(By our guest contributor Hari Karam Singh) You could win one of five free codes for the AC Sabre app, read the story for full details… AC Sabre is a wireless, motion-based MIDI instrument that runs on your iPhone/iPod/iPad and is pretty handy for coming up with unique and sexy riffs and hooks for your productions and for live jamming on your synths...

  From 21st – 30th November 2016 you can save up to 80% on Eventide plugins. Here’s a few examples: Anthology X $499 Blackhole $49 H3000 Factory $199 UltraReverb $79 UltraChannel $49 But it also includes 60% off Tverb, a room reverb plugin developed in partnership with producer Tony Visconti…personally, I really want to try this one… Anyway,...

Transient Machines is a new Max for Live pack from Surreal Machines (who created the Dub Machines pack previously), including two new devices designed to manage and edit dynamics in your drums, loops, or of course, in anything else you want. Add or remove attack and decay from your drum sounds or just experiment with tweaking the transients in any...

www.mindlobster.myportfolio.com Here’s some photos from last night’s Sample, Slice & Synthesize tour stop at Red Dog Music, London. Ableton Certified Trainer and Ableton Live Expert contributor Phelan Kane gave a demo, then continued with a group workshop while Ableton’s Simon Lyon ran a group workshop in another room. There are more dates if...

    Ableton have released Live 9.7, after a long beta period. This update is almost entirely focused on adding new features to Push 2, although changes to Simpler will be good for everybody. This is a free update, so anybody who’s using Live 9 Intro, Standard, or Suite, should download it. I haven’t personally encountered any issues with the beta,...

Earlier today, Texas-based Symplesound (that’s sound design legend Francis Prève at the wheel, there) released the FM Collection – a set of three new Ableton Live instrument libraries, including DX, 81Z, and Operator, designed to bring you the sounds of the 80s, 90s, and 2000s! DX library – 10 velocity multisampled instruments based on the legendary...