Ideas for making more music.

Rhythm: Sample Slicing Randomizer

Slice samples into surprising new patterns and build a repeatable Ableton workflow for generating rhythmic variations from almost any sound.

Rhythm: Building Beats with Audio

Transform audio clips into playable rhythmic material and use slicing, timing, and repetition to create beats that feel less predictable.

Rhythm: MIDI & Mangle

Start with downloadable MIDI rhythm material, reshape it inside Ableton Live, and quickly generate fresh beat ideas of your own.

Rhythm: Duplicate & Vary

Use repetition without getting repetitive: duplicate rhythmic ideas, introduce purposeful variation, and develop beats into longer musical phrases.

Recording MIDI & Automation

Capture performances, edit MIDI with confidence, and use automation to bring movement, expression, and polish to an Ableton Live production.

Recording Audio

Record clean audio into Ableton Live and understand the routing, monitoring, takes, and workflow decisions that make a session feel effortless.

Arrangement View

Turn loops and sketches into a developing song by learning how Ableton’s Arrangement View handles structure, timing, editing, and musical momentum.

The Basics: Ableton Live Foundations

Build a clean foundation in Ableton Live, including tracks, clips, Session and Arrangement View, MIDI editing, navigation, and the shortcuts that keep ideas moving.

File Management & Music Elements

Organize your Ableton projects, protect your audio files, save useful versions, and build a dependable system for capturing musical ideas.

Dec 22, 2022

Emotional Challenges New Music Producers Face

When it comes to creating new music, new music producers face a constant struggle with emotions. Whether they’re feeling frustrated, intimidated, or overwhelmed, they must fin…

Dec 20, 2022

Ai will replace sound designers and composers

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly popular in the music production industry. It has the potential to revolutionize the way music is created and produced, mak…

Chord Progressions

Connect chords into progressions with intention and use harmony to create direction, contrast, emotional movement, and satisfying resolution.

Chords

Build chords from intervals, recognize common chord qualities, and understand what makes a harmony sound stable, bright, dark, or unresolved.

Scales

Make scales practical by connecting their note patterns to Ableton’s piano roll, musical keys, melodic choices, and the sound of a production.

The Chromatic Tonal System

See how the twelve available notes are organized and learn a producer-friendly framework for navigating pitch directly inside a DAW.

Sep 12, 2022

Beats, Rhythm & Timing

Understand the grid, beats, bars, note divisions, tempo, and timing so rhythmic decisions inside Ableton Live become clear and intentional.

Sep 12, 2022

Alternate Chord Voicing

Rearrange chord tones to make progressions smoother, wider, more expressive, and better suited to the instruments in your production.

Sep 12, 2022

Intervals

Learn how the distance between notes creates musical character—and how intervals help you understand melodies, chords, harmony, and tension.

Sep 11, 2022

Pitch

Understand pitch, frequency, sound waves, and the piano roll—the essential language behind every melody, bass line, chord, and tuned drum sound.

Oct 21, 2020

Music Producer Nightmares | Retro Poster Remixes for Halloween

Poster Remixes | Music Producer Nightmares A collection of retro poster designs, remixed by Spacefood to poke a little fun at some of the most common issues music producers fa…

Apr 1, 2017

How to DJ using the PUSH 2 by Handsome Hansel

Handsome Hansel has done it again in this new, 9-minute long tutorial on how he uses the PUSH 2 to DJ with Ableton Live. This is another video produced by Hansel and posted on…

Jan 7, 2017

Synthesis Essentials

A practical, producer-friendly guide to oscillators, filters, envelopes, modulation, and building a first patch in Ableton Operator.