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Chopping Scientists need to know about good tools for chopping ✂️ If there's something that'll always get me all stoked, it's good samplers. Redux sampler offers very fast and light choppery. This is one of my favourite tools to chop up a drumbreak really quickly. Obviously it can be used for ANY sa

This video for Ableton Nordic Youtube channel is waaaaaaaaayy overdue. But hey, protips don't age. Hope you like some of these! Essential Ableton Live protips from Fanu (YouTube)

Today, I'm telling you about using limiters and clippers. Where they differ, what's similar, when you should use either, and so on. Join me Today, I'm telling you about using limiters and clippers. Where they differ, what's similar, when you should use either, and so on. Join me for this 20-minute a

Yo yo everybody! Hope it's been a good month. Me, took this week off to chill, as it's been mad with work, and the weather has finally shown some signs of warmth and spring. Just recorded a new Breaks & Beats podcast episode (ep. 27) today – it'll be out on Friday (June 3) and on my podcasts page. A

Hey everybody! Hope everybody had a great week...how did it go? Let me hear of ya'll! I had quite a sick one, literally, as some flu-type thing kicked me for 3 days, and, being a freelancer with tons of work, I barely took some time off to heal (I juggle a ton of work for my biz on my own), so now,

Hey ya'll! I noticed you can download Izotope's hecking nice Trash 2 for free for a limited time. A good reason to try it out – in addition to trashing the signal – is that it can actually act as a 4-band gate! The fourth band has to be activated from the prefs. Or, you can download this Trash 2 pre

Mixing and mastering yet another house song. A quick plugin tip of the day: Gullfoss EQ by Soundtheory. Or I guess it's not an EQ in the traditional sense that you can move nodes around. It's a really interesting plugin, as it can both boost and tame things, and also just add brightness. It's one of

There is one plugin I always pull out first when I feel the drum bus needs some low-freq help. You may have seen I recommend and use the UAD Pultec EQ a lot for kick lows and drum buss lows. I understand not everyone wants to buy a UAD interface. No fear, as there's a great free Pultec emulation by

I’m a nerd that makes his living doing audio engineering, and technological advancements such as isolating parts of music/audio fascinate me highly. I also love making sample-based music, so being able to strip out and isolate some elements in audio interests me. Hence, let’s take a look at and comp

Wanted to let you guys know about this plugin, as this one truly is worth the "price". Sure there are tons of free plugins out there, but not all of them make a difference in your toolbox. Slate Digital: Fresh Air Just downloaded it, used it on a master, thought it really added some great sparkle, a

Doing a testdrive with Backbone, a plugin that resynthesizes your drumsounds, splits them into two parts, and lets you tweak them under the hood. Can be used in a way that makes sense and enhances yourdrumsounds, but it also lends itself well for creative options. Improving drumsounds with Steinberg

Ahoy all plugin lovers (I assume that is all of us here, hehe)! Now that we have a nice number of people in the house…I thought we might try having a shared discussion. Who doesn’t like good free plugins? I thought we might share our findings. I’ll start by posting a few good and useful ones that I'

Yo guys! Wanted to do a quick tip on how to "de-reverb" some drumloops. Technically this could be done with any gate, but I'm using Izotope Trash 2 here. Gating ("de-reverbing") with Izotope Trash 2 (YouTube)

Alrighty, guys! Showing you a slightly more advanced technique: how to sidechain width in Ableton Live. This means that when one sound plays, some other sound will lose its width while it’s happening. Showing two ways to do it, one involving Max For Live, and the other only using Ableton Live’s nati

(This was originally posted on my website in 2017 – I brought it here by a request) So what's this for…now this is for those who want some LO-FI in their lives! I did an “SP1200izer” audio effect rack for Ableton Live. How did I do it? I sampled two drumloops into my SP 1200 and back, and then put t

DOWNLOAD HERE So here's a multiband version of the free Gain Rack that has a Saturator, which I posted about yesterday (see previous post). This one divides the signal into three bands: lows, mids, and highs and also has a Saturator for each band. When you click on a band, you'll see its gain knob*.

DOWNLOAD HERE Wanted to share with you this free yet useful tool for Ableton Live 10. It's an audio effect rack that has a gain knob as its macro knob. When you rotate it clockwise, it feeds the signal into the rack / a Saturator by the chosen dB amount (set by the Gain macro knob) and also takes do