Free Stuff Friday: Beat Repeat Racks, Reese Bass and Minimal Techno Loops
On this week’s Free Stuff Friday we’ve got a bunch of tools to light a spark in your next project. Get a new perspective on the possibilities of Beat Repeat, drop some thunder with a Reese bass patch and see how minimal sounds have aged better than you think. Sometimes the best ideas hide where you least expect!
Re- re- repeat
Dubspot stalwart and Ableton Certified Trainer Josh Spoon always reveals unlikely uses for Live’s stock tools. This week he sheds new light on the Beat Repeat plug-in, using Live Racks to create a powerful stereo mangler to shred your beats and samples across the spatial spectrum. Plus, there’s a detailed explanation of how it’s all done so you can use and abuse the knowledge to your own twisted ends.
Download Josh Spoon’s stereo beat repeat rack here.
Sweet as Reeses
The Reese bass sound is a vital piece of the drum and bass puzzle but it has played an equally important part in the history of house and techno. Made up of a huge layer of sub and a sheet of stinging sawtooth waves, it’s quite a vicious weapon. Finnish producer Fanu has built a Reese Rack to use in your own productions, and be sure to download the SH-101 emulator Bassline to provide the raw sounds. Let’s get heavy.
Download everything you need for the Reese bass here.
mnml resurgence
Remember when minimal ruled the world? Nowadays most won’t touch the genre with a ten-foot pole. What the naysayers don’t realise is how relevant and useful minimal loops are to making any sort of music. With a surgeon’s eye for crisp sound design, minimal sounds are tight, zip-locked and ready to fit in your mix, whatever the genre. You can grab a free pack of ready made loops from web label Inoquo to cut up, or use as is.