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In 2021 I ordered the Avalon Bassline, a TB-303 clone from Abstrakt Instruments, paying just over $1,000. The synth was in high demand and the company’s website was often inaccessible because of heavy traffic. I considered myself lucky to be able to place an order. Production was repeatedly delayed — the company cited pandemic-related supply [ ]
Many hip hop musicians are used to play beats with pad MIDI controllers like Ableton Push, Maschine, or MPC. To be honest, hip hop is not my favorite music style, but I’m envious of their dexterity when playing pads. Today, I stumbled over Melodics. Melodics is an app like Guitar Hero for Mac and PC. [ ]
I’m wondering from time to time how can I improve my creativity by improvisation. What I mean is recording myself while playing an virtual instrument or drums with Ableton Push. I also expect more expressive and varying results. We all know how music often sounds, when music is created by editing the piano roll with [ ]
At the latest since Ableton Push came out its key layout became popular. This key layout is called isomorphic note layout. But this idea is not new; accordions using various isomorphic keyboards have been built since the 19th century. In contrast to Push s in key mode all notes are part of the layout, so you [ ]
After discussing NI Maschine s output routing in my post NI Maschine’s (output) routing, we able to map Maschine s output to different Ableton channels. Let s see what s our plan. So, we will rout each Maschine group into a different Ableton channel. Unfortunately there is no automation for this step. You have to select each Maschine group [ ]
Hello! Yes, I m back. Today I would like to tell you something about NI Maschine s default output routing. I was stumbling over this subject while routing every group to a different output channel in Ableton Live. This will be the second part of this series. But everything at its time and on its place. This [ ]
Hello folks, today I d like to start a small series about Native Instruments Massive currently one of the most popular virtual synthesizers. Just as many of you I would like to create my own Massive patches, my own distinctive sounds. There are so many video tutorials. Most of them are step by step tutorials [ ]
Today, I like to generate drum fills with the help of Ableton s MIDI effects. My starting point is a drum rack with samples I made and a programmed drum pattern: The drum beat sounds no so bad, but probably a bit boring. I would like to get something like that: And here is the way [ ]
Hurray, the Hear And Know annual-wordpress-report 2012 is done! The numbers are growing. Thank you for your comments. I wish all visitors a happy new year! Much has happened in 2012. We almost got Ableton Live 9 and Push. I can t wait to check it out. It was the first time that I tried to [ ]
Originally posted on WornOutJunkie : Modulok is one of the entries of the KVR Developer Challenge 2012 and my favorite so far, Modulok is a sample pack by WaveShaper, made with a couple of vintage synths, two semi-modular synths and some analog effects. It features more than 360 unique samples and are really well organized into