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200+ Free Packs for Ableton

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During my years making music I’ve managed to horde lots of free samples and free plugins! (Check out my Free Stuff) Here is an ever growing list of the free packs for Ableton that I’ve found. It features contributions from Ableton as well as some less well known producers.

After the Table of Contents, there’s a quick description of each pack and a link to download (in the title). Many of these packs also contain free samples, so fill yer boots. If you’re unsure how to use an Ableton Pack, you can read how to install an Ableton Pack here.
Updated March 2024

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Over 213 Live packs by Brian Funk

This is Live pack heaven! Brian Funk is an Ableton Certified trainer who runs the music production club and music production podcast. He has put together an amazing amount of live packs… for FREE! They consist of drums, synths, and weirder sounds, such as an instrument made from a Snapple can! Bookmark this page! You can download all 213 packs individually or download the ‘Ableton Live Pack Archive’ for just $10! 

Free Live Pack Contains

To date, there are over 213 Live packs for download.

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Free Ableton Pack Library by me… The Velvet Shadow

I have been producing music for many years and have started to upload my sample libraries, bizarre instruments, and Ableton Packs. I’ve started turning some of them into free Ableton live packs to aid your creative inspiration. Packs can be downloaded for free via Gumroad or you can browse them here.

Free Live Packs Contain

There are lots of random sounds that I’ve sampled and turned into Ableton instruments. The sounds and samples are created from various field recordings, unusual objects, modular synths, noise samples, circuit bent electronics, and synths.

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I also recently made a premium pack from a Dave Smiths Prophet REV 2 Synth. You can check that out here.


Hainbach & Ah! Kosmos via Ableton

*Requires Live 11 Suite 

Experimental music maker and YouTube extraordinaire Hainbach teams up with film composer & electronic musician Ah! Kosmos to create their debut EP. The duo have a shared love of making music out of electrical test equipment and alternative sound sources. This pack is their take on drums, using the ARP 2500 synthesizer

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8 Free Effect Racks For Ableton Live 9 by Subdivizion

Subdivizion have a range of free effect racks available. I don’t use them for their sounds but I like using them as templates to build your own Ableton racks:

Drum MIFI FX – 9 MIDI Effects Racks to use before Drum Racks and Impulse devices.
Dub Delay – Long feedback dub style delays
Scratch-O-Matic – Old School Hip hop samples for adding scratching over beats DJFX – 3 effect racks for DJ performance or production
Mulitband Freq Splitter – Rack that splits up frequencies so you can apply effects to each frequency band.
Simple Sample Selecta – Useful functional rack. Allows you to audition samples from the browser.
Stereo Width – Effect rack to help enhance the stereo image
The Vowels Rack – Formant Filter Effect rack with EQ Vowel Presets
Yay Filter – Basic control over filter sweeps. Designed to emulate the filter sound used in Electro & Dubstep.

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50+ Free Ableton Live Racks by Sidebrain

This is a fantastic Ableton resource! Sidebrain has kindly made available over 50 free Ableton effect racks. As part of his “Free Rack Wednesday” blog posts you can expect racks  to help you make drum fills, sculpt transients, make future bass, techno and much more. There is a lot to check out here! 

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500k Pack by Ableton Live

When Ableton had over 500K likes on Facebook they released a free Ableton Pack.

Free Live Pack Contains

100 Specially Made presets for Operator, Simpler, Impulse, Electric, Analog, Collison and Tension.

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64 Pad Lab by Mad Zach

Free Live Pack Contains

Drums Racks that have been designed for use with Ableton Push’s 64 Pad mode.


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Beat Selection For Live 9 by Sample Magic

You get 409 loops from Sample Magic’s library covering different electronic music styles. Each loop is provided with four variants.

Free Live Pack Contains

409 Live Clips, 2 Presets

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Bomblastic by Uppercussion

Hip Hop drum kit library with toms, cymbals, hats, shakers, snappy snares, cracking claps and kicks. Samples can also be used for Dubstep, RnB, Dance and Urban Pop.

Features “Acoustified Kits” that have samples taken from processed acoustic and organic recordings. Electrified kits samples are founded in analog and digital synthesis.

Free Live Pack Contains

800 drum samples grouped into Drum Racks
14 Live Clips
50 Presets

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Bongo Sample Library & Drum Rack by Subaqueous

Straight up pack of Bongo samples via Gumroad download. Also check out Subaqueous’ site for more free ableton packs.

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Breakbeats by Kutmasta Kurt

More free hip hop samples! Kutmasta Kurt has put together a set of chopped and cut up breakbeats honouring the Beastie Boy, Dj Qbert, Kool Keith vintage style.

 Features complete drum racks with effect presets and MIDI Clips to create your own beats.

