https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/series/five-perspectives/Latest entries for the tag Five PerspectivesenThu, 04 Aug 2022 14:01:30 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-five-perspectives-on-working-with-environmental-noise/When we’re making music, it can feel like we need to create the perfect, pristine environment for recording to eliminate any accidental sound creeping in from the world around us. Physically soundproofing a studio or removing unwanted noise in post-production can be expensive, time consuming – or both. But sometimes…Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:01:30 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-five-perspectives-on-working-with-environmental-noise/ArtistsLoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-five-perspectives-on-handling-criticism/For many of us, music-making is an act of personal expression – which is why processing feedback on our work can sometimes be tough. It’s disheartening to hear someone criticizing a piece of music you’ve put so much effort into, and defensiveness and denial are sometimes hard to avoid. Even…Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:14:07 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-five-perspectives-on-handling-criticism/ArtistsLoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-five-perspectives-on-limitations/With so many instruments, plugins, effects and presets available today, it might seem like music makers have never had it so good. But as anyone with a creative practice knows, too many options can be overwhelming. Projects become impossible to finish, because there’s always one more effect to add to…Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:48:55 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-five-perspectives-on-limitations/LoopVideoshttps://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/loop-five-perspectives-overcoming-creative-blocks/We’ve all been there: staring into the void of an empty Live Set, wondering where and how to begin. Or, pondering how in the world to get from that loose collection of ideas, loops, or melodies to a finished piece of music. The cold hard fact is, despite all the…Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:05:27 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-five-perspectives-overcoming-creative-blocks/ArtistsLoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-five-perspectives-listening/Some topics are so fundamental to the practice of music making that they come up at Loop again and again, in many different conversations and in a variety of contexts. One such theme is the importance of listening. It’s hard to imagine working on music without the hours spent listening…Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:29:30 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-five-perspectives-listening/ArtistsLoop