I did a little video on some D&B break fundamentals. More to come; will get deeper.

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!” →

A video posted by Janne Hatula ???????? (@jannehatula) on Jan 22, 2016 at 2:17pm PST

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.

A video posted by Fanu / FatGyver (Janne Hatula) (@fanufatgyver) on Nov 3, 2015 at 1:16am PST

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.