https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/techniques/sampling/Latest entries for the tag SamplingenFri, 08 Dec 2023 09:34:07 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sounding-the-collection-samples-from-the-powerhouse-museum/Sampling has been a key process for a great many music makers for decades now, an undeniable staple of modern production. But with the ubiquity of sampling comes what feels like a sheer avalanche of samples. An overwhelming volume of sample packs are available online today, ranging from common to…Fri, 08 Dec 2023 09:34:07 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sounding-the-collection-samples-from-the-powerhouse-museum/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/water-from-your-eyes-microtonal-indie-pop/“Life is horribly dark right now. And yet, it is not unfunny.” Finding humor in fatalism is the ethos behind offbeat indie-pop band Water from Your Eyes. Comprising Rachel Brown and Nate Amos, the duo began collaborating in 2016 having found common ground in the serene yet somber sounds of…Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:11:17 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/water-from-your-eyes-microtonal-indie-pop/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/good-timing-beatmaking-with-auto-warp-in-live-113/Auto-Warp is the feature in Live that helps you tighten up loose timing and tempo variations, detect the downbeat in any kind of audio and snap it all to the grid. In Live 11.3, you can drag longer samples or even entire tracks into your Sets and let the algorithm…Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:50:48 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/good-timing-beatmaking-with-auto-warp-in-live-113/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sampling-your-environment/Nowadays it’s only mildly surprising to learn that the beat you love was made with a cardboard box and a field recording of a frog. But up until the late 80s, recording household trash with microphones seemed like the business of experimental composers, and field recording was something people with…Fri, 05 May 2023 13:08:35 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sampling-your-environment/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/james-krivchenia-big-thief-drummer-samples-youtube-for-blood-karaoke/James Krivchenia has certainly achieved a unique perspective across his career as a drummer, producer and engineer. He’s attained a rare fluidity whether acting as producer for experimental artists such as Mega Bog, crafting computer-based music on his own, sitting as a session musician for megastars like Taylor Swift or…Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:58:31 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/james-krivchenia-big-thief-drummer-samples-youtube-for-blood-karaoke/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tiger-jk-the-korean-rap-legend-on-beats-rhymes-and-life/If you listen to much K-pop you’ll know that a rap verse will almost inevitably be dropped into any major hit these days – usually right after the first chorus. You could almost call it a tradition. But it wasn’t always this way with hip-hop in Korea. Back in 1995,…Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:52:51 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tiger-jk-the-korean-rap-legend-on-beats-rhymes-and-life/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/paradox-breakbeat-mastery/Since the late ‘70s breakbeats have been sampled and repurposed across an ever-evolving global continuum of electronic music. Over time, this method of beatmaking has become highly intricate and nuanced with some of the more technically demanding examples found in drum & bass and its sub-genre drumfunk; which is known…Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:46:09 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/paradox-breakbeat-mastery/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-5-perspectives-on-sampling/Sampling has been a central technique of electronic music production from the earliest experiments of 1940s ‘musique concrète’ – composing by arranging pieces of recorded sound into new musical contexts. Early keyboard instruments that played back samples, such as the Chamberlin and the Mellotron were somewhat unreliable and expensive, thus…Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:51:25 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-5-perspectives-on-sampling/ArtistsLoophttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-mad-zach/Mad Zach uses homemade samples to piece together a heavy, futuristic hip-hop beat. The San Francisco producer quickly maps out a dynamic arrangement using external synths, Instrument Racks, ghost tracks for automation and the expressive power of MPE.Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:49:21 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-mad-zach/ArtistsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sydney-sounds-sample-city/No two cities sound the same, and Happy Mag is collecting the idiosyncratic sounds of Sydney with their Sydney Sounds series of free sample packs for Live users. To create each pack, a local artist chooses a location, spends a day armed with field recording gear to capture the sounds…Wed, 07 Jul 2021 14:52:18 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sydney-sounds-sample-city/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/zuli-very-modern-sampler/The importance of sampling in the evolution of electronic music can never be overstated. Especially when considering the building blocks of hip hop and jungle, using recorded material as a sound source for manipulation and exploration completely tore down preconceived notions about who could make music and what skills or…Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:11:34 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/zuli-very-modern-sampler/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/studies-sound-arbour-lo-fi-beats-and-musical-exploration/Though primarily known for chill lo-fi beats and study beats playlists on YouTube and Spotify, the artist known as Arbour’s origins weren’t exactly auspicious. Like many electronic musicians, the Seattle-based artist (real name Hans Watkins) got his start on a decidedly modest setup. Eighteen years old at the time, and…Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:48:41 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/studies-sound-arbour-lo-fi-beats-and-musical-exploration/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/matmos-making-their-free-sample-pack/An example of Bogusław Schaeffer’s experimental notation. Bogusław Schaeffer / Copyright: Aurea Porta The Polish Radio Experimental Studio is not a household name in the history of electronic music, but its legacy is rich with 20th Century musical innovation. This overlooked but important European musical institution was the subject of…Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:01:31 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/matmos-making-their-free-sample-pack/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-bad-snacks/Bad Snacks uses live takes from her electric violin as a starting point for a warm and melodious house track. With methods like creative panning, MIDI effects and lo-fi processing, she brings warmth, vibrancy and character to her creations.Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:32:02 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-bad-snacks/ArtistsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-freddie-joachim-on-chopping-samples-beatmaking-and-more/Freddie Joachim chops up some Rhodes samples, slices drum breaks and lays down some live guitar. From turning shakers into hi-hats to creative quantizing and creating stereo width, his session is loaded with classy techniques to make a seriously smooth jam.Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:11:40 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-freddie-joachim-on-chopping-samples-beatmaking-and-more/ArtistsTutorialsVideos