London, Los Angeles and online electronic music school Point Blank is in the midst of Ableton Month, and as part of the proceedings they are giving away specially-made Max for Live plug-ins. The free devices include a rather powerful Kick Drum Designer, the unusual but surprisingly useful Monster Timestretch, a very cool Funky Arp arpeggiator and many more.
Download all Point Blank plug-ins for free — registration is required.
Taken together the devices offer enough features to produce an entire track with. And this is exactly what Point Blank instructor Dan Herbert does in a three part series of tutorial videos. Starting with the aforementioned Kick Drum Designer, Herbert builds up a track layer by layer while showcasing the individual plug-ins and imparting some very useful production tips and tricks along the way.
Check out part 1 of the video tutorial here. Go here for part 2 and part 3.
Visit the Point Blank homepage to learn more about their offerings.
Developed by a team of producers and sound designers including Sound Oracle, Mic Checkmate and Michele Darling, this collection of sounds puts everything you need for making beats in one place. Drum Racks are packed with percussive hits, bass and melodic samples so you can work on tight-knit ideas for groove and melody together. And more than 100 Instrument Racks offer a huge sound palette to create a range of moods — from weighty bass and smooth electric pianos, to icy pads and sharp leads.
Plus there are 182 audio loops for chopping up and creating new grooves and melodies, as well as almost 100 MIDI clips for reworking into your own beats, and showing you what the kits can do.
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Beatmaking flow with Push
The Pack is set up for sparking ideas and keeping you in your flow — especially with Push. Drum kits and Instrument Racks come with processing and effects chains that sound great right off the bat. Eight Macros are carefully set up for creative tweaking and sound design directly from Push; take your bass booms from pure to gritty in just a few tweaks. Instruments also make use of expressive Push features like pad aftertouch.
Pack contents
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- 102 Instrument Racks — including bass, keys, leads, pads and effects, designed for Live’s native synths or multisampled from analog gear
- 27 Drum Racks — from crisp drum machine rhythms to lo-fi samples, with tweakable Effect Racks
- 97 MIDI clips & 182 audio loops — premade kit patterns and audio loops and phrases to slice, rework and spark ideas of your own
- 15 Effect Racks — creative chains set up for using the eight Macro controls to maximum effect.
- 5 demo sets — Live sets that showcase some the Pack’s creative potential
- Samples provided by MVP Loops and MSX Audio
Learn finger drumming
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Practice your finger drumming skills with Melodics, a standalone app that offers a great way to learn and refine your playing. Melodics have created a free set of lessons based on BMaul’s video performance, using the sounds from the Beat Tools Sound Pack.
