Micah Frank

I was sending sysex data to my Machinedrum the other day when suddenly it began blurting out the most digitally obscene sounds I have ever heard from it! I was a little offended and you might be too once you hear them. This is the stuff I love – when a piece of gear generates sounds that it could never create under its normal operating mode.

I took some time today to program a drum kit and then some Live Racks that cycle through various samples repeatedly while simultaneously jumping between sample offsets every 10ms or so creating interesting transients. Here’s a quick mp3 demo and a download link for the Live Pack. Enjoy!

This pack is now available as a free Puremagnetik download here.

Ableton Live Rack tutorial in Computer Music Magazine

Computer Music Magazine asked me to write a detailed Ableton Live Rack tutorial in July’s issue. It includes some beginner as well as advanced programming methods and lots of screenshot examples. Should already be out in Europe hitting the US in another few weeks.