Welcome to my Ableton Operator preset pack, which is free to download. It includes some dark and detuned menacing sub bass presets and an Ableton Rack to tweak to taste. Here’s a preview of the… Read More »Free Ableton Operator Presets: Sub Basses
Welcome to my Ableton Operator preset and rack to generate epic and evolving pads. I love designing pads, this one uses parallel modulating filters to generate evolving movement in the chain. Here’s a preview of… Read More »Free Ableton Operator Presets: Epic Pads (and rack)
How to make Birmingham techno… a tutorial on making a ‘Birmingham Techno’ style detuned techno stab in Ableton live with native plug ins only. Influenced by Surgeon, Oscar Mulero and early Jeff Mills. See also:… Read More »Ableton Wavetable Techno Stab (like Surgeon, Oscar Mulero, Birmingham techno)
Here’s a quick run down of how to make a techno FM bass stab in Ableton. It can be used in tribal house too. It’s a dark bass stab, made in Ableton’s Operator, it is… Read More »Ableton Tutorial Techno FM Bass
This is a quick Ableton Live tutorial on how to make drones for ambient music or techno / dub techno. It uses all built in instruments and effects, Ableton’s Operator, distortions, chorus, delays and reverb,… Read More »Ableton Tutorial – Drones in Operator (with free rack)
I’ve long been a fan of artists like Jeff Mills, DJ Bone, Octave one and those detuned Detroit techno tracks, especially the more ‘alien’ sounding sequences like the Something in the Sky series. Here I’ve… Read More »Chord Sequences inspired by DJ Bone, Jeff Mills, Detroit techno