Amapiano Log Drum

Amapiano Log Drum

**This Instrument Rack was created for the Amapiano workshop as part of the weekly Side Brain’s Study Group***   Here are the first 20 minutes from that workshop. To access the full workshop, click HERE.   A log drum is a musical instrument that...
Fantasy Arps

Fantasy Arps

Fantasy Arps   This rack was inspired by a post from Dr. Guy Shkolnik on IG. It’s a beautiful arp sequence where you play 1/16 notes in your left hand and triplets in your right hand. Since it’s very hard to actually play live I’ve decided to...
Magic Glitch

Magic Glitch

Since Ableton Live 11 we now have the amazing Pitchloop89 from Robert Henke. It’s a buffered delay/stutter/granular sampler thing and it’s incredible. It’s extremely versatile but one of my favorite things to do with it is to map it to an LFO to...
808 Distortion Rack

808 Distortion Rack

I’m sharing something special this week. I’ve developed this rack for some Hyperpop production projects and found myself using it often when I design 808’s or just want to beef-up sampled 808s. This rack is a combination of Pre-Gain Staging,...
Vocal Octaver

Vocal Octaver

Corona Days are still upon us. But it is Wednesday….. so…….It’s time for another Ableton Rack! This week we’re using the old faithful Grain Delay to add more octaves on top and below our vocals (try also on arpeggiators). The trick is to...