I bought ABL2 recently, because I *love* that 303 sound and it was cheaper than trying to figure out how to build my own xoxbox. I had plans to do more with this track. Then I realised I was getting too deep into tweaking instead of releasing…

Worked on this track for a *long* time. Learnt a lot but it's time to call it done and move on to something else. Am pretty happy with it all in all. Sounds include samples of me clapping and the Snowdon steam train heavily processed with Ableton…

This is a track I started on the ferry over to Wales for a little holiday a couple of weeks back. * Drums are from Ableton Suite's Session Drums * Bassline is an patch I created in Live's Analog synth * Guitar is me playing through Guitar…

One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the last track I did, and it shows. I was pretty tired after finishing 3am chill, and had to mess round for ages mangling loops and trying out different things before…

One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the second track I did. I'm an old trance head, so I had to have a go at making a trance tune during the 24 hours. This had the advantage that I could stretch out the breakdown…

One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the first track I did, when I was still fresh. I'd wanted to play around with Guitar Rig 3 since getting it at the weekend. The guitars are ableton loops mangled with guitar…

One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. I'd just finished the trance track, it was 3am, and I wanted something completely different. It's 110bpm, the piano is NI AkousticPiano Steingraber 130. The bass and organ are done…

This is the first public output after going through about 40% of nickstutorials.com sound design series. All the sounds started off with my sampling myself either saying something, clicking my fingers or clapping. They were recorded through…

After the Alonetone meetup in Dublin, I promised Tess & Bethan I'd get my finger out and finish/upload some more stuff. So this is the first thing that's reached "good enough" stage. A trancey/ravey number featuring monotron samples after…

I decided to focus by timeboxing the amount of time I spent on drums, bass and lead into 30 min sections based on the pomodoro technique. The idea was to spend 5 mins picking the sound for each part, then 25 mins making some loops with it to arrange…