Written by Ableton Certified Trainer, Will Doggett There are tons of MIDI  controllers available to musicians and worship leaders. Foot controllers, iPad apps, keyboard controllers, drum controllers - It seems like there's a controller from every company for every type of musician. How often does a company attempt to create a new instrument? That's precisely what Ableton is attempting to do with "Push." Checkout our video from NAMM with Dennis Desantis from Ableton and check out this new instrument for music creation and performance from Ableton.

We're excited to announce that we've just uploaded a new album of MultiTracks from North Point Music from their most recent release No One Higher! This album was given high marks by the editors of Worship Leader Magazine as the "the live worship album of 2012." The project is North Point's first recording that was released for their student ministry Inside Out and and it's full of congregational songs with  energy and passion featuring worship leaders Eddie Kirdland and Seth Condrey. There are several new songs like "Can't Stop Singing" and "God Is For Us" on this album along with some well-known covers like "Furious," "Always," "Arms Open Wide"and "Forever Reign."

We are excited to announce the release of Chris Tomlin's new album Burning Lights featuring several collaborations with different artists such as Lecrae, Christy Nockels, Kari Jobe, and Phil Wickham. We've added all the songs in MultiTrack, LiteTrack and Rehearsal Mix formats which are available for download today! If you watched the stream last week from the Passion conference at the Georgia Dome, you may recognize many of the new songs from that were sung by the the 60,000 students that were in attendance last week. Burning Lights is Chris Tomlin's eighth studio album and it's full of great songs written for the church. Among the stand-out tracks on the album, we think you'll love "Awake My Soul" which features hip-hop Christian singer Lecrae and "Crown Him (Majesty)" which is a a new rendition of the traditional hymn "Crown Him With Many Crowns" featuring Gateway worship leader Kari Jobe. Of course the album also includes the recent single "Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)" which has been one of the top songs in our catalog this month.  Check it out on iTunes today!

We recently released another group of songs from Bethel Music's album For The Sake Of The World including "To Our God," "Closer," and "Forgiven." These songs were clearly written from a team that is seeking God corporately and desiring His presence. One of our personal favorites is the song "To Our God," co-written with Jeremy Riddle, which speaks about lifting up one voice and has a great bridge calling us to "Make His Praise Glorious!" Check out a full list of songs from Bethel here.

Our Free MultiTrack of the Month is a great song that comes with a cool story.  CJ Hatlevig has been a long time customer of MultiTracks.com and he's a worship leader at Rolling Hills Church in California.  Last week he sent us a brand new Christmas song that he just finished recording and had written only a few weeks before.  We loved the song "God With Us" and we think you will too, so we're glad to share it with you as the Free MultiTrack for December along with a Chart and a Free MultiTrack Video that drop into the Ableton session and use with the song.  We love that the song was only an idea 6 weeks ago, recorded 4 weeks ago and now churches around the world will be singing it in their church this Christmas.  Our goal is to bring great songs to the church, but it doesn't always happen that fast... but it did this time, just in time for Christmas!  We're grateful to be able to share this song with you and we hope you and your church enjoy!

It's clear that Christmas is in full effect for many of you as we head into planning for December's services. To help you plan, we have put together a list of 100 of our top Christmas MultiTracks. We have several MultiTracks to check out from popular Christmas albums like Chris Tomlin's Glory in the Highest, David Crowder's Oh For Joy, Hillsong's We Have a Savior, and if you haven't heard Lincoln Brewster's Joy to the World, there are some songs there that you won't want to miss!