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“Tim FaceTimed me, saying, ‘I’m doing this cover and there’s a part I can’t get right. I think you would do great with it’”: Polyphia’s Tim Henson called him his favorite new guitar player. But RJ Pasin considers himself a producer more than a guitarist

After getting clean, Pasin has committed to a formidable work ethic – now he has millions of followers, he’s guested with Bring Me The Horizon, and he’s getting busy with Tim Henson

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How to create an old-school techno lead like Charlotte De Witte

In this lead-focused tutorial, we also walk you through designing an arpeggiated pluck sound inspired by Eli Brown

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Ableton Live 12.1 - 5 things you should know: Auto Shift, Drum Sampler X/Y, MIDI enhancements and more

The chunkiest points in this chunky point upgrade

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"Live 12.1 puts real-time pitch correction within reach for anyone working with vocals": Ableton update brings a new vocal tuner and drum sampler to Live

Live 12.1 also features improved MIDI editing, automatic sample tagging and updated Limiter and Saturator devices

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How to make country-style EDM like Avicii

Time to buckle up and get on your horse as we look at some methods of making country-style EDM

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Ray Volpe: “Sometimes I won’t touch Ableton for two months, then I’ll be in there every day for 14 hours a day cranking out four crazy ideas back to back”

We caught up with bass music titan Ray Volpe to discover how he assembles his brand of crowd-pleasing ultra-bangers fully in-the-box…

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Quick Tips: Fire up your inspiration with Live 12’s Generative Tools

Ableton Live 12 offers some powerful new ways to generate both rhythmic and melodic ideas

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"Any synth with a noise generator can be used for basic drum design": How to synthesize drums using noise

Create your own snares and hi-hats using white noise with Arturia's Pigments synth

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"Distortion can do really interesting things to ambient noise recordings": 6 processing techniques for ambient noise

Some carefully applied processing can transform ambient noise into a versatile tool in your productions

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Ableton wants to “challenge the myth that creativity is something that some people have and others don’t” in its new Doing Music podcast series

Each episode features an artist discussing their creative strategies

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“Ableton is my emotional puke bag!“: Meet GiGi FM, the DJ/producer using gesture motion controllers to make interdimensional club music

Multi-disciplinary artist GiGi FM tells us about using movement and dance to produce synaesthetic bangers in Ableton Live

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"This is a never-before-seen effect yielding unlimited sonic exploration": Alexander Panos' Color Transfer bundle has some of the coolest Max for Live devices we've seen all year

This trio of sonic manipulators is an experimental sound designer's dream

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"I need to make music I want to make, otherwise there's not much point": Kasbo on keeping things simple in the studio and working on his own terms

Birthed from an agonising stress-related hearing loss, and put together in an ABBA-backed prison-turned studio, Kasbo’s third album, The Learning of Urgency is a potent, melody-infused statement from an artist in ascendance

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Quick Tips: How to use Ableton Live 12's new MIDI tools

Live's new generative MIDI tools are a great way to add musical parts that we might not come up with on our own

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“Not just another preset pack”: Expressive E’s Phase Plant Expressive Suite takes Osmose, Ableton Push 3 and other MPE controller owners into whole new dimensions of sound

The perfect partner for Kilohearts' Phase Plant synth is here

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How to make a rave-ready techno track in Ableton Live

Prepare to get fists in the air as we learn the tools, tricks and tempos for nailing the basics of rave-ready techno

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How to use mid/side EQ in Ableton Live: "When we split mid and sides, we can take the opportunity to adjust the levels of these elements individually, and even apply different effects to them"

Mid/side EQ is a mixing technique that can be put to practical or creative use, and Live has what we need to apply it

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“Make your music sound more like you”: Forever 89, the new company from Teenage Engineering and Ableton alumni, has released Visco, a flexible sample-modelling drum machine

Sounds can grabbed, pushed and pulled using “the blob”

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Let’s make a track in the style of Fred Again.. and DJ Seinfeld

Watch us build a melodic house track using FM’s Sample Archive in under an hour

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Avid plays catch-up with Ableton as new Pro Tools update brings "music creators powerful new ways to work with MIDI"

Pro Tools 2024.3 also benefits from live re-rendering in Dolby Atmos Renderer and improved integration with Pro Tools Sketch

MusicRadar

Ableton Live 12 is here: everything you need to know - new devices, MIDI additions, workflow changes and more

The next edition of Live has landed with a new synth, MIDI tools, a refreshed interface and more

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“Unlocks a new layer of compositional creativity that was absent from previous versions”: Ableton Live 12 Suite review

With the arrival of Live 12.2, we revisit and update our review for 2025

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8 things I love about Ableton Live (and 2 that I really don't): "Live's greatest strength is that it feels like the DAW itself is an instrument"

In the first of a new series exploring why music-makers choose their DAWs, Chris Cartledge talks us through the reasons behind his affection for Ableton

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Ableton on Live 12's accessibility revolution: "When you say 'accessibility is not on your roadmap', you’re cutting out a lot of musicians from being able to use the tools that you make"

Ableton’s Accessibility Specialist Adi Dickens and blind musician Andre Louis speak to us about Live 12 and Note’s improved accessibility for the visually impaired

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Diplo reveals his favourite soft synths and the "quintessential" Ableton stock plugin that's "fundamental" to his productions: "That's where all my sounds started from"

The Grammy-winning producer talks soft synths and TB-303s in a recently published excerpt from the Tape Notes podcast

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