DeafMan transforms Ableton Live with custom colors, interactive editor

DeafMan’s creations for Ableton Live have evolved from a selection of cool retro themes to a vast library of complete color makeovers — a “visual system.” And there’s an insanely powerful new editor for managing themes, tweaking colors, creating customizations, and assigning color to tracks. It’s more than just customization: it’s a way of thinking about your workspace and music in hues and shades.*

Spring cleaning: free up space by deleting duplicate plug-ins

It turns out you don’t need VST2 and AU and AAX and CLAP versions of the same plug-in. Here’s a free, fast command-line tool that gets rid of them in a hurry, with options for particular configurations, on macOS.

Peter Kirn - April 27, 2026

FFAB unlocks the batch audio powers of the free ffmpeg with a GUI

FFmpeg, the free multimedia toolkit, is so powerful that, honestly, it’s entirely possible not to know all that it can do. For audio, the new FFAB offers a graphical front-end on Mac and Linux, with real-time preview, drag-and-drop filters, parallel processing, and useful visualizations that even command line lovers won’t want to miss.

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2026

littlescale’s Simple Audio Editor: a free, no-install audio editor in your browser

Peter Kirn - January 18, 2026

Black Friday: pimp my Live with the best add-ons

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2025

Make doodles in Ableton Live, then animate them, with Klottra

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2025

Push:Cue Mode turns Warp Markers into launchable cue points

Peter Kirn - November 7, 2025

Organize that mess of projects into one place, free, with SessionDock

Peter Kirn - November 4, 2025

Mute on your Push like it’s an Elektron — Push:Mute Mode

Peter Kirn - September 10, 2025