AfroDJMac is back with a free Live Rack that features ‘dreamy, glitchy’ piano: I’ve got a pretty cool free Ableton Live Pack for you. It’s made with samples of my Mom’s Piano. It’s not your traditional piano sound however. It’s got a lot of tweaks to give it character and charm. You can hear… Read More Free Dreamy Glitchy Beautiful Piano Rack For Ableton Live
AfroDJMac has introduced The Mega Brute Collection for Ableton Live – a commercial collection of 50 instrument racks, made from samples of the Arturia MiniBrute. Here’s what he’s got to say about the collection: The idea behind the Mega Brute Collection is to expand the capabilities of the hardware synth while using its rich analog sound.… Read More Mega Brute Collection For Ableton Live
AfroDJMac has released a new Ableton Live Collection created from tuned metallic wind chimes, WindChime Synths: The Ableton Live Pack includes 5 Instrument Racks, 4 Drum Racks, 4 Effect Racks, plus 10 additional presets. These Ableton Racks are quite diverse and easily manipulated with macro knobs. A couple of the instruments use wind chime samples… Read More WindChime Synths For Ableton Live
Here’s another Two Minute Ableton Live Tip from AfroDJMac – dealing with Side Chain Compression. Details at the AfroDJMac site.
Here is a 2 minute Ableton Live Tip, via AfroDJMac, on how to use Ableton’s Frequency Shifter Plugin to emulate the subtle pitch variations found on many analog synths. “This is a cool tip for making your tracks less-perfectly-in-tune, like most real world acoustic and analog instruments,” he notes. Fairly simple stuff – but adding… Read More Give Virtual Synths An Analog Feel WIth Ableton’s Frequency Shifter
AfroDJMac has released a new collection of free instruments for Ableton Live, Minitaur Madness: It’s my birthday so I have a present for everyone! It’s 3 free Ableton Live instruments made with the Moog Minitaur. Francis Preve of Academik Records supplied samples of his Minitaur and I racked them up into three instruments: an FM type… Read More 3 Free Moog Minitaur Ableton Live Instruments
AfroDJMac sends word of another new freebie for Ableton LIve Users, Zebra Attack Rack 2, the second collaboration with synthesist Mark Mosher: Free Ableton Live Pack from AfroDJMac and Mark Mosher. u-He’s Zebra was programmed by Mark Mosher and the sampled waveform he created was used by AfroDJMac to build this Rad Ableton Live Device.… Read More Free Zebra Attack Rack 2 For Ableton Live
AfroDJMac sends his holiday greetings to Synthtopia readers – and has a little present for you: Seasons Greetings Synthtopia! In celebration of the holidays, I’ve put together a synth for Ableton Live that was made with the sound of musical Christmas lights. It has a lo-fi charm that immediately transports me back to being a… Read More Free Christmas Tree Synth For Ableton Live
Ready for another Free Live Rack? AfroDJMac has the goods for you – for the 27th straight week. Here’s what he’s got to say about this week’s Ableton Live freebie: Hey Synthtopia 🙂 I’ve teamed up with bedroomproducersblog to bring you the latest Ableton Download in the weekly series, “Gameboy Glitches and Synth.” This week… Read More Gameboy Glitches And Synth (Free Live Rack)
Free Music Software: AfroDJMac sends word of another free Live Rack, Guitar Harmonics Synth: Hi Synthtopia, I’ve created a synth using the harmonics of a guitar at the 5th, 7th, and 12th fret of each string. It is equipped with useful effects and the ability to switch samples and reverse them. AfroDJMac is celebrating not… Read More Free Ableton Live Rack Features Guitar Harmonics Synth (Plus – Synth Cake!)
