Micah Frank

For the Able10 anniversary, I made a Live Pack that expands on some of the kits, grooves and Live Racks in my scrapyard of sounds. I built the song ‘Metropolis’ around the sounds and called in Atarah Valentine to lay down the vocals. The Live Pack is filled with very expressive kits that you can download for free here: http://www.ableton.com/able10-artist-packs

I was sending sysex data to my Machinedrum the other day when suddenly it began blurting out the most digitally obscene sounds I have ever heard from it! I was a little offended and you might be too once you hear them. This is the stuff I love – when a piece of gear generates sounds that it could never create under its normal operating mode.

I took some time today to program a drum kit and then some Live Racks that cycle through various samples repeatedly while simultaneously jumping between sample offsets every 10ms or so creating interesting transients. Here’s a quick mp3 demo and a download link for the Live Pack. Enjoy!

This pack is now available as a free Puremagnetik download here.

Puremagnetik now has a soundset of custom Kamoni kits for Ableton Live 7. It’s a free download and can be found in the “Artist Kits” section at Puremagnetik.com

MidiNES Editor – MidiNES_Editor_Live.zip

The MidiNES is in fact a pretty cool little toy to have in the studio. This is an Ableton Live based editor I created for it a while back. For those of you that own these plastic bricks of eighties nostalgia, just load up the included session file and open midi tracks for channels 1-5.

Channel 1 – Pulse 1
Channel 2 – Pulse 2
Channel 3 – Triangle
Channel 4 – Noise
Channel 5 – PCM Samples