Ableton Live 7 & Ableton Live Suite are now available. I love Live’s minimalistic look and the way it turn half instrument half DAW but Live getting to version 7 very rapidly and it is questionable at the very least whether all the update have been worth of a whole new number and the price tag. The any audio engine improvement to any product should always be welcome tough. Live Suites is just a version bundled with the Ableton instrument that fit so snugly with live for all you completist out there.
I think I may have listed this before but if so it deserves another listing. Tunetorials has a bunch of great video’s to help you make music. The Reason ones are especially good.
This video on making glicth beats is an example:
Loopbe1 Free is a cool free utility for passing midi information from on application to another. Also see MIDIOX and Hubi’s MIDI Loppback.
XYplorer Free is a free non-music utility but music maker stend to be power uses when it comes to file management and spend a lot of time using Window Explorer bouncing around our sample bloated hard drives. XYplorer is a replacement of the Windows Explorer and it one of those programs you don’t know how you lived with out it once you get used to it. The audio previews, color coding, batch renaming, favorites tagging are so very useful. Plus it will run off a memory stick. The paid version even come with more goodness.
Hidden amongst the good stuff at Beavis Audio Research is the handy pedal wiring diagram for you DIY’ers.
Cyberworm’s sample blog has samples yea!
Recording Mecca has 5 Tips for Mastering. The good common sense tips. Common sense is so rare these are welcome.