AfroDJMac’s Free Weekly Ableton Live Rack #17 - FirecRACKer Synth

This weeks Free Ableton Live Rack, “The AfroDJMac FirecRACKer Synth, “ was made entirely from the sounds of the fireworks screaming through the sky over Long Island, New York on July 4, 2011. AfroDJMac recorded the sound of neighborhood firecrackers and brought them into The Granulator, a free granulating synthesizer that comes with Max for Live.

After messing about, AfroDJMac was able to get some nice grainy sounds and then sampled that sound and brought it into Ableton’s samplers. The result is a nice, textural pad/keyboard sound, as well as a thunderously dirty and fat bass sound. He put this synth together to offer the naturally rich timbre that the fireworks created, but also to give you about as ferocious a sound as possible, given the source material. It seems appropriate to me that a firework, which is essentially an explosive device, should deliver a fierce earth shaking bass. Next time you play one of your tracks for your friends you can nonchalantly brag “that bass was created with explosives.” Nice

AfroDJMac's video explaining the FirecRACKer Synth

As always, he would love to hear what you are doing with the racks, so send him any tunes you make and maybe they'll get posted on his site. Get the FirecRACKer Synth at http://afrodjmac.com/2011/07...