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AfroDJMac has announced the release of Charlie Brown X-Mas Tree Synths, a free sound pack for Ableton Live.

Merry Christmas all! AfroDJMac here with a special gift to help you celebrate the holiday season. I’m sure the peaceful sounds of a music box brings many of us back to our childhood. Turns out the soft and soothing chimes also make for some interesting Ableton Live instruments!

Saturday I was a Christmas party where I found a beautiful Charlie Brown Christmas snow globe. I snuck off to a quiet portion of the house and sampled it on my iPhone. From there, I created the 3 Ableton Live instrument racks I am now sharing with you. I think they all have a lot of character and organic movement to them, with the combination of the plucked notes mixed with the cranking mechanism inside the globe.

The Live pack is a free download at AfroDJMac.

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AfroDJMac has announced the Korg Poly 800 Armageddon Ableton Pack, a collection of 10 Ableton Instruments and dozens of presets created with the Korg Poly800 MKII.

The Armageddon Pack for Ableton Live has arrived just in time for the end. If you are looking for the right sounds for the post-apocalyptic world, look no further.

My friend Mike Longo diligently sampled his trusty Korg Poly800 MKII and together we have created a collection of terrifying, world-ending instruments for Ableton Live.

This warm analog synth will add a unique and special character to your productions that the post 2012 world desires.

The sound library is available to pre-order for $12.21 USD, until the official release on December 21st, 2012, at 12:21pm.

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AfroDJMac has released another free Ableton Live Pack: Gated Reverb.

The 1980s brought us some pretty cool production techniques. I often try to emulate them in Ableton. One of the more timestamped effects is gated reverb.

Producers wanted huge drum sounds, but didn’t want the drums washed out in reverb. The solution was found by placing a gate after the reverb. This will suddenly silence the reverb once it drops to a certain level. Think Phil Collins’ “Coming in the Air Tonight.” If you have ever wanted your drums to sound like they were being played by Godzilla in the Grand Canyon, this is the technique for you.

The Gater Reverb Rack is a free download at AfroDJMac.

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AfroDJMac has introduced Dual Mic Dual Cabinet, a free Ableton Live pack that lets you emulate multiple microphones and speakers with Ableton’s cabinet FX.

This Ableton audio FX rack is designed to emulate having two different cabinets and two different microphones amplifying your sound. Created with two chains, each featuring Ableton’s cabinet effect mapped to macro knobs for easy control. Practical and easy way to change the sound of any instrument or vocal.

The Live Pack is a free download at AfroDJMac.

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AfroDJMac has announced How to Make Ableton Racks, a tutorial video in collaboration with WinkSound.

Over the summer, I met some of the guys from WinkSound. If you are not familiar with WinkSound, it’s a great source for music production tutorials.

We decided it’d be fun to work together, so I made a video on one of my specialties, creating Ableton Live Racks.

The guys from WinkSound did some nice editing and below is the finished product!

To celebrate their partnership, AfroDJMac and WinkSound have teamed up to host a giveaway, in which you can win the following AfroDJMac products:

• 1 Alpha Juno 2 Ableton Live Instrument Rack
• 1 Juno Jive FX Instrument Rack
• 1 Big Phatty Ableton Live Instrument Rack

To enter the giveaway, entrants need to subscribe to WinkSound on YouTube and send them an email with a link to their YouTube profile. The winner will be selected on Monday October 15th, 2012.

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AfroDJMac has announced that the Wind Chime Ambience EP is now available.

I’ve released a new Ableton Live Collection and 4 track “Wind Chime Ambience EP,” all created with samples from beautifully hand-crafted-and-tuned metallic wind chimes.

The Ableton Live Pack includes 5 Instrument Racks, 4 Drum Racks, 4 Effect Racks, plus 10 additional presets. These Ableton Racks are quite diverse and easily manipulated with macro knobs. A couple of the instruments use wind chime samples that were recorded directly to reel to reel tape, adding to the organic feel.

Also included are the Live Projects for each of the 4 tracks on the” Wind Chime Ambiece EP.” This gives full access to how the tracks were created and how the different instruments can be manipulated to create a wide variety of sounds.

The Wind Chime Ambience EP is available to purchase for $5.99 USD.

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