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Anna Lakatos
Anna Lakatos
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Anna Lakatos

Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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Other new and updated effect devices in Live 11

Upon the release of Live 11, there was a wealth of new and updated devices.

Let’s discover these, starting with one of my personal favorites, Spectral Resonator.

Spectral Resonator

Spectral Resonator uses resonance and overtones to manipulate the tonal characteristics of the signal that it is applied to.

Figure 7.7 – The Spectral Resonator device

Figure 7.7 – The Spectral Resonator device

Spectral Resonator uses a spectrogram to display the affected frequencies. Let’s look at some of the settings of the device:

  • The Harmonics setting at the top right of the spectrogram creates a kind of filtering effect, by applying more or less harmonics to change the “brightness” of the sound.
  • We can also add modulation by selecting from Chorus, Wander, or Granular.
  • We can also change the fundamental frequency/pitch of the resonator by using the Freq knob.
  • We can adjust the Decay knob and damp high and...
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Anna Lakatos

Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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