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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.
How to Make Your 808s Punchier
Learn how to get a punchier sounding 808 with some simple tricks, like ADSR adjustments, layering synth sounds, and level alterations across your mix.
10 Great Mobile Apps That Help Me (and You) Create Awesome Music from Scratch
+ Producing and mixing music at home? Check out Soundfly’s brand new mentored online course, Songwriting…
The Most Influential Drum Machine Beat of All Time?
In the above video, a companion to our Mentored course, Beat Making in Ableton Live, electronic artist…
Album Histories Monthly: The Buggles – ‘The Age of Plastic’
Welcome back to our new series on Flypaper, Album Histories Monthly, which brings you the story of a…
Album Histories Monthly: Afrika Bambaataa – ‘Planet Rock’
Welcome back to our new series on Flypaper, Album Histories Monthly, which brings you the story of a…
5 Examples of Artists Tastefully Using Auto-Tune
Disclaimer: Before all you purists out there start typing up angry comments about how Auto-Tune is…
Moments in Music: 10 Affordable Drum Machines That Outshine Their Price
Everyone knows that Jeff Mills shreds on a TR-909, that Egyptian Lover shakes up a room with…
Introducing Our 5 Favorite Synths from NAMM and Superbooth This Year
Let’s face it: It’s basically impossible to keep up with the pace of trade shows…