Mostly I just use Live for recording the audio and putting it in a Drum Rack. I’m curious, do you combine the Live workflow with any other tools? If so, how? So, in my own music making, I like to use Ableton and Push alongside other drum machines, too – both hardware and software, so ranging from NI Maschine to the KORG volca sample and Jomox Xbase09. The drums are a bit of a different story because they are more specific. Once I have a nice chunk of audio, I bring it into a Drum Rack and move the start point around looking for cool bits. I’ll set up my hardware in different ways and play around. I usually like to start out pretty experimentally, just recording 30 minutes or so of different sounds – whether it’s synth noises, or sample manipulation, resampling, etc. How might users go about organizing their own packs for performance and studio inspiration? I often drag the waves directly into my timeline and chop them up directly, or drop them into a dedicated midi track with a sampler, and play them on the keyboard.
Lots of sick stabs, bass noises, drums, atmospheres, etc. Additionally, all the waves have been organized so you can just sift through the one-shots and find something interesting to kick off an idea, or flesh out something you already have. The packs are really flexible, they can be used for finger drumming with a 64 grid, or also just loaded into a project and used for production. How might people extend it in their own work? Other than that, it seems pretty much the same to me… which I like 🙂Ĭongrats on the pack it’s really great work. I’m typically one of these people who never upgrades, but since they added the new 64 pad mode, it made sense.
Anything you’re using in the upgrade (apart from the bits you added)? I don’t really do any special finger exercises other than jamming all the time and trying new stuff/patterns as I discover them. In terms of staying nimble, I treat it just like I would guitar or drums - practice all the time.
Because of how much power there is in great sound design and minimalism, there’s a lot of room to do something incredible which is actually quite simple. One of the things that interests me the most about it is the balance between sound design and performance technique. It lets me break out of the confines of linear music programming to infuse something alive into the sinews of my music. He joins us to share some tips for live performance, production, DJing, and more.Ĭan you talk a bit about finger drumming? How do you practice / how do you stay nimble?įor me, finger drumming is a chance to truly play electronic music like an instrument. Since he, frankly, makes most of us look bad with his agile use of the Push hardware, I wanted CDM to talk to him more about what he’s doing. Mad Zach’s five free Drum Racks accompany today’s release of Ableton Live 9.2. All those pads – it took virtuoso finger drummer Mad Zach to take advantage of them.
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