Control Ableton with Drum Pad

Use Drum Trigger for Ableton Live

How to control Ableton Live via an electronic drum pad You don’t want to buy or bring a trigger-to-midi interface when you just need one drum pad to trigger one function in Ableton Live. You might have an old rubber drum pad laying around or wan to get a Roland BT-1 trigger and just set … Read more

Hybrid Drum Sounds

play hybrid drums with those free samples.like mentioned in the NonaPad review

Here you will find some (free) drum samples I put together. You can use those hybrid drum sounds and load them on drum sampling pads like the Roland SPD-SX, the Millenium NonaPad or others. Of course you can load the drum sounds directly into Ableton Live. For the Nonapad, the Avatar PD705 you will find … Read more

Millenium NonaPad Review, FAQ and manual links

How to NanoPad

Millenium NonaPad Review and Test In early March 2022 Thomann’s e-drum brand Millenium released a ‘new’ sampling pad called the NonaPad (Get yours here!*). I checked out the info provided about it and decided to buy one to test it out and make a NonaPad review. A day after that Vince, an AbletonDrummer colleague and … Read more

Scene Setlist Monitor for Ableton Live

Monitor Ableton Live's Session View

CLICK for PDF manual for main device CLICK for PDF manual for iPad version If you are using Ableton Live’s Session View for playing music live you will need a better and bigger monitoring option for your scene names. The Ableton Setlist plugin provides a big pop-up window which displays scene names. You are able … Read more

Live Looping with Ableton Live

How to live loop Ableton

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

Tascam TA 1 VP Auto-Tune with Ableton Live

Tascam TA 1 VP with Ableton Live

AutoTune hardware controlled via Ableton Live MIDI messages from Ableton Live can control the TA 1 VP. This will become handy if you want to automate preset changes and select different presets functions like pitch scales. For live performances the TA 1 VP is the go-to hardware solution for effects like Auto-Tune. You are able … Read more