From the crypt
Every time a session hit the same wall, I built the tool that knocks it down. Ten plugins for Ableton so far, each named after something from the afterlife, because a skull is the ORIKLE logo and I could not resist. Each post says why I built it, what it does and how I use it on a track.
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Audio effect (vocal EQ)·
I was tired of sweeping an EQ around a vocal and hoping. So I built a vocal EQ for Ableton that listens first, names the problem (boom, box, harsh esses, no air), suggests the fix and lets me hear it at matched loudness.
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Instrument (MIDI generator)·
Same soul, new body. Give Reincarnate a lead, bassline or chord part and it hands back fresh takes in the same key and feel, then Evolve stretches a 4 bar loop into 16 or 32 bars of call and response.
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Instrument (drop impact)·
One MIDI note gives me the roll, the impact, the sub that dives onto my key and the tail, all locked to tempo and set in bars. Pure synthesis, no samples. Here is why I built it, and why version one sounded like fuzz.
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Instrument (riser)·
Drop in any sound, a vocal phrase, a synth stab, a noise sweep, set a length in bars, and Lazarus raises it from the dead as a riser: stretched, pitched up, stuttering faster, filter opening, building into the drop.
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Instrument (MIDI generator)·
Give Lantern your lead and it writes the companion part an octave or two above: answering in the gaps, moving against it, holding chord tones or sparkling on the off-beats. The bright top line that makes a melodic house lead feel finished.
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Instrument (vocal chopper)·
An ossuary is a chamber where bones are arranged in patterns. Mine does it to vocals: drop in a phrase, it cuts it at the syllables, tunes each slice to the key, and plays them from a 16-step pattern locked to Ableton's bars. Then robot, echo, delay and reverb.
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Instrument (songwriting)·
Alas, poor Yorick: the skull Hamlet talks to. My Yorick listens back. Write lyrics, see every line against the bars and beats, plan the arrangement, then make hooks and melodies that fit the words and drag them out as MIDI.
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Instrument (MIDI sequencer)·
My own step sequencer for grooves, basslines, arps, chords and hooks, in key and over my chords. It writes in melodic techno and techno, learns my rhythms, builds a pattern up into the drop with one control, and its Coach flags what won't sound right.
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Audio effect (mastering)·
A song's afterlife starts the day it's released. Afterlife Master shows what Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Beatport and six more will do to a master, finds the bar where it's too loud, where the bass takes over and where the stereo collapses to mono, then masters it as loud as it can go without being punished.
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Audio effect (track tag)·
A toe tag says who each body is. Put Toe Tag on each track in Ableton and Afterlife Master knows which one is causing the problem: the bass taking over the drop, the vocal drowned by the lead synth, the crash making the peaks.
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Chain Reaction
Melodic