Vocal manipulation with Ableton Simplers.

As the name suggests, vocal removing is about taking vocals out of a stereo recording. Perhaps to add your own sweet voice instead? This week, James Bernard shows how to do this in Reason and in Record.

More than just pitch control, V-Vocal also gives you control over timing, dynamics, vibrato, and formant. In just a few steps, you can achieve natural sounding vocals with simple pitch correction, or crank up V-Vocal to achieve the robotic vocals heard on todays popular Hip Hop and R n B hits.

Ableton and Softube team up to present Amp, an effect that emulates the sound and character of seven classic guitar amplifiers. Amp is free with Ableton Suite 8, and comes bundled with Cabinet, a separate effect offering classic speaker cabinets and optimized microphone configurations.

CLP is Chris de Luca and Phon.o. The sound they make is a funky hybrid of intergalactic hip hop, ghetto beats, sexy booty IDM and dirty techno that takes musical genres, chews them up and turns them into good-natured grooviness. In this movie, they open up their Live Sets and talk about making...

Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements.