Get the Super 8-Bit Ableton Live Pack: https://brianfunk.com/blog/2014/01/06/super-8-bit-ableton-pack-now-available

The sounds of classic video game consoles in Ableton Live! 150 Instruments and Effects, built from samples of Nintendo, Gameboy, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis.

Super 8-Bit Ableton Live Pack

The Music Production Club's Monthly Music Mission is a challenge to make a new song every month.
Each month we get materials, prompts, exercises, etc. to help jumpstart a new song.
Imagine finishing one song per month. That's 12 per year, a full album's worth!
A new album every year is a worthy goal for any artist!
Join the Music Production Club to participate: https://brianfunk.com/mpc

MPC Monthly Music Mission

A collection of songs created with COIN-OP, a Retro Video Game Template for Ableton Live. 
Get COIN-OP here:  http://afrodjmac.com/blog/coinop

COIN-OP: 8-Bit Ableton Live Template

Every sound was created using The Super 8 Bit Ableton Live Pack by AfroDJMac. Get the Ableton Live Pack here: http://afrodjmac.com/2014/01/06/super-8-bit-ableton-pack-now-available/ Enjoy!

Returning Home

Every sound was created using The Super 8 Bit Ableton Live Pack by AfroDJMac. Get the Ableton Live Pack here: http://afrodjmac.com/2014/01/06/super-8-bit-ableton-pack-now-available/  Enjoy!

Fire World

The Master's Teachings

Traveling Scene

Every sound (except vocals) was created using The Super 8 Bit Ableton Live Pack by AfroDJMac. Get the Ableton Live Pack here: http://afrodjmac.com/2014/01/06/super-8-bit-ableton-pack-now-available/  Enjoy!

I'm Not Surprised

Made with COIN-OP 8-Bit Ableton Live Template: https://gum.co/coinop

Day 8 of #jamuary2024
This year I’m using prompts and tools I supply for the Music Production Club. Join the Club and get in on the prompts! Https://brianfunk.com/mpc

Day 8 COIN OP

uptownnew2

Music made using my COIN-OP 8-Bit Ableton Live Template: https://brianfunk.com/blog/coinop

Part of the Music Production Club Monthly Music Mission, August 2025: Create music for an adventure video game.
Music Production Club: https://brianfunk.com/mpc

Hot Pursuit

Back in Town

In a galaxy not far away, around a dying star, lies the orbit of a feline fortress- a planet just for us!
In a race against the expanding outer layers of our sun, we must open every portal until a brand new world is won. 
What evil may come?

Cloaked claws, powerful paws,
Veiled in magic mystery, our incantations rise.
Cloaked claws, this is our cause!
Be it fate or destiny, our future is in the sky.

Cloaked Claws

A song about times when I feel outside of myself. It can be unsettling or weird, but also sometimes freeing. Other than vocals, kick, and piano, all instruments in this song were made from sounds recorded in a span of 10 minutes around my apartment. Thanks to Brian Funk and Ableton for a cool found sounds speedrun challenge! The photo is my feet in slippers from a hotel in Madrid. 
Lyrics:
I'm living someone else's routine,
I'm living someone else's life,
I messed up essential parts of me,
I messed up the way I feel inside.

I woke up and thought I died,
I was just sleeping on my good side,
And as cold water falls over me,
I'm rearranging my beliefs.

I won't answer at this number,
I don't live here anymore.
If you need to reach me,
Just send out a postcard from where you want to be,
Maybe I can meet you there,
Maybe, we'll see.

Trapped inside of someone else's mind but they don't know that something's not right,
It's not too late to start over,
It's not too early to lose myself in the past,
I'd like to think the future is mine to choose.

I don't need another second,
I'm gonna buy them all!
If you don't believe me,
I'll send out a postcard from everywhere I'll be,
Now I'm feeling better,
Now I feel free.

Postcard

COIN-OP

Outside the Lair

Congratulations!

A Setback

Musician, Producer, and Educator from New York. 
Host of the Music Production Podcast. 
Author of 5-Minute Music Producer. 
Berklee Online teacher. 
Ableton Certified Trainer.