Free Live Pack Contains

10 Construction Kit Live Sets
63 Live clips
10 Presets
10 Live Sets

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Break Selection For Live 9 by Sample Magic

More free drum samples! A collection of vintage drum breaks recorded by “some of the best drummers in the business”. Contains drum recordings using rare mics, pre-amps and vintage outboard equipment.

Free Ableton Live Pack Contains

175 Abelton Live Clips

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ClapBox by Puremagnetik

Clap Box is modeled on the 1980s Simmons Electronics Clap Trap. Slap a bit of 1984 clap into your mixes with this tiny drum machine.

Free Live Pack Contains

Puremagnetiks drum samples of Clap Trap

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Cyclic Waves by Cycling ’74

Ron MacLeod has used the processing tools from Cycling ’74 to create a premium selection of audio loops. Includes Drum Loops, acoustic instruments, ambience and weird shit. (Bit weird!)

Free Live Pack Contains

143 Live Clips

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Cymatics.fm – Best Free Ableton Live Sample Packs

Cymatics is a compnay that offers a lot of premium sample packs and plugins of excellent quality. All their sample packs are excpetionally well produced. As a teaser to get you into their world, they offer up a massive selection of free samples for Ableton. Aimed mainly at hip hop heads, this selection has a little something for everyone. It’s well worth checking out, you’ll also find audio examples of each pack on the download pages. Have a browse of their seperate page of free downloads too… you’re bound to find something useful for your next production 😉

Cymatics free plugins samples and presets page.

Free Ableton packs on offer are:

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Infinity Vocal Collection: Beta Pack

Cymatics unique pack of vocal samples for use with Ableton Live. The free vocal pack is two full acapellas that include stems with ad libs and extra harmonies. Plus 63 other vocal samples included. All 100% royality free.

  • 2 Full Acapellas With Stems
  • 10 Distorted Vocals
  • 8 Vocal Chops
  • 17 Vocal FX
  • 10 Vocal Loops
  • 5 Reverse Vocal Loops
  • 11 Vocal One Shots

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Odyssey EDM Sample Pack

Odyssey is Cymatics attempt at the ultimate sample pack for every DJ. Crafted by expert EDM producers this sample pack gives you a solid foundation of loops and files to take your EDM track to the next level.

  • 45 MIDI files
  • 25 synth one shots
  • 55 drum loops
  • 19 synth loops
  • 84 drum one shots
  • 49 original stems

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Oracle Hip Hop Sample Collection

Oracle is a monster three part library giving you Cymatics ‘best free melody loop packs’. You’ll get killer 808s and 100 MIDI files to inspire and beef up your Ableton projects.

  • 103 melody loops (including stems)
  • 100 MIDI files
  • 34 high quality 808

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Eternity Vintage Collection

Inspired by the recording techniques and production on classic albums like the infamous, Illmatic and Enter the Wu Tang. Eternity serves up a classic hip hop sample pack for Ableton. 

  • 62 boom bap drum loops
  • 102 boom bap drum one shots
  • 48 vocal samples
  • 30 guitar loops
  • 22 MIDI files
  • 19 melody loops + stems
  • 14 harp loops

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Cobra Hip Hop Sample Pack

Apparently Cobra is one Cymatic most popular free Ableton packs. It’s a great addition to your Ableton library if you’re a Hip Hop producer as it contains hip hop style modern drums and samples, and the more classic style drum loops reminiscent of the boom bap drum sound. 

  • 29 melody loops
  • 24 guitar and flute melodic loops
  • 24 MIDI melodies
  • 100+ drum one shots
  • 50+ drum loops
  • 19 hard-hitting 808s

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2020 Melody Collection

This sample pack for ableton live is all about melody! Cymatics have provided 40 free sample loops for you to chop up and make your own. Each of the loops has 3~4 stems which means you can easily work with each stem individually in different tracks in Ableton. With a bit of creative cutting and effects, you’ll be able to craft these samples into your own production style in no time.

  • 40 free melody loops
  • High quality stems of each loop

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Symbolyc One Sample Pack

Symbolyc One is one of the most prolific producers in the hip hop industry, producing for some of the biggest names in the industry including Kanye West, Jay Z, Drake, Beyonce. Cymatics teamed up with him to produce this free Ableton Pack!

S1 includes a load of amazing sounds from his very own personal collection. Check it out 🙂

  • 15 drum loops
  • 13 kicks
  • 10 melody loops
  • 20 hi hats
  • 15 snares
  • 10 percussion one shots

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Rhodes Pack

Who doesn’t love a bit of Rhodes piano!? This free Ableteon Pack gives you samples of the legendary instrument. The chord one shots are recommened for using with Ableton’s simpler or sampler – this way you can create your own Rhodes Piano Ableton instrument.

  • 4 chord one shots
  • 6 melody loops
  • 6 tape processed melody loops
  • 4 tape loops

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Hip Hop Starter Kit

Cymatic hip hop Ableton Pack is a decent starter kit similar to their Cobra pack. It’s a cross between a modern hip hop kit and a boom bap drum kit. The free pack contains drum loops, melodies, one shots, to fit any style of hip hop.

