https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/techniques/delays/Latest entries for the tag DelaysenFri, 26 Aug 2022 13:45:36 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/freeze-delay-and-deconstruct-sound-design-with-spectral-time/In his latest video, Seed to Stage explores the Spectral Time device introduced in Live 11, walking you through its many sonic possibilities to create a myriad of trippy sounds, from metallic, glitched-out stutters to washed-out ambience and head-flipping stereo effects. Based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT), a mathematical…Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:45:36 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/freeze-delay-and-deconstruct-sound-design-with-spectral-time/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/experimental-sound-design-with-feedback-loops/In his latest tutorial, Seed to Stage shows you how to control, shape and experiment with feedback loops. Feedback loops are created when an audio signal is sent from an input to an output and then back into itself. When this happens accidentally it can be more than a little…Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:41:07 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/experimental-sound-design-with-feedback-loops/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/beyond-the-echo-chamber-inventive-effects-using-lives-delay-devices/What would electronic music be without the time-honored delay effect? From enriching sounds and expanding rhythms to filling out space and sending sounds skywards, delay has vast potential for sonic exploration. With the complexity of the delay devices included in Live, the possibilities run deeper than straight-forward echoes and feedback.…Wed, 13 May 2020 09:46:36 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/beyond-the-echo-chamber-inventive-effects-using-lives-delay-devices/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/live-10-1-is-here/Live 10.1 gives you new tools and features to support your creative process, from making and shaping sound to editing and finalizing your music. This update is free for all owners of Live 10. If you have auto-update enabled, Live will automatically update the next time you open it. If...Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:48:19 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/live-10-1-is-here/Newshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/live-101-user-wavetables-new-devices-and-workflow-upgrades/Live 10.1 expands the possibilities for making and shaping sound, as well as improving key features for editing and finalizing music. The update will be free for all Live 10 owners and is now in beta. The new features in Live 10.1 include: User wavetables Musicians can now extend the...Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:32:06 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/live-101-user-wavetables-new-devices-and-workflow-upgrades/Newshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/everything-echo-slynk/Evan Chandler aka Slynk has a knack for pushing musical tools to their limits – his previous explorations of the Vocoder and Live’s samplers highlighted many unusual creative possibilities. And now that he’s decided to take a closer look at Echo – the new delay effect in Live 10 –...Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:45:58 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/everything-echo-slynk/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/new-k-devices-alter-echo-holder/Searching for new sounds can lead you down a rabbit hole of effects chains and complex routing. It’s all too easy to throw on more and more processing tools when you’re looking for something. A more efficient method is to use plug-ins which combine the best elements of different effects...Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:52:45 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/new-k-devices-alter-echo-holder/Newshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/dub-machines-analog-delay-max-for-live/There’s nothing like the gritty character, wild doppler effects, and general warmth of vintage tape and analog delays. For their Dub Machines pack, Surreal Machines have taken inspiration from classic hardware delay units for a pair of devices with analog soul and digital flexibility. Modeled on a number of legendary...Thu, 08 May 2014 10:45:33 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/dub-machines-analog-delay-max-for-live/Newshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/puremagnetik-effect-racks-available-now/With the RackPak series, the sound designers at Puremagnetik have explored a diverse range of sound manipulation possibilities using Live’s effect devices as building blocks. From crunchy guitar amp modeling to wild, glitch-filled delays, Puremagnetik Effect Racks collects these Racks - over 200 in all - in one Live Pack....Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:36:46 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/puremagnetik-effect-racks-available-now/Downloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/using-lives-delay-triplet-style-beats/The typical use for Ableton Live's Simple Delay device is as an echo effect - but, with some interesting choices for timing, you can use it to add triplet swing to your beats.Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:32:12 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/using-lives-delay-triplet-style-beats/Tutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/make-dub-delay-max-live/Our partners at Cycling '74 - creators of Max - recently released an extremely helpful, 18-part video series on programming with Max for Live. These videos go through a series of useful devices and techniques in Max for live, and no prior knowledge of Max or any kind of programming ...Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:45:47 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/make-dub-delay-max-live/Tutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/gated-delays-in-live/Delay with feedback is a great effect for adding space to any sound, but it cam sometimes be difficult to get a delayed sound to sit well in a mix. In a new tutorial, MacProVideo instructor Mo Volans looks at gated delay, an effect that gates the delayed sound to ...Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:31:54 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/gated-delays-in-live/Tutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/repeat-yourself-using-delay-effects-live/Delay is a classic and versatile tool - from short slaps to long echoes, you can really change a sound with well-placed delay. Ableton Live offers a number of different options for classic and experimental delay effects. In a new tutorial, Lynda.com writer David Franz reviews many different delay configurations ...Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:32:05 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/repeat-yourself-using-delay-effects-live/Tutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/make-david-gilmours-shimmering-sustained-delay-live/Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a classic, thanks in large part to David Gilmour's otherworldly guitar playing. In a new tutorial, musician Tracy Evans demonstrates how to achieve David's "sound on sound" infinite sustain effect in Live, using the Filter Delay effect. It's great for guitars, keyboards, ...Wed, 23 May 2012 15:22:43 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/make-david-gilmours-shimmering-sustained-delay-live/https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/using-sends-drum-racks-tutorial-rob-jones/For the third and final part to his tutorial series on Drum Racks in Live, Producertech instructor Rob Jones looks at sends and returns. Using sends and return tracks within a Drum Rack, Rob shows how to apply effects and parallel New York-style compression to make things really pump:Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:14:11 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/using-sends-drum-racks-tutorial-rob-jones/