Free modular delay/filter + Live 12.4 tricks
Tonight’s standout: ShinRonin is back as a free modular delay/filter. It’s gritty, flexible, and begs for a send on your stab bus. Plus: the E16 just learned to loop MIDI parameter moves, and Live 12.4’s effects got real upgrades you can hear fast.
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StereoVault stereo width tool
Per‑band widening, image rotate, and mono‑check in one spot — handy to spread pads or guitars while keeping subs straight, and cleaner than Haas tricks.
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Live 12.4: Erosion goes deeper, Delay gets weirder, Chorus gets options
Erosion now blends sine/noise and balances stereo with much lower frequency reach, Delay adds new LFO shapes with a Morph control, and Chorus gets tap/time choices — quick tone moves that open up movement without extra devices.
25 Live browser/mixer tricks you probably aren’t using
Faster sessions: set scene tempos and signatures, flip to split‑stereo panning, and clean up the browser so you stop hunting and start arranging.
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ShinRonin returns: modular delay/filter with tape/digital flavors
Creative delay and filtering in one patchable box means dubby stabs, evolving pads, and drum buss movement without stacking five plugins — modular routing and morphing filters do the heavy lifting.
E16 firmware 1.0 adds a real MIDI parameter looper($499 / 449€)
You can record knob moves into loops, morph snapshots, and group encoders — perfect for hands-on CC modulation of your synths and FX without touching the DAW; the Lua SysEx tools are a bonus if you like custom maps.
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Ableton Extensions: right‑click scripts that edit your Set
Heads‑up: Suite 12.4.5 beta only — not in Standard/Intro/Lite. If you’re in, you can batch‑tweak clips and parameters, transform MIDI, or generate patterns from JavaScript without building a Max device.
- 1. Duplicate your upper-bass MIDI to a new track; load a simple sine on a stock synth, playing the fundamental only.
- 2. Solo the lows on the master or the sub bus so you’re hearing just the sub band.
- 3. Shorten the sub’s MIDI note lengths so there’s space between hits; stop when the lows read as rhythm, not a drone.
- 4. If you hear clicks on low keys (E, E♭, D), lengthen the amp-envelope release—tracks that low might need as much as 30 ms.
- 5. Set up sidechain from the kick to the sub with your stock compressor so the kick leads.
- 6. Optionally, try a pluck-shaped decay on the sub and watch the envelope position (Vital/Serum show this); expect some lost weight and louder transient.
🔮 Producer Horoscope (for fun) — Your snare will win the loudness war; your hats will file an appeal.
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