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Ableton BlogMakersMade in Ableton Live: ODNP Watch ODNP make an ambient pop track by layering aquatic synths, chopped-up field recordings, and resampled granular sounds.

10.22

Ableton BlogMakersCarmen Villain: Music Is A Cracked Mirror Carmen Villain discusses the gear and processes she used in the making of her album Memoria. Plus, she shares a free Ableton Project download.

10.16

Ableton BlogMakersPolygonia: Shaping Splice Samples with Ableton Live Polygonia takes us through her process of finding samples with Splice and shaping them into something of her own using Ableton Live.

10.07

Ableton BlogMakersWatch MadD3E Carve Chaos into Funk with Move Watch MadD3E create a future funk-style beat using Move’s built-in instruments, effects, microphone, and sampling tools.

10.01

Ableton BlogMakersLearn Music Production in Live Lite: A Complete Beginner Course Learn how to create melodies, craft drums, use effects, arrange and mix your track, and more in this comprehensive introduction to Live Lite.

09.28

Ableton BlogMakersStoic: From Doechii’s Bullfrog to Cooking Up Paella Coming off a Grammy win for Doechii, Brooklyn beatmaker Stoic reflects on coming up and his new album Paella. The free download includes dozens of beats.

09.28

Ableton BlogMakersMachinedrum: Planting Seeds Machinedrum discusses BL00MS, a dancefloor-focused release shaped by an increasingly mobile Ableton and Note-based creative process. Free Live Set included.

09.10

Ableton BlogMakersMade in Ableton Live: KVNDRA Watch KVNDRA design drum and synth sounds, then build a flexible performance template for a melodic house track.

09.09

Ableton BlogMakersA Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Rhythmic Pads Learn how to transform sustained pads into rhythmic patterns with volume automation.

09.03

Ableton BlogMakersCinna Peyghamy: Tombak To The Future Interview with percussionist and composer Cinna Peyghamy about how he made his album Music For Tombak & Synth in Ableton Live. Free Live Set included.

09.03

Ableton BlogMakersItal Tek: Chasing Accidents Long-time Planet Mu artist Ital Tek on the making of his new album Mind Abandon and Ableton’s role. A free download includes synth loops and guitar samples.

08.28

Ableton BlogMakersA Step-by-Step Guide for Producing R&B Drums Learn how to produce, sequence, and mix R&B drums using MIDI programming, effects, bus processing, and more.

08.20

Ableton BlogMakersSudan Archives: Vintage Strings, Modern Gadgets From vintage strings to modern gadgets, Sudan Archives discusses fiddle culture, and her creative process in the studio and on stage.

08.20

Ableton BlogMakersSketch a Track in Note and Finish it in Live with LNA Does Audio Stuff Watch LNA Does Audio Stuff sketch a track in Note, then arrange, polish, and finish it in Live.

08.06

Ableton BlogMakersCreate Your First Track in Ableton Live with Bad Snacks Learn the fundamentals of Ableton Live in this eight-part beginner series hosted by artist and educator Bad Snacks.

07.31

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.