Ableton Live has evolved into one of the more powerful recording and looping tools available. The diverse list of artists using it is both a testament to its ease of use and it’s ability to help, not hinder, the creative process.
If you haven’t given Ableton Live a shot yet, check out this clip of [...]

There haven’t been a lot of updates here lately. Why is that? Because I picked up an Akai MPD32 and have been toying around with it since it has arrived.
Originally I’d been tossing up between the Akai MPD24 and the M-Audio Trigger Finger. In the end, I opted to go for the MPD32 due [...]

Raise your hand if you like the whacked out time stretching effect that you can here on tracks from artists such as Aphex Twin.
Good news is, this style of effect can be reproduced at home using nothing more than the Reason software (still waiting for version 4.0 by the way!).
Here’s a pretty good “how to” [...]

I purchased Absynth 3 around twelve months ago. I’ve played around with it quite a bit, but to be perfectly honest, it’s never been a ‘go to’ program for me. I do like it’s ability to create evolving soundscapes, but over all, I just haven’t found the interface all that user friendly. This is a [...]

The new Nine Inch Nails album is getting closer to release. As he did with a couple of the tracks from With Teeth, Trent Reznor has released “Survivalism” in Garage Band format for people to create their own remixes. Personally I had a lot of fun playing around with “Only” in Acid Pro, and I’m [...]