Ableton 10 – Calcium skin

Many users liked the old calcium skin for Ableton Live, and find the new skins for Live 10 a bit gloomy and lacking contrast. So I remade Calcium skin for Live 10. There are some differences becuase Live 10 has different transport buttons that the earlier versions, but it’s as close as I could get. […]

Ableton’s Operator – 13 advanced tips

Ableton Operator is a small FM synth which comes with Ableton Live Suite. Operator may seem limited to familiar traditional FM sounds but it is capable of much more. Here I show thirteen advanced tips and a few ways to use Operator’s lesser known features to create bigger sounds. and a few you might not […]

Ableton tip : mono safe bass

Collapsing your bass frequencies to mono while maintaining stereo imaging is something you may want to do for a variety of reasons, but there’s a simple way to do this with just the basic Ableton devices in a rack. UPDATE EDIT: March 2018 You can now safely ignore this whole post if you own Live […]

Ableton tutorial : PWM in Operator

Operator is Ableton’s FM synth and while it allows the user to design their own waveforms you might think it’s not possible to do  PWM in Operator, in fact there appears to be no Pulse wave available in Operator so using Pulse Width Modulation to morph from a square wave to Pulse wave seems doubly […]

Ableton Tutorial – Looper insert FX (feedback #2)

Overview of this tutorial In this Ableton tutorial we’ll take a look at the Ableton Looper and how a hidden feature can enable it to become more of a creative tool for producing unique pads and effects. This is the second in a series exploring the creative power of feedback in Ableton Live. In the […]

Tutorial – Ableton audio feedback part 1

Introduction This tutorial is the first in a series covering feedback in synthesis and production, and how it can be a fun way to create new and interesting sounds with a seeming life of their own. Exploring feedback techniques can bring a complexity and uniqueness of sound to your tone palette, it is a sound […]

Tutorial : generative music in Ableton Live

ableton generative music

Generative music in Live Here is a brief tutorial on making generative music with Live. This tutorial first appeared on the Ableton Live Forum, in 2007 – so the examples were made using Live 6.07  and will work with any version of live later than that. What is generative music? Generative music is where you […]