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Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8: Create, Produce, Perform 20 sounds in certain cases. Navigate to your Live Library and you’ll find several folders containing these Sets, clips, and Drum Racks. Zero-G has contributed over 400 loops and samples in a wide range of styles, from Hip-Hop and Funk to Dance and Electro. You’ll find over 440 MB of samples and loops by Cycling ’74. Sound Objects Lite by SonArte has included a wide variety of percussive style samples to widen the sonic palette with organic “found sounds” (real-world) for innovative sound design. Deep within the vast Suite 8 Library is Designer Drums, Drum Racks featuring Operator-based synthetic drums. These are intensely programmed and designed to offer dynamic sounds. Note that Zero-G and Cycling ‘74 content is not available in the download version of Suite 8. 12 Essential Instrument Collection 2 The Suite 8 “boxed version” contains a large multisampled library of instruments created in conjunction with SONiVOX and Chocolate Audio. Once installed, Suite 8 offers real-world sampled sounds ranging from acoustic pianos, orchestral brass, electric and acoustic guitars, to keyboards and orchestral strings designed as Instrument Racks. Ableton has cleverly included the EIC LE pack, which are CPU-efficient libraries that load easily and are great for working on ideas when computer power is at a minimum. You’ll find several versions of the sampled instruments in the EIC 2 library available as lite versions along with the full versions to assist in large-scale instrument sessions with lots of tracks. You’ll find all the EIC instruments within the Live Device Browser, integrated with all of Live’s other Instrument Racks. Take the time to explore these sounds and multitrack presets as you dive further into Suite 8. 13 Construction Kits and Templates Construction Kits are worth mentioning here because they act as templates themselves. They serve as a great starting point for new projects or for a new Live 8 user. You’ll find dozens of Construction Kits in the Suite 8 Library. Clicking on one of these Sets will open an array of MIDI tracks and customized preset instruments across several tracks. Most or all these Construction Kits open up as Group Tracks, so you’ll need to unfold them to see all the contained “grouped” tracks. You can play through the scenes and launch the various clips, but best of all you can arm a MIDI track and record new parts with the current instrument on that particular track to build up your own arrangement, eventually doing away with or deactivating the original Construction Kit clips. Like Templates, most of these Construction Kits have mastering devices and other useful Audio
Figure 1.27 Construction Kits. Suite 8 Effect Racks to encourage you to dive deeper into creating and designing new sounds and sets with Suite 8. Several Live Set Templates are also located in the Library within their own dedicated folder. These range from standard 4 and 8 track recording setups to more advanced mastering and mixing templates. Explore them to find original devices and unique routing options. With templates, it’s all about learning and adapting to enhance your Live workflow. For quick access to Construction Kits and Templates, use Help View. Click on the associated link to browse for these items. 21
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