Music on the go – Auxy app now has tweakable sounds, Ableton export

For all the app choices in music, a lot feel like plug-ins crammed onto the mobile screen. Auxy may have the essential combination of ingredients – a simple, quick UI, but now the ability to make sketches you finish in Ableton Live, and sounds you can more easily tweak. Auxy always had an elegant, approachable […]

Leakage is a freaky Ableton Live bass machine, Wavetable monster, from $0

It’s an automatic glitching bass. It’s a transformative set of 128 Wavetable sounds. It’s a Max for Live chaining device. It’s all of that – it’s Leakage, the free/pay-what-you-will Ableton Live creation from Tom Cosm. The idea is to give you ever-changing bassline sounds each time you hit a note, for colorful and glitchy results. […]

Peter Kirn - July 10, 2019

Learn synthesis basics in your browser, free, with Ableton

If you still don’t know your LFO from your amplitude envelope from your square oscillator – or you’re trying to answer this for someone else – Ableton have made everything visual and playable and sonic, in a browser, for free.

Peter Kirn - June 26, 2019

Ableton Live 10.1 is out now; here are the first things you should try

Peter Kirn - May 28, 2019

Free Downgrade turns Ableton Live into lo-fi wobbly vaporwave tape

Peter Kirn - April 17, 2019

Use Ableton Live faster with the free Live Enhancement Suite

Peter Kirn - March 11, 2019

Generate wavetables for free, for Ableton Live 10.1 and other synths

Peter Kirn - February 26, 2019

Ableton Live 10.1: more sound shaping, work faster, free update

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2019

APC as standalone hardware? Leaked Akai APC Live

Peter Kirn - January 2, 2019

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