Point Blank Music School: Logic VS Ableton – Recording Audio (Comping)
Welcome back to Point Blank’s weekly spot here on Music Tech, where this week our course developer Ski Oakenfull presents a comparison between Logic and Ableton. Whilst by no means playing them off against each More...
Point Blank Music School: Free Formant Filter Plug-in!
Welcome to Point Blank Music School’s new weekly spot here on Music Tech, where we’ll be sharing our extensive production knowledge and offering up useful plug-ins for free! This week we’re More...
Ableton Live 9 Tutorial: Mix and Workflow Tricks
As every Ableton Live user will know, Ableton Live 9 is now just around the corner. Many years in the making, the exciting new features list has already done the rounds in our news section and on the web, and More...
Live 8 Tutorial: Get Creative With The Impulse Device
Most Live users, old and new, will at this point have their attention fixed on the release of Live 9 and Ableton’s hardware Push instrument. And while we too are looking forward to these new products, More...
From DJ To Producer – Getting Into Production Using Ableton Live
The art of DJ’ing has inevitably evolved over the years, but the core skills have remained much the same. A good DJ needs a musical ear to pick out quality tracks, and can detect the different energy levels More...
Live 8 Tutorial: Quick and Effective Loops And Layering
We’re aware that not every reader of our Live Tutorials uses Live as their primary DAW. Many of you will just use it as a creative looping tool to interact with your audio files away from your more preferred More...
Ableton Live: 25 Pro-Tips Tutorial
Save For The Future If you’re creating sounds to use in future projects there are two ways to make them easy to fully recall. To save the instrument and its associated audio plug-ins, highlight all of the devices More...
Live 8 Tutorial: Performance Controls For A Live Show
Session View can be used for the simplest of performance-based tasks, such as DJ’ing from one song to the next or the live triggering of multiple clips and live manipulation of various musical elements. This More...
Live 8 Tutorial: Drum Sounds And Devices
Before getting too technical with Drum Racks, it’s a good idea to explore the various kit and hit presets from the Live library (and any you may have installed from third-party Live Packs). These can be a great More...
Live 8 Tutorial: The Bridge – Part 2 Enhancing A DJ Set
In the first part we walked through the basic principles of The Bridge, the system that connects Serato Scratch Live (SSL) and Ableton’s Live 8 sequencing software. This month we continue the theme More...
