Motions

Lo-fi Ambient for Ableton Live

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Motions is a collection of 50 lo-fi ambient patches for Ableton Live, designed for producers and musicians working in ambient music, soundtracks, or looking to add unique textures to various genres. The pack is built around 128 carefully recorded samples from cassette loops, granular synth devices, and guitar pedals, combined with custom-built effect chains to create a range of distinctive instruments.

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As the name Motions implies, these patches focus on dynamic movement and evolving textures, offering dense lo-fi soundscapes that are expressive and playable. The sounds in Motions are built from a variety of recorded sources, including guitar loops, cassette loops, notes from a Moog Matriarch, and modulated Eurorack phrases. These samples were looped and stretched across the keyboard, so playing wide, spread-out chords results in a layering effect, with the same sample playing back at different rates, creating rich and evolving textures.

Motions also includes Random Generator patches that use Ableton’s random LFO device with an arpeggiator to create generative-style soundscapes. This allows users to play a chord and generate evolving, randomized arpeggios, as heard in the Nylon Arp demo. Each of the 50 presets includes 2-5 Macro Variations, allowing you to load sound variations within each patch via the Macro Variation list on the left side of the instrument.

After recording and looping the samples, custom Ableton effects racks such as a tape emulator, a repitched quad delay effect and a shimmer reverb. These effects enhance the unique timbres of the samples, offering further creative manipulation and lo-fi sound shaping.

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Motions Demos

All sounds created entirely with Motions rack.

Requirements

To use the Motions patches, you will need a copy of Ableton Live 11 or later. These devices will not work on older versions of Ableton Live.

The Motions devices work with all editions of Live 11, including Lite, Intro, and Standard.

Bundles

Motions is also available in the Ableton Sounds Bundle and the Everything Bundle.