Made in Ableton Live: Bad Snacks
See how Bad Snacks slices up live takes from her electric violin and works with lo-fi effects processing to make a warm and melodious house track.
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Made in Ableton Live: Rachel K Collier
Check out Rachel K Collier using looping channels and intuitive audio routing to make an uplifting club track shaped by the sound of her own voice.
Made in Ableton Live: Eomac
Watch Eomac sample sounds from the street on his phone to create a full-frequency sample pack, and make a driving techno track with the resulting parts.
Made in Ableton Live: Abayomi
Check out Abayomi’s approach to making a detailed, melodic techno track using unique presets and creative arrangement techniques.
Made in Ableton Live: Keychee
Watch Keychee create a hard-stepping hit of hip hop-flavored funk using Drum Racks, finger drumming and parallel and sidechain compression.
Made in Ableton Live: Novaa
See Novaa remix one of her own tracks using layered vocal treatments, pitched percussion and more to make a brooding slice of modern pop.
Made in Ableton Live: Underbelly
Watch Underbelly demonstrate the importance of energy levels and how to engineer monstrous montage basslines using a range of sample sources.
Made in Ableton Live: Anna Disclaim
Learn how to convert your own voice recordings into MIDI data to generate new musical material as Anna Disclaim creates a distinctive strain of pop-noir.
Made in Ableton Live: Freddie Joachim
Freddie Joachim chops up some Rhodes samples, slices drum breaks and lays down some live guitar in Ableton Live.
From the Ground Up: Watch Tracks Being Built in Our Video Series, Made in Ableton Live
The Made In Ableton Live video series shows artists from different genres taking a track from conception to completion
Download the Live Set of Eluize’s New Track “EMDR”
Berlin-based house and techno producer Eluize lifts the lid on her creative process, with a free Live set download to see how she works.
Organized Chaos: Generate Complex Patterns with MIDI Effects
Learn how to create complex patterns using Live’s MIDI devices with a new tutorial video from Seed To Stage
Pad It Out: 10 Ways to Make Distinctive Pad Sounds
Sound designer Richard Veenstra outlines 10 tips to make your pad sounds stand out. Audio examples included.
Signature Sound: How to Make Your Own Instruments in Simpler
Video tutorial by Ransby showing how to create your own unique instruments in Simpler
How to Make Unique Sounds in Live: Part 2
Watch a tutorial video that shares inventive ways of making unique sounds using Live’s native Effects.
Enter the Temple of Boom: Acoustic Kicks
Resonance, boominess and body – learn all about the acoustic kick drum, complete with mixing tips from producer Abe Seiferth.
Beyond the Echo Chamber: Inventive Effects Using Live’s Delay Devices
In this video, ELPHNT demonstrates creative approaches to Live’s native delay devices to create effects such as chorus, flange, pitch-shift and stereo width.
Complex Beatmaking with Seed to Stage
Seed to Stage explores three different methods for using generative and random glitch effects to create interesting drum patterns.