Round-up of Last Month’s Serato Releases
Last month Serato released a selection of brand new pro DJ devices that are pushing the skills of the selector to the limits. With two new controllers and an interface, the guys at Serato, Pioneer, Rane and Numark have been very busy recently. The new products are the; Rane SL 4 for Scratch Live, … Read more
Performing With Ableton Live Free Tutorial Series
Below you can watch 5 exclusive videos from Point Blank Online. These are just a small sample of the 80+ tutorial videos made available to Point Blank students over the 4 week DJ/Performance with Ableton Live course. The course guides you, step-by-step, through the revolutionary software package: Ableton Live, this includes both popular software and … Read more
How to make Dubstep Free Tutorial Series
Watch 5 videos exclusive to youtube in the ‘How to Make Dubstep’ series. They are a sample of the 80+ videos that Point Blank students have access to on the 4 week Dubstep Pro Producer Course taught in Ableton Live. Please subscribe to the Point Blank youtube channel to make sure you don’t miss the … Read more
How To Make Dubstep…
After Drum n Bass, Garage, and Grime had flittered in and out of fashion in the underground London dance music scene in the late 1990s/early 2000s a fledgling sound with an emphasis on heavy low end frequencies, reverberating snares and half step percussion at around 140bpm began to gather pace amongst a small community of … Read more
How to Produce Minimal Tech in Ableton Live
However you want to describe it, as minimal or tech house or minimal techno or whatever, it is a sound that has taken dance floors across the globe by storm and is unlikely to be leaving us anytime soon. There are countless amazing producers and DJs that have taken the Minimal and Tech House sub-genres … Read more
Vestax VCM-600
With the current direction in which the world of DJing seems to be going, we are consistently seeing a blurring of the distinctions between producing and DJing. Software like Ableton Live has made it possible for DJs to produce, remix and edit tracks on the fly and during a performance. So now we’re also seeing … Read more
Chopping Samples Manually in Ableton Live & Assign to Drum Rack
During the post-NAMM period which we are currently in there is often a lack of adequate music production technology news as everyone is busy playing with all the toys showcased at the event. However, I recently came across this pretty interesting demonstration of a technique in Ableton that has a great deal of potential and … Read more
Ski Beatz – An Unsual Approach to Ableton
Ski Beatz is a producer who’s worked with some of the biggest names in Hip Hop, including Jay Z, Mos Def, AZ, Foxy Brown, Lil’ Kim and Camp Lo. In this video he demonstrates how he goes about making a track, and its actually done in quite an unexpected, yet very impressive way. Ski has … Read more
Ableton & Serato: The Bridge
Live maker Ableton and DJ and virtual vinyl developer Serato have announced the long-awaited results of their partnership. The collaboration seeks to bridge the gap between the way DJs perform and the way Live users perform. The result focuses on the way a performance set is assembled in the two paradigms, an attempt to guide … Read more
‘Mad Beatz’ Loop & Sample Pack
Ableton have just announced the release of two brand new loop and sample packs for Live created by drummer extraordinaire KJ Sawka. These new packs consist of live drum recordings, loops and riffs, the packs are also being given away by those nice people at Ableton as a holiday gift for us all to enjoy! … Read more
