This rose from a convo with a friend: to make plenty of shorter loops you’d work on later – or always see the effort and go for full songs instead?
I have been in that position where a label wants a release from me and I send them 1-minute clips, and they tell me “It’s nice but send full songs” Continue reading “Full songs or nothing!”
I’m giving away one license to Future Audio Workshop’s wonderful Circle2 synth. Check it out at www.futureaudioworkshop.com and let me know why you should have it: leave a comment on this post and I’ll pick the winner on Fri 29 Jan and let him/her know personally by replying on the comment.
Demonstrating here how the warping capabilities of the new Ableton 9.5 Simpler are great for warping drumloops, and with the Glide function, a ”timestretch” sort of effect can easily be achieved while still keeping the beat on time.
I did a video on how the new Ableton 9.5 Simpler + warping is great for doing chords with vocal samples. This technology did not exist until 9.5.
Ableton Live 9.5 is out – with nice new analog-modeled filters.
Here’s two quickies relating to them.
1) The new analog-modeled filters can self-oscillate, so by setting the resonance really high (goes up to 125%) and adding some drive (by using the MS2 filter, for example), you can create sinewave type of sound if you play a sample that’s silent.
2) If you have a sample that’s just noise or something similar, crank up the LP filter resonance all the way up to 125%, add some reverb, and you can create a nice bleep sound that you can play melodies with.
This one’s been in the air for a while: to write about the plugins I use the most. I don’t have an absolute massive ton of plugs, and as I’ve become more experienced, I’ve tried to adapt the “less is more” and “learn a few tools inside out” philosophy with plugins, but I suppose still have/had a few too many “waiting to get used” (I actually ended up deleting a few while going thru the list, trying to pick the ones I’d write about).
For this one, I’ll concentrate on the effects Continue reading Badass plugins post