Finally.
After 2+ years since the conception of the idea thru research and development, the DeathStalker Audio Effect Rack for Ableton Live is finally here!
Quite simply, DeathStalker is an Audio Effect Rack that makes guitars sound better.
It’s optimized for heavier distorted guitar tones, but can also sound amazing on clean or modulated electric guitars, acoustic stringed instruments, or just about any instrument.
Shapes is an installable Ableton Live pack built around the idea of custom-shaped modulations.
It consists of an assortment of Shaper presets for applying interesting modulations to any control (by yours truly), and intricate Instruments and Audio Effects built utilizing them (by pATCHES).
Inspired by the on-the-spot pieces crafted by participants of today’s Music Production Club meeting (I was late and didn’t make a piece, but listened to the others and they were awesome), I spontaneously decided to share an upgraded version of the Tuned Sub Kicker from the free Sweetie Pies pack which has been lurking in my library, unreleased publicly, for quite some time — until now — at 8:08:08pm on 8/08 (my time).
Well, here you go!
>>>Download Tuned 808 Kicker for Live 10+<<<
It’s like the Tuned Sub Kicker, but more growly!
Dial it in to add incisive, tuned sub thump to any drum loop. It’s sick! And dope!
It has Bzork knob. What else is there to say?
Enjoy! 😊
When applying dynamic effects, we are rarely going to need the entire timing ranges available, depending on the tempo, right? The new Tempo Dynamics pack provides go-to racks with minimum and maximum values hard-wired to ranges most potentially useful, given the chosen tempo — avoiding values that are likely too fast or too slow to be helpful.
Continue reading“WTF are Loudness Units?” you may ask. Well, they are simply a measure of loudness, just like decibels.
One LU actually is equivalent to one dB. However, an important difference is that Loudness Units are “shaped” according to the human ear’s proclivity to hear certain frequencies more easily than others. Effectively, LUs tend to feel more consistent to our brains than dB will when measuring varying frequency content, and therefore LU meters are preferable to use (compared to, say, RMS meters) for assessing the overall loudness of music.
Below are shown six free LU (aka Loudness Unit) meters, listing features of each. The most important value when matching the loudness of songs is IL (Integrated Loudness), which is the average loudness over the entire course of given time (with very quiet material gated out).
These devices are available as VST effect plugins for any capable VST host (such as Ableton Live, for example).
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Continue reading[Almost] all of the PerforModule sale packs (and some of the freebie packs) have been updated for Ableton Live 11 (finally)!
Primarily, this means that racks which had less than eight mapped macros (resulting in some blank controls) have been tidied up to make use of Live 11’s ability to customize the number of macros shown.
Occasional effect racks have also had some macro variations (aka presets) added to them.
The following PerforModule packs have all been updated for Live 11. If you own any of the sale packs, you can download the updated versions from your account at Isotonik Studios, either now or at any later date when you acquire Live 11.
Everyone is welcome to grab the free packs!
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FREE PACKS UPDATED FOR LIVE 11
Emphasizers
ParallAux
Sweetie Pies
Turboencabulation
Utilification
SALE PACKS UPDATED FOR LIVE 11
Advanced Splytterz
Amplitude Operands
Bussification
Dephaultz
Drum Enhancerz
DynaMixing Ultimate
Empathy
Guitaritis
Harmonicality
Note Range Setters
One Knob Wonders
PMX FX
Testful Mastering
Uno Plus
I met Aaron Holstein (aka VibeSquaD aka Backpact aka the bassist/keyboardist from Zilla) at the 2007 Sonic Bloom festival in Colorado, where my wife Lore and i were supplying coffee and tea backstage for the artists. I remember chatting with them after their awesome set with Sporque (one of my favorite live acts to dance to ever which also had Ooah from the Glitch Mob on beats and Jamie Janover on percussion), wherein i mentioned noticing that a certain bass synth note they kept hitting happened to resonate with the stage, causing this extra delicious rattle. “It was a C sharp!” Aaron told me later backstage. I’ll always remember that.
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Here’s a bunch of Reverb IRs for you, sampled from the unobtainable TC M30 Plugin.
I believe that plugin was one of the very first VSTs i ever grabbed after i started getting into Ableton Live. I remember it being some sort of time-limited temporary free offer. After years of not thinking about it, i recently realized i still had a working 32-bit copy of the plugin, and so took some IR snapshots of it, because why not.
Hi. Reporting that the new pack of Reverb Impulse Responses for any DAW, DankVerb, is now available.
It includes 150 dank, lush, and dystopian Impulse Responses suitable for post-apocalyptic sound design, recorded at 192kHz. They were crafted by carefully combining multiple reverbs together, mad scientist style.
Place elements in mysterious and foreboding physical spaces suitable for fantasy, science fiction, or horror settings.
DankVerb is a perfect companion to Ableton Live 11’s new Hybrid Reverb device. Drop in DankVerb IRs to augment Hybrid Reverb’s built-in algorithmic section. If you’re still on Live 9 or 10, on the other hand, they work great with the Max for Live Convolution Reverb device. Don’t even use Ableton Live? Need a Convolution Engine plugin? No problem. This article by Bedroom Producers Blog has got you covered with some sweet free options.
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Bolster your library with the full collection of one hundred and fifty fresh and steaming IRs!
More details can be had by perusing the PDF user manual, which you can view in browser or download if you like.
Acquire the full version of DankVerb at Isotonik Studios:
DANKVERB.
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That’s all for today. Don’t be jerks to each other, ok?
Simple and straightforward.
Just grab what the ones that entice you the most.
Ignore everything else!
Read about them below.
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