Heya,

No matter what part of the world you are in, I hope you've been having a good time. It's been more more than a month this time. I was excited at teasing great presets out of Drift and had a lot of fun doing so, but I still need to pace myself to keep a steady progress of healing. To avoid a two steps forwards, one step back kind of dance. So yes, I'm continuing to get better and quite visibly so, even if not as quickly as my impatient self would like to. This is why I will be doing a prolonged fast starting in a few days as a way of hitting the reset button. Keep your fingers crossed!

The theme over the last month or so on the Sonic Bloom blog has been Push and Drift, both released with Live 11.3. I very much love the new Drift synth and have spent a lot of hours with it.

Free and Premium Drift Live Packs Out Now

One of my favourite bits of music making is the sound design going into it, so I've created lots of cool Drift presets as well as fully macro mapped Instrument Racks. You can grab 10 of the presets in the free Live Pack.

The full Drift Live Pack contains a varied mix of Drift presets and Instruments Racks, always with at least subtle changes in sound over time. From synth leads, pad sounds, bass presets all the way to truly experimental sounds. 64 in total. It's available now for an introductory price until July 18.

Get the Drift Live Pack

Ableton Live Quick Tips: Automatic Updates & How To Downgrade

Some people have been having issues with Live 11.3, but didn't know how to downgrade. So I've covered this in a video tutorial and also explain what options you have in general for updates, plus a couple of tips on things that need to be considered.

More Expressive Push: Free Push 2 Pedal Expression by Max for Cats

Ralf Suckow, a long time Ableton developer who also worked on Push 3, wanted to show some love to Push 2. So he created this free Max for Live device that lets you calibrate any passive analogue expression pedal (or even two) plugged into Push 2, and use various MIDI control changes to control parameters in your Live Set.

Ableton Push 3 Review – What It Did & Didn’t Get

I went over the new features included in Push 3 as well as looked at what things people had hoped for and what actually materialised. I'm listing the pros and the cons as well as add my own two cents about V3.

Warm reverberations,
Madeleine

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