The developers of Griid , the Ableton Live controller on iPad created by Richie Hawtin, have shared photos and screen captures early with CDM to give us a look at the upcoming app. Just over a decade after its original inception, Ableton Live itself remains a ground-breaking user interface design. [...]
The design of tools incorporates aesthetic ideas and values from the creator. [...]
Photo ( CC ) Till Krech . Forgive some seemingly train-of-thought connections between topics, but today is what I’d call a Nexus of Goodness while I’m traveling through Berlin. 1. [...]
The miracle of human hearing goes well beyond audiophile snobbery over “high fidelity,” or the machinations of sometimes-arbitrary, designed-by-committee industry specifications. [...]
Button bashin’ and clip launchin’ is the new DJin’ – or at least if you follow these pages that’s the way it seems. To some, it’s all rather alien and not what DJing is about, but for others its the next logical creative [...]
Eat your heart out, Ableton/Serato The Bridge. Native Instruments’ Traktor runs four decks at once without breaking a sweat, and there are various ways of incorporating sampling, scratching, and vinyl in a live rig that are pretty easy to set up. But lately we’ve seen some unusual options to build more elaborate [...]
Ms. Pinky Revised from Mastah Lee on Vimeo . What should DJing in Ableton Live look like? [...]
Live maker Ableton and DJ and virtual vinyl developer Serato today announced the results of their partnership. First off, this isn’t what many of us originally speculated: it’s not a DJ deck inside [...]
( CC ) Pikturewerk . Minor releases and bugfixes don’t generally make CDM news, but this is a special occasion. Ableton founder and CEO Gerhard Behles got everyone’s attention this week by making the rare public announcement that Ableton’s development team was temporarily halting work on new features to focus on fixing bugs [...]