Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds. Learning Synths — Get started. Get started making sounds. Drag in the box below to play a synthesizer. If you don’t hear anything, make sure your sound is on and the volume is. Dec 09, 2009 Hello everyone. I recently purchase Ableton Live 11 Intro and I’m attempting to establish the connection between TouchDesigner and Ableton Live 11 Intro, but with little success.
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Weekly Schedule
All classes at 1pm ET.
Tuesdays: CREATIVE RECIPES
Recipes for creative work straight from my own kitchen, with a new creative challenge for you each week.
Thursdays: TECHNICAL DIVES
Ableton Training Online
Deep exploration of instruments, effects, mixing, and more.
Saturdays: STUDIO CLASS
Instead of looking at my project, we'll all look at one of yours. I'll help you improve the work and your workflow, explaining tools and techniques to everyone along the way. I'll pick 1-2 people each week. They'll usually come from our class, but occasionally I'll bring in other artists I admire so we can see how they work. Send me a work-in-progress if you'd like to be considered.
Upcoming classes
All classes are now taking place on my Twitch stream. All classes 1pm ET.
Summer break
Past Classes
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Wednesday 3/18 - First look at Ableton
Friday 3/20 - Working with Drums
Tuesday 3/24 - Recording, Simpler, MIDI FX
Thursday 3/26 - Introduction to Sound Design: Effects / MIDI Mapping / Automation
Saturday 3/28 - Creative Editing: Breakbeat / Composing as Tidying Up
Tuesday 3/31 - Arranging / Song structure
Thursday 4/2 - Build ups
Tuesday 4/7 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Play Your Instrument
Thursday 4/9 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Mixing 1 - Clarity [4 EQ techniques]
Saturday 4/11 - STUDIO CLASS: Nathan Schram + Brad Balliett
Tuesday 4/14 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Variation Technique 1 - MIDI
Thursday 4/16 1pm ET - TECHNICAL DIVE: Mixing 2 - Presence [Compression]
Saturday 4/18 1pm ET - STUDIO CLASS: Jan Esbra
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Tuesday 4/21 1pm ET - CREATIVE RECIPE: Variation Technique 2 - Audio [Resampling]
Thursday 4/23- TECHNICAL DIVE: Mixing 3 - Space [Reverb]
Saturday 4/25 - STUDIO CLASS: Mike Alfieri
Tuesday 4/28 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Beat Study
Thursday 4/30 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Mixing 4 - Step By Step
Saturday 5/2 - STUDIO CLASS: Hamilton Berry
Tuesday 5/5 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Write better melodies
Thursday 5/7 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Synthesis 1: Subtractive Synthesis basics with Helm
Saturday 5/9 - STUDIO CLASS + CONCERT: Nick Revel
Tuesday 5/12 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Write better chord progressions
Thursday 5/14 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Synthesis 2: Analog (Ableton instrument)
Saturday 5/16 - STUDIO CLASS: Alyssa Weinberg
Tuesday 5/19 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Write better counterpoint
Thursday 5/21 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Synthesis 3: Operator
Saturday 5/23 - STUDIO CLASS: Jacob Shulman
League lore. Helium element square. Tuesday 5/26 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Sampling Workout
Thursday 5/28 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Synthesis 3: Wavetable
Saturday 5/30 - STUDIO CLASS: Alyssa Weinberg
Tuesday 6/2 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Randomness & Generative Music
Thursday 6/4 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Beat Repeat
Saturday 6/6 - STUDIO CLASS: Jon A
Tuesday 6/9 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Everything from a Single Sample
Thursday 6/11 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Racks
Saturday 6/13 - STUDIO CLASS: Cancelled
Tuesday 6/16 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Make Everything from a Single Sample
Thursday 6/18 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Simpler
Tuesday 6/23 - CREATIVE RECIPE: Jazz (-> hip hop) Harmony
Thursday 6/25 - TECHNICAL DIVE: Sampler
Developed by a team of producers and sound designers including Sound Oracle, Mic Checkmate and Michele Darling, this collection of sounds puts everything you need for making beats in one place. Drum Racks are packed with percussive hits, bass and melodic samples so you can work on tight-knit ideas for groove and melody together. And more than 100 Instrument Racks offer a huge sound palette to create a range of moods – from weighty bass and smooth electric pianos, to icy pads and sharp leads.
Plus there are 182 audio loops for chopping up and creating new grooves and melodies, as well as almost 100 MIDI clips for reworking into your own beats, and showing you what the kits can do.
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Beatmaking flow with Push
The Pack is set up for sparking ideas and keeping you in your flow – especially with Push. Drum kits and Instrument Racks come with processing and effects chains that sound great right off the bat. Eight Macros are carefully set up for creative tweaking and sound design directly from Push; take your bass booms from pure to gritty in just a few tweaks. Instruments also make use of expressive Push features like pad aftertouch.
Pack contents
- 102 Instrument Racks – including bass, keys, leads, pads and effects, designed for Live’s native synths or multisampled from analog gear
- 27 Drum Racks – from crisp drum machine rhythms to lo-fi samples, with tweakable Effect Racks
- 97 MIDI clips & 182 audio loops – premade kit patterns and audio loops and phrases to slice, rework and spark ideas of your own
- 15 Effect Racks – creative chains set up for using the eight Macro controls to maximum effect.
- 5 demo sets – Live sets that showcase some the Pack’s creative potential
- Samples provided by MVP Loops and MSX Audio
Learn finger drumming
Ableton Live Lessons Online
Practice your finger drumming skills with Melodics, a standalone app that offers a great way to learn and refine your playing. Melodics have created a free set of lessons based on BMaul’s video performance, using the sounds from the Beat Tools Sound Pack.