https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/techniques/sampling/Latest entries for the tag SamplingenWed, 12 Feb 2025 10:58:14 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/brendon-moeller-life-begins-at-170/Sometimes, opening up a whole new well of inspiration is as simple as turning the tempo dial. Having spent more than 20 years exploring deep, dubby house and techno around the 120 BPM mark, nothing could have prepared Brendon Moeller for the shift in his music-making when he decided to…Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:58:14 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/brendon-moeller-life-begins-at-170/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/how-to-create-a-jungle-inspired-track-on-ableton-move/Watch Side Brain build a jungle-inspired beat in under 20 minutes on Ableton Move. He'll show you how to quickly lay down a drum track using the sequencer, add ear candy with per-step automation, then capture a rumbling, sub-heavy bassline. Stick around to see him create a dreamy pad using…Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:57:19 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/how-to-create-a-jungle-inspired-track-on-ableton-move/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/lukid-on-re-sampling-sketches-and-getting-music-finished/Acclaimed leftfield beat producer Lukid talks about the art of re-sampling yourself and the quest to get music finished. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform. On the latest episode of Doing Music, Luke Blair talks to host Craig Shuftan about his archive of unfinished sketches and…Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:16:41 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/lukid-on-re-sampling-sketches-and-getting-music-finished/Podcastshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/zora-jones-on-learning-to-sing-to-sample-herself/Experimental bass music artist Zora Jones talks about learning to sing, producing for vocalists, designing AV spaces for clubbing utopia and fandom making the best music. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform. On this episode of Doing Music, Zora Jones talks to Craig Schuftan about the…Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:21:41 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/zora-jones-on-learning-to-sing-to-sample-herself/Podcastshttps://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/flower-storm-techno-rhythms-with-samples-from-iran/Making music on impulse can be a lot of fun, but it’s a very different practice from developing a focused project with aims, rules and limitations. Before they came together as Flower Storm, Kasra Vaseghi and Sepehr Alimagham had rarely applied their club music craft to a specific concept, and…Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:36:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/flower-storm-techno-rhythms-with-samples-from-iran/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/helado-negro-on-sampling-surroundings-and-deep-listening/US songwriter and producer Helado Negro talks about the ways he finds inspiration around him, his love of experimentation and the importance of deep listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform. In this episode of Doing Music, host Craig Schuftan speaks to Helado Negro about the…Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:50:02 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/helado-negro-on-sampling-surroundings-and-deep-listening/Podcastshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/gavsborg-on-his-studio-life-and-the-power-of-pressure/Gavsborg describes the environments and energies that have shaped him as a producer. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform. On this episode of Doing Music, Gavsborg talks to host Craig Schuftan about the different sides to his studio life as a solo artist and prolific collaborator.…Fri, 24 May 2024 09:32:18 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/gavsborg-on-his-studio-life-and-the-power-of-pressure/Podcastshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sofia-kourtesis-on-making-music-from-the-heart-and-embracing-chaos/Peruvian artist Sofia Kourtesis breaks down her approach to field recording and making imaginary movies out of her sparkling, melodic club music. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform. On this episode of Doing Music, Sofia Kourtesis talks to Craig Schuftan about the inspirations and intentions that…Fri, 24 May 2024 09:13:58 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sofia-kourtesis-on-making-music-from-the-heart-and-embracing-chaos/Podcastshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/astrid-sonne-a-newfound-voice/​​Astrid Sonne music finds itself categorized in a lot of different places. Sometimes it’s described as “experimental” “IDM” or even “classical” – however what’s most consistent about it is how little she pays attention to those boundaries. “To be honest, I don't feel like there's a category that I don't…Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:35:06 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/astrid-sonne-a-newfound-voice/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sirintrip-carbon-captured-in-sound/Climate change is an inescapable part of our current moment, and it’s no surprise artists are engaging with the subject on an ever-increasing scale. There are of course many ways to approach such a broad and complex topic, from conceptual studies and site-specific projects through to urgent expressions of anxiety…Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:52:49 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sirintrip-carbon-captured-in-sound/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/designing-dub-chords-in-ableton-live-with-el-chooppizza-hotline/Since it first emerged in the early 1990s, there is a particular sound that has etched itself into the sonic identity of electronic music from Europe and beyond. It is a sound both timeless and steadfast in character, defined by its edgy chords, grainy textures and ethereal atmospheres. Pioneered by…Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:42:58 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/designing-dub-chords-in-ableton-live-with-el-chooppizza-hotline/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-s1gns-of-l1fe/Watch as S1gns Of L1fe builds a heady, ambient-leaning track from layers of glitchy percussion, ethereal pads and intertwining melodies, all inspired by a single sample. Learn how he combines Chance Tools, LFOs and Beat Repeat to introduce controlled randomization to the piece, and how he transforms plucked tones into…Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:53:40 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-s1gns-of-l1fe/ArtistsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/bored-lord-rhythmatic-movement-in-unison-with-others/Daria Lourd is nothing if not prolific. If you happened across her work as Bored Lord any time in the past five years you’d be confronted with an avalanche of releases scattered across her Bandcamp page, cassettes of live acid sets, one-off collaborations and swathes of edits. The first ripples…Fri, 09 Feb 2024 11:45:58 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/bored-lord-rhythmatic-movement-in-unison-with-others/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-beatrice/Watch Beatrice deconstruct a track built almost entirely from her own vocal samples – exploring the creative possibilities of working with a limited palette of sounds. She shares how she brings out the individual character and harmonic qualities of each sample through filtering, distortion, pitching, and resampling to create a…Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:53:42 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-beatrice/ArtistsTutorialsVideos