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There may be a typo in your email address. Sign me up for the Ableton Newsletter. Your data could not be submitted. Please try again. Designed with simplicity in mind, RokVid makes easy work of generating captivating video that dynamically reacts to your sound. Spectrum Effects includes two radical spectral processing devices capable of a range of effects. Warp and mangle your audio into mayhem, or add subtle harmonic touches – you decide which.

In the studio and at the gig, Spectrum Effects adds an instant dynamic catalyst to your Live set. Set the rules in AutoBeat and discover endless rhythmic rearrangement possibilities. AutoBeat integrates seamlessly with Drum Racks, and can also function as a flexible phrase creator for melodic instruments.

Captured with all of its funky nuances, nothing adds vintage twang and spanking timbres to a groove like this classic keyboard instrument. Konkrete Drums 3 lets you take your palette of percussion even further into exciting new sonic territory. This Pack derives its unique range and power from the vast array of unusual gear and inspired recording techniques that went into its making. Transform any sound with this versatile instrument.

Max for Live Building Tools is a set of essential devices that open up the modular potential of Live. Effect, control, and radically reinvent your sounds and workflow. Pluggo for Live is a free collection of audio devices and instruments derived from Cycling ’74’s Pluggo plug-in collection. This array of full-fledged Max for Live devices provides hours of signal-mangling fun as well as interesting examples of various approaches to plug-in design.

We’re giving away a free audio package with new sounds, presets, Instrument Racks and Construction Kits. This is more than just a few audio files. Samplification will kick-start your sampling skills and demonstrate what Sampler is really capable of. Cyclic Waves is a premium selection of audio loops taken from the Cycling ’74 ‘Cycles’ libraries, produced and curated by Sound Library pioneer Ron MacLeod using innovative processing tools from Cycling ’74, the makers of Max.

Unnatural Selection is a collection of Audio Clips and Construction Kits for a diverse number of genres, and includes both beats and melodic components. Digicussion 1 is a versatile library of synthetic drums – great for pouring electronic production, experimental sound design, and all kinds of rhythmic music. Designer Drums is a set of synthesized drums that demonstrate the versatility of Ableton Live 9’s instruments and effects.

Sound Objects Lite is a collection of sampled percussive and bowed objects chosen for their complex and unusual harmonics. Digicussion 2 is a booster shot of synthetic drums for your electronic productions – designed to provide fresh inspiration for your rhythm tracks. Bomblastic is a Hip Hop drum kit library featuring punchy kicks, cracking snares, crisp claps, powerful percussion, biting shakers, hi-hats, cymbals, toms, and more.

Made in the spirit of experimentation, The Forge by Hecq is a thoroughly modern update on classic IDM and glitch, infused with a healthy dose of cinematic sound-design. Extensive controls for real-time sound tweaking and bonus sequence clips are included.

Texture Beats provides highly dynamic electronic drum sounds and analog textures. Each drum kit features a unique set of Macro controls for blending in textures and customizing the sound of both the whole kit and individual drum sounds. Tronix combines the cinematic depth of animated atmospheres, morphed instruments and electrified percussion with cutting leads, growling basses, and tempo-synced audio loops that forward-thinking producers will appreciate.

This techno toolkit includes over MB of synth, bass and drum loops, as well as customized Instrument, Drum, and Effect Racks. Combine, edit, and personalize the sounds to build your own tracks. Get the authentic sound of the Rhodes Stage 73 and Wurlitzer A electric pianos. Carefully sampled at multiple velocities and recorded with vintage equipment for ultra-realistic sound and feel.

Comes with 70 Instrument Racks providing all the classic keyboard sounds. Put the power of an orchestra inside Live, with expert multisamples of strings, brass, and woodwinds. Featuring a collection of multisampled instruments from classic synths, including the Yamaha DX7, Roland Jupiter series, and more.

Over synthetically generated beats, loops and textures. Acoustix is a toolkit for cinematic music production, designed exclusively for Ableton Live. It provides a vast selection of morphed acoustic sounds, including organic instruments, bombastic percussives, atmospheric pads and audio loops. Konkrete Drums 1 is a set of 24 superb drum and percussion kits for Live.

It features more than drum samples ranging from punishing, deep kick drums to delicate, crystalline ticks; from super-fast drilling rolls to atmospheric gongs. A collection of Japanese taiko sounds that perfectly captures the epic thunder, majesty, and subtlety of these massive traditional drums. Journeys is a set of Tension sounds for Ableton Live. This collection is master sound designer Gregory Simpson’s endeavor to create sounds that evoke the essence of other times, places or cultures.

The Novachord is a gargantuan, entirely tube based, note polyphonic synthesizer with oscillators, filters, VCAs, envelope generators and even frequency dividers. We sampled every one of the 72 notes on this beast – not just once, but over and over, with different settings each time. Uptown captures the tonal quality, transparency and expressiveness of an exceptional concert grand. The piano has been carefully prepared and programmed to reflect the high-quality classical grand piano sound.

A clean, modern sound for metal, hard rock, hip-hop and pop. Tight, punchy, played by Tomas Haake of Meshuggah. Sampler is a sampling instrument that brings powerful multisample playback and import, as well as profound sound design capabilities to Ableton Live.

Over synthetically generated drum samples, micro culture and atmospheres plus 10 rare and original drum kits. The Guzheng is a traditional Chinese instrument dating from the Qin dynasty ca.

