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Guitaritis Pack Updated for Live 12!

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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!

Bussification Pack Update!

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 Hi, i’m happy to report that the 𝓑𝓾𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 pack update for Live 12.3 has dropped!

Brian Funk tries out the bussification effects on a mix.

  This is the first of planned updates to every PerforModule pack in order to implement the latest Live 12 features. Continue reading to see the User Manual, the Changelog, and D&D-style Effect Rack Statblocks.

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Plugin Review: BassTame by lkjb

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BassTame by lkjb

‎‎‎ BassTame from the KVR Developer Challenge 2023 is purported to be a bass compressor, yet level-independent. The blurb about it says the energy of the bass signal is compared to the overall signal to determine the bass reduction. lkjb‘s ReFine and QRange plugins are oft used and much beloved, so I was intrigued to find out what this new one had to offer. I’ll break it down based upon my experience testing the plugin out.

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New Years 2023 Freebie: “Introspection” Pack.

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Effect Racks for Live Intro.

‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ ‎Since my son has now acquired Ableton Live 11 Intro, I thought it would be interesting to make a pack of effects that utilize only effects native to that iteration of the software. These include Audio Effect Rack, Auto Filter, Auto Pan, Beat Repeat, Channel EQ, Chorus-Ensemble, Compressor, Delay, EQ Three, Erosion, Gate, Grain Delay, LFO, Limiter, Looper, Phaser-Flanger, Redux, Reverb, Saturator, Tuner, and Utility. This is no paltry collection to smirk at! Quite a range of possibilities. But also — a nice change of pace, being arbitrarily limited in options according to what I am used to as a rack craftor. I saw it as an exciting challenge. At the end, I’m super proud of what I’ve come up with. Methinks I’ll definitely be using these racks in the full version of Live 11 Suite aplenty moving forwards.

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-> Download the Introspection pack for Ableton Live Intro, Standard, or Suite <-

(or acquire via Gumroad if you prefer).

Read about the process of the device creation below.

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A Simple Rule for When to Use a Dynamic vs a Static EQ.

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So you’re working on a song and you’ve found a frequency which you want to adjust. Let’s say you want to nudge down 4.4k a little bit to reduce a bit of harshness. Now you ask yourself: what type of EQ should be used?

As time passes by, there becomes more and more dynamic EQ plugins available. Besides, in Ableton, Bitwig, and other DAWs, it’s easy to make any automatable EQ plugin act as dynamic by the use of envelope followers. On the other hand, when using a dynamic EQ plugin, there may be times when you want to use the bands as typical, with no reactivity.
So, we have a pretty much open choice of whether to use a static or dynamic EQ on a track we’re working on. So what to do?

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Narrow Down Your Plugin Needs

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So Many Plugins

Brand new plugins… promotional sales on plugins… they are SO tempting. But do you really need that new compressor plugin that just dropped?

In order to assess which plugin types are lacking in your toolbox, i recommend making a spreadsheet of all the plugins you own by category. You might discover, as i did, that you have such a vast variety of compressor options to choose from, it’s likely that you won’t benefit a whole lot from purchasing any more of them. You also might discover, like me, that you’re somewhat lacking in gate plugins, and could indeed benefit from picking up a few new models. Etc… Continue reading →

Go-To Q Values

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There are not many controls for digital plugins where i prefer stepped options as opposed to continuous values, but the Q factor of EQ slopes is one of those that generally i do. Not really sure why i prefer them that way; i suppose there are a few reasons.

Regardless, i made myself (and you!) up a nifty spreadsheet of “Go-To Q Values”, based on logarithmic steps between the basic Q value (0.70607) and the minimum or maximum ranges. These Q values are optimized for Ableton Live’s EQ Eight, but can be applied to most any parametric EQ, when you want no-brainer go-to Q values to fall back on.

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Over 420 free effect racks for free VST plugins… WHAT

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EaReckon VST Rack.PNG
Due to an increasing upcoming workload, we’ve decided to release the freeVST racks all at once, instead of in monthly batches as originally planned. That’s over four-hundred and twenty individual racks now available! Talk about an expanded toolkit.

These are “default/template” audio effect racks for many different plugins which are available publicly for free in 64-bit. You simply load any of these Ableton racks, and it loads its corresponding plugin (assuming it’s installed). Each rack includes help text which will be shown when hovering over macro controls.

Most of the plugins we have racks available for have 32-bit and mac versions as well; however, some are 64-bit or windows-only. Mac-only and AU plugin racks are planned in the future. FreeVST racks here will be updated occasionally to reflect developer updates. If you know of a free vst developer we missed or encounter any issues, please leave a comment.

ABLETON LIVE 9.6 required (Intro, Suite, or Standard).
Yes, you can even use all of these racks with Live 9 Intro!

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