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◢ issues
september 2026
12 issues- 2026-09-12Turn a held chord into a groove with one automation lane
- 2026-09-11Morph between any sounds with this M4L fader and LFO trick
- 2026-09-10Two sounds sound like one blob? Stop cutting—use harmonics
- 2026-09-09Steal a JV-1080 layering trick for Serum 2
- 2026-09-08The Supernova II sound engine, now in a plugin
- 2026-09-07Thin vocal? This free channel strip's gate expander trick
- 2026-09-06KETTAMA's chords are tuned 40 cents flat
- 2026-09-05Auto Shift's hidden LFO mode for granular drift
- 2026-09-04Bass definition lives in the mud — 5 mixers show where
- 2026-09-03The bassline trick that starts with your chords
- 2026-09-02SOSA’s 30-minute track-building workflow for funky house
- 2026-09-01Why your drops hit flat — and the Serum 2 fix
august 2026
31 issues- 2026-08-31Ninajirachi's glitch trick: one upbeat eighth note
- 2026-08-30Analog drum crush: Smack plug-in walkthrough
- 2026-08-29Bounce a group track into drop stutter chops
- 2026-08-28Build 10 Essential House Synth Patches in Serum
- 2026-08-27Diva plucks that land like an Anjunadeep intro
- 2026-08-26Brunello's drum isolation trick in Live
- 2026-08-25PSP 2445 reverb at its lowest price yet
- 2026-08-24The low-end automation trick that tightens a drop
- 2026-08-23PULSEMELT ducks its own tail and degrades it—free VST3
- 2026-08-22Bouncit's free delay ducks repeats so it doesn't fight the mix
- 2026-08-21Linear phase EQ and where your parallel bus falls apart
- 2026-08-20Feuer paints frequency sustain onto drum loops
- 2026-08-19Turning an irregular pattern into the grid
- 2026-08-18Turn any sample into a dying tape machine
- 2026-08-17Diva pluck walkthrough, a free clipper, and Ableton speed moves
- 2026-08-16Bassmaker’s hidden pages + a free 24‑band EQ
- 2026-08-15Roar as comb delay, Serum 2 arp, blind bass
- 2026-08-14Cut hi-hat highs, then boost the shelf
- 2026-08-13Serum 2 sci-fi horns and an Ableton rave template
- 2026-08-12Operator can do your kicks—here's the patch
- 2026-08-11Reverb before compression (and why it matters)
- 2026-08-10Low shelves, not high-passes
- 2026-08-09Your phase meter isn’t broken, it’s just 90°
- 2026-08-08Mixing aggressively: it's not about energy
- 2026-08-07Cleaner low end, dirtier tops, and a free saturator
- 2026-08-06half a dB: the mix move nobody talks about
- 2026-08-05Your fader is a better EQ than your EQ
- 2026-08-04Your vocal bus should be mixed first – here's how
- 2026-08-03one more night with Glitch2, now free
- 2026-08-02Two free synths & SOS's 30-year vault
- 2026-08-01A free reverb that ducks itself
july 2026
23 issues- 2026-07-31Free dusty 522 drum samples & an FM bass tuning trick
- 2026-07-30ported slides and aggressive wubs in ANA 2
- 2026-07-29Ear candy from foley (and a free generative arp)
- 2026-07-28A Diva lead that breathes — plus a free Spotify checker
- 2026-07-27iZotope VEA freebie + a K3 emulation teaser
- 2026-07-26Glitch perc from stock Live (and the random button)
- 2026-07-25Sidechain Your Kick to Shift Pitch
- 2026-07-24The kick trick that actually works
- 2026-07-23Chris Lorenzo's production tricks, decoded
- 2026-07-22A bad pitch shifter on your master bus? Yes, Loukeman says.
- 2026-07-21Reverse-engineering a Chris Lake bass in Diva
- 2026-07-20Ableton Link Audio: 3ms latency over USB-C
- 2026-07-19that shaperbox call/response trick is wild
- 2026-07-18Resonant reverb that becomes a note
- 2026-07-17Print your reverb 100% wet and treat it like audio
- 2026-07-16Audiojack’s template is here (and it’s all stock Ableton)
- 2026-07-15Build the Keinemusik lead in Serum
- 2026-07-14Logic’s sync granular, a free 909 kick, and ‘Your Love’ in the Library
- 2026-07-13Strip silence in Ableton without rendering? Finally.
- 2026-07-12Tribal drums, swing secrets, and a free beat mangler
- 2026-07-11Free modular delay/filter + Live 12.4 tricks
- 2026-07-10FM stabs in Operator, plus Thump One’s wild beta
- 2026-07-09Fix flat loops: volume moves + one‑sample Absynth
◢ techniques
all 12 on one page →- 2026-09-03Your bass line gets a classic UKG rhythmic pulse shaped solely by volume modulation, not by sweeping the filter.Volume-only UKG bass pump (no filter ducking)
- 2026-09-02Your drop hits with authority because the break stripped back elements, high end, width, and low‑end rumble.Sparse, Dark, Narrow Break for a Full Drop
- 2026-09-01Your perc loop gets tight, skipping stutters that sound like a broken CD player but stay musical.Glitchy percussion stutters with Beat Repeat
- 2026-08-31Your track gains a separate reverb audio layer you can edit like a sample — chop, stretch, pitch shift, reverse, or move it before the dry signal for rhythmic and textural surprises.Print your whole wet reverb as audio and treat it like a sample
- 2026-08-30Your hi-hats lock into a tight, focused pocket — no stray ghost notes or velocity spikes.Conform hi-hat velocities to 80–105 in one MIDI Transform pass
- 2026-08-19Your kick hits only on the pattern’s strongest notes, creating an accented pulse that grooves inside your irregular rhythm.Accent‑driven kick from an irregular pattern’s own grid
- 2026-08-15Your vocal chops follow a single melodic line without sounding stiff because the sampler retunes them dynamically as the source pitch bends.Play Vocal Loops in Tune Using the Dynamic Pitch Map, Bitwig-Only
- 2026-07-29Your pluck and bass layers stay distinct because each filter's cutoff sits in its own band — slope only decides how abrupt the handover is.12+24 dB/oct Pluck-Bass Layering for Clean Low-End Separation
- 2026-07-19Your track finds four different energies at one unchanged tempo, from the kick pattern alone.Four BPM Pockets Using Only the Kick Pattern You Already Have
- 2026-07-17A dense, slow-shifting grain cloud that adds atmospheric depth behind your house chords or vocal chop.Granular texture pad from any sample using Serum 2’s Granular mode
- 2026-07-14Your selected vocal clips lose their silent gaps instantly, in-place, with no new audio files created.Strip silence from vocal clips with Strip Silence PT (Live 12.4.5+)
- 2026-07-09Your rolling bass keeps weight but reads as rhythmic hits instead of a constant sub drone.Rolling-sub fix: note gaps + up-to-30 ms release
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