It is the ancestor of the Japanese Koto and several other zither-like instruments found across East Asia. The Kim is a type of dulcimer or zither from Thailand and is related to the Chinese yangqin. Sometimes spelled khim, the instrument consists of a flat soundbox with 42 wire strings stretched across in 14 sets of 3. The strings are struck with two thin bamboo mallets with soft leather tips.

Operator is a versatile, easy-to-use and great-sounding software instrument combining classic analog sounds and frequency modulation synthesis, perfectly integrated in Live’s award-winning interface. The Skiddaw Stones are probably the most unusual and certainly the oldest instrument that Soniccouture has sampled.

Downtown offers the rich tonality and balanced character of a high quality concert grand. This grand piano has been carefully prepared and programmed to provide a more powerful piano sound.

The large dynamic range and impact of Downtown is geared towards pop, RnB, hip-hop, jazz and blues productions. Sound-scapes, pads and textures. Scope is dark, disturbing, and atmospheric; perfectly avant-garde. Amp is a physically modeled audio effect that emulates the timeless tones of seven classic guitar amps. Metalix is a toolkit for cinematic music production, designed exclusively for Ableton Live.

It provides morphed metallic instruments, percussive sounds, atmospheric soundscapes, pads and tempo-synced audio loops. Recorded by Morgan Agren on an old Fibes kit. A dirty, dry, vintage sound for hip-hop, alt. A Tingklik is a bamboo percussion instrument from Bali. It’s often used for “Rindik” music, so is sometimes referred to as a Rindik itself. Rindik music usually involves two Tingklik players and a single Suling bamboo flute. The Crystal Sounds collection is composed of two main instruments: a Cristal Baschet–a “sonorous sculpture” with a truly unique and haunting timbre, and a large variety of crystal glasses.

East Village represents the handcrafted quality of a legendary concert grand. This piano has been carefully prepared and programmed to provide a particularly characteristic sound, which has been favored by many producers and is instantly recognizable.

Tension is a physical modeling string synthesizer capable of creating incredibly accurate reproductions of real stringed instruments or otherworldly hybrids. The Hang is a steel, disk-shaped, harmonically tuned percussion instrument that’s played with the hands. It’s incredibly sensitive and dynamic; the entire disk resonates at a central frequency as your hands move around the edge, teasing the notes out.

MachineKits is a high-quality library of multi-sampled vintage drum machines, including a massively nuanced set capturing the quality of MFB Modular analog drums, plus quirky classics like the Acetone Rhythm Ace, Simmons SDS and more.

Sound Objects is a unique collection of sampled objects typically found in a hardware store, including saw blades, joist hangers, ABS and metal plumbing pipes, ceramic tiles, metal sheets, gardening forks, ground plates, metal rods, electrical boxes and the like. Captures the true essence of symphonic percussion instruments in pristine quality.

Features vibraphone, marimba, xylophone, crotales, glockenspiel, tubular bells, cymbals and timpani with a variety of articulations. Soniccouture and Ableton present a unique take on a most unusual mallet percussion instrument.

Named after the Greek god of dreams, the Freenotes Morpheus is a modular metallic instrument consisting of a series of metal bars, each attached to its own resonator. What happens when you take a perfectly good instrument—one that’s been around for hundreds of years—and completely rethink it? The bowed piano technique involves flexible bows made from monofilament nylon fishing line, coated in rosin.

A comprehensive selection of naturally rich and dynamic stringed instruments. Features solo and ensemble violin, viola, cello and double bass, all recorded in their natural positions within the orchestra, complete with a number of articulations. Sampling the unique, magical sound of a Balinese Gamelan is no small undertaking.

The 25 instruments that make up The London Symphony Orchestra’s Semara Dana Gamelan Ensemble had to be recorded in great detail, as if each were to be a sample library in its own right.

Analog emulates the unique circuitry and irresistible tweakability of vintage analog synthesizers. Able to produce everything from silky pad sweeps to earth-shaking bass. Delivers a variety of clear and vibrant wind instruments. Features solo and ensemble flute, clarinet, bassoon, oboe and English horn with a broad selection of articulations. Electric offers the sounds of classic electric pianos through physical modeling synthesis, allowing you to dive inside and play with the guts of the instrument.

A loop library produced exclusively for Ableton by KJ Sawka. Diverse and emotive ambient textures that are otherworldly, cinematic, bizarre, peculiar, eerie, and lush. Abstrakt Breaks 1 is a superb collection of complex, exciting hi-tech drum loops, which are ideal for producers of Electronica, IDM, Glitch, Industrial and Film soundtracks. This amazing hardware controller features an RGB backlit pad grid for versatile melodic and percussive note input, a bank of contextual buttons and rotaries for mixer and plugin control, and plenty of buttons for governance of Live itself — a truly spectacular fusion of hardware and software.

Clearly, Apple and Ableton are coming at this music software malarkey from two wholly alternative perspectives and with a pronounced disparity in terms of pricing flexibility. Ultimately, Live 10 and Logic Pro are both comprehensive in their provision of MIDI and audio recording, editing and mixing facilities, bundled plugins and brilliantly realised workflows, so deciding between them comes down to three things.

First, the kind of music you make. Second, what kind of producer are you? Do you like to keep your sessions creative and fast-moving, or are you more of a tinkerer, happy to take your time finessing sounds and arrangements, but requiring the most powerful engineering tools you can get your hands on to do it? Each issue it brings its lucky readers the best in cutting-edge tutorials, need-to-know, expert software reviews and even all the tools you actually need to make great music today, courtesy of our legendary CM Plugin Suite.

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