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_head room SSS097




    _head room brings watt’s been missing from amp + cabinet simulation in Ableton Live. A singular solution for classic tones featuring 64 presets + easy sound sculpting controls.


    When we realized that Ableton partnered with Softube to create its stock guitar and bass amplifier simulator plug-in, we quickly added to our list of things to make. Bringing all the pieces of amplifier and speaker cabinet simulation in Ableton together with some custom effects that scream “classic” was our goal here. We wanted to be able to just load an Ableton device and have great sounding, easy to use controls, and automation for any classic electric guitar or bass sound, all while using only stock Ableton effects.


    16 macro controls let you dial in everything you’d like to on your amp and effects, with a convenient speaker cabinet selector. The reverb and chorus effects were inspired by those often found built-in to classic amplifiers. 


    Don’t play guitar? Don’t worry, this Ableton device and presets make anything sound cooler, even you.


    Hey, hey, you, you, get off of my cloud.


    • Minimum requirements: Ableton Suite 11.3+

    • 1 handcrafted Ableton effects rack device with 16 macro controls. (ADG file)

    • 64 macro sound presets.

    • 100% Royalty-Free.

    • Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.


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    _cruise control SSS094




      _cruise control makes it easy to blast, smash, trash, twist, chop, and sauce up your drum tracks or drum buss in Ableton with 52 drum effect presets + 16 macro controls.


      This is a custom effects rack made in Ableton Live 11.3 Suite. There are plenty of effects racks out there for Ableton, especially for drums. Our approach is rooted in usefulness on this effects box for drums. It’s great on individual drum sounds or drum groups. It works splendidly for sampled. synth, or acoustic drums, percussion, and anything else in between. 


      We designed this effects box to deal with many of the things that most people want to do with drums, but with our own super special patented tastes. We hope you agree that they’re as useful as they are cool sounding.


      Compress, destroy, widen, add harmonics and shimmer, apply pitch warping, reverb, delay and transient-based effects. It’s simple, great sounding, and it just works. Spread the sauce all over your drums, or whatever else works! 


      Get out of my dreams, and into my car.


      • Minimum requirements for Ableton device: Ableton Suite 11.3+

      • 1 Ableton effects device with macro controls. (ADG file)

      • 52 Ableton device macro presets.

      • 100% Royalty-Free.

      • Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.



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      _tainted spaces SSS084




        _tainted spaces contains 128 custom convolution reverb presets for Ableton, with a library of 113 impulse responses captured from select studio hardware.


        Watch a presets demo here and see what's inside:

        https://youtu.be/qGT475W6dD4 When we say tainted, we mean these reverb presets aren't typical, or even necessarily perfectly sparkling specimens of spaces. The idea of convolution reverb is simple enough: you first profile the “space” by sending a signal into it, and then capture the space’s “response” to that sound. Theoretically, the space does not need to be a real space, or even a hardware reverb. The response of the space, or hardware unit adds tonal, harmonic, textural, dynamic, and time-based changes to the sound over a period of time. We wanted to take the idea of “convolution reverb” a bit further and get creative with it. We captured impulse responses (IR) from many different hardware devices including:

        • Spring Reverbs

        • Guitar Pedal Reverbs

        • Modular Eurorack Reverbs

        • Rackmount & Modular Eurorack Delays (BBD + Digital)

        • Modular Eurorack Filters, Distortions, Modulators Etc)

        • Hardware Compressors (Solid State, Optical, Tube etc)

        • Hardware Equalisers

        • Hardware Vocoder (SVC-350)

        We took the 113 different IR files that were captured and designed 128 different space-based effects with them. Each preset typically blends 2 different IR flies together to create new effects that would otherwise not be possible. We created presets that impart subtle dynamic and tonal changes like an EQ or compressor, to the the shortest of spaces that emulate line feedback, to weird phaser and flanger effects, to hybrid delays with reverbs, all the way to the longest, lushest atmospheres. Wrap all of this in a custom Ableton Device Group with macro controls and presets, and sprinkle in some extras to add texture and movement, and you’ve got yourself a huge, flexible set of tainted spaces inside Ableton. Want more? Use the IR library files and create your own effects. With 113 new IR files, the possibilities are practically unlimited. It takes great deal of courage to hear the world in all its tainted glory, and even more to love it. • Minimum Requirements: Ableton 11.3.x Standard/Suite. • 128 Ableton presets as Ableton 11.3+ Group Devices (ADG files). • 113 96kHz/24bit Impulse Responses (AIF). • 100% Royalty-Free. • Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.


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