“Plain beauty is a good thing, but life is not that simple.” So says Katie Gately when discussing the individual sounds she builds her tracks from. The statement is typical of the thoughtfulness and refinement the young LA-based artist brings into her productions – a powerful mélange of beats, vocals and electronic textures based on her own highly processed field recordings and voice.
Designed to evoke more than what she calls “garden variety emotions..happy, sad, angry, mad”, Gately’s nuanced, propulsive music has earned her numerous accolades in the last few years. Among her newfound fans is Icelandic superstar Björk, who asked Katie to remix a track from her Vulnicura album. Gately’s approach to that remix – erasing everything except for Björk’s vocals, then adding layers of harmony derived from the pitch-shifted calls of owls, peacocks, hyenas and sparrows – perfectly encapsulates her bold yet purposeful attitude and sums up why we wanted to make her the subject of our latest artist movie.
From custom-made Instrument Racks based on recordings of everyday objects, to her techniques of chopping up and affecting the individual notes of a melody line, heavy processing is central to Katie Gately’s music-making. In the video below, Katie demonstrates some of her methods for transforming sounds into useful and unique musical materials.
Taking some of the sounds she captured in her house, Katie has generously put together a Instrument Rack called “Kately’s Haunted House” which you can download for free. The device consists of four different chains of sound variations (Boiler, Oven, Scanner, and Wool Wire) each with their own effects, plus a global parallel effects chain. Katie has this to say about this Rack: “I'm an FX person so the idea is to experiment using as much variety in FX-types for a diversity of playfulness. I want each chain to think and act a bit differently – while still not creating distorted madness. My hope is people will pull these apart and personalize them (i.e. try them out on other sounds and make them smarter/wackier/cooler). I also hope people will be inspired to record sounds in their own houses to see what kind of mundane magic is living under their roof!”
Apr 16, 2015 Posted on Apr 16, 2015. AfroDJMac is an Ableton Live Certified Trainer and an all around good cat! If you have somehow missed his blog, not to sure how that could happen, he has constructed, gathered, manipulated, tweaked, sampled and done. Puremagnetik's collection of free Ableton Live Packs represents a hand-picked assortment of goodies sourced right from our catalog of analog synths, digital beat machines, vintage keyboards and hacked gizmos. Download a free Ableton Live Instrument Rack from Katie Gately Mentrix and Emile Barret take us on a psychedelic trip through Iran Greg Fox marries trippy jazz drumming with lysergic visuals in.
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Welcome to Free Stuff Friday - a new weekly post that does exactly what its name suggests: sharing cool freebies, every Friday. Each week we'll be picking the best sounds, packs, patches and instruments we've seen from the Ableton Community, and passing them onto you to take into your weekend of music-making.
Taishokoto from Fidelitarium
https://heyheavenly602.weebly.com/where-to-download-and-unzip-ableton-sound-packs.html. The Taishokoto is harp-like instrument from the Japanese Taisho era in the early 20th century. Strummed with one hand and keyed with the other, it features both plucked and sympathetic (drone) strings. Phillip Jackson at Fidelitarium has shared a free Instrument Rack made of samples from the Taishokoto - preview it above and head to Fidelitarium to download for Live.
Noise, Hiss & Crackle from SampleRadar Mixvibes pro torrent 2017.
Modern digital recording and playback might have eliminated tape hiss, vinyl crackle, and other analog noise, but sometimes you want that special character in your tracks. For example, listen to how sampled (and filtered) vinyl noise adds a gritty character to Burial's signature tune, 'Archangel':
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Get an arsenal of analog noise samples for free with MusicRadar's sample pack - featuring 502 different samples of warm hiss, crackle, and other audio blemishes.
Techno & Funky House Loops from Loopmasters https://heyheavenly602.weebly.com/mixvibes-cross-3-manual.html.
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Our friends at Loopmasters have shared some free sounds from their latest packs. Download virtual dj terbaru full version. Above, preview sounds from UMEK's 'Sounds from Behind the Iron Curtain', with a focus on slamming techno. Download free sounds from UMEK.
On a smoother tip, Sebastian Léger's 'Funky Tech House' collection does exactly what it says on the cover - preview it above and download 90 MB of loops for free.
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