LiveSet · sounds
The factory sounds
The factory pack ships 534 presets across 14 categories, tuned for the music LiveSet is built around. Save your own chains next to them, and open the bundled projects to see how a finished set is put together.
What the 534 presets are made of
Presets spanning every engine, from sub-bass to the top of a riser.
Tonal · 360
Bass
90Lead
90Pluck
36Keys
58Pad
58Arp
12Stab
16Drums, percussion and Fx · 174
Kick
38Snare
20Hat
24Clap
12Tom
14Perc
36Fx
30Underneath those 14 categories sit 59 subcategories. Sub, 303 Bass, Reese, Supersaw, Sync Lead, FM EPiano, Karplus Pluck, Additive Pad, Modal Hit, 808 Kick, Punchy Kick, Open Hat and the rest, so “Bass” works as a shelf rather than as a bucket. Across the pack the presets carry 84 distinct tags.
Finding one
How the presets are rated
A name tells you almost nothing about a sound. So every one of the 534 carries a character vector alongside its category and tags: five values from 0 to 1, set when the preset is made. You can describe what you want without remembering what it was called.
- bright
- Where the energy sits. Sub-bass at one end, a riser at the other.
- hard
- How much the attack hits you. A soft pad against a sync lead.
- evolving
- Whether the sound stays put or moves while the note is held.
- digital
- Analogue warmth at zero, FM and additive glass at the top.
- dirty
- Clean tone against saturation, drive and deliberate grit.
- Plus the plain metadata
- Name, category, subcategory and tags. A Sub 01 knows it is a Bass, a Sub, and tagged bass / sub / 808.
How we know they are right
How the pack is checked
A preset library is easy to get wrong quietly. Somebody adjusts a filter default, and forty presets that used to be basses are now something else, and nobody notices until a set is already running.
So auditioning a preset and committing it is not the whole process. A test renders every preset in the shipped pack, measures the audio it produces, and checks that it still measures as the category it claims. A preset that drifts out of its category fails the build.
every preset, every build
render the preset at the note it was gated on
measure the result
assert it still measures as its category
534 / 534 pass
The pack is one portable file. And if you import it twice, the second import is fully deduplicated by content hash, so your library does not fill up with copies.
Your own presets
Saving your own
When you land on an effect chain you like, save it. Your FX-chain presets sit alongside the factory ones and come back whenever you need that treatment again.
So the sound you dialled in on one track becomes the starting point for the next set, instead of something you rebuild from memory.
Take one apart
22 projects to open and learn from.
These are whole sets, with the patterns, scenes and effects left in. Open one, follow the patterns into the scenes, see which effects sit on which track, and change anything you like. Nothing in them is locked, and it is the fastest way to learn how the pieces fit together.
Techno
128Breaks
170Ambient
90Deep House
122DnB
174Jungle
165Dub Techno
120Hardcore
180Acid
130Electro
132Trance
138Minimal
125Deep Drift
85Glacial
72Berlin School
104Dub Drift
110Cinematic
95Hardgroove
138Tribal
136Peak Time
140Pumping
139Industrial
14218 synth demos
Shorter pieces built to show one thing well: a Reese that evolves, a morphing lead, a machine kit, an anatomy of a bass patch. Open the one whose sound you want to understand.
Five themed setlists
Club Night · Hardgroove Techno · Bass Music · Atmospheric · Chill + Melodic. Each one sequences a group of the projects the way you would play them, so you can see a whole night instead of a single track.
A tutorial set
A first set built to be walked through: the shortest path from installed to playing something.
The music it is built around
72 to 180 BPM, and most of what lives between.
The shipped projects run from Glacial at 72 and Deep Drift at 85 up through house and techno in the 120s and 130s, drum and bass and jungle at 165 to 174, and Hardcore at 180. Dub techno, acid, electro, trance, minimal, Berlin School, tribal and industrial all have one.
That spread is deliberate. The presets were made against this working library instead of a demo reel, so they tend to land in context instead of needing twenty minutes of work before they fit a track.
One thing to know
Where you browse them
The preset browser lives in the Prepare activity, and you load a preset onto a slot to hear it instead of previewing it from the list. With 534 of them, that is worth knowing before you go hunting mid-set: pick your sounds while you are building, and the character axes and tags are there to narrow the list before you load anything.