Developed by Ableton in collaboration with sound designers including Huston Singletary, KayKay The Producer and Francis Preve, this curated collection puts everything you need to create tracks in one place. Drum Racks are packed with high-impact percussion, textured beats and ricocheting fills, letting you craft swanky rhythms without interruption to your creativity. A wide selection of Instrument Racks contains keys licks, rumbling basses and tripped-out leads.
Also included are over 340 audio loops and MIDI clips ranging from jazzy chords to chopped drum breaks and full beats, carefully selected to spark your imagination, kickstart your tracks and add life and detail to your production.
Also included are over 340 audio loops and MIDI clips ranging from jazzy chords to chopped drum breaks and full beats, carefully selected to spark your imagination, kickstart your tracks and add life and detail to your production.
RV Sample Packs present Electro Swing – a swinging collection of 1920’s inspired Electro featuring dusty gramophone riffs, warped vintage instruments and fat modern backbeats. Get these samples 100% royalty free from Loopmasters with Loops, Hits and Sampler Patches to set the ballroom alive! Select Preset. Allows you to select a preset. Allows you to save the current settings as a preset, so that they become available on all Quantize Presets pop-up menus. Remove Preset. Allows you to remove the selected preset. Rename Preset. Opens a dialog where you can rename the selected preset. Restore Factory Presets. Oct 01, 2012 Quantizing MIDI and using Grooves in Ableton Live. Today we’ll look at MIDI quantization in Ableton Live. If you’re unfamiliar, quantization is the method used to remove or reduce the rhythmic errors from your MIDI clips (or any MIDI notes). This is how you can achieve that “swing” to your tracks in Ableton. Have a look through.
Designed for flow
- Jun 28, 2012 Get MPC-style Swing in Your Beats. If you've ever listened to hip-hop, then you're probably familiar with the nuanced swing timing from Akai's legendary MPC60 sampler. You can get that same classic feel in Ableton Live, using the MPC grooves that come with Live's groove pool.
- Mar 11, 2010 16D Swing is 63% swing quantization - every 2nd beat is delayed by 60 pulses (ticks). Understanding the Quantize Grid Options You can quantize selected audio or MIDI regions, including a selection of both, by changing the value of the Quantize parameter in.
The Pack is set up for sparking ideas and keeping you in your flow. Eight Macros are carefully set up for creative tweaking and sound design for each instrument especially from Push. Use the effects chains in the included Drum kits and Instrument Racks to turn your low end from big and boomy to focused and tight, and much more.
Pack contents
- 100+ Instrument Racks
- 24 Drum Racks
- 340+ audio loops, chords and MIDI clips
- 11 Effect Racks
- Samples provided by MSX Audio, MVP Loops, Sample Magic, Touch Loops, The Drum Broker and Jeremy Toy
This Pack is part of a series inspired by our favorite music and created by Ableton in collaboration with leading sound designers.
What is groove, exactly? As music producers we talk about groove all the time, but it can be difficult to explain in great detail. Groove is a feeling, a vibe, a special quality that makes music sound good.
Even though the concept of groove seems elusive, it can be broken down into concrete terms using two key DAW features: swing and syncopation.
A brief history of groove
In electronic music production, swing has to do with how far a sequence deviates from the metronomic grid. The further you push a sequence off grid, the more swung it is. Without any swing, a sequence is considered “straight”—the individual notes are evenly spaced and quantized. In some musical styles, like Detroit electro, this kind of machine-like accuracy is helpful, whereas others seem to work better with rhythmic variation.
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Swing dates back to the 1930s, when it was originally considered a jazz genre and playing style that emphasized slightly delayed 1/8 notes. Bandleader and American pianist Duke Ellington championed swing, on full display in his song “Skin Deep” (skip to 30 seconds for the drums). By the 1980s, drum machines featured swing settings that could produce loose and lively grooves. The Linn LM-1 was the first drum machines to incorporate swing (called ‘shuffle mode’) proving that machines can groove too.
Swing and syncopation in practice
Today, all DAWs come with editable swing parameters used to approximate organic sounding, unquantized music. Although swing can be applied to any instrument, it is mainly used in reference to drums, which will be the focus of the following audio examples.