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Insights and Inspiration: Seven Favorites from 2018
Ableton’s seven favorite blog posts from 2018 including free downloads, tutorial videos, articles, interviews and more.
A Personal Take: Lawrence English on Listening
Lawrence English expounds on the creative act of listening – a 5 Takes video from Loop 2018 in Los Angeles
Singularities by Ableton: A Free Pack for all Live 10 Users
Singularities is a Pack of authentically vintage, single-sample Instrument Racks built from classic synthesizers – free for Live 10 users.
Alice Ivy: Dream Sequence In Progress
Ableton interview with Alice Ivy. The Melbourne musician details her sampling-based songwriting process. Free artist sample pack download included.
The Sights and Sounds of Loop 2018
A look back at the sights, sounds and community reactions from Loop 2018 in Los Angeles.
Plattenspieler: A Listening Session with Gilles Peterson
Video of Gilles Peterson at Ableton Loop playing and discussing Brazilian pop music, Nigerian high life, American jazz, British drum and bass and more.
Laughing Through the Tears: Chrissy on Rave and Resilience
Chrissy (ex-Murderbot) on his album Resilience, which uses rave sounds of the 90s to explore themes of love and positivity. Free Ableton Racks download included.
Ableton Link – The Latest Platforms, Products, and Possibilities
A look at the latest platforms, products, and possibilities with Ableton Link, a technology that keeps Link-enabled software and hardware in time over a local network.
Hidden Hearing Loss: The Origins of Common Hearing Disorders
Sound engineer and psychology professor Susan Rogers details recent experiments which have uncovered potential explanations for hearing disorders like tinnitus
Laura Escudé: One Thing Leads to Another
Laura Escudé explains the technique shown in her One Thing video with a behind the scenes look and free Live Set, plus a device download courtesy of Tom Cosm
Probability Pack by Sonic Faction: New in Live 10 Suite
Probability Pack is a new Pack for Live 10 Suite featuring five creative sequencers that introduce probability and chance to your melodic and rhythmic ideas
Motors, Magnets and Motion: Electronic Instruments from the Physical World
Video presentation of unique, hybrid electronic/physical instruments made by Alice Eldridge, Gijs Gieskes and Koka Nikoladze. Filmed at Ableton Loop 2017.
Sounds from the Polish Radio Experimental Studio
Free Pack download of weird and wonderful 1970s sci-fi sounds, loops and effects from the legendary Polish Radio Experimental Studio.
Wavetable: How to Build a Whole Track with Live’s New Synth
Ableton Live 10 video tutorial with Sonic State and Certified Trainer Simon Stokes building a track from scratch with the Wavetable synthesizer.
BUN / Fumitake Tamura: Trans-Pacific Express
Japanese producer Fumitake Tamura discusses his sampling process, sidechain compression and gate techniques, and collaborations. Free download included.
DJ Step1: Scratch, Sample and Push
Video of DJ Step1 doing an impressive one-take Push performance and then explaining her set-up with Ableton Live
X-Altera: Not Faking The Funk
Ableton interview with Detroit producer Tadd Mullinix on the techniques behind X-Altera, Dabrye, James T Cotton, Soundmurderer & SK-1.