Recent Tutorials

Ableton Live Tutorial – Layering Drums Sounds

January 27, 20120 Comments

Do you want phat, layered drums in Ableton Live ? Ableton Hi Everyone. Head over to www.looptv.net and check out my first exclusive tutorial for them. In this tutorial I demonstrate two ways to layer drum samples using an Ableton Live Drum Rack. The Ableton Drum Rack is one of the best ways I’ve found [...]

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Glitch Using Follow Actions in Ableton Live

January 25, 20120 Comments

Hi everyone, Here’s my latest tutorial on using follow actions in Ableton Live to create glitch patterns. My demonstration is pretty simple, but you can take this technique really far out there, so make sure you use this as a jumping off point, and do lots of experimentation. Enjoy!!

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Ableton Live: How to Use Follow Actions

October 31, 20110 Comments

Follow actions are a powerful, but often misunderstood capability of Ableton Live. They can be used to do anything from have your live set advance along with you while you play your instrument to it, to create wild, glitched-out random patterns and arrangements. This video serves as a basic introduction to how follow actions work, [...]

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Presets & Patches

Free Ableton Rack #2 – Toy Synth (Riser/Faller)

December 21, 20110 Comments

Hi Everyone. Help yourself to the second in my series of free Ableton racks. This synth incorporates a unique oscillator built from a a single waveform of a larger toy synth sample. The functionality of built into the rack turns it into a huge riser/faller instrument. The tutorial video is a brief walkthrough of the [...]

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Free Ableton Rack #1 – MicroKORG Lead

November 26, 20110 Comments

I’m beginning a series of free Ableton Live instrument and FX racks for free download. Here is the first in the series. Free MicroKORG Instrument Rack Check out the video tutorial for a brief walkthrough, and get at me with your feedback! Also, check out Voltage-Controlled. It’s a great audio blog, and it’s were I [...]

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Free Ableton FX Rack – NY Style Compression

March 30, 201110 Comments

Hi everyone, Help yourself to this free Ableton Live FX rack. It’s a basic parallell (or NY) compression setup. What you’ve got is a rack with 2 chains, one dry and one compressed. All the most important controls are mapped to the 8 macros on the FX rack. Parallel compression is a great way to [...]

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