SIMULATE HARDWARE SETUPS IN ABLETON LIVE
As electronic musicians, we have the best of all possible worlds. We can work with the limitless possibilities of computers and software, and we have the restrictive but engrossing workflows of hardware synthesisers and other devices. Hardware’s enjoyed a huge resurgence in recent times, but there’s a downside – it’s bulky.
A full-blown hardware rig with synths, samplers, drum machines, effects and a mixer, isn’t something you can easily pick up and go with, and travelling overseas to gigs becomes more complicated and expensive. So why not have it all? Keep that dream hardware rig, but maintain a reasonable software clone of it as well.
The aim is to employ those limitless possibilities I mentioned earlier, to replicate your hardware, rather than to explore open-ended sound design. You’ll need to look at the elements in your setup, and think about how Ableton Live can recreate them. We’ll stick
