Category: Ableton Certified Trainer
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TX-6 Drum Rack for Live 12
I’ve been playing with the Ableton Live 12 Beta. One of the great new features of it is the new native CC Control device, which lets you easily send CC messages to an external synth. The TX-6 by Teenage Engineering has a great sounding drum machine in it, and I wanted to create a drum…
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Ableton classroom projects
I’m super excited to have been given the opportunity to share these educational resources on Ableton.com as part of their Ableton for the Classroom initiative. Over the last couple of years I have been working with the Ableton Education team to develop and write a series of classroom projects that focus on music learning using…
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AUGM May Live Stream
Last week I did a Live-Stream for Ableton User Group Melbourne, the group that I facilitate with fellow Ableton Certified Trainer Ben Murphy. We usually run once a month In Real Life meet-ups, but have been doing live stream events since Melbourne was locked down a couple of months back. In this stream I covered…
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TE Synth Workshop
Last Saturday I got to walk-through how I set up and connect the Teenage Engineering OP-Z, Faderfox UC-4, iPad and Ableton Live Big thanks to Yarra Libraries, Ben Willis, Saddiva and Innovative Music for all helping to make a great arvo. š·Ben Willis
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Process Lab – Melbourne Music Week
Last month I ran a Process Lab workshop at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of Melbourne Music Week focusing on Mobile Music Making. I am pretty obsessed with mobile music-making devices and enjoy the unique workflows that these sort of devices provide you. There were a number of focuses on this workshop including Sampling in…
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Teenage Engineering #EMS Mentor
Some of the workshops I’ve been doing lately have been focused on the unique workflows of Teenage Engineering’s awesome portable devices, the OP-1, OP-Z and Pocket Operator series. I’ve been a huge fan of Teenage Engineering products for a long time since I first bought my OP-1 seven or so years ago. So, I’m really…
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Changes Ableton Workshops
Changes Festival has been a fantastic addition to Melbourne’s musical landscape over the last two years. The focus is on getting a snapshot at what the music industry currently looks like, and is all about having a conversation about where to next… In terms of technology, inclusivity, the environment and basically a big ‘where to?’ for…
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Electronic Music Processes #EMS event
I am always keen to share my knowledge and passion for creative workflows and music making, so I was super stoked to be able to put on an event the amazing Bargoonga Nganjin community space to run a workshop focusing on Teenage Engineering x Ableton Live workflows called Electronic Music Processes. This event was supported…
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Yarra Library Workshops
Throughout May and June, I ran a series of freeĀ Audio Manipulation Workshops at some of the City of Yarra Libraries. The focus was on techniques that you can use within Ableton Live to work with and manipulate audio.
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Ableton Certified Trainer
Well, to round off a pretty crazy year, I recently became an Ableton Certified Trainer. I’ve been using Live since 2004, and this has been a pretty big milestone for me to achieve as a music and music tech educator. There are just shy of 300 Ableton Certified Trainers in the world, and it’s an…
Matt Ridgway 