Best Free Ableton Packs
Ableton Operator provides a unique hybrid approach to additive, subtractive, and FM synthesis (somewhat like the Synclavier did) and is one of the most deceptively powerful softsynths available. Even so, many musicians shy away from using it fully because FM synthesis remains opaque despite its prevalence for more than 30 years. Dec 18, 2020 We are proud to present our fresh collection of free production ready Ableton Live 9 instrument racks that we use in our Ableton templates.These racks were built using only Ableton Live effects and Operator, and combined into instrument racks assigned with useful macros for quick and easy tweaking. Download spotify mod vip apk. Learn in depth on how to create a pad with Ableton's Operator plugin!
Here’s seven excellent Ableton Packs I use myself. There are a ton of great resources out there for Ableton, from rack and sample bundles to crazy Max for Live tools. We’ve organised these into 2 sections…. general packs (under Best Free Ableton Packs) and percussion based (under Best Free Drum Ableton Packs). We’ll kick off with the almighty Creative Extensions……
Creative Extensions by Ableton
Get it here: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/creative-extensions/
Made by Ableton themselves in conjunction with Max For Live developer Amazing Noises. The instruments and effects it contains are great and could have been bundled with Live as proper standalone units as to be honest…
It has two instruments… ‘Bass’ – a monophonic low-end beast, and ‘Poli’ a polyphonic synth for designing lush chords that has some really nice features like ring mod and xmod (ala Jupiter-8).
It has a step sequencer called ‘Melodic Steps’ which has the ability to get mental really quickly with the ability to run different length sequences at various scales. With ability to sequence Octave, Transpose, Length, velocity and Chance (all with the ability to run at different sequence lengths for those infinitely changing modular’ sequencers).
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The effects are immense… Pitch Hack (for tight pitch delay style effects), Gated Delay (beat-repeat style delay), Color Limiter (hardware mimicking limiter with saturation), Re-Enveloper (multiband envelope processor), and Spectral Blur (grainy reverb textures). Getting this pack feels like by Abelton doubled in size and I can see myself using some of these in every track we make.
Granulator II by Robert Henke (Monolake)
Get it here: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/granulator-ii/
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This has gained a lot of fame and rightly so, the tool is amazing for textures/drones and pads – made by the excellent Robert Henke (Monolake). It acts a bit like a sampler, but it plays back small grains of sound from a loop of the sample in an unconventional order and time. These times and orders can be tweaked to make a new evolving sound. Watch Robert explain more about it here, then download it and load up a sample….
The Forge
Get it here: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/forge/
Some great glitchy samples and fx by IDM producer Hecq. Includes samples, construction kits, plus some custom Max for Live audio effects inducing rhythmic delays. Ideal for IDM and industrial percussion programming and processing.
Stray Cats Collection
Get it here: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/stray-cats-collection/
Max for Cats and Sonic Bloom give away a great pack of Max For Live devices, including an 8 step sequencer, 2 instruments (with tons of presets), a chord step sequencer and some great audio effects including rhythmic and glitching delays and reverbs as well as ‘Color’ for adding analogue noise, warmth and error to the signal chain.
Best Free Ableton Drum Packs
Krikor Kouchian: Free LinnDrums for Live
Get it here: https://cdn-resources.ableton.com/resources/cf/b7/cfb7c3db-fd3a-4589-ad79-86928503a25d/pacific_alley_linndrum_project.zip
Producer extraordinaire Krikor, he’s put out some dope bangers on Long Island Electrical Systems. His Linn Drum pack here is no ordinary pack – he recorded the samples on the internal memory (eproms) of a digital Casio Rz-1 drum machine, which adds some amazing down-sampling crunch to the samples. The Rack also comes with his take on Princes style drum saturation with the Purpleizer! All in all a brilliant drum tool.
We wrote about this in our Best Free Drum Machine Samples article.
Daniel Miller’s ARP 2600 Drums
Get it here: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/dm-arp-2600-drums/
Here’s a collection of drum racks sampled from legendary producer Daniel Miller’s semi modular dream synth. Impressive and unique percussion samples from one of my favourite synths.
Drum Machines by Ableton
Get it here: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/drum-machines/
A big pack of drums as the title suggests! It contains multiple Roland 606,707,808, 909, samples processed and programmed plus some other great samples/construction kits. Comes with a lot of ‘.alc’ file clips – you load them and the samples load with a pre-programmed beat and fx rack so there’s a loop is set up and ready to go as great starting point. This is our go-to pack for a fresh take on classic drum sounds.
Designer Drums by Ableton
Get it here: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/designer-drums/ Office 2016 for mac rebuild database.
Some really nice glitchy IDM / minimal house / glitch-hop style drum kits and samples. Plus some ‘.alc’ clip files so you can load up some pre-programmed beats with instruments and rack effects all ready to go. Perfect for digital weird drum sounds.
Summary
There you have it, some of the best free packs for your library that are highly use-sable. ‘Drum Machines’ is probably my most used pack to be honest. Please let us know anymore you recommend and we’ll update this article.
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