Free instruments for Ableton Live

July 26, 2010

Check this out … Ableton users.  Download 1.2G of stuff …

  • 58 Instrument Racks
  • 16 Drum Racks
  • 5 Live Sets
  • 80 Live Clips

    • Here is the detail from Ableton … http://www.ableton.com/partner-instrument-compilation

    As usual, Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music has more detail on this topic … http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/07/26/ableton-users-grab-gigs-of-custom-instruments-for-free/

    Have fun.

    MG

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