In today’s jam session, I used Dawesome’s fantastic myth plugin to re-synthesize and process two of my field recordings and create a sound collage from them. The visuals were again created with VideoSync 2 in Ableton .
Tag: ableton
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jamuary 2026 // #11 // Spoken Words in Ableton
Today my girlfriend and I had a little jam session. We took turns speaking freely associated words into the microphone, which we recorded. Afterwards, we processed the samples in Ableton and created a small rhythmic collage from them.
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jamuary 2026 // #08 // sound collage ableton
Today I created a sound collage in ableton using old loops and GRM Tools Atelier patches. I morphed and crossfaded in real time with the m4l device Chiastic Slide on my Push 3. Chiastic Slide is an incredible device—simple yet absolutely brilliant. I highly recommend it and a huge thank you to the developer, Zack Steinkamp.
Since a video showing only a few channels in Ableton is boring, I added visuals to the track using VideoSync 2.
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Vsynth-Visuals in Ableton – Part 1
Kevin Kripper, the founder of the Max/MSP package Vsynth, published the lectures from his Vsynth classes at the University of Oregon on Patreon a few days ago.
Inspired by this, I revisited Vsynth after a long time and integrated my patch into Ableton 12 as a Max for Live device:
Kevin provides instructions for this here:
Unfortunately, there are problems using the Vsynth preset object in Ableton. Instead of the VSynth preset object, the following patch must be implemented (with the name of your json-preset-file):
I then inserted “Envelope MIDI” to those samples in the Drum Rack which get triggered and assigned them to the corresponding parameters in the M4L VSynth patch:
I also mapped LFOs and Envelope Followers to other parameters in the Live Set to add more movement.
This creates very interesting audio-reactive visuals:
Thanks to Kevin Kripper for this amazing package!