KVR Challenge 2021 – Download Free Plugins From This Year
KVR Challenge 2021 What is the KVR Challenge? KVR Audio is an online, global community dedicated solely to music and audio applications. They are perhaps best known for hosting the KVR Developer challenge, where developers submit their plugins and the best ones are upvoted by the community. The best part? All plugins are free to download. In a world with a rising number of bedroom producers, there is a real need to create new sounds and stand out from the pack. New plugins can help a producer do just that. Furthermore, some of the plugins from this year have simple & stripped back user interfaces. Some existing plugins, while powerful and effective, can be quite intimidating to use – especially for producers who are just starting out. Five cash prizes are awarded to the top entries and a wildcard pick. Prize money is sponsored by the community-funded …
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EQ Eight Explained – More Than Just Cuts & Boosts
EQ Eight Explained What Is An Equalizer? Have you ever noticed the “Bass” and “Treble” options on an amplifier? Or the “Low, Mid, High” filters on a DJ Mixer? Chances are you’ve used an equalizer (or EQ) in some way or another. An equalizer is a device that can increase or decrease a specific range of frequencies in a track. In music production, EQ’s help producers reduce problematic frequencies, enhance musical ones, and help shape the overall sound to achieve depth & clarity. In this article, you’ll get an overview of a popular, modern equalizer – and a breakdown of the types of filters found in it. su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ All About EQ Eight So what does a modern EQ look like? Watch the video below to see our head of education, Yeuda Ben-Atar, take you through the ins and outs of Ableton’s “EQ Eight” – the stock EQ that …
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Loop Create – A New Event For Music Makers
Loop Create – A New Event For Music Makers In 2015, Ableton introduced Loop – an annual summit for music makers. Six years later, they’ve just announced Loop Create – a new event for music makers happening June 26–27th 2021. The best part? It’s online – and admission is free. su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ Beat Lab @ Loop su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA5Nmf8e88″ width=”200″ height=”200″ In 2019, our head of education & the founder of Beat Lab Academy, Yeuda Ben-Atar, spoke at Loop on the beauty of repetition. Watch the video above to see how randomly crowdsourced chords can become musical simply by being placed in a – well – ‘Loop’! divider style=”clear” What To Expect This Year This year’s one-day online event is designed to bring people together across different time zones. If you’re hungry to watch workshops on how musicians make music, perform, and use Ableton in unique ways – …
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Ableton PUSH – Go Beyond with Max for Live (Free Download)
Top 12 Max for Live Devices for Ableton PUSH Ableton PUSH 2 is the most comprehensive controller for Ableton Live. So much so, it feels like an instrument in its own right. With all that the PUSH has to offer, you can go above and beyond with the help of Max for Live. So if you own Ableton Suite 10. Check out these awesome free devices. su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/_wrLGxD5IQY” width=”400″ height=”200″ autohide=”yes” rel=”no” fs=”no” modestbranding=”yes” divider style=”clear” Expression Control This device is Built-in the Core Library and is often overlooked. It gives us access to the most common MIDI Expression control. Most notable for us PUSH users is the Aftertouch (Pressure Sensitivity). This can give us the ability to map the Aftertouch to anything we want. Some common mapping would be to the Filter Cutoff, Fine Tune (Pitch), and Reverb amount. Use the Ableton search bar to find this …
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FREE MaxforLive Workshop – Hosted by Side Brain Sponsored by Ableton
FREE MaxforLive Workshop – Hosted by Side Brain Sponsored by Ableton Beat Lab Academy founder and Head of Education SideBrain recently hosted a FREE MaxforLive Workshop. In it, he covered many of the awesome ways MaxforLive can expand your Ableton Live use. Watch the workshop for FREE below. Originally posted on SideBrain.net. su_vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/435936107″ width=”780″ title=”SideBrain MaxforLive Workshop” su_divider top=”yes” Recommended Modules su_row su_column size=”1/3″/su_column su_column size=”1/3″/su_column su_column size=”1/3″/su_column /su_row su_button url=”https://beatlabacademy.com/modules” style=”ghost” background=”#303133″ color=”#303133″ size=”12″ wide=”yes” center=”yes” radius=”20″ icon_color=”#303133″ class=”custombuttonsyeuda”Beat Lab Modules/su_button su_button url=”https://beatlabacademy.com/blog/” style=”ghost” background=”#303133″ color=”#303133″ size=”12″ wide=”yes” center=”yes” radius=”20″ icon_color=”#303133″ class=”custombuttonsyeuda”Back to Blog/su_button
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Top 12 Effects for NI Reaktor (Free Download)
Top 12 Effects for Native Instruments Reaktor Back in 2018, we posted about Top 12 Instruments for Native Instrument’s Reaktor. Native Instruments Reaktor has been around for ages and the factory effects that come with it like Molekular, The Finger, and The Mouth to just name a few, are incredible. But Reaktor is a complete DSP environment to build your own instruments and effects. And the online user library has been growing for over a decade so we decided to round up the best ones from recent years. We chose ones that not only sound good but also have a friendly and good looking interface. We also added links to all the developers so if you like the device make sure to check their other devices there are probably some hidden gems we are not covering in this article. Clear out your schedules….again. All of these ensembles use the Reaktor …
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