Freshly Chopped: Program Modern UK Beats in Live
Give your beats an edge with cnstruct’s tips for modern UK drum programming.
Posts tagged with Drums
Made in Ableton Live: STRANJAH
Check out STRANJAH’s detail-focused approach to crafting perfect grooves, lush melodic layers, and driving drum & bass arrangements.
Made in Ableton Live: Catnapp
Watch Catnapp lay down a simple structure for her vocals before turning to an old project to give her new track a tense, hyper-modern feel.
Made in Ableton Live: Mad Zach
Watch Mad Zach arrange a heavy hip-hop beat with banks of his best samples and synths like Wavetable.
Made in Ableton Live: Eomac
Watch Eomac sample sounds from the street on his phone to create a full-frequency sample pack, and make a driving techno track with the resulting parts.
Made in Ableton Live: Keychee
Watch Keychee create a hard-stepping hit of hip hop-flavored funk using Drum Racks, finger drumming and parallel and sidechain compression.
Makaya McCraven: The Beat Scientist
Makaya McCraven discusses cycles of improvisation and merging live instrumentation with sampling techniques.
Enter the Temple of Boom: Acoustic Kicks
Resonance, boominess and body – learn all about the acoustic kick drum, complete with mixing tips from producer Abe Seiferth.
Clarice Jensen and Sowall: Improvising Between the Lines
Cellist and composer Clarice Jensen joins hip hop beatmaker Sowall for an improvised set based on a small collection of pre-agreed rules.
Drop It: The Kick in Electronic Music
Explore the history, sounds and techniques of using electronic kick drums. Includes a free download of custom-made kicks.
Humanize Your Drums: Four Videos to Help You Swing
Four video tutorials that show approaches to humanizing your drums and introducing swing in Ableton Live.
Beat Tools: A Creative Toolkit for Beatmaking
Beat Tools: complete toolkit for beatmaking, now included with Push and Live 9 Suite. Drum kits, instruments, loops and effects – all primed for hands-on play.
Transient Machines: Versatile drum and loop processing for Live
Transient Machines: the new Max for Live Pack modelled on transient designer studio tools. Get another level of dynamic control over drums and loops in Live.
KHOMPA: Drums trigger Live
Making an album with melodies 100% triggered by drums - we talk to KHOMPA aka Davide Compagnoni about making this dream a reality with Max for Live.
On And Off The Grid: Acoustic drummers and electronic music
Video of a discussion with Kiran Ghandi, Katharina Ernst and Zach Danziger at Loop 2015, on the topic of incorporating telectronic music into their playing
Time & Timbre: The polymetric rhythm engine gets an overhaul
The rhythm engine and drum synth instrument Time & Timbre gets a major overhaul, with new Push compatibility and new Max for Live devices
Cinematic Percussion: For the big screen and beyond
Cinematic Percussion by ProjectSAM – a new Live Pack of multi-sampled orchestral and world percussion for scores, soundtracks and more
Heavyocity brings its flagship drum collection to Live
Heavyocity brings its flagship collection of analog and organic drum samples to Live.