Free Ableton effect and instrument racks
by Jason Timothy on Mar.16, 2009, under Ableton live, Free Stuff
Free Ableton effect and instrument racks
I wanted to share with you a bunch of great goodies! A wonderfull
thing about the Ableton community is that they love to share their
creative inventions. I found these in the forums and wanted to share
them with you.
Below are a whole mess of custom made instrument racks and effect
racks!
I haven’t put all these to the test, but would love feedback from
you as to which ones you had the most fun with.
Enjoy these! I hope this give you weeks of inspiration
and experimentation!
Happy music making!
Jason
Effect Racks
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By Jasinski: Fancy BeatRepeat effect. Good for drum loops.
By Jasinski: Using Resonator to “play” clips as tones.
By Jasinski: Combo of Arpegigator and beat repeat to create
interesting rhythmic effects.
By fatrabbit: 8 Beat Repeats mapped to a chain control so you
can use a knob on your MIDI controller to select which one
you want.
By cjyetman: Single-knob controlled filter
by ethios4: The Sweepable Crossover allows you to apply an
effects chain to either side of a crossover that can be moved
>freely with perfect transparency.
by Jasinski: Good for trashing up your sounds.
modified by fatrabbit
This rack uses and requires supatrigga.
by jasinski: Reverb and delays with detail.
Uses FabFilter’s Volcano
by jasinski: Using the AutoPan switching trick- alternate
between verb and delay.
by jasinski: Stack up a couple of resonators and multiple
BeatRepeats.
by jasinski: 4 band filters with different effects on each chain.
Automate each frequency for added craziness.
by jasinski: Add some swirling delays to your track.
by jasinski: Adjust the gate level on chain one and 2 so that
it splits the output of your audio in half- the loud stuff gets one
effect, the quiet stuff gets another. Interesting results.
by jasinski: A massive rack with all sorts of goodies-
dramatically changes your source audio.
Beat Divider One 1/8/07
by ethios4: With these racks, each beat has its own chain.
Therefore you can apply different effects to each beat, over
1 or 2 measures depending on the rack. This is accomplished
by a series of autopans - you can adjust each beat so that it
only plays the first 16th note, 8th note, or entire beat by turning
>on/off the leftmost autopan, or even adding additional autopans
on the left end of the chain, according to the pattern already set.
ReBeat 1/28/07
by jasinski: Throw this on your drums and tweak away-
An easy way of mangling your beats.
Distortion Canyon 1/28/07
by jasinski: Pretty much how it sounds- good for pads,
guitar, or maybe voice.
DJ-EQ 2/11/07
by hoffman2k: “Some people don’t seem to be happy with EQ3 for
Dj’ing and find EQ4/8 too complex to set up. So here’s my attempt
at a DJ EQ. The requests were only as specific as: “It should not
color the sound” and “0dB should be in the middle”.
With those 2 features in mind, I built the rack.”
Requires Dual Comp AU
Blitchmyglitch & Scratcher 4/6/07
by Airwave:
Blitchmyglitch is a realtime glitcher that moves all the time.
It uses a lot of different fx, redux, beatrepeat, grain delay…
quite enjoyable if you like supercollider and livecut stuff.
Scratcher is a tool that lets you program scratches, turntable
stop fx, reverses based on any loop that you will load in it.
It’s extremely addictive and funny.
InstantChip 4/19/07
by Idonotlikebroccoli: Here’s a quick and fun one if you
wanna make that chip-tune whatever kind of thing. It’s a
MIDI effect rack which consists of an arpeggiator and two
pitch plugins.
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Instrument Racks
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By Jasinski: Drum kit build with many instances of Alphakanal’s Automat 0.4.2
(Mac only) This rack uses and requires Automat 0.4.2.
by mdk: its an early version of his 808 emulator built using just
>Operator and Live’s built in fx.
Requires Ableton’s Operator
by Jasinski: A drum kit using 8 Simplers. Macros hooked up to
“sample start” and “loop length” can produce some glitchy style
beats using automation. Samples I made using a friends Arp
Odessey.
by sebovzeoueb: This is a sampler patch which is in fact a “multisampled”
elastic band stretched over a ruler, he calls “funky rock guitar”.
Requires Ableton’s Sampler
by jasinski: Using sebovzeoueb’s rubber band samples listed above.
Using Simpler rather than Sampler, so anyone with Live should be
>able to load them. There are 2 patches..
Casio VZ-10m “FX instruments” 1/14/07
by jasinski: Using samples from my Casio VZ-10m, here are a bunch
of Simpler instruments- “multisampled’ by layering Simpler instances
into Rack chains- and using the macros to control the loop length and
other aspects of the sound. More to come from the VZ-10m. One of
my favorite synths for really bizzare sounds.
Kid Beat Box and Pads 1/14/07
by jasinski: A collection of Simpler multi-sampled instrument racks.
I recorded my 8 year old making all kinds of sound effects- Kind of fun.
AM drum kit 1/4/07
by AM: It’s an acoustic drum kit… with tweakable mic positions…
sounds strange i know, but you get the idea once you see it in action.
It’s a large download, and it’s processor intensive…. but it’s pretty
good for getting a range of Acoustic drum sounds…. and also for
messing with until you get really odd sounds.
Angstrum Drum Player 2/5/07
by angstrum: Really cool drum kit using the included waveforms
in Lives sample library. Set up well for electronic music- lots of
presence.
Waveform Kits 2/11/07
By jasinski: Inspired by Angstrum’s drum set up, here are a few of my own.
Includes 2 kits, plus a folder containing 16 drum ‘hits’ as well as a folder of
Simpler ‘elements’ that you can use as a starting point to build other percussive
sounds. All using the built in wave forms that come with Live 6.
Drum Selektor 2/14/07
by wollej: Another small drum rack for selecting different kicks, snares, toms
via macro controls. Built with 8 instances of Impulse and pitch/scale plugins
for selecting the samples in the Impulse players.
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