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Bussification

Live Racks for Busses

£28.50

A series of racks designed for sculpting and enhancing groups of audio tracks, with custom parameter ranges suited for particular audio types. Includes eleven racks for instrument or drum groups, two auxiliary sends for injecting space and dirt into a mix, and three media processors for the master channel.
Developer: PerforModule
Compatibility: Ableton Live 9.7.5+ | Live 10 | Live 11
OS: Mac & Windows
Min. Requirements: Ableton Live 9.75+

Description

Live 11 version now available!

Bussification is a  series of suave and tasteful channel strips designed specifically for placement on groups, auxes, or the master channel. Buss processing can really help add cohesion to a mix, and these go-to modules provide a toolset for getting it done with quick speed and reliable, high-quality results.

There are nine racks designed for instrument groups, two for drum groups, two for aux (send) channels, and three for the master buss.

The Bussification instrument and drum group buss racks are each calibrated with their own parameter ranges suited to their instrument type, preventing improper settings from being much of a possibility and giving you great freedom to sculpt by ear. Use them to add “juice”, tilt and highlight tone, “tauten” the overall spectrum, inject clean parallel saturation, and sculpt the contour. Each includes a specially-made fader which affects multiple internal parameters for using to automate the level.

The aux channels are designed for placing on a Send channel and feeding them amounts of different tracks to blend back in to the mix. AuxBuss Space enhances the natural space of a mix with a reactive room tone, helping elements feel “glued together, while AuxBuss Dirt is designed for increasing raw perceptible acuteness with its muscular flavour boost.

The three master channel racks can emulate various recording media being used while helping to give your mixdown a nice analog polish depending on the decade you want to go for. For a retro 70’s vibe, “Vinyl Record” implements the contours and imperfections of vinyl pressing while keeping the noise on the subliminal side. For a classic 80’s vibe, “Cassette Tape” with its two simple parameters allows for dialing in the tape fidelity and custom generated source-reactive tape-style hiss amount. For a solid, punchy 90’s sound, use “CD” to carefully sculpt the mix in ways common to 90s mastering, good for dancy pop head-nodders.

CHANGE LOG

11 March 2022

– Live 11 version now available; rack knob arrangements optimized.

 

5 June 2018

– Maintenance update, cosmetic polishing.

– Final Live 9 update.

REVIEWS & FEATURES

INSTALLATION

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 install directly into the Packs Section of the browser of Ableton Live. 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.

Control Surface Scripts – Please refer to the individual User Guides provided with your download, an abridged version of the installation will be shown further down this page.

ClyphX Pro – Please refer directly to the manual and installation video for this specific product.

Novation Circuit Packs – These are provided as individual Sysex Files and as a complete bank file. All are to be installed using a version of the Circuit Editor and not via Novations Components back up utility.

DEVELOPER

PerforModule

PerforModule is the brainchild of Animus Invidious. Over the year Animus has collaborated with scores of artists from all over the world on songs appearing on various albums and compilations. He has mastering credits on about a dozen albums with his unofficial brand “Tasty Mastering”. Known for having sensibilities covering both acoustic as well as electronic music, he has mastered material by Astara Summers, Hopeful Heroines, Michael Garfield, Charlie Milo Trio, Phat Kid, StoneyBertz, Lil’ Flip and others.The most recent album mastered by Animus Invidious is “Face Our Own Reflection” by Joy Tru, which includes multiple songs that have achieved FM radio play reaching hundreds of thousands of listeners.As a Sound Designer Animus has assisted various musicians with tailored sound design tasks over the years (for example, he appears in the credits of the prog metal album Solipsism by the band Left Brain). In 2013, Animus started performodule.com and began sharing clever and useful custom Ableton Live racks which he had crafted. Shortly thereafter, his “Vocoverb” device was featured on Ableton Live’s website and the rest is history.LINKS – WEBSITE

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