Solstice makes any sample into a unique, playable map, revealing hidden textures within your sounds. Made with ambient, experimental, and aleatoric music in mind, but versatile enough for any genre.
An experimental ambient electro sample library created with shortwave radio signals. Immerse yourself in the captivating world of Short Wave, a groundbreaking sample library meticulously crafted from shortwave radio signals. We listened in around the globe to capture distinct audio snippets from shortwave radio transmissions, transforming them into a one-of-a-kind sonic experience. Our creative process involved manipulation, chopping, and the addition of various effects to curate a library that promises to surprise, infuse depth, and spark interest in your musical compositions. Short Wave seamlessly blends into ambient soundscapes, making it a perfect fit for sound design-heavy scores, as well as genres like horror, thriller, and drama. The library’s dynamic range encompasses guttural, electronic, glitchy, raw, dirty, intense, atonal, and screeching sounds. On the flip side, discover ambient, reflective, mysterious, modular synth-like, spacial, and otherworldly tones and patches. This versatile collection ensures there’s something for everyone, pushing boundaries and encouraging you to explore new sonic territories. Short Wave is designed to inspire creativity, prompting you to sound different and approach your compositions with a fresh perspective. Embrace the uniqueness of Short Wave – because standing out is the essence of innovation!
A glitchy and experimental drum kit from Plasmic Beats including new sampler instruments for Kontakt, Ableton, Maschine and more, plus updated MIDI files that have been reformated to work seamlessly with other Noiiz drum kits.
Inspired by Nature is a playful collection of visual Max for Live devices created in collaboration with Dillon Bastan. Produce generative soundscapes, unpredictable melodies and evolving modulations with devices inspired by physical forces and the natural world.
Voice Box invites you to get inventive with vocals. This Pack features a comprehensive collection of contemporary vocal samples from multiple voices, a set of playable vocal instruments, and Effect Racks designed for vocal processing. The human voice is the original musical instrument, and through sampling and audio processing we can use it in even more creative ways – from chopped and repitched hooks to inhuman arpeggios and experimental glitches and jitters. Voice Box contains both the vocals and the means to transform them.
Set the scene with a collection of sounds for making music with a modern narrative feel. Evocative layered instruments combine organic and synthetic sounds with textural elements to add mood, space and movement to productions. Developed by Ableton, with contributions from sound designers including SonArte, Comakid, Aimée Portioli, Arovane and John Valasis, this Pack strikes a balance between delicate and dramatic to inspire compelling moodscaping and sonic storytelling. Designed to invoke different spaces and settings, these cinematic sounds can create a feeling of intimacy, add tension and suspense, or suffuse productions with movement. Drive tracks into the darkness with creepy experimental noises and tense rhythms, or foster a feeling of wonder with shimmering synths.
Now in public beta is CV Tools, a new Pack of 10 Max for Live devices that generate or receive Pitch, Control, Clock and Trigger CV. Soon you’ll be able to receive and modulate CV between your modular or other CV-based gear and Ableton Live 10 using a compatible, DC-coupled audio interface. You’ll also be able to use Live as the tempo leader or set it to follow your modular system clock. Plus, even if you don’t own a modular setup, the Rotating Rhythm Generator and CV Utility devices can add modular-style workflow inside Live or to hardware setups that don’t use CV-based equipment. CV Tools is being developed by Ableton in collaboration with Skinnerbox.
