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Play together with Ableton Live, pt. 1: playing in tune
Feeling the need to make music making a little less solitary? In this multi-part series, we’ll be exploring some resources for adapting Ableton Live to playing with others — playing in tune, in sync, sharing ideas, and producing together. So let’s start as instrumental ensembles do: by tuning up.
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Sonify data in Ableton Live with a free MIDI Tool; weather data walkthrough
Now, raw data can be a musical source in Ableton Live 12 Clips — for free. Manifest Audio’s Datafree shows the potential of Live’s Generators, transforming any pasted numbers into music and sound. There’s a deeper rabbit hole to go down, but here’s a great way to start. Let’s try it with freely accessible climate data and make some weather-based melodies.
Guide: Creating instruments with Max for Live and Ableton DSP (pt. 3)
For the final episode in this trilogy on learning Max for Live and Ableton DSP Objects, we’re going to keep the focus on working fast. We’ll learn how to use Ableton DSP to prototype instruments quickly, play expressively, and hack them with some tricks and mods beyond what the stock Live Instruments provide.
Ableton Live Suite now has a rent-to-own, installment payment option
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Swimmer is a weird and wonderful modulation source for Ableton Live
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These retro and SGI-inspired Ableton Live themes will make you smile
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