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_chip chunes SSS111




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    _chip chunes sets you up with 256 chiptune presets for Ableton 12’s Meld. Our take on vintage arcade, computer and game console inspired sounds with Meld’s new CHIP oscillators.


    Say bye-bye to your Gameboy and go full PSG mode with this massive collection of lo-fi digital synth sounds in Ableton Meld. The presets were created in Ableton 12, and we’ve included handy filters and tags for Ableton 12 users. 


    Classic bleeps, bloops, arps, trills, and final boss level patches await you. We’ve turned on the new scale follow mode for these patches, so all your super trills, glitchy glissandos, strums and arps will stay in key and scale when you’re doing battle with these sounds. These new “macro” oscillators in Ableton Meld feature the ability to scale internally for added control and a more “musical” mode of modulation. Level up with anything from in-your-face hyper-pop leads, to glitchy broken textures in this set of sounds. Take advantage of these new oscillators and this new and exciting synth for Ableton 12 Suite with our lovingly crafted collection of presets.


    Game Over


    • Minimum requirements: Ableton Suite 12+

    • 256 Ableton Meld Instrument Presets. (ADV files)

    • 100% Royalty-Free.

    • Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.


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    _una conga SSS107





      _una conga is one creatively sampled conga made into a highly expressive instrument for Ableton 12 Suite. With over 328 samples, 67 conga articulations, and 32 MIDI loops, you’ll be the conguero conqueror in no time. 


      Cuba in a computer? Not really, but it is a conga. There are already too many sampled congas out there, so we’ve taken a different approach with this release. We sampled the usual ways that a conga is hit with fingers, palms, and mallets, but we also captured a whole library of unusual, but highly useful articulations to make this the tastiest tumbadora ever.


      We set out to capture a “quinto” sized conga tuned to an E, with some subtle warmth, sheen and extra detail. We captured it through our most open sounding microphone preamplifier, our favourite ribbon mic, and then some API EQ and light vintage LA-2A compression to get our ‘perfect’ sound. We pushed the limits of normal expression with just a single “lead” conga by recording so many different types of hits, with up to 3 velocity layers, and 6 random round robins for each velocity, 


      After listening to the thousands of hits captured, we narrowed our selection down to 328 samples. Next we tweaked the playing feel we wanted for each key to make things sound right. We needed a sampler instrument that was easy to play, and as real feeling in the dynamics as it was in the succession of hits. Luckily, the new “round robin” feature in Ableton 12’s updated sampler instrument allowed us to realize the conga for Ableton we wanted to make (which is why this release is an Ableton 12 Suite only release). We ended up with 4 Ableton 12 sampler instruments running in parallel to facilitate the expression of the conga. With the drag strokes, you’re able to control the length of your drag and release by holding down the note/hit for a longer period of time. 


      Use the 10 macro conga controls to tune it, soften it , shorten it, drive it, room it, spread it, bend it, and filter it as you see fit.  We’ve included 32 sound presets with these controls to get you started, but you can crate your own, or automate them in your productions for even more expression. If that’s still not enough, feel free to use or abuse the 32 MIDI loops and a demo song session we included to get things started.


      Some of the included articulations:


      • Finger & fingers taps, mutes + drags (centre, edge, rim & shell).

      • Palm hits, mutes + drags (centre, edge, rim & shell).

      • Mallet (felt & wool) hits + drags) (centre, edge, rim & shell).

      • Finger nail strokes.

      • Pencil taps + drags (centre, edge, rim & shell).

      • Pliers taps + drags (centre, edge, rim). 

      • Clave taps + drags (centre, edge, rim).

      • Metal brush taps, mutes + drags (centre, edge).

      • Paint brush drags.

      • Latex glove mutes.

      • Guitar pick drops.

      • Plastic stir stick taps.

      • Paper drops.

      • Teabag drops.

      • Linen cloth drops.

      • Plastic drops.

      • Cable whip hits.

      • Wooden spoons hits.

      • Cowbell hits.

      • Battery drops.

      • Tape roll drops.

      • Tape rips (skin).

      • Wet palm/skin hits.

      • Pen skin bends.

      • Metal plate drops.

      • Magnets drops.

      • Plastic mallet bends.

      • Ceramic mug warbles.

      • Cymbal hits.


      “If you want to do the conga, you've got to listen to the beat.”


      • 328 conga samples. (110MB)

      • 67 different conga articulations.

      • Up to 3 velocity layers per articulation.

      • Up to 6 random round robin samples per velocity layer.

      • 32 MIDI conga pattern loops. (.MID)

      • 1 Ableton 12 Suite demo song set with demo audio tracks. (215MB)

      • 1 Ableton 12 Suite Sampler Instrument. (.ADG)

      • 32 Macro variation sound presets.

      • 10 Instrument macro controls.

      • 96k/24bit .wav sources.

      • 100% Royalty-Free.

      • Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.


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      _meld 256 SSS100




        _meld 256 celebrates the release of Ableton 12 with 256 presets for its new bi-timbral synth, Meld. An abundance of aural amalgams await.


        Live 12 Suite’s new macro oscillator synthesizer Meld is designed to create unexpected sound design successes. Inspired by modular synthesis, Meld is a new device that encourages intuitive exploration, using two engines, a vast selection of complex oscillators, and interesting ways to route, cross-modulate and combine engine timbres.


        We’ve been hard at work making this huge pack of presets for the launch of Ableton 12, while getting to know the new features that help enhance them, like the new tagging and filter features. Preset tags are now included with our Ableton presets so you can find what you’re after faster!


        We wanted to push and pull Meld to its limits and explore it as much as possible. Meld’s “macro oscillators” sound new in many ways to us, and there are plenty of new tonal abstractions that we came up with. This collection of sounds is quite varied, but is still a very useable set of sounds that are useful across many genres. 


        Included in this pack are:


        • 32 Bass

        • 32 Keys

        • 64 Leads

        • 64 Pads

        • 64 Plucks


        There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.


        • Minimum requirements: Ableton Suite 12.0+

        • 256 Ableton Meld Instrument Presets. (ADV files)

        • 100% Royalty-Free.

        • Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.


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