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Making The Most Of LIVE
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
Live offers all the tools you need for quick and convenient comping: you just need to know where to look.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
Try some guitar-amp modelling with Live, a couple of plug-ins and a bit of know-how.
Ableton Live Tips & Technique
From the conventional to the chaotic, Live’s Operator synth does it all.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
We show you how to disassemble tracks for creative reworking in Live.
Previous 100 Ableton LIVE NOTES workshops (unlocked)
Ableton Live Tips & Technique
We see why there’s much more to Live’s Frequency Shifter effect than meets the eye...
Ableton Live Tips & Technique
Unlock the potential of overlooked but useful Live effects devices.
Ableton Live Tips & Technqiues
These audio files accompany the Ableton Live Tips & Techniques column that featured in SOS August 2012.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
Discover how to use Live’s clip warping as a sound design tool.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
This month, swot up on Live’s library and discover what it can do to make your life easier.
Ableton Live Technique
If you’re mystified by Live’s complex-looking Multiband Dynamics plug-in, let us offer some help...
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
Setting up an old-fashioned step sequencer in Ableton Live is easy.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
Reason 6 and Live make a great double act, and now it’s even easier to Rewire them together...
Ableton Live Notes
Live’s outwardly simple Auto Filter has a lot more to it than you might think...
Ableton Live Notes
We demonstrate that there’s more to Live’s Grain Delay than bizarre effects.
Apps For Controlling Ableton Live
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
We round up the best iPad apps for controlling Live.
Ableton Live Notes
We show you how to document your projects, sets and custom devices with Live’s Lessons facility.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
There’s more to Live’s Vocoder than meets the ear: it can generate all manner of unexpected effects.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
There’s more to Live’s Resonators effect than you might think...
Creative Side‑chaining Effects
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
Discover how to use side-chaining effects in Ableton Live in this month's Live Notes column.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
Things get gritty as we take a tour of Live's varied distortion effects...
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
Discover how to control your hardware synths using Max For Live.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
It's thermal underwear time as we look at the vagaries of track freezing in Live.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
All you need to know about Live's idiosyncratic preset management...
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
We show you the most modest of feats: a wonderful way of repeating your beats.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
DJs can really get clever with Ableton Live. We explain how.
Ableton Live Tips & Techniques
We explore a cunning workaround to enhance Ableton Live's already powerful 'Follow Actions' feature.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
We look at how Live handles control surfaces, and offer some tips for configuring and using them.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
We explore some side-chaining techniques using Live 8’s Compressor.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
An introduction to elementary DJ’ing in Ableton Live.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
The expanded audio clip slicing introduced in Live 8 is a powerful creative tool. We show you how it works.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
MaxMSP needn’t be as scary as you might think, as we demonstrate with some basic Max For Live programming.
New dimensions for Ableton Live
The introduction of MaxMSP adds an entirely new dimension to Live. We take a look at what’s already been created in the three months since its release.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
We look at a different use for Live’s celebrated time-stretching engine.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Get into the groove with the new tools in Live 8.
Ableton Live: Warping Revisited
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Warping has changed entirely in Live 8. We show you how to get the most out of the new system.
Building A Beatbox In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
We show you how to make Live emulate an MPC-style workflow for composing rhythm tracks.
Ableton Live: Real-time Clip Modulation
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
We return to the subject of Clip Envelopes, and discover how it’s possible to work around a Live limitation and record MIDI controller data into Clips in real time.
Using Clip Envelopes In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Clip Envelopes offer a powerful alternative to standard track-based automation, and have many creative and practical applications, so let's see what they can do...
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
As Live has gradually made the transition towards fully fledged DAW, the recording side of the program has become increasingly sophisticated — so we're going to look at some tricks to make basic recording easier.
Using External Audio In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Live 7 saw the the introduction of some powerful new features for integration with hardware instruments, effects units, and Rewire applications.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
New in Live 7, Drum Racks takes the Instrument Rack concept in a percussive direction. Read on to see what it can do for you and your drums...
Track Freezing In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Track freezing makes it possible to create much larger projects, and collaborate with other Live users who have different plug-ins, all without cramping your style.
Cueing & Crossfading In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Whether you're looking into performing with Live on stage, or laying down fast arrangements in the studio, the place to start is the mixer's cue-mixing and crossfading features.
Creative Clip Launching In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Clip Launch modes and Follow Actions are two of the most powerful and creative feature sets for composing and performing with Live, but they're also among the least well known. Let's investigate...
Impulse Drum Machine In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Live's built-in instruments are pretty sophisticated, yet retain the ease of use that is central to the Ableton philosophy. In this article we're going to look at how to make the most of the Impulse drum machine.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Rewiring Live through Pro Tools can open up a world of new possibilities for both applications.
Integrating MIDI Hardware with Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Technique
This month, we look at how to connect, control and record hardware MIDI instruments using Live.
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
We look at how the new Instrument and Effects Racks in Live 6 stretch the creative possibilities for combining and controlling multiple devices and plug-ins.
Ableton Live Notes & Technique
It's back to basics for this month's Live workshop, with an overview of Live's time-warping technology.
Complete Production In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Last month, we looked at how to build a DAW-like audio mixer in Live's Session view. This time, we'll turn our attention to MIDI channel strips, navigation, and tracking in the Arrangement view.
Ableton Live: Complete Production
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Ableton Live isn't just a DJ tool, but a very capable audio workstation. This month we begin a look at how to approach Live if you want to use it as a fully fledged audio sequencer.
Using Virtual Instruments In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Technique
When Ableton added MIDI support to Live, they also added virtual instrument support — in this article we look at how to take full advantage of software synths within Live.
Preparing a performance with Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
They say one step in planning saves two in execution — and that certainly applies to doing a performance with Ableton Live sequencer...
Using REX Files In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
Ableton Live 5 doesn't work with REX files, right? Well, technically speaking, it does not support the 'official' REX file format. But not only can you create your own REX-style slicing within Live, the 'do it yourself' stretching method we describe in this article can be surprisingly flexible.
Recording & Remixing In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
In part two of our recording and remixing article we examine how you can use Live's unique features to prepare a recording for remixing.
Recording & Remixing With Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
In the first instalment of this two-part article, we examine how you can use Live as a conventional digital audio workstation.
Streamlining Your Workflow In Ableton Live
Ableton Live Notes & Techniques
We begin this new series on using Ableton Live by examining how you can increase your productivity whilst using the program as a writing tool.
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