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).
You can dive in right away and start making music using the categorized Instrument and Effect Racks, and use the others to further experimentally modulate whatever you want, here and there.
CONTENTS:
•22 Audio Effect Racks
•19 Instrument Racks
•25 Silhouette Shapes
•36 Pulse Shapes
•12 Rise Shapes
•11 Sawblade Shapes
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Silhouettes are shaped after things, and stuff! They are fun and silly.
Adjust parameters to modify the modulators! For example: a touch of slightly-smoothed jitter adds randomized unpredictable “weathering” to each of the Moai statues.
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Pulses are logical, based on timing intervals. They give access to weird timings that fit within a selectable time span (like 3/13ths of measure) to use for polyphonic and other types of rhythmic interweavings.
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Rises can be used for arrangement and sound design, providing various styles of dynamic ramping of your mapped parameters of choice from one extreme to another. Great for temporary use during build transition breakdowns.
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The standard sawblade LFO shape has been bored to sawdust, but Sawblades adds some new sawblade shapes, based on… saw… blades. Yeah.
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The Effect Racks shift rhythmically, palpitating in wonderfully weird ways.
Organized into categories: Distortion, Hall, Modulated Delay, Room, and Special.
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The Instrument Racks are infused with nested modulators implementing nuanced organic motion.
Organized into categories: Ambient & Evolving, Bass, Cinematic, Piano & Keys, and Synth Rhythmic.
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Here’s a video about Shapes courtesy of Brian Funk:
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And here’s a piece I made using some of the Shapes Instrument and Effect Racks:
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The Shapes pack for Ableton Live Suite is available at Isotonik Studios at an introductory sale price of $22.
Want to get Shapes for free? Ableton is conducting a giveaway of Shapes on facebook to five fortuitous victors!
I’m certainly feeling the love from all the comments on there so far!
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