Updated: Dec 11, 2023
_moveable feast brings a buffet of mouthwatering movements to Ableton with 20 instruments made with over 350 artfully captured samples.
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Paul Boechler and Subsocial Studios present a sample pack and set of Ableton instruments that lets you effortlessly create a feeling of foley that’s hyper-focused on everything that moves. Blurring the lines between foley, sound effects, and music production, this truly is a celebration of all things kinetic.
This release was a long time in the making, and began with a large concrete loading bay filled with different materials, machines, and moving parts. From cloth, plastic, wood, metal, and concrete, to wheels, blades, tools, furniture, and ladders, we buzzed, whooshed, shook, slammed, droned, scraped, thumped, latched, rang, rolled, and spun whatever we could, in as many different ways as we could.
Using 4 different microphone arrays, we were able to record with 4 different sound perspectives, from overhead mono to super wide stereo, to a moving mic setup that followed the movements through the space. We ended up with hours of captures under the guidance of Paul, and it took some time to sort through things and end up with a total of 389 unique sound samples that we felt represented the best moments of movement. Without Paul’s sound capture hardware setups, and his deep experience in the field of sound design for games, these sounds and this celebration of movement would have never happened.
Bringing the sounds into Ableton was no easy task. How would we create something useful that embodied all the different rhythms, textures, pitches, and modulations that real movements bring? We tested out many different approaches, but there was no single creation that could make our aural vision a reality. The answer was the “feast.” Putting our samples into categories of movement types, and then creating 20 different simple-to-use sound design tools was the only way we could bring this amount of unique sound variety and expression of movement that the samples deserved.
Paul Boechler is a longtime senior sound designer at Electronic Arts here in Vancouver, BC, and a good friend of our studios. Paul began his audio journey in the music business, mostly making cool records, but then decided to pursue game audio some time ago. Paul is currently working on the next iteration of the Skate game franchise, but he’s also worked on the FIFA, and the Need For Speed franchises before that. When he’s not tweaking sounds, he enjoys his dog Teddy, coffee, and modular synthesis. In that particular order.
You like to move-it, move-it. Move it.
• Minimum requirements for Ableton devices: Ableton Suite 11.3+
• 389 captured audio samples (650MB)
• 20 Ableton instrument devices with macro controls + effects. (ADG files)
• 200 Ableton device macro presets.
• 1 Ableton 11.3+ Session.
• 96k/24bit .wav sources.
• 100% Royalty-Free.
• Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Paul Boechler & Subsocial Studios.
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_continental drift takes Ableton’s Drift to new worlds with 25 devices and 300 presets that stack the lusty lubriciousness of this new synthesizer. The “drift” part of Ableton Drift is something special. It brings a subconscious charm with its more oblique approach to the notion of stability. We’ve been loving it so far, so we thought we’d expand on this theme. What would multiple Drift instruments stacked in parallel sound like? Would it be even more “drifty?” The answer is a resounding yes. Having 4 Drifts and some custom effects for a single preset brings a new level of dynamics and depth to the divergence. Each of the 25 Ableton Device Groups forms a base sound that’s comprised of 4 Drift instruments in parallel with realtime effects. Each device has an additional 12 lovingly designed macro presets to get you started and inspired to make your own moves. Load any or all of the ADG files in any project, and you’re ready to play, explore, and automate the sounds and device macros. "No synth is an island, entire of itself; every synth is a piece of the continent." • 25 Ableton 11.3+ Ableton Devices made with Drift + Effects. • 300 total macro presets for Ableton Drift. • 1 Ableton 11.3+ Session. • 100% Royalty-Free. • Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.
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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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