Artist/Producer, Ableton Certified Trainer and Berklee College of Music Electronic Production and Design professor Dan Freeman will be teaching an 5 session, 30 hour intensive course on Music Production with Ableton Live 12 from August 19-23, 2024. The course will meet daily that week from 12 – 6 at Park Slope’s ShapeShifter Lab (837 Union St.) and is for up to 15 students
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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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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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(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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Hi everyone: As everything gets crazier, more people are going to have to spend more time essentially locked into their houses. We’ve taken our classes online here at DJLab in San Jose, Costa Rica and through trial and error, have come up with a solid system for teaching music production online that we wanted to
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BACKGROUND: In 2005, shortly after my son was born, I realized that I needed another source of income. I had been making somewhat of a living playing gigs around New York City as a bass player which included playing in musical theater pit orchestras, gospel churches, studio sessions with singer/songwriters and even some weddings.
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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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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 and complained to that, as a bass player, I really didn’t like to perform electronic music while standing up behind a table. She suggested that I should
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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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Una de las partes más aburridas de la producción, pero una de las más importantes para terminar correctamente una cancion, es prepararla para la mezcla. Cuando las personas creen que la producción musical es un trabajo sexy y glamoroso, ciertamente no están pensando en el tiempo que se pasó preparando una pista para la mezcla.
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