Locate the Loopmasters file (saved to your safe location (we used the example of your documents folder)), select it and then click 'Open'. The Loopmasters file will now appear in the Abeton 'Places' section. You can navigate the folders from within Ableton and drag Loopmasters samples into your Ableton session. Nov 21, 2015 What to do depends if you have a bunch of.alp files or just folders for each pack in that custom folder. For alp files, you can install them by dropping them from windows explorer onto the ableton window. If they are already installed before by ableton into that custom folder, I think you should be able to change the packs location in. The Pack is a project of Ableton’s lead sound designer, Huston Singletary, the brain behind a lot of the tweakable instruments, clips and other sounds in Live 10. He put the same attention to detail into making Singularities something that’s both true to a musical aesthetic and easily malleable. May 22, 2018 Little confused on Ableton's packs. I've never used any of their packs. The.aif files for Orchestral Brass in particular are around 120-250mb so surely it's samples of lots of brass. Is there a way Ableton can recognise the.aif file? Or am I missing something? Is the pack meant to download, install, then create an instrument? Someone posted here a DX7 sampled as an.alp file and Ableton recognized and installed it but I am unable to get it to show under instruments so it is not playable. When I find the folder where it was installed manually, after clicking on the.adg file I get the message 'The preset cannot be loaded. It is probably broken.'
The Pack is a project of Ableton’s lead sound designer, Huston Singletary, the brain behind a lot of the tweakable instruments, clips and other sounds in Live 10. He put the same attention to detail into making Singularities something that’s both true to a musical aesthetic and easily malleable.
Sampling the classic way
You’ll find the usual synth suspects in the gear list for this Pack, those that defined that brilliant 80s sound – Juno 106, Minimoog, Oberheim OB-X and Korg Polysix among them.
There are 40 Simpler-based Instrument Racks built from the above, with bass, pads, leads and keys, each with eight Macros that give diverse options for sound-shaping.
But the approach to capturing these classics went beyond the norm. All 40 Simpler/Sampler instruments were made using a single sample – the same approach as classic samplers, which offered a signature sound based on single-sample playback. The effect is a somewhat rawer and more digital sound that cuts through the mix quite nicely.
Playable and authentic
Aside from the audible impact, the presets are very lightweight in terms of load time and CPU usage. Yet they still feel very satisfying and realistic to play. It’s thanks to the care and expertise that’s gone into recreating the playability of all those vintage synths and samplers – fine-tuning parameters like velocity, keytracking and filter envelopes to respond in a similar way to classic hardware.
Built on experience
Huston has 25 years of experience as sound designer and musician with the industry’s leading synth manufacturers – so a deep understanding of what makes synths tick has gone into the development. It’s subtle and often-overlooked interactions with filters, envelopes and other fundamental effects that so often define sonic characteristics – Huston has worked with just about every synth you can name, and knows how to recreate their essence in the software domain.
You can check out demos and tutorials with the sounds on Huston’s Instagram.
Pack contents
- 40 Simpler-based Instrument Rack presets – bass, pad, lead and keys
- 2 Drum Kits
- 150 Drum and Music MIDI clips
- 3 Demo songs
Singularities works with Lite, Intro, Standard and Suite editions of Live 10.
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