Free sounds and samples in Ableton Live, powered by commons and community

Freesound4live brings the incredible and eclectic open sound community freesound.org right into your Ableton Live session – so you can access sounds and new inspiration quickly, for free. The Max for Live device is the work of Alessandro Aylesim Miracapillo. And this is both convenient and unlike any other sample tool. You can browse, search, […]

Make your own Launchpad instrument with Novation’s free r_cycle, step by step

Novation Launchpad hardware + free Pd software + free r_cycle library = make any control layout and custom instrument or effect you want. Part 2 of the how-to is now up.

Peter Kirn - August 6, 2020

OSC/PILOT is a new Windows touch controller app – and deadmau5 is already using it

deadmau5 is releasing the app he’s torture-tested in his live shows, OSC/PILOT. It’s like a Windows-only successor to Lemur, with some powerful features, developed by one of the developers behind TouchDesigner.

Peter Kirn - August 3, 2020

sequencer.wtf is a Max for Live toystore, from Shanghai’s ayrtbh + Gooooose

Peter Kirn - August 3, 2020

MOTU learning: DP clips and tips, film scoring in free bundled Performer Lite

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2020

Novation Launchpad now has a free set of tools in Pd to hack your own controllers

Peter Kirn - July 29, 2020

Houdini Music Toolkit makes this 3D tool a sequencer, for a radical take on music

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2020

ReEQ is a free plugin so good, it’s a reason to use REAPER – and it keeps getting better

Peter Kirn - July 27, 2020

You can now patch in Pd inside VCV Rack – modular modular free free

Peter Kirn - July 23, 2020

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