In this article, we'll look at how to choose the right Ableton export settings for your track.
We'll look at what every option does in the Ableton Live 12 export window.
Then I'll show you the settings I use depending on where the file is being sent.
I've had my fair share of experience exp...
In this article I'm going to take a look at the 8 best free VST plugins for Ableton Live, covering what each one does and the settings I reach for when I use it.
Between them they replace nearly ÂŁ500 of paid plugins.
None of these sound rubbish.
Some of them cost real money not long ago, an...
In this article I'm going to walk through the best MacBook for music production in Ableton Live, covering the chip, MacBook Air vs MacBook Pro, screen size, RAM, storage, and whether to buy new or refurbished.
Apple gives you a lot of ways to spend too much money on a laptop.
By the end you'...
This article shows you 15 Ableton Live tips I wish I'd known when I started.
We'll look at finding sounds faster in the browser, the shortcuts worth learning, mixing tricks with stock devices, racks, templates and Ableton Cloud.
These took me 15 years of producing, touring and teaching Ablet...
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...
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...
RĂśFĂśS 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 RĂśFĂśS 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....
Back in lockdown, Cassian did a live stream and revealed something the production community considers borderline criminal.
Reverb on a kick drum.
Now before you go and call the producer, please, he's not doing what you think.
Reverb on a kick drum has a bad reputation for a reason.
Get it wrong a...