  • 15 full drum loops
  • 75 drum one shots
  • 10 top drum loops
  • 15 basses/808s
  • 10 melody loops
  • 10 vocal chants
  • 10 FX samples

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Life Ambient Recordings

One way to improve your productions is to get lots of complex harmonics into the mix. You can do this is by adding real-world sounds to your tracks. It’s a handy way to also add an authentic, human feel that can’t be achieved with digital synths and sounds.

Cymatics “LIFE” Ambient Recordings gives you an arsenal of 150 ambient recordings including fire crackles, calm ocean sounds, waterfalls, rivers, downtown city ambience, crowds, streams, vinyl crackles, farm noises, and more!

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Python MIDI Collection

A MIDI pack for Ableton that provide 51 MIDI files to control Ableton instruments or other external VSTs like Serum or Massive. It’s a great place to start your inspiration and build on the ideas in the MIDI Files.

  • 51 MIDI Files

Designer Drums by Ableton Live

Using Abelton’s Operator synthsizer, Designer Drums contains 16 drums racks including 249 sounds. All the sounds are synthesised which allows for some in depth editing and tweaking if you really want to craft your own sounds.

Free Live Pack Contains

64 Live Clips
265 Presets
64 MIDI Clips

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Digicussion 1 by Uppercussion

Contains 50 different drum racks that allow you to edit and morph over 800 samples for some versatile drum creation. The free Ableton pack includes: Filthy Kicks, Clangs, Dings, weird bangs, soft stabs, snares & mangled ambience.

Free Live Pack Contains

800 Samples
17 Live Clips
50 Presets

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Digicussion 2 by Uppercussion

More drum samples! Following on from Digicussion 1 this pack provides more ambient stabs, heavy kicks, mangled snares and drums racks. Fully customisable to enable you to create your own unique samples. When combined with Digicussion 1 it creates an inspiring sample pack for electronic productions.

Free Live Pack Contains

800+ Drum Samples
15 Live Clips
50 Presets

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DM ARP 2600 Drums by Flatpack

Daniel Miller from the Mute label brings you a large selection of drum and percussion patches created with the legedary instrument DM ARP 2600.
Features the characteristic touch of Dan Miller’s sound design, effects and presets.

Free Live Pack Contains

150 Original Analogue Percussion Samples
8 Drum Racks
Real time tweak controls

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DM-307A: Ableton Free Pack by Heavyocity

DM-307A collection offers production ready modular synth drums, samples from a classic hardware drum machine and live percussion. Contains gritty drums, industrial techno & house loops, latin woodblocks, shakers, congas from leading electronic music producers. Curated sounds that are perfect for a dance music producer.

Ableton Free Live Pack Contains

1 Live Set
5 Presets

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Drum Machines by Ableton Live

As you might expect, this is a drum machine pack! Sampled from the classic hardware drum machine 606, 707, 808, 909 this pack provides you with drum racks and MIDI patterns to re-create the sound of the classic hardware drum machine. If you like more tweaking you can delve deeper in to the edting and customise your own drum grooves with the mapped macro controls.

Free Ableton Live Pack Contains

170 Live Clips
170 Presets
MIDI patterns
Many patterns can be modulated

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Drums, Synths, FX & more by ELPHNT

Elphnt has created some mighty free ableton live packs! In this download ELPHNT is giving away 12 Instrument Packs & 7 demo packs. The free pack contains 522 drum machine samples, a 707, Drones x Noises, Drumr (drum synth), Electric (electric piano), Inspir Paper, LM-1 (Drum Machine), MS-20 Waveforms (Synth), ONE Knobs (effects), SH-101 (drum samples from SH-101), Shake, Splitter & Tape (Tape Machine)! 

FREE PACKS

522 Samples – samples of a tiny drum machine.
707 – a classic hardware drum machine.
DRONES x NOISES – drone textures and noise samples.
DRUMR – simple drum synthesis.
ELECTRIC – that classic electric piano sound.
INSPIR Paper – creative inspiration for musicians.
TAPE – an analog tape machine for Ableton Live.

LM-1 – a classic hardware drum machine.
MS-20 Waveforms – classic monophonic synth samples.
ONE KNOBS – powerful 1-knob effect racks.
SH – SH-101 drum samples.
SHAKE – loops and samples of things you shake.
SPLTTR – multi-band anything.

FREE DEMO PACKS

522 Free – a tiny drum machine with a big sound
NTPD Lite – a simple notepad for Ableton Live
INSPIR Lite – creative inspiration for musicians
ARPS Free – arpeggiated synth presets
ANLG Free – analog-style synth sounds
B3 Free – a classic tone wheel organ

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Future Bass Rack by Joshua Casper

NOTE- Requires NI Massive.


This free pack combines patches from Native Instruments Massive with loads of effects. