Atmobits by Sonus Dept.
CRAFT TEXTURES, SHAPE TIMBRES, DESIGN SOUNDSCAPES
Atmobits is a collection of eight Max for Live devices for crafting atmospheric textures, unique timbres, and evolving soundscapes. Featuring pocket synthesizers, sample manipulators, and creative effects, these devices are both instantly inspiring and deeply tweakable.
Inside you’ll find:
- Bitmask – bitwise operations synthesizer for digital oddities and dreamy pads
- Drainst – evolving additive synthesizer with detailed control over 15 partials
- Droplets – granular sample player generating droplets of sound
- Fastmos – instant atmospheric effect creating forests of echoing textures
- Pokepad – instant silky and beefy pad synthesizer
- Perfume – FM synthesizer with harmonic series waveforms and bell-like tones
- Vapasar – complex sample player with five independent playback slots
- Wotwisp – spectral processor creating ephemeral sonic flames
- Comprehensive user manual
Designed by Sonus Dept for Ableton Live 11 or higher with Max for Live, Atmobits delivers endless sonic possibilities for ambient producers, sound designers, and experimental creators.
Whether you’re shaping dreamy ambiences or bizarre effects, Atmobits is ready to deliver interesting sounds the moment you load them.
USER GUIDE: Atmobits Manual
Atmobits by Sonus Dept.
CRAFT TEXTURES, SHAPE TIMBRES, DESIGN SOUNDSCAPES
Atmobits is a collection of eight Max for Live devices for crafting atmospheric textures, unique timbres, and evolving soundscapes. Featuring pocket synthesizers, sample manipulators, and creative effects, these devices are both instantly inspiring and deeply tweakable.
Inside you’ll find:
- Bitmask – bitwise operations synthesizer for digital oddities and dreamy pads
- Drainst – evolving additive synthesizer with detailed control over 15 partials
- Droplets – granular sample player generating droplets of sound
- Fastmos – instant atmospheric effect creating forests of echoing textures
- Pokepad – instant silky and beefy pad synthesizer
- Perfume – FM synthesizer with harmonic series waveforms and bell-like tones
- Vapasar – complex sample player with five independent playback slots
- Wotwisp – spectral processor creating ephemeral sonic flames
- Comprehensive user manual
Designed by Sonus Dept for Ableton Live 11 or higher with Max for Live, Atmobits delivers endless sonic possibilities for ambient producers, sound designers, and experimental creators.
Whether you’re shaping dreamy ambiences or bizarre effects, Atmobits is ready to deliver interesting sounds the moment you load them.
USER GUIDE: Atmobits Manual
Additional information
| MaxforLive | Audio Devices |
|---|---|
| Ableton Live Compatibility | Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive, Ableton Live 11 Suite, Ableton Live 12 Standard with MaxforLive, Ableton Live 12 Suite |
PRICE: £19.00
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June 16, 2025
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If you love to spend hours seeking sounds and tweaking them in a land of inspiring unpredictability, these tools are made for you.
May 23, 2025
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These tools are truly impressive... they manage to produce very interesting sounds especially if you love sound textures or sound instability thanks to the simple but effective modulation possibilities.
Atmobits by Sonus Dept.
Overview & Inspiration
Atmobits is a collection of eight Max for Live devices designed for producers and sound designers who crave atmospheric textures, unusual timbres, and evolving soundscapes. Created by Sonus Dept, this bundle brings together pocket synthesizers, sample manipulators, and creative effects that are both instantly inspiring and deeply tweakable.
Whether you’re crafting ethereal ambiences for electronic music, designing bizarre sound effects for experimental projects, or sculpting evolving textures for film and game audio, Atmobits delivers a compact yet self-sufficient environment for sonic exploration.
Features & Highlights
Bitmask – A bitwise operations synthesizer that generates sounds from digital patterns. Tweak parameters or hit randomize to discover weird digital textures, jagged drones, and surprisingly dreamy pads. Complete with lowpass filter and pseudoreverb.
Drainst – An evolving additive synthesizer featuring 15 oscillators (5 harmonics, 5 inharmonic partials, 5 subharmonics). Each partial’s amplitude and pan position can morph over time, with optional ring modulation for complex timbral evolution.
Droplets – A granular sample player that generates droplets of sound with customizable characteristics. Load samples or record incoming audio, then create evolving walls of texture or scattered sound fragments. Includes master pitch shifter.
Fastmos – An instant atmospheric effect that wraps any sound in thick layers of ambience. Four adjustable effect processors create results ranging from dense delays to blurry reverbs. Works best with vocals and stringed instruments.
Pokepad – A compact subtractive synthesizer for instant lush pads. Carefully chosen parameters let you modify sounds without losing their silky, beefy character. When you need that perfect pad, Pokepad delivers.
Perfume – An FM synthesizer with unique features including selectable harmonic series waveforms, windowing options, octave doubling for bell tones, and atmospheric reverberation. Excels at bells, pads, drones, and bizarre effects.
Vapasar – A complex sample player where loaded samples play back through five independent slots, each with different trajectories, panning, and amplitudes. Create subtle variations or glitchy soundscapes from single samples or loops.
Wotwisp – A spectral processor that generates fairy-like soundscapes. Works on noise sources or incoming audio, selecting and morphing specific frequency bands over time to produce ephemeral, ever-evolving sonic streams.
How to Use
Each device in Atmobits slots directly into Ableton Live tracks and responds to MIDI triggers or processes incoming audio. The unconventional UI may look different from typical Live devices, but hover over any parameter to see detailed explanations in Live’s Info View.
Start with the synthesizers for generative textures and melodic exploration. Use Droplets and Vapasar to transform samples into evolving soundscapes. Apply Fastmos and Wotwisp as effects to add atmosphere and spectral interest to existing material.
Ideal For
- Ambient, experimental, and electroacoustic producers seeking unusual sound sources
- Sound designers crafting textures for film, games, and interactive media
- Electronic musicians exploring generative and evolving sonic landscapes
- Producers who want instant atmospheric results with deep tweakability
- Artists working in drone, avant-garde, and experimental genres
What’s Included
- 8 Max for Live devices (Bitmask, Drainst, Droplets, Fastmos, Pokepad, Perfume, Vapasar, Wotwisp)
- Comprehensive user manual with detailed device explanations
Requirements
- Max for Live 8+ (included with Live Suite or available as separate add-on)
- Windows and macOS compatible
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Frequently Asked Questions
Atmobits is a suite of eight MaxforLive devices for Ableton Live, built to generate ambient textures, evolving drones, and experimental sound design using synthesis, audio manipulation, and modulation tools.
You’ll need Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive installed, or Ableton Live 11 Suite. Compatible with both macOS and Windows.
MaxforLive is an extension for Ableton Live that allows you to use custom devices and build your own tools for sound design, performance, and control. It’s included in Ableton Live Suite or can be added to Live Standard via your Ableton.com account.
Explore more from Sonus Dept on their developer page.
Important Information
V1.0.0 – Initial Release – May 2024
Our Products are generally provided as Zip file downloads which in all cases will need to be extracted and saved to your hard drive prior to installation. Details on the different file type provided and what to do with them are below.
.alp Files – These are Ableton Live Packs and will either install directly into the Packs Section of the browser of Ableton Live or ask you to save them to your hard drive. For packs that install to the library, when you double click on them you will see a pop up window asking you to confirm that installation is ok as the files are described as “Legacy”. This is fine and you are ok to proceed, the packs are created using the format for an earlier version of Live and so remain compatible with the current version.
.amxd files – These are individual MaxforLive Devices and can be stored anywhere on your hard drive. We’d advise creating a folder for them and then adding that folder as a location within the Places section of Lives Browser.
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