Why Teaching

Looking back at how education has always played an essential part in my life, it feels like a long chain of completely random events at first. Far from it, though. It’s my obsession with learning and dedication to teaching that keeps attracting me to situations and arranges events in my life around education.

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Ambrus Deak
Stereo Maker Using Stock Plugins

A tool that creates a rich and aesthetically pleasing but fully mono-compatible stereo image is not easy to come by. For a while now, I have wanted to create a simple stereo maker that uses only stock devices in Live. I tried several approaches, built a number of racks, but this is the one that has the best and most musical sound. I call it the Stereoizer.

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808 Bass In Live

For a long time I’ve wanted a good, stock 808 Bass in Ableton Live but I couldn’t seem to find one. In this post, I’ll show you how to build one from scratch, using only built-in plugins in Live. This is actually the third one I’ve made in an attempt to build a decent one, somehow I always overcomplicated it and ended up with a monstrosity that just didn’t sound the way I wanted it to. This is the simplest, and nicest sounding one of them all.

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