Producertech has launched Free Drums & FX Racks, a free Ableton Live pack featuring a Live Drum Rack and an FX Rack.

Producertech Free Drums & FX Racks

These free Ableton Live Racks are handy tools for creating quality drum breaks, with a live drums rack containing recorded drums that are processed with various insert and send effects, as well as an FX Rack for filling out any drums in your project.

The download pack for this free sampler contains the FX Rack device and a project containing both the drums and FX racks, so they can be easily saved to your user library with the save switch on either rack.

The download is available for a limited time only. There is a £1 GBP fee to cover bandwidth costs.

Also released is the Ableton Expert Course Bundle, a collection of four video tutorial courses at 40% off.

Producertech Ableton Expert Course Bundle

A good understanding of the devices in the Live library is essential if wanting to produce professional sounding music.

Through this collection of courses, by certified trainer Rob Jones and experienced producer Seppa, you’ll learn about some of the most fundamental instruments and effects devices, to take your sampling, sound design and mixing skills to the next level!

Ableton Expert Course Bundle features

  • Complete Guide to Sampling by Rob Jones – The backbone of production, Sampling, is a diverse technique, responsible for any number of sounds in a track, be it a sampled loop, a chopped up vocal, a complex, modulated bass or lead sound, a long, evolving FX patch… the list goes on. All of this is possible with Live’s Sampler – this course shows you how!
  • Complete Guide to Operator by Rob Jones – Operator is one of Live’s most powerful Suite Instruments, known for its hybrid approach to synthesis, combining frequency modulation techniques with subtractive and additive synthesis. In this course, you’ll learn all you need to program any kind of sound with this impressive instrument.
  • Analog Bass Patch Sound Design by Seppa – In this series of tutorials from acclaimed UK producer Seppa, he demonstrates his mastery of Ableton’s Analog instrument, giving a comprehensive and incredibly applicable series that teaches all of the ins and outs of this powerful synth.
  • Bass Mixing Techniques by Seppa – This course gives you an unrivalled understanding of how to process and mix bass to create a professional sound using only Live’s built-in effects. The course comes with Live projects and 10 Free FX Rack Presets created by Seppa.

The bundle is available for £39.95 GBP.

All Producertech courses are also on sale at a 50% discount at Loopmasters until September 26th.

More information: Loopmasters / Producertech