I was always fascinated by the idea to be able to run around on stage playing drums when I perform. For my band Ego vs Emo where we do a mix of electronic dance music with Ableton Live + sax + drums, I ‘m always thinking about how to improve the possibilities of not being … Read more
When using the BopPad with Ableton Live you run into limitation as you only get 4 pads to trigger samples, clips or scenes. You can select between 4 different preset slots but that only gives you a total of 16 different MIDI note pitches and it is not a really comfortable way as natively you … Read more
When I was doing a review about the Roland SPD One Wav Pad, I was struggling a little on how I should explain the editor. Roland decided to go with a text editor for this model, which is the only way to load and assign samples to the different slots on the SPD One Wav. … Read more
I teach Ableton online lessons via ZOOM Meetings. On request (part of) sessions can be recorded and downloaded afterwards. Approach for teaching Ableton Live online I help people to find solutions and develop approaches which fit to their needs. Proposing technical solutions is easy! The challenging part for creative people is often to create a … Read more
How to use your MIDI velocity to control parameters in Ableton Live Once a fellow ‘AbletonDrummer’ asked me if it would be possible to control delay, reverb and send knobs in Ableton Live with your drumming. Of course you can always midi map a midi drum/pad to a parameter in Ableton Live, but this would only … Read more
Watch a masterclass video with Andy Gangadeen on Ableton Live. Andy is a UK based drummer combining acoustics and electronics drums for quite a while. I saw Andy playing live in Bristol (UK) here he was playing with his 100% impro band THE BAYS. One time they were even ‘improvising’ with a full orchestra. In … Read more