https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/techniques/sound-design/Latest entries for the tag Sound DesignenTue, 14 Jan 2025 09:42:22 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/discover-advanced-reharmonizing-techniques-with-live-121s-auto-shift/See how Hong Kong-based producer Voel uses Live 12.1's new Auto Shift device in combination with Resonators to reharmonize atonal and dissonant sounds into vivid, hyperpop-adjacent new forms. Follow along and try the Rack for yourself. Keep up with Voel on YouTube and Instagram Learn more about Live 12.1, and…Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:42:22 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/discover-advanced-reharmonizing-techniques-with-live-121s-auto-shift/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/download-the-live-set-of-polygonias-new-track-neon-oracle/Few artists demonstrate such a multifaceted talent and the poise to balance it all quite like Polygonia, the musical alias of Lindsey Wang. Having risen to prominence with an impressive combination of technical mastery and artistic refinement, her work exemplifies a cross-disciplinary approach marked by a deep reverence for visual…Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:38:52 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/download-the-live-set-of-polygonias-new-track-neon-oracle/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/drum-sampler-exploring-live-121s-new-device-with-ned-rush/Live 12.1 sees the introduction of Drum Sampler, a device designed for – but by no means limited to – playing and manipulating percussive sounds. Watch as Ned Rush explores everything Drum Sampler is capable of, by putting together a hyperactive, glitched-out track from just one short vocal sample. See…Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:19:02 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/drum-sampler-exploring-live-121s-new-device-with-ned-rush/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/one-thing-leads-to-another-100-music-making-inspirations/Back in 2017, we started the One Thing video series with the idea of bringing you monthly snack-sized portions of music-making inspiration directly from the workspaces of amazing artists around the world. Having now reached our 100th One Thing episode, we wanted to take a look back, thank the artists…Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:27:09 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/one-thing-leads-to-another-100-music-making-inspirations/ArtistsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/cavetown-on-home-fame-and-songwriting-as-therapy/Proudly DIY artist Cavetown describes the motivations behind his distinctive, disarmingly honest songs. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform. On the first episode of Doing Music, Robin Skinner talks to host Craig Schuftan about his open-hearted, vulnerable songwriting and production as Cavetown. Since breaking through on…Thu, 16 May 2024 12:51:37 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/cavetown-on-home-fame-and-songwriting-as-therapy/Podcastshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/against-the-grain-creative-applications-of-granulator-iii/In his latest video, Pick Yourself shares experimental sound design techniques combining smartphone recordings with Live 12’s Granulator III. Learn to create anything from bass sounds to eerie pads using the same vocal sample, then explore its limits: reducing the grain size until the sound self-oscillates, or using spread to…Wed, 29 May 2024 06:46:05 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/against-the-grain-creative-applications-of-granulator-iii/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/shapeshifting-sound-design-explorations-with-roar/Get to know the many faces of Roar – as Seed to Stage transforms simple sine waves and static drum loops into layers of evolving texture. In this tutorial, you’ll learn to use Roar’s modulation matrix to create everything from bitcrushed formants to complex wavetable morphing effects, and explore the…Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:46:00 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/shapeshifting-sound-design-explorations-with-roar/DownloadsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/roar-meet-live-12s-new-processing-powerhouse/When a sound lacks character, saturation and distortion are two of the most powerful tools in a music-maker’s kit. They can be used to give an acoustic guitar subtle warmth, help vocals cut through a busy mix or totally degrade a synth line into a chaotic wall of noise. Roar…Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:06:09 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/roar-meet-live-12s-new-processing-powerhouse/NewsTutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/shaping-surprises-sound-design-concepts-with-meld/Shuddering basslines, Shepard tones, and crafty cross-modulation – in this video tutorial, Side Brain guides you through some of the sound-sculpting possibilities of Live 12’s new macro oscillator synth. Learn to get the most out of Meld’s expansive modulation matrix, use its LFOs to create euclidean rhythms, and even layer…Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:38:36 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/shaping-surprises-sound-design-concepts-with-meld/DownloadsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/meld-a-look-at-live-12s-new-bi-timbral-synth/Don’t you love it when a sound you make by accident changes your music for the better? Or when a moment of undirected noodling sparks a new idea altogether? Live 12 Suite’s new macro oscillator synthesizer Meld is designed to make these unexpected successes a bit more likely to happen.…Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:57:58 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/meld-a-look-at-live-12s-new-bi-timbral-synth/NewsTutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-zan-lyons/Zan Lyons’s audiovisual pieces plunge us into unsettling interpretations of everyday life. With a first look at his new piece, Terminal, Zan explains how he prepares synchronized snippets of sound and video using key mapping and a Max for Live device – then adds panning and reverb to place sounds…Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:58:02 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-zan-lyons/ArtistsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/low-end-theory-make-four-classic-bass-sounds-in-live/Squelchy 303s, a wobbling Reese, plucky synth hits and booming 808s – learn simple ways to create four essential bass sounds in Live with cnstruct’s latest tutorial. Add character using Live’s Audio Effects, and save the Instrument Racks to your library for later use – or download the free project…Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:58:33 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/low-end-theory-make-four-classic-bass-sounds-in-live/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/drift-exploring-the-new-synth-in-live-113/Part of what makes the sound of a classic analog synth so good is its unpredictability. Play two oscillators at the same time and you’ll often hear them going in and out of sync with each other or detuning, creating sonic artifacts that make the instrument feel like a living,…Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:43:20 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/drift-exploring-the-new-synth-in-live-113/NewsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/george-fitzgerald-personal-stamp/When music makers talk about improvements to their creative flow, they’re usually referring to a new instrument, an untapped sound source or perhaps a fresh approach to processing. They’re rarely referring to the unfinished sketches and dead ends that litter their hard drives. But for George FitzGerald, these eight-bar loops…Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:49:46 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/george-fitzgerald-personal-stamp/ArtistsTutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/freeze-delay-and-deconstruct-sound-design-with-spectral-time/In his latest video, Seed to Stage explores the Spectral Time device introduced in Live 11, walking you through its many sonic possibilities to create a myriad of trippy sounds, from metallic, glitched-out stutters to washed-out ambience and head-flipping stereo effects. Based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT), a mathematical…Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:45:36 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/freeze-delay-and-deconstruct-sound-design-with-spectral-time/TutorialsVideos