“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.” Orson Wells Creative challenges and limitations are a fun and interesting way to improve your skills. The point of these challenges is to create limitations for yourself to work within to help boost your creativity. In fact it’s more difficult to create anything at all then […]
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Over the years as you build your skills you should also be building your own library presets, audio effect, shortcuts and more. An often overlooked feature is the abelton user library. The Ableton user library can be used to store clips, ideas, presets, sound effects and more. Uses for the ableton user library: Of course
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After buying an Akai Mpk49 I wanted to see if there was anyway to use all 16 knobs and faders to control ableton devices. After going down the rabbit hole of ableton python scripts I was successful in creating a control script for the AKAI that allowed 16 parameters to be controlled at once. This
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Superchaining (sidechain compression + filter + gate) – I came across sidechain filtering in ableton after discovering two new musicians; Purity Ring and Breakbot. The first time I heard Purity Ring ‘Lofticries’ [listen here] I had never heard a sound like it, the combination of organic vocal sounds paired with electronic modulations intrigued me. I
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Leapmotion + GECO + Ableton control script A colleague and founder of Enable Music education lent me his leapmotion controller for a little while (thanks Tom!). Leapmotion is an infrared sensor that detects your hand movements which can then be turned into HI or MIDI data. I found it pretty cool but wanted it to
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