Make Your Own Horror Sounds!
Make Your Own Horror Sounds! In spirit of Halloween, we’d like to share some audio techniques that can get you some brutally gory sounds. Get some tips on making gnarly bone crushing noises, to creepy ambient sounds as well. Do this all from the comfort of your home with a few vegetables and a mic. See what you can make and how… horrific you can get! Check out the link below from www.asoundeffect.com! CLICK HERE TO LEARN TO MAKE HORROR SOUNDS
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MIDI Tricks #2 – Custom Arpeggiator
MIDI Tricks #2 – Custom Arpeggiator What does it mean to Arpeggiate? Arpeggio is when you breakdown a chord to it’s individual notes and play them separately in a sequence. Here is an example using a C Major7th chord. Chord as a Block Arpeggiated chord broken down to the individual notes playing 1/16 notes. We can of course play arpeggiate in any sequence we want and even take notes out or add more notes. In this example we’re playing the notes of the chords in a downward motion and taking out the last note(C3). divider style=”clear” Ableton Live comes with it’s own Arpeggiator MIDI effect. Which can arpeggiate a chord automatically so we only need to hold the notes of the chord when playing or simply draw a sustain chord when editing a MIDI clip. We can choose the speed using the rate and …
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Touchable 3 Celebrates 5 Years! Still the Best iOS App for Ableton
Touchable 3 Celebrates 5 Years! Still the Best iOS App for Ableton Touchable, already a well established IOS App controller, just put a massive sale on Touchable 3 in celebration of their five year anniversary. Touchable 3 provides an incredibly handy controller system which almost entirely integrates Ableton onto an iPad or iPhone, and allows you to put the program into your hands. Allowing easy switches from a grid controller to a midi clip editor to a mixing screen. The newest feature, and possibly the most noteworthy, is the hardware feature allowing you to directly plug in your iPad or iPhone, opening up the possibilities for live performance. Other notable improvements include custom template design allowing you to create the most user friendly layout for yourself. You are also able to add a Live Device Template rack as an in app purchase to control all of Live’s instruments, at the tip of your fingers (seen above.) Touchable …
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Melodics – Guitar Hero for Finger Drummers
Melodics – Guitar Hero for Finger Drummers Melodics is an educational based app that is geared to improve, refine, and maintain your drum pad skills. You’ll notice right off the bat that Melodics is designed very similar to that old Guitar Hero game, which you wished made you better at something besides… well… Guitar Hero. The founders of Melodics very well may have seen a greater function for the layout and utilized it into a fast paced, user friendly app that allows you to excel with a drum pad. You’ll notice that when you start playing around with Melodics, you’re really just playing around. It’s designed to be fun. You start with practicing kicks, then move on to snares. You combine the two. Throw in high hats and all of the sudden, before you are even done with the first level you are playing a somewhat challenging beat. The cool …
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Track Numbers – Big Project Management Made Easy (Free Download)
Track Numbers – Big Project Management Made Easy  Tired of looking at large menus searching for the right track? Every time we want to use Sidechain or simply route a track to a different track we need to click the drop down menu and search for the right one. Depends on the size of your project, This can be annoying. You can make everything so much easier and faster by using Track Numbers.   Track Numbers is a free MaxforLive device that will automatically add number all the tracks in your project.  Yes, even if you have 200 tracks.  This is not just any kind of numbering, this is dynamic numbering.  What I mean by dynamic numbering is when this device automatically adds the # symbol before each track’s name. In Ableton Live, if you rename a track with the # symbol, it will number that track …
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Power of Power: Electronic music turning lights on for secondary school in Udaipur, India
Power of Power: Electronic music turning lights on for secondary school in Udaipur, India One of the majestic things about computer music is that it levels the playing field for musicians. Anyone with electricity, a laptop, software, and decent headphones can be a producer, no matter who you are or what corner of the world you come from. As music educators in Los Angeles, basic things like electricity or wifi are easy to take for granted. We’ve grown accustomed to and expecting of these technologies. The sad reality for classrooms in many parts of the world, though, is little or no access to bare necessities like electricity. Imagine, a classroom without electricity. The possibilities realized through electricity are innumerable, the possibilities lost in its absence are unfathomable. So what we have our eyes and ears on right now is the Power of Power campaign which is using electronic music to literally turn the lights on at a …
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