Antandra Exclusive Mix and Interview for LostinSound
"There are few producers in the American psychedelic bass music culture rising faster than Antandra. Lost in Sound has been excited to feature the original productions from Jacob Louis‘ project." ― LostinSound.org I'm so happy to share the I have made an exclusive mix and interview for LostinSound. You can listen to the mix I put together of all original music and remixes below. It's also available for free download. Follow the link above to read ...
5 Ways to Create Gated Patterns in Ableton 9
Gate Effect with Sidechaining Using the gate effect in Ableton Live, you can create interesting gated patterns to the beat by turning on sidechain, and selecting a rhythmic pattern to receive audio signal from. (note: If you select a midi drum rack, you can also select any one of the drums individually) Then all you have to do is play with the threshold, attack, decay and release to get the sound just right. Add ...
Creative Resampling in Ableton
Resampling opens up a lot of creative potential when producing music in Ableton. I find it especially handy when I want to add a bit of randomness to a composition, because you can record the random variations in and edit them down into what actually sounds good to your ear. Let's say for example you have a BeatRepeat, LiveCut, or other glitch effect on the track with randomized settings. ...
APC40 Python Scripts Review
When I first got my APC40, I was amazed by the out of the box functionality. I had done my research, and knew that it was what I wanted. It offers a lot of flexibility in the studio and for live performance. I still had this feeling like there must be more though. I started experimenting with it, and noticed I couldn't use a midi translator with it, and I was frustrated ...
Keith McMillen QuNexus Review
The Keith McMillen QuNexus is a powerful and versatile midi controller. Each key has pitch bend, pressure sensitivity, velocity sensitivity and aftertouch. You can really use it to make your synth patches responsive and expressive. Channel rotation allows you to send midi data to multiple channels at once, so you can pitch bend or modulate them independently. You can also send CV (control value) to other synths or devices. The QuNexus has ...
Not by Happenstance – Harmonic Resonance
Is there hope for healthy harmonious harmonic oscillation happening happily not by happenstance? All of matter (and therefore energy) can be expressed in either waves or particles. However, when speaking…
Psytrance Sample Pack 001
This sample pack contains royalty free psytrance samples and loops created by DJ Story for dark progressive, full-on, and darkpsy producers. Sawtooth waves are essential for psytrance sound design. So much can be done manipulating the pitch and frequency of basic waveforms. The sound design was primarily done using sawtooth, square, sine waves with various processing in simpler.
Mirror Me (Zenon Rec.) Interview
DJ Story: Great Music! Are you using Ableton?
Mirror Me (Zenon Rec.): Yep. All Ableton. Synthesizing, sampling and resampling. A minimalist approach.
DJ Story: Any plugins?
Mirror Me (Zenon Rec.): Oh yah. FM8, Sylenth, and Massive.
DJ Story: What did you use for the bass?
Mirror Me (Zenon Rec.): Sylenth or UltraBass MX
DJ Story: What about that vocal stutter? Great production. I love the use of panning.
Mirror Me (Zenon Rec.): Yeah. It’s a combo. ;p It’s a vocal sample on top of a grained version of the vocal sample delaying, pitching and slowing down the delay as it goes.
Free Ableton Effect Rack – Glitchy & Scratchy
This free Ableton effect rack is perfect for generating crunchy, grimy, scratchy, distorted, and glitched out madness. Great for dubstep, glitch, psychedelic and techno production and live performance. Just turn up the dry/wet knob and play with the color coded knobs to create squishy goodness. Includes Beat Repeat glitch knob, resonator/reverb pitch and amount knobs, talking dubstep bit-crusher knob, tape delay scratching knobs, stereo spread effect knob, and dry/wet. Enjoy!
Tree of Sound
Music brings us together. It communicates via frequency transmissions that which transcends words. The intention of this album is to awaken and inspire consciousness through dance activation. Liberate your mind,…
Ableton Tutorial: Dual Filter Effect Rack
In this Ableton tutorial video, I share how to create a filter effect rack using Ableton’s built-in devices that rolls off both the high and low frequencies at the same…