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Just dropping the word that if you join my pal Brian Funk’s Music Production Club during February 2024 (for a measly $6 a month subscription fee), you will get the Empathy pack by PerforModule for free! You’ll also get the Sub Ninja vst by The Him! How cool! That’s like sixty bucks’ worth of audio production goodies for a tenth of the asking price! The MPC also comes with a ton of other groovy stuff and nifty perks like hanging out at monthly Discord meetings with us. Is that really a perk? I dunno. I would love to see you there, though! If you’re a cheap frugal bastard (as I tend to be), you ..read more

Memorizing Sucks. As audio engineers, certain numerical values become often-used and thus can become useful to memorize. If you suck at memorizing stuff like me, graphs and charts can be helpful. ~`~ 0—127. In Ableton Live and other programs, range values are often scaled from 0 to 127, rather than 0 to 100. So it can be useful sometimes to know certain fractional values to type in (either mathematically perfect for extreme precision, or rounded values for quick input). ~`~ Precise Midpoint (63.5) vs Rounded Midpoint (64). The most common of these is 63.5, the value to input for the precise ha ..read more

Inspired by the on-the-spot pieces crafted by participants of today’s Music Production Club meeting (I was late and didn’t make a piece, but listened to the others and they were awesome), I spontaneously decided to share an upgraded version of the Tuned Sub Kicker from the free Sweetie Pies pack which has been lurking in my library, unreleased publicly, for quite some time — until now — at 8:08:08pm on 8/08 (my time). Well, here you go! >>>Download Tuned 808 Kicker for Live 10+<<< It’s like the Tuned Sub Kicker, but more growly! Dial it in to add incisive, tuned sub thu ..read more

The PerforModule Key Map Template for Ableton Live 11: mapping computer keyboard keys to as many potentially helpful functions as practical. The Template There are three parts to the template: •a Live Set pre-loaded with the recommended key mappings, •a Diagram showing color-coded key functions, and •a Spreadsheet listing custom-mapped and built-in key mappings, also explaining some quirks. ~`~ Mosey on over to this dropbox folder to download the Key Map Template Live Set, Key Map Plan Image, and Spreadsheet Guide. Read on for nauseatingly meticulous details below. ~`~ Key Map Live Set Note! B ..read more

“WTF are Loudness Units?” you may ask. Well, they are simply a measure of loudness, just like decibels. One LU actually is equivalent to one dB. However, an important difference is that Loudness Units are “shaped” according to the human ear’s proclivity to hear certain frequencies more easily than others. Effectively, LUs tend to feel more consistent to our brains than dB will when measuring varying frequency content, and therefore LU meters are preferable to use (compared to, say, RMS meters) for assessing the overall loudness of music. Below are shown six free LU (aka Loudness Unit) meters ..read more

(intro) It’s a set of free presets for Dither, optimized for the Metal genre. They were made for the mastering of the upcoming metal album, Lust & Insecurity by Animus Invidious. Noise-shaping dither algorithms are theoretically optimized to “bury” the noise in the frequencies you hear least, while avoiding so much in the preeminent tonalities (in this case, distorted electric guitars focused around 2.5kHz). Download You can DOWNLOAD HERE and open the .fxp presets using your DAW of choice. If you happen to use Ableton Live 11, you can additionally access the .adg Racks which allow for mor ..read more

[Almost] all of the PerforModule sale packs (and some of the freebie packs) have been updated for Ableton Live 11 (finally)! Primarily, this means that racks which had less than eight mapped macros (resulting in some blank controls) have been tidied up to make use of Live 11’s ability to customize the number of macros shown. Occasional effect racks have also had some macro variations (aka presets) added to them. Live 11 versions of MasterBuss Cassette Tape and MasterBuss Vinyl Record from the Bussification pack. The following PerforModule packs have all been updated for Live 11. If you own any ..read more

This pack includes the bespoke Effect Racks from the ????? ??????? ?????? retro keyboard instrument pack for Ableton Live i released in collaboration with Brian Funk (but not the instruments), updated for Live 11. As usual, care is taken to map parameter values cleverly and gainstage things sensibly so that these racks are highly usable in many situations. I also tried to come up with unique signal processing chains leading to interesting results, like ????? ??????? sounding like your inebriated companions trying to sing along with you very badly — or like ???????? giving a one-knob guitar di ..read more

Aaron Holstein I met Aaron Holstein (aka VibeSquaD aka Backpact aka the bassist/keyboardist from Zilla) at the 2007 Sonic Bloom festival in Colorado, where my wife Lore and i were supplying coffee and tea backstage for the artists. I remember chatting with them after their awesome set with Sporque (one of my favorite live acts to dance to ever which also had Ooah from the Glitch Mob on beats and Jamie Janover on percussion), wherein i mentioned noticing that a certain bass synth note they kept hitting happened to resonate with the stage, causing this extra delicious rattle. “It was a C sharp ..read more