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Ableton Live Tip: Sequencing on the Fly and Insert Captured Scene
For some time, I’ve been using a fantastic keyboard shortcut in Ableton Live called Insert Captured Scene. It has the potential to save you a lot of time and allow you to further enhance your zen-like ability…
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Free Ableton Live Pack by Dennis DeSantis
Eariler this year, Computer Music magazine had a special issue on Ableton Live 6 with an exclusive Live Pack designed by Dennis DeSantis. The issue sold out making the Live Pack difficult to come by. Good news,…
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Hey Live Lite Users – Ableton Has Announced an Upgrade Path for ALL Lite Versions
If you have got Ableton Live bundled with another product, now is your chance to upgrade to the full version. In the past, upgrade paths were limited. Now Ableton is allowing upgrades from all bundled packages which…
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Espionage and Other Free Presets for Ableton Live 6 by The Covert Operators
Looking for some free presets for Ableton Live 6? Checkout the Covert Operators download page at http://www.thecovertoperators.org/archives/category/downloads/. The newest download they offer is Espionage – a collection of sounds from from their past and future commercial projects.…
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Ableton Live 6.0.7 Free Updrade Now Available
Ableton has released Live 6.0.7, a minor bug-fix update. This page offers a list of what’s fixed: http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62551. You can download this version here: http://www.ableton.com/latest_versions
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The Insider’s Guide to Ableton Live
Ableton.com just announced that "For the second year in a row, Computer Music magazine has dedicated a special issue exclusively to Ableton Live. The Insider’s Guide to Ableton Live features a mix of both beginner and advanced…
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Ableton Live Update 6.0.3 is Now Available
Ableton has released an update to Live – version 6.0.3. What’s new in Ableton Live 6.0.3? It contains many bug fixes as well as some minor improvements. I’ll high lite a few improvements and fixes below, but…
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Ableton Live 6 Tip: How to quickly select a device in a chain or rack
Prior to Ableton Live 6, to select a device in a chain you had to use your mouse to scroll through the list of devices. This made finding and selecting devices rather tedious when a large number…
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Faderfox Control Surfaces for Ableton Live and Traktor Now Available in US
A German company called Faderfox has developed 2 control surfaces optimized for Ableton Live and 2 for Traktor. These control surfaces look fantastic. I was curious how we get them in the US, so I emailed Faderfox…
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Ableton Live 6 – Uses for Instrument Racks
The concept of creating a patch with splits and layers is missing, or is difficult to configure on a lot of software-based virtual studios. With Ableton Live 6 this is now easy to achieve by using Instrument…
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Ableton Live 6 – Overview of rack types, rack presets, and how to insert a preset
One of my favorite new features of Ableton Live 6 is the new "rack" feature. According to the manual, there are three different types of racks: MIDI Effect Racks contain only MIDI effects, and can only be…
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Ableton Live 6 and Sampler now Available!!!
Ableton Live 6 and Ableton Sampler have released. Below are links related to each: Ableton Live 6: Ableton Live 6 Overview Page Press release for Ableton Live 6 What’s new in Live 6 Video Ableton Sampler: Ableton…
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Video of new ableton instrument – Sampler
I mentioned in a prevous post that Ableton announced a new sampling instrument called Sampler. According to Ableton "Sampler is a new sampling instrument that brings powerful multisample playback and profound new sound design capabilities to Ableton…
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Ableton Live Video – What’s New in Live 6
I found this video on youtube which offers highlights on new features in Live 6. If for some reason you can’t see the embeded video player in my blog, use this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cduNz5DNFSc.