Category: Ableton Live
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TRNSMT TV Performance
I did a performance of some new material on TRNSMT TV for the Beat Collective show. Check out the footage shot by the wonderful Ben Willis.
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Analogue Sequences
Hi all, I’ve spent a bit of time this year working on a commercial Ableton Live pack, being released by Loopmasters, in conjunction with School of Synthesis. The Analogue Sequences Live Pack utilises sequences created from some of School of Synthesis’s vast collection of classic vintage and modern analogue synthesisers. This collection includes sequences expertly programmed for the Korg…
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Broken D-20 Live Pack
I recently came across a Roland D-20 Synth that was in pretty bad shape. It worked for a few hours, but then was giving constant “Main Board Errors” But this was the beautiful part! Every time the synth was turned off and on, it started to play the most amazing glitches out industrial type synth…
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The Mouth & Razor FX Racks
If you’ve downloaded my “Vocoder for Push” racks, then you should understand the concept behind these racks… basically they’re performance orientated racked instruments that hack the external instrument and external effect devices to be able to pre-map the audio routings. By default audio input 1 is used as the mic source, but you can change this…
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Tiny tidal waves – 5 free Ableton Live instrument racks
I’m giving away five instrument racks based on sounds off my new EP Tiny tidal waves. Rather than providing instruments that would just play the sounds from the EP, I thought it’d be much more interesting to create a new instrument from each track. What you get is a collection of instrument racks created from the key elements of each track, re-contextualised into new…
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Composition & Sound design for Breath of Light
Over the last few months, I’ve been composing and creating sound for a really beautiful meditative puzzle game for iOS called Breath of Light. Made by Melbourne game development company Many Monkeys, Breath of Light is the sort of puzzle game that takes time to master, there is no rushing the process, It’s a slow paced game that…
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QUADwrangle at Arts Centre Melbourne
The QUADwrangle interactive sound sculpture project at Arts Centre Melbourne is all done and dusted (for now!) Arts Centre Melbourne’s youth programmer Dan West arranged for this video to be made, which sum up the project’s aims and intentions pretty well. During the second weekend session we battled a bit to get our awesome sculptural…
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QUADwrangle interactive sculpture. Session 1. Sound Creation
It’s a great privilege to be involved with participatory youth program called QUADwrangle over the next two weeks. I’m working with a bunch of young sound artists from the College of the Arts (VCA), to create an interactive sound sculpture that will reside at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax theatre August 13-16. The intention is to create an immersive and fun piece…
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Music & Sounds Vol.5 – Rock & Metal
This is the fifth instalment of my Music and Sounds project, where I give away free sounds and Ableton Live project files. This one contains two Ableton Drum Racks and two Convolution FX Racks that use samples of Rocks and Metals that I found when on holidays in The Grampians Mountain Ranges. The *Metal* rack was created…
Matt Ridgway 