The Ingredients #005 / Audio Effect Racks
I'm happy to announce the 5th installment of The Ingredients series is here.
For this pack I've constructed 24 Ableton audio effect racks to help sculpt, enhance, morph and revive your sounds.
Check through the list and watch the video at the bottom for more insight into the pack
Please note - these racks are specifically designed for Ableton 11
Delay - HAAS Effect
Perfect drum fill effect that adds stereo imaging and space to your mix
Delay - Make It Simple
As it states, a quick delay sculptor with an added dry level macro control for buss compatibility
Drums - Flange Extreme
The OTT of flangers with one knob
Drums - Multiband Comp
Sharpen your drum group in seconds, lifting the floor, adding sparkle in the tops and tightening kick and snare transients
Drums - Parallel Compression
Parallel Compression made simple with just two controls, add dry level macro for buss compatibility
Drums - Snare Shaping
Add a sharper, sparkle layer to your snare with this attack / drive controller. There’s also a room reverb control to bring your snare into a space
FX - LoFi
Crunch your track with an old school tape cassette feel
FX - Pod Racer Riser
Shift the hell out of your sound with this out of control sound design rack
Lead - Add Presence
You can make even basic wave shapes sound impressive with this rack through compression, width delay, drive, glue compression and reverb
Lead - Multi FX
Emulating the effects control from my Novation Peak, I’ve set up a simple Chorus / Delay / Reverb chain
Mids - Filter Control
The perfect way to squeeze some juice into your track before driving that old school analog filter sound
Mids - FOTT
An extension of the Filter Control rack, this one crushes, squashes and drives harder with an aggressive EQ, filter and reverb section
Mids - Multi FX Rack
A great tool to add movement to your sounds with tremolo, filtering, flanger, chorus, 2 types of distortion, delay and the glue compression to tidy it all up
Mids - Sculptor
This rack is a lot more subtle than the sound design mid racks above. With Sculptor you can carve your track by cutting or boosting specific areas to tidy up the overall sound
Mids - Sidechain Reverb
A go to for adding reverb tails to mids without completely soaking your sound. This can be used in a subtle or aggressive way deepening on how you like your tail
Mids - Sound Design Rack
A step up from Sculptor adding pitch, drive, delay and flanger controls to process your audio
Mids - Vocoder Design
This is a favourite of mine as the formant shift control adds unique frequency shifting effects all whilst being over compressed for a sharp attack, perfect for stabs and percussion too
Reverb - Riser
A straight forward, go to, one knob effect adding huge reverb and space for the ultimate risers
Reverb - Room Control
My emulation of Valhalla plate and room reverbs, this is great for snares and hats to add a more live sound and add a sense of space to the hits
Reverb - Top Side EQ
A simple utility to boost the top end stereo signal for thin samples
Sub - Low Mid Harmonic Control
A dual EQ rack designed to quickly help boost low mid harmonics to add more presence to the audible range of your subs
Utility - 3 Band Split
Drop this on to your channel for 3 simple frequency split tracks, perfect at the start of your bass processing chain
Utility - Stereo Control
This can be used as a utility or effect with the added time feature making this effect a cross between The HAAS Effects and Top Side EQ
Utility - Tension
This tool is perfect before drops or switches, it controls the high and low frequency band gains whilst narrowing the mix closer to mono to give your drop way more impact upon release