To get your beats going, it’s simply a matter of selecting one of the eight tracks, a sound for it (in Snd mode), and highlighting where you want it played by choosing from the 16 pad buttons on the ...

With the release of version 1.3 earlier this month, Ableton has rectified this. The update, which is free for existing users, introduces offline MIDI input and editing, allowing users to create empty ...

Press and shake for vibrato. Bend the pad left and right… Bend the pitch up and down. And all on a device that – rather than being stuffy old piano key shaped and requiring a degree of keyboard skill ...

creating images on the drum pad—she’s searching, here and elsewhere, for sound’s visual equivalent. However, that early work falls flat in comparison to the newer pieces that surround it.

It wasn’t all daddy duty, though. A subsequent slide captures a shirtless Bieber working a drum pad in the studio, followed by a grainy close-up of his face, a clearer one in which he is smiling ...