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How to Warp Melodic Loops in Beat Repeat

Beat Repeat is a neat processor that comes with Ableton Live.  Essentially, it’s a repeater effect.  It reads an incoming audio signal and can repeat different parts of it in different ways.  While it’s most known for mangling percussive sounds and drum grooves, you can also use it to mangle melodic grooves as well. Today, […]

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How to Use Ableton’s Drum Rack

The Drum Rack is a flexible MPC-style sampler for Ableton.  Amongst other things, it’s ideal for housing 1-shot samples and creating drum kits.  You can also input custom effects and processors directly within in the rack itself. Let’s take a look at how to put together a drum kit using samples from Ableton’s library. (more…)

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