With the upcoming release of Ableton Live 7, I wanted to give all my fellow Ableton-hungry producers some of the resources that I’ve found to be useful with regards to VSTs and Ableton 6’s instruments and Live Packs.
Must have Live Packs (Free or cheap!)
- Ableton Live Packs Downloads
- The Covert Operators
- Free Ableton Live Pack by Composer Dennis DeSantis
- Five Dollar Bass, Atmosphere Expansion Packs for Ableton Live
If you’re finding massive soundware libraries to be a little overwhelming — on your hard drive, your brain, and your wallet — you’ll like the idea of the new expansion packs from Tone Research. The first two are 13MB downloads priced at US$4.99 each. They work with Live 5 and get bonus features from Live 6. I’m still waiting on my copies, so I can’t yet comment on sound quality yet, but I’ll report back once I’ve thrown these into some songs. - Ableton » Synthtopia
- PureMagnetik
Great Deal.. pay a $5/monthly subscription and get a great Live Pack every month
Learning Resources
VST / Plugins
- Native Instruments Komplete 5
KOMPLETE 5 is the high-end collection of 11 ground-breaking synthesizers, samplers, emulations, and a virtual guitar studio. Perfect for both studio and stage - this is the industry-standard bundle for serious musicians, producers and sound designers. KOMPLETE 5’s instruments can be heard on platinum-selling records and in underground clubs alike, all over the world. - Major Malfunction
A sweet plugin for mangling, glitch, distortion and and much more in a easy to use interface. - Sounds Online
A top site for massive collection of samples from many sample studios with most of the tools available via VST or other host plugin technologies and sometimes also raw samples . - KVR Audio
I check this site to stay up to date on the latest trends in Audio Plugin technology. - Dblue Glitch Freeware Plug-in: Free .wav Deconstruction
Cool Hardware
- Sonica Labs
I recently purchased the high end HUSH-QR Quadcore after doing research on all the top tiered custom DAW vendors around the world. Sonica Labs’s price point for a QuadCore Xeon loaded with memory, disk and expansion abilities has been a great replacement for my old DAWs. Talk with ‘Guy’ at the company to find out more, I was sold even before I asked them a thousand questions which they gladly answered to satisfy my curiousities about investing in their products. - MonoTouchLive
A brilliant tool to allow you to control your DAW with your TabletPC’s remote touch MIDI interface application!
To be honest with you, I don’t think I have time to list every tool that I use on this post since there are so many but I’ll try to do a follow up post or possibly create a dedicated page so you can come back to it for updates. Enjoy.
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