A Free Bass Synth

Hi everyone: Here’s a synth that I built using Ableton’s Operator to get a very 90’s house bass sound. Download it free here. Check out the video below on how it’s used. Enjoy!
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3 Free Ableton Audio Effects Racks

  I wanted to share 3 Audio Effects Racks that I designed for Ableton Live.  These can be used for performance or production. (Click here for the download until September 1, 2020) I encourage you to open up the racks and see how I got them to work.  You should be able to simply load
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20 Great Live Electronic Music Performances Using Ableton Live: Post #1

(Aqui para la version en Español) In the past month I have taught two online classes on live performance with Ableton Live and laptops – one for DJLab’s (Costa Rica) Certificate Program in Music Production with Ableton Live and one at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.  It is a particularly strange time to
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Future Musical Instruments – Say ‘Hi’ to Blinky

A year ago, I had the pleasure of working with the great jazz pianist Rachel Z in my studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn.  I showed her my live set-up, which at the time looked like this, and complained that, as a bass player, I really didn’t like to perform electronic music while standing up behind a
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The 5 Qualities of A Master Producer – Lessons from a Sushi Chef

This was originally published in 2013 in the Dubspot blog… Just over a year ago, I saw the film Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. It’s a documentary about Jiro Ono, an 85-year-old considered to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. The movie is a beautiful piece, and is really a study of what it takes to
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ClyphX – The Ultimate Live Performance Tool for Ableton Live. P1

  Of all the DAWs currently on the market, Ableton Live is arguably the best suited for live performance.  This makes sense considering the ability to use it live is built into the DNA of the program (hence the “Live”) and it is also the only of the widely used programs created by performing musicians
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