Ableton Live 8: Plughugger’s Carl Löfgren has announced the release of Zero, a new soundset for the Ableton Operator synthesizer.

Requirements: Ableton Live 8 and Operator.
Format: Ableton Operator format. All sounds are available as separate patches.
Number of sounds: 150/150 (150 dry plus 150 with effects from Ableton Live).
Style: Bass and lead sounds for modern electronic music.
Price: €9.90

Description:

Zero is a soundset for Ableton Operator that partly goes back to the basics of synthesis, but quickly heads off into the oblivion of modern dance music. Although the general image of Operator is that it’s an FM-synthesizer – it’s actually a hybrid of FM and traditional subtractive synthesis.

Zero is a toolbox for electronic music, made up by 150+150 bass and lead sounds. Sorry lovers of pads – no luck this time. Although Operator certainly is capable for pads and atmospheric sounds – it’s with leads and basses where it excels. There are 150 clean dry Operator sounds plus another 150 sounds where there are chains of effects from Ableton Live, often resulting in a drastically different sound.

This was a soundset that could have been in development for ever. Once you get the grips of Operator, it is a seriously fun synthesizer to program, especially when you start to dive into the subtractive/FM hybrid algorithms. The material that resulted in Zero were picked out from almost 300 hundred sounds.

via rekkerd

How to Use a Subtractive Analog Synthesizer is a short section taken from a commercial video series on the principles of subtractive synthesis.

via metakinetics:

This is a brief sample of an extensive introductory video tutorial on the principles of subtractive synthesis. Knowing these principles is essential to creating the evolving sounds often heard in various forms of electronic music. This video tutorial uses the Logic ES1 and ES2 as example virtual instruments to demonstrate the principles. Topics covered include signal flow, waveforms, filters, envelopes and LFOs.

This is a great video to get you started with one of these instruments: LinPlug Albino, Native Instruments Massive, Native Instruments Pro-53, Propellerhead Reasons Subtractor, Ableton Live Operator, Ableton Live Analog, Moog Voyager, Dave Smith Evolver, Prophet 5, Alesis Andromeda, Access Virus, Nord Lead Waldorf Q, Alesis ION, Alesis MICRON, Logic ES1, Logic ES2.

Ableton Operator: Modulations

Operator with only one OSC triggered by a single note. All the sound variations are results of a bunch of modulations with pitch envelope and the LFO.

via salzmanufaktur

Krazy Baldhead offers his take on Ableton Live 8 and Instruments.

via AbletonInc:

Krazy Baldhead, AKA Pierre-Antoine Grison, couldn’t wait to be an Ableton featured artist, so he and a friend made their own featured artist movie.

See inside his cosy studio, get some tips on creating the Krazy Baldhead sound and hear what he has to say about Live 8.

In this Ableton Live tutorial, DJ Gustavo Bravetti demonstrates how to create the sound of M.A.N.D.Y vs Booka Shade’s Body Language.

Let me know what you think!

via djbravetti:

This demo video was released by popular demand, after receiving many messages asking about “that Body Language like sound” I do use on my live performances. This video was produced for educational non profits purposes only.No copyrighted recordings was used on this footage.Thanks for watching. Gustavo

This is an official Ableton video that takes a look at Operator in Ableton Live 8. 

Operator has been given a major overhaul. This video gives you a taste of what’s coming!

Lovecapacitor shows his secrets for synthesizing a deep kick drum in Ableton Live. 

He uses two oscillators in Operator, tuned to 49 HZ & 73.4 HZ, snappy envelopes, a little compression and lo-pass filtering and gets a great kick. 

via Oliver Chesler

If you buy or upgrade to Ableton Live 7 between September 1, 2008 and October 30, 2008 you will get Operator for free.

The offer is valid for the following products:

• Ableton Live 7
• Ableton Live 7 LE
• Upgrades from Live LE to Ableton Live 7
• Upgrades from Live Lite to Ableton Live 7

Operator is a software instrument combining classic analog sounds and frequency modulation synthesis, integrated with Live’s award-winning interface.

This is a tutorial on making a synth bass patch with Operator.

Part 2 below:

Click here to view the embedded video.

via nednednerb

Programmed by some of Ableton’s own sound designers exclusively for Puremagnetik, Mutations fully explores the sonic possibilities of Ableton’s Rack format and FM synthesis. Best of all…. it’s free!