How to Chop Up Samples Like Four Tet and Bonobo

For this tutorial, Point Blank’s Course Content Developer, Chris Martin, shows how you can chop up samples like Four Tet and Bonobo in Ableton Live. Four Tet and Bonobo are best known for their ethereal take on dance music, maximising on emotive arpeggiators, luscious textures and hypnotizing melodies. The pair have become a staple in the […]

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Create Your Own Instruments with Logic Pro X 10.5’s New Sampler

To celebrate the release of Apple’s Logic Pro X 10.5, we’re creating a number of tutorial videos which explore the update’s new features. In this video, Point Blank Lecturer David Stone shows some handy tips and tricks using Logic 10.5’s Sampler, including how to create your own instrument from samples, mould your sounds using the plugin’s inbuilt parameters and […]

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Point Blank to Host AKAI Force Workshop on September 10 – Sign Up Free Today

Earlier this year AKAI unleashed their latest innovative music production and DJ performance system, the AKAI Force. This state-of-the-art tech includes a number of new and exciting features such as a 7″ screen eradicates the need for a laptop when getting creative, the ability to edit MIDI, launch clips, browse and tweak samples along with Ableton […]

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Turn Any Sound Into an Instrument with Simpler (Ableton Live Tutorial)

Our resident Ableton genius (and Certified Ableton Trainer) Thomas Glendenning is back with another of his famed Ableton tutorials. This time we take a look at Simpler, Ableton’s streamlined version of its main sampler, aptly called Sampler, and how you can use any sound and turn it into an instrument and play it with your […]

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