Whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year it really doesn’t matter, (who are we to judge, that’s Santa’s job). What does matter is that you’ve helped to make 2017 a great year for Mind Flux and, for that, we’re eternally grateful.
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In the Mind Flux studios, we love to experiment with our outboard gear like the Juno 6, Moog, 101 and more, by loading them into our favourite sampler… sampler (in Ableton) and using the various advanced controls, like FM oscillator, aux envelopes and loopers.
Moog big bass is perfect for techno, drum & bass, dubstep and any gritty genres.
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With Techno its all about experimentation and within Techno over, the last 3 decades producers have continually pushed the boundaries of the musical norms. One clear example of this is making bass lines from soaking your kick in reverb a practise which in all music engineering books is frowned upon.
But let's be honest the grey-haired folk who wrote these books have probably never been to a club in their lifes and therefore have never embraced the gut rumbling power this technique can provide.
We at Mind Flux have created an audio effects rack for Ableton that has adapted this power. The rack has a selection of tools that allow you to easily create techno rumbling kick drums that will leave your studio walls shaking. Simply load a kick of your choice and let it roll.
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With the holidays fastly peering over the horizon, the Mind Flux elves have been sorting out the last remaining Massive Presets they have left, to provide you with an early Christmas present. So cosy up to the fire with a cup of cocoa and start banging out some techno.
Within the pack, there is a host of 111 bass, pad, sequence, drum and synth presets as well as a selection of 69 bass, synth and keys midi loops.
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At Mind Flux we always like to find ‘odd” samples and turn them into something completely different by doing this you can ensure that you have something original to work with.
In this example we will be taken Britney Spears “One More Time” vocal and turning it into a raw bass preset. To do this we will be using Native Instruments highly impressive Form.
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The team of nerds at Mind Flux, have put together a gem of a instrument rack. The main sound of the rack is from the ever impressive Moog Minitaur which is a one stop shop for bass.
But using the amazing elements within Ableton it can become so much more. Simply turn the “Warp It” macro to let loose all hell.
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We have teamed up with our good friends over Rekkerd to give you a brand new techno freebie.
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Sometimes when trying to build an chord progression or chord melody you seem to just jump instinctively for the same chord, for me its the Minor 7th. While I would say this is my and many peoples favourite chord it does end up with your ideas sounding rather similar to everyone else.
So to help breath new life into your stale chord progressions and chord melodies we at Mind Flux have built a chord randomiser which with the selection of over 80 chord variations will output a new chord at the rate and depth of your choice.
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The Mind Flux nerds have been slamming away on the pads of the new out of this world workstation Maschine MK3 from Native Instruments. The team have injected their magic into this great machine give you the producer a dope kit to manipulate to your heart's content.
This freebie has 1 drum kit geared toward tech house and an array of drum patterns.
You will need the Maschine 2 software and the NI passive EQ, Solid Bus Comp and VC2A to be able to check out this project.
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In this latest blog post we are going to be exploring how to create a rusty down right dirty chord that is perfect for Dark Techno. To create this dark techno chord we will be using Ableton’s gargantuan new synth Wavetable as well as a selection of Ableton stock midi and audio effects. Wavetable is the perfect synth for Dark Techno sound design as you have a huge selection of wavetables to choose from and all can be easily manipulated and morphed.
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From time to time there will be situations when working with audio that its essential that you control the mid and side signals separately, yes you can do this with the EQ in M/S mode but what happens if you want to go beyond just a simple EQ. Well in this article we are going to show you how.
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If your trying to inject a sense of pace to your tracks adding in some shuffling hi hats, tambourines or shakers could be the way to go. There are many ways to achieve this but in this tutorial we are going to be using a delay unit to achieve this and specifically Ableton Live’s filter delay which give you the ability to have 3 delay channels.
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An EQ splitter is a very very useful tool which can allow you to split your frequency bands and add individual processing to each of these bands. In this blog post we are going be looking at how to set this up in Ableton Live 10 using the audio racks.
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King of the Mind Flux Nerds, Michael Penman, has teamed up with the hugely talented KMS Records regular, Killed Kassette, to bring you ‘Questionable Nature’ - the Tech-House/Dub infusion that is sure to take you on a transcendental journey into the deepest realms of your own mind.
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