Finally the first Ableton Drummer Festival took place in 2022. Here is a little review on the event. The idea and concept for the Ableton Drummer Festival When I met Mesut at one of his shows, we dreamed about how great it would be to have more time to nerd and hang about Ableton Live … Read more
When using Ableton Live’s Session View for live performances you might want to stop some clips of some tracks, improvise a solo and then keep on playing from where you stopped. As Ableton Live’s Session View is for live music performance and one would expect that this would be a native feature. Unfortunately this function … Read more
When using Ableton Live’s Arrangement View for playing live shows you want the transport to do an automatic stop and jump to next locator. This way you don’t need to hit or press stop and navigate to the next song. Just use my “Stop after Song and Go to Next Locator” Max for Live device … Read more
I thought it would be great to be able to set up text notes, text reminders and text cues when using Ableton Live’s Arrangement View for live performances. The quickest and easiest way to set up text notes in Ableton is creating MIDI clips and just name those clips with the text you want to … Read more
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
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