Ableton Live Rack #26: SQ-80 Hush [6 Months of Racks!]

September 21, 2011 Brian Funk

Today is an exciting day for me, it marks six months of releasing these Ableton Live Racks for your downloading pleasure. I want to thank you for your support and kind words, it means a lot to me and has made this a truly exciting project to work on.

A big reason I do this is to meet new people and share ideas and music with people I would otherwise have no way of reaching; I thought that this 26th Ableton Rack should reflect that.

One great soldier of information in the electronic music community is Tom who writes the blog Waveformless. The motto of the site is a "Freeform discussion of electronic music and the techniques and gear used in making it." I highly recommend checking it out and exploring the vast information from synthesizer news to free sample Fridays. This weeks Free Ableton Live Rack was created using some of Tom's free samples. Thanks to Tom for sharing these samples and letting me rack them up for everybody's enjoyment!

I'm not going to pretend I know anything about the SQ-80, I've never touched one in my life, but therein lies the beauty of the internet. Tom supplied us with a bunch of samples from the "Hush" preset, as well as a sample of the synth powering down. From there I have merely thrown the samples into Live's Sampler and mapped out some choice macro knobs. The result is something that I hope you will find useful. (If nothing else, play around with the notes on the extreme high end of the keyboard. That's where the samples of the SQ-80 being powered down are, and the sounds I am most excited to use in my own productions. Great call on adding that sample, Tom!)

So check out the video below for a complete walkthrough and download the SQ-80 rack for use in your own music.

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Thanks very much for your support! As always, if you use any of these racks in your own productions, please send them to me via my Soundcloud Dropbox; I'll post them for everyone to hear. Have a great week :)

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