Side Brain

Cycling 74's founder David Zicarelli gave an amazing workshop during the Ableton's Educators day

Last day!
Genre Based Workshops
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Always an honor to be featured on Ableton’s homepage

YouTube video by Side Brain Block Chords Transformation | Side Brain's Study Group

New on Youtube!

How to create custom categories in the Live’s Browser

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It is!

Modulators Plus by Max for Cats Modulators Plus is a modulation toolkit for Ableton Live with 8 modulators and 3 map expanders that turn static parameters into evolving, expressive motion.

Giveaway alert!!
Modulators Plus is an amazing Max for Live pack from Sonic Bloom and Max for Cats.
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Winners will be announced in next week’s newsletter.

Some progressions from the RnB Harmony class
Check out the first 30 min here -> sidebrain.net/product/rnb-...

RnB Harmony - Side Brain Access to full class video + session downloads This session will focus on: How to RnB Harmony Chord Extensions Borrowed Chords Pentatnoic Improvazation Lead Harmonization Convolution Filtering Chord V...

The RnB Harmony workshop is now online!
This one is a bit longer almost 3 hours!

You can watch the first 30 min here -> sidebrain.net/product/rnb-...

For more chord focused theory check out the Chord Theory Workshop -> sidebrain.net/product/chor...

If you go to Ableton's home page right now you'll find a lovely new article by Joseph Joyce about The GRAMMY Museum's Sonic Playground exhibit and the Live Lab event that featured myself, Yeuda Ben-atar @sidebrain.bsky.social, Brendan Hogan, and Jasen Emmons.

Some progressions for Sunday’s RnB class
Link in bio

GRAMMY Museum’s Sonic Playground: Making Music Barrier-Free Get a behind-the-scenes look at the GRAMMY Museum’s Sonic Playground, a space where anyone can step into making music.

Great cover story on the Ableton about the event we did a few months ago at the Grammy Museum with the legendary Moldover

Modern RnB Harmony Stacks workshop - Sunday, February 1st
More info & tickets through the link in bio!

In this video we check out two Mod Wheel expression techniques.
1. Pentatonic Harmonization
2. Gate Triggering

Full guide with a lot more techniques on my website.

#ableton #abletonlive #abletonmidi #abletonhacks #abletontips #midi #modwheel

Mod Wheel Techniques - Side Brain Old School Expression with Modern Effects

Full guide here -> sidebrain.net/mod-wheel-te...

YouTube video by Side Brain Mod Wheel Techniques You Should Know

New video exploring more advanced uses for the Mod Wheel!

RnB Drum Programming - Side Brain Access to full class video + session downloads This session will focus on: How to RnB Drum Programming MIDI Tools Sequencing Techniques Browser Organization Syncopated, Triplets and Bounce Grooves 6/8...

The RnB Drum Programming workshop is now online!
You can check out the first 20 min from the session here -> sidebrain.net/product/rnb-...

The Ableton Project provided covering 12 different RnB Drum Styles

Today!

🥁 RnB Drum Programming Workshop - Sunday, January 25th! + Harmonizing and Layering Vocals I've been getting a lot of requests to dive deeper into RnB and Soul styles. Because RnB music theory and rhythm concepts can get fairly advanced, we’

More info & Tickets -> sidebrain.gumroad.com/p/rnb-drum-p...

Getting ready for the RnB Drum Programming workshop on Sunday (January 25th, link in bio).
The sound similarity feature inside the drum rack is so powerful!

YouTube video by Ableton How to harmonize and layer your vocals

My 2nd video in the new tutorial series for the official Ableton YouTube.

It’s an honor!

Upcoming Ableton Workshop
Sunday, January 25th
Link in bio

Ableton are hosting a full day of workshops at their Pasadena space.
I’m teaching the advanced session!
Free tickets available while they last ->
www.eventbrite.com/e/ableton-ed...

Free Ableton Roar Preset Pack!

17 Roar presets for drums, keys, bass, and leads

Get it on my website under Preset Packs

Free workshop today!

FREE WORKSHOP with Special Guest Philip Meyer! + Giveaways + Risset Rhythms Philip Meyer is one of the most prolific computer artists and educators in LA. He is a Max certified trainer. Works closely with Cycling 74' and Ablet

Sunday, January 18th
Free Workshop with Special Guest Philip Meyer + Giveaways!
Free with RSVP 👇

Who’s going to NAMM?

Since Apple added an automatic block quarantine for plugins from unidentified developers it can be a bit tricky to install and load free plugins in your DAW.

Here is a step by step

That’s awesome!

YouTube video by Ableton How to Remix a Track in Ableton Live

Ableton just posted a new video on their Youtube channel
Who is this guy in the video? I like him a lot and it’s most definitely probably not me