Hello everyone. This week I will shoot a video on making granular beats with Drum Racks using Granulator III. Perfect for mad glitch beats and textures. Here is a teaser video and project for you to look at anyway whilst I spend some time trying to tame this idea, cause already its complete mayhem. Download attached. See you soon.
2024-05-19 14:43:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. I made a Squarepusher Mix Tape for no reason. Hope you enjoy.
2024-05-17 19:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. Here is a fun jam making weird hybrids of bass and drums and using effects to add eery textures. Hope you enjoy. Download link below.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sif1nrhmy59bmj0/Abstract%20Percussion%20Project.zip?dl=0
2024-05-17 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. I’d like to invite you to this special livestream featuring myself and Patron of the Ned Rush, The Self Hypnosis Machine. This is a fully improvised audio visual performance done remotely in real-time, with myself in the UK and him in the States. I will be generating the music live using Max and he will be generating the visuals live in Touch Designer. Hopefully see you there....
2024-05-16 10:20:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. It's been a while since I chopped up some amens for a breakbeat salad so heres a project using follow actions to advance down all the clips then go back round. Quite a nice quick and dirty way to get sequences going in the session view. Like this post if you think I should chop up more breaks in Live 12 soon. Download attached. See you next time.
2024-05-15 18:11:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. I will go live shortly just to mess about.
Edit. Download link below for the project file.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/587zxid8oizoxjf/Livestream%20140524%20Project.zip?dl=0
2024-05-14 18:25:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone and welcome to my new video and what is this video about? CC Control. You can use it for things and here I am using it to mangle a sample of someone in the news right now. Hope you enjoy. Download for the Live 12 Project is attached. See you again soon.
2024-05-13 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Are any of you by any chance ambient electronic music artists based in or near Helsinki, Finland. Thanks.
2024-05-12 19:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember the Horror Dub from last week? Well here is how I made it, or certainly very similar. Generative Dub Echo in Max For Live. Only the surface was scratched, but the results were still sizzling. Download attached. See you for more soon.
2024-05-10 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Welcome to this fun remix of the entire of the Goldeneye 64 soundtrack remixed in one Drum Rack. Needless the same the game was a classic but after randomly stumbling upon the soundtrack on youtube I was surprised by how crushed bits of it are, like rave as hell stabs, and how the watch theme sounds like 808 trap about 10 years before trap even became a thing. Mad really. Listen...
2024-05-09 20:28:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Thanks for watching. It was fun messing about with Reason VST. Attached is the Live project file. See you next time.
2024-05-07 20:59:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. Going live shortly to look at the Drum Rack Buddy plus some other stuff and generally chat and hangout. Come join in.
2024-05-07 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. The Drum Rack Buddy is out now, featuring exclusive bonus content from User Friendly and The Fellow Passenger, only on Isotonik Studios. Keep an eye out today for more info about it.
2024-05-07 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Next week I will return with more generative techniques in Max For Live and one will be a dub echo and that does all kind of crazy stuff, as I move into the world of generative effects. Not sure yet if generative is the right word but its too late now I'm stuck with it. Here is a teaser device which makes massively frightening dub sounds that sometimes are really psychedelic. Ho...
2024-05-02 19:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Here is a generative audio visual Max For Live device. It's a sort of plucky synth and each voice the waveform is represented in the scope, cause Jitter can run in poly~ which is mad. Hope you enjoy. Download attached.
2024-04-30 17:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Here is the project I just made on the livestream. Link below. See you next time. It was fun.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rbrpab0pdvxrsfepqcbk7/Mouse-Reacts-in-the-Chad-Project.zip?rlk...
2024-04-29 20:53:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. I'll be going live tonight to play around in Live 12. Come and hang out.
2024-04-29 15:29:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. I decided to make a slit scan thing in Max For Live after having too much fun with the SlitScan app on iPhone. I took the starting concept from Andrew Robinson who is a fellow Max Certified Trainer and makes great videos about Max. You can watch it here.
2024-04-29 12:06:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Youtube tells me that Mondays at 8pm is the best time of the week for me to livestream. Whether I decide to believe that or not I don't know, but I would like to do a livestream again soon, so I would also like to invite you to vote for which piece of software/hardware I use for the next stream. Vote below if you like. Cheers.
2024-04-28 13:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post
That's it. I made a video where I finish a song. Is the song any good? I've no idea, but I finished it and thats all I care about. Over the years this has been one of my most requested video topics and I don't even know if anything I've said is of any use, but I did finish a song, and I shot it all in one take which always leaves me feeling please.
Download link for the project is...
2024-04-27 16:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostHello all. Decided to spend the afternoon exploring a bit of Live 12 and made this mad visualiser of a cube doing weird stuff in the process so called it MadCube. Also I really like this new CC device (see bottom left corner of the video). Assign an LFO to it and you've got some modular control over your pitch bend! Nice. Defo going to open up more sound design options there. Download attached....
2024-04-27 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes. A generative sample slicer in Max For Live. This is the stuff of life. It's time for Part 4 in the Generative Musical Instruments in Max For Live series. Considering how many times I've chopped up breaks on Youtube, I've never done it this way before. Hope you enjoy. Download attached. See you soon.
2024-04-26 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. Now we are really talking. Generative polysynths in Max. Excited about this episode and so much more to explore, but it's still early doors so lets find our feet. This device not only generates chords, but also generates waveforms for the polysynth in realtime. Nice. Download attached and see you for part 4 where we will look at chopping up loops in a generative fashion.
2024-04-25 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. It's Part 2 of my new series and this time we are going to make a funky drum machine using only DSP signals in Max For Live. Got lots of ideas for these videos and looking forward to making more. Gonna keep me busy for a while I think and it feels good to have a concept in my back pocket. Download attached. Hope you enjoy and see you soon.
2024-04-23 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. I am very please to kick start this new series that could easily go on for the next few months as theres so much stuff to explore. But lets begin with some form of foundation and build a simple melodic monosynth that plays all by itself. Download attached. Hope you enjoy and see you soon.
2024-04-22 19:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Whilst taking a break and nursing a seasonal cold, I've been doing some research and exploring ideas for future videos, and so I've decided now is the time to starting building Generative Musical Instruments in Max For Live to run in Ableton. These will use good old fashioned analogue/digital signal processing ideas. Some I've lifted from the very useful Generating Sound and Org...
2024-04-20 10:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. I have a bit of a cold, so today I've been resting on the sofa watching TV and playing around in Max. This patch I'm rather excited about and feels a bit like the next phase for my ongoing computer music studies. For the last few weeks I've been trying to wrap my head around making generative music ideas using only MSP~ signals in Max, similar to how eurorack works. These ideas ...
2024-04-17 16:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. I have a small cold so this video is easily my worst video ever but I must stick to the plan and get this project finished. This is the second to last video in the series and for the final I will actually finish the song, arrange and export and then I would have made a video about how to arrange and finish a song which is one of my most requested ideas. Download attached. See yo...
2024-04-16 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. I've been taking a small break in April after 3 months of intense work, but there's still lots of things happening. This weekend is another instalment of More Kicks Than Friends online hosted by Pope John Paul Van Damme. Click this link and set your reminder.
https://youtube.com/live/Dy0Gwzaoglg 2024-04-12 10:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The next instalment of me making a track using only Meld and bits of the new midi tools in Live 12. It's starting to come together. Maybe one day it'll be actual music. Download link attached. Hope you enjoy and see you soon.
2024-04-05 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post