Live looping with Ableton Live has become a quite big thing for instrumentalist and vocalist. During the pandemic music performers were able to practice social distancing and music making on the same time. Long before the pandemic live-acts like Marc Rebillet, DubFX, Rachel K Collier and Binkbeats (to name a few) were already doing incredible … Read more
Ableton Live packs a lot of control into rack macros, but the dials themselves stay tiny. When you perform live or juggle dozens of tracks, you can easily lose track of whether an effect is on, off, or somewhere in between. That’s why I built Macro Dials Monitor, a Max for Live device that lets … Read more
The Behringer Kick was just announced and without even communicating a release date it already created momentum. In short: The Behringer Kick looks like an Akai MPC One * in a typical Sampling-Workstation style. This is the only hint so far in what type of music makers this is targeting. As I see it, Behringer’s … Read more
If you consolidate clips in Ableton Live regularly, you already know the problem: Live automatically stamps a timestamp onto every consolidated clip name, and within a few sessions, your track names turn into an unreadable mess of brackets and numbers. Fortunately, you can clean text of consolidated clips in Ableton in a single click, without … Read more
If you want to automate group track sends in Ableton’s Session View, you’ve already hit the wall: Ableton doesn’t support this natively. Regular audio and MIDI tracks let you use clip envelopes to automate send values per scene — but group tracks can’t hold clips, which means no clip envelopes, and no per-scene send automation. … Read more
If you want to automate group tracks in Ableton Live Session View, you already know the problem — Ableton does not offer this natively. Dummy clips only control parameters on the track they sit on, which puts group tracks completely out of reach. The Automate Volume+Pan+Sends for Master+Return+Group Tracks – Pack solves exactly that. In … Read more
If you want to automate return tracks in Ableton Live Session View, you have already run into the problem — Ableton simply does not support it natively. Dummy clips can only control parameters on the track they sit on, which leaves return tracks completely out of reach. The Automate Volume+Pan+Sends for Master+Return+Group Tracks – Pack … Read more