Guitaritis Pack Updated for Live 12!

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬?
 Guitaritis is a deluxe suite of sophisticated amp racks, designed to make the most of Live’s Amp and Cab devices for electric stringed sounds, plus various effect racks to further modify and bolster them.

 It Includes…
𝟹𝟶 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚋𝚘 𝙰𝚖𝚙𝚜.
𝟽 𝚂𝚙𝚕𝚢𝚝 𝙰𝚖𝚙𝚜.
𝟹 𝙼𝚒𝚜𝚌. 𝙰𝚖𝚙𝚜.
𝟹𝟶 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝙿𝚎𝚍𝚊𝚕𝚜.
𝟷𝟸 𝙼𝚒𝚜𝚌. 𝚁𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚜.
𝟹7 𝙼𝙸𝙳𝙸 𝙲𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜.

 While designed for guitarists plugging straight into an audio interface in mind, these effects can be equally effective on midi-programmed or performed instrumentation.

𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟏𝟐!
 A ridiculous amount of work went into this latest edition of the pack. Partially due to upgrading all the exising racks with the latest quality-of-life features from Live 11 and 12… but mainly because i kept getting sidetracked by awesome ideas for brand-new racks that i felt compelled to follow through on implementing!

 All of the Combamps have been updated with tailored EQs to improve their general sound as well as further LR sculpting to refine the tonal contrast when stereo-widening the dual-amp chains. 

 There is a BUNCH of new stuff:  the versatile “ParallAmp” and “ParaCab”, the cab enhancer “Cab Customizer ”, seven “Splyt”amps, “Pitch Down Amp”, “Chord Constructor”, some new “Stomper FX”, and even some hotrodded mods of guitar-centric racks from other PerforModule packs.

 Altogether, the full pack includes a shit-ton of sweet goodies. That’s official scientific terminology, mind you!

🕮 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐰/𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝/𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐝𝐟.
🕮 V𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬.
୭♪ 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭.

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 / 𝐁𝐮𝐲 𝐈𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐲 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬.
Check out the PerforModule Gumroad store page for Guitaritis here, and be on the lookout for the update to the pack at Isotonik Studios as well.  ꜱyꜱᴛᴇᴍ ʀᴇqᴜɪʀᴇᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ: ᴀʙʟᴇᴛᴏɴ ʟɪᴠᴇ ꜱᴜɪᴛᴇ 12.3+

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬: 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐬!

 I’ll be guest-hosting a live interactive class on audio mastering/finalizing with Brian Funk’s Music Production Club Discord Meeting on June 25. I’ve recently given the final polish to Brian’s new acoustic EP which will be dropping soon and will be showing techniques used to acheive a clean and natural “radio-ready” sound.

 It would be awesome to hang out with you there and you can sign up to the club for a super modest $6/month (which also garners you a ton of rad Ableton goodies)!

 ꜰᴜɴ ꜰᴀᴄᴛ: Did you know that i’m the audio/video editor for the long-form episodes of the Music Production Podcast?  

Peace!

Drum Enhancerz Two Released + Drum Enhancerz One Updated!

I’m happy to announce the release of the brand-new effects pack Drum Enhancerz Two, as well as a fresh update to the classic original Drum Enhancerz pack. This update took quite a lot of time and energy, but was quite fun to accomplish.


Drum Enhancerz One: $20.

Drum Enhancerz One (originally released a decade ago) includes updates to style, function, and documentation.

It includes racks which are calibrated for sculpting specific drum elements. Included are:

Enhance Cymbals
Enhance Kicks
Enhance Overheads
Enhance Snares
Enhance Toms


Each rack includes 8 macro controls for sculpting your drum sounds with ease.
A few of the capabilities are…
-plush control for smooth cymbals.
-smack control to add top attack to kicks.
-smash: go-to overhead compression.
-pitch-matched resonance for boomy toms.

The new version for Live 12 includes updates to style, documentation, and function.

Functional updates include two new devices: 𝐊𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐠𝐞𝐧 and 𝐊𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐫; woohoo!

Kick Subgen is, frankly, badass, and i’ve used it a ton on mixes whilst behind the scenes in development. The official description: “An easy and tasteful method to generate sub content based on the input signal to reinforce and solidify your low end. It down-shifts and overdrives a parallel lowpass resonance.”

Kick Varifier is a niche thing which is only expected to be used occasionally. It came from my organic music background, being somewhat turned off by stale, repetitive kicks in some electronic music. It allows you to add a touch of subtle variation to individual kick hits (or any audio element) in rhythmically timed intervals.

Other inclusions to the update are Macro Variations, frequency values adjusted to more optimal values based on recent years’ intensive research, cpu streamlined where possible, loudness and tone re-balanced for relative all-purpose usability, and — for Push users, X & Y Controls given default assignments.

Purchase Links:
Drum Enhancerz One at Isotonik.
Drum Enhancerz One at Gumroad.


Drum Enhancerz Two: $20.

Drum Enhancerz Two is the brand-new pack that i’ve been working on. It includes seven Tuned Enhancer effect racks fine-tuned for specific drum instruments and also implementing all the latest Live 12 quality-of-life features. It includes:

Tuned Kick Enhancer. 
Tuned Tom (Floor) Enhancer. 
Tuned Tom (Low) Enhancer. 
Tuned Tom (Mid) Enhancer. 
Tuned Tom (High) Enhancer. 
Tuned Snare Enhancer.
Tuned Cymbal Enhancer.


Each provides the ability to tonally sculpt standard drum types with enhancement points carefully chosen based on deep research into optimal drum element frequency curves.

For example, the Tuned Snare Enhancer will provide boost points perfect for a satisfying wallop and thwack typical of nicer-sounding snare drums. Etc…

Artist-Based Macro Variations.

Each of the Tuned Drum Enhancer racks includes some macro variations that are mimicking the tonal focus points of choice drummers in select songs.  As one quick example, you might move your snare sound more closely towards the tasty low-end thump of Al Jackson’s snare from Al Green’s timeless piece Let’s Stay Together.

Purchase Links:
Drum Enhancerz Two at Isotonik.
Drum Enhancerz Two at Gumroad.


Drum Enhancerz Bundle: $30.

The Drum Enhancerz Bundle is also available, to grab both packs for ten bucks off!
Drum Enhancerz Bundle at Isotonik.
Drum Enhancerz Bundle at Gumroad.

Many thanks to Push Patterns for the new video about the packs!


ᴏɴʟy ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ ᴡʀɪᴛɪɴɢ ɪꜱ ɪɴᴄʟᴜᴅᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴛʜɪꜱ ʙʟᴏɢ ᴩᴏꜱᴛ.
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DeathStalker Released!

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!

What is DeathStalker?

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.


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8/08 Freebie: The Tuned 808 Kicker

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! 😊



Tempo Dynamics

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.

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Free Loudness Meter VSTs

“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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Live 11 Updates for PerforModule Packs.

[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.

Live 11 versions of MasterBuss Cassette Tape and MasterBuss Vinyl Record from the Bussification pack.

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

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Ten More Youtube Channels Worth Subscribing To

Aaron Holstein

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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Free M30 Reverb IRs

THE LEGACY of the M30

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.


>>> DOWNLOAD M30 IRs <<<

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