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_the shakes SSS091




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    _the shakes brings free infinite rhythmic + textural design to Ableton for sampled shakers and tambourines. Instant pattern gen + blend at your fingertips.



    We always want some sort of extra percussive thing or texture to accent our beats, but making new rhythms from scratch and finding samples is a chore. What if we could just load up an instrument with a bunch of useful patterns that we could blend in parallel and be done with it? We set off and sampled our favourite studio shakers and tambourines, and brought them into Ableton Live for something s-s-special.


    We used over 60 Max for Live devices in this pattern bending and blending power tool, then sprinkled on some cool effects, and 41 macro presets to show you the ropes. Automate the macros for pattern presets and FX for maximum shakiness.


    From straight time to fake time, these are the shakes.


    Note: This device uses 60+ Max for Live MIDI devices in just 1 Ableton Device so expect loading times to be long (Average is +/-1 min).

    • 36 shaker and tambourine samples. (5MB)

    • 20x3 different bendable percussion patterns (60 total).

    • 1 Ableton 11.3+ Session.

    • 1 Ableton Device with 41 effects + pattern presets.

    • 96k/24bit .wav sources.

    • 100% Royalty-Free.

    • Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.


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    _lab grown drums for Ableton




      _lab grown means mutated kick and snare design for Ableton. If you're tired of injecting the same tired, generic drums samples from 2012 into your song's DNA, then this is for you. What's the formula? We sampled multiple acoustic kicks, toms, snares, paint cans, plastic bowls, metal ting-tings, cardboard boxes, paper, and glasses (+ a whole lot of other things we can remember). We filled all these things with random objects sometimes, and then hit them with sticks, mallets, brushes, shoes, hands, and whatever else was laying around the lab. We also just straight-up dropped things from a height in a warehouse space and sampled away. We tried to keep our recording chains for capture pretty different, so we changed things up a lot as we sampled different things. Ribbons, condensers, tube mics, vintage mic preamps, LA-2As, 1176s, Pultec, MAAG, and API EQs were all harmed in the making of this release. We figured we'd do some more mutating, so we processed all of the samples and added blend-able FX layers using many different outboard and pedal effects boxes. Our software plug-ins were lonely, but the effects we captured were alive! The 3 Ableton rack instruments give you a kick, snare, and ambient/room snare. Turn the macro knobs and choose your favourite samples. Blend all the out-of-the-box layers and FX for each sound together to create the perfect Frankenstein one-shot drum sample. These racks are the perfect antidote for gentrified drum tracks. New drum sounds are always the best medicine. • 655 one-shot drum samples. (260MB) • 1 Ableton Live 11 Project (Intro, Lite, Standard or Suite) • 3 Ableton 11 drum designer instruments. (Intro, Lite, Standard or Suite) • 96k/24bit .wav sources. • 100% Royalty-Free. • Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.


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      _making modular diamonds




        Making modular drum sounds with Spencer was spectacular. Here's a little BTS of Spencer's drum lab - where fake diamonds are born. We captured thousands of samples and ended up with 898, which gave us 13 Ableton Drum racks of pure modular analog bliss.


        An easy to use and vibe soaked modular drum suite for Ableton - no patch cables or 7 oscillators needed.



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