In this article I'm going to take a look at Grip. It's an iOS and Android app built to control Ableton Live from your phone over Wi-Fi, covering setup, session view, arrangement control, voice commands, and whether it's worth using day to day.

Grip isn't the first app to try this.

TouchOSC a...

This article shows you how to build an Ableton Live template you can trust, and gives you mine as a free download.

We'll look at how the template is put together track by track, from drum rack snapshots and Drift sounds through to a sidechain that is already routed and a complete master chain...

This article shows you how to finish more music in Ableton Live.

It is built around a simple system you can repeat around a full time job, a family, and whatever else the week throws at you.

We will look at a 3-step workflow that runs from sketching ideas in Ableton Note, through building them up...

This article shows you how to organise your Ableton Live workflow.

The kind that stops you losing 20 minutes at the start of every session hunting for sounds you already own.

We'll look at the Ableton Live 12 browser, tagging, saved searches, and the user library, and how they work as one system....

This article shows you how to write chord progressions in Ableton Live.

We'll look at using Ableton's built-in Scale Awareness feature and a 4-step system built to create professional sounding chord progressions with minimal to no music theory required.

The same 4-step sequence I have taught to t...

I've taught Ableton Live for over 10 years, online at Push Patterns and in universities, and I've lost count of the people I've watched buy the wrong Ableton hardware.

The Ableton Move vs Ableton Push 3 decision is where most of them go wrong.

On paper it looks like a price question.

The Ableton ...

You know the feeling.

You open Ableton, you want the compressor you used last week, and you spend 5 minutes scrolling plugin lists to find it.

You always meant to sort your favourites out.

Be honest, who does?

That's where the Auriteq Flow controller comes in

The Auriteq Flow loads stock instrume...

The Ableton Push 3 Standalone has been out a few years now, and it's the question I get asked more than almost any other.

Is it still worth buying in 2026?

I've owned mine since launch and I use it most days.

I also teach the Push 3 for a living and built a full course on it, so I've sat with a l...

If you own an Ableton Push 3 and love the sounds Jon Hopkins gets on tracks like 'Emerald Rush,'

Then this is the blog post for you. 

In this blog, I'll show you how you can build out the main synth sound you hear on the track 'Emerald Rush' on the standalone with nothing but stock devices and a ...

RÜFÜS DU SOL drums don't sound like a loop.

They sound alive, like something that keeps moving and shifting underneath the track.

If you want to make your drums sound like RÜFÜS DU SOL in Ableton Live, the first thing to get straight is that the sound doesn't come from 1 plugin or 1 clever trick....

I'll be honest.

I missed this one completely.

I'd been mapping modulation on the Push 3 Standalone the long way round, through a Max for Live workaround, when the hardware could already do it on its own.

It was sitting in the release notes and I walked straight past it.

So this is me putting it r...

There's something about Bicep's music that makes it feel alive in a way most electronic music doesn't.

Their tracks move. Subtly. Constantly, in a way that makes the music feel like it's being played rather than programmed.

For years I assumed it was the gear. The hardware synths, the outboard, t...