, Bach’s Violin Partita in D minor has some funky rhythms and bizarre chromaticism!
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Our 7 Favorite Collaborative Music-Making Apps
The internet is horrible at getting us outdoors, but it’s great at connecting likeminded collaborators all over the world. Here are 7 apps to do just that!
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How to Organize Your Session in Ableton Live 10
A simple and handy rundown of some of the features new to Ableton Live 10, and how to reorient your audio editing behaviour around them.
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Using Ableton Live to Mess with the Rhythm of “Clair de Lune”
+ Master the tools and techniques of producing pro-level electronic music and audio in Ableton Live with Soundfly’s course, Intro to Music Production in Ableton Live. This article originally appeared on Ethan Hein’s blog. This video recently made the rounds on Facebook. I was thinking about “Clair de Lune” and how strange and complicated the rhythm is. I…
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How to Get More From Your Samples Using Transposition
+ Learn to create and arrange original, instrumental hip-hop music from sampling pioneer RJD2 himself in his new course on Soundfly, RJD2: From Samples to Songs. Here’s a step-by-step guide to pitch-shifting, finding the key, and warping. When you’re working with samples, the pitch is key! You found that perfect sample, but there’s one problem… It doesn’t fit with…
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Creating Your Own Default Template in Ableton Live
+ Master the tools and techniques of producing pro-level electronic music and audio in Ableton Live with Soundfly’s course, Intro to Music Production in Ableton Live. Part of having a good workflow is maximizing the time you spend producing. Investing time to create a default template of your own allows you to start a session and instantly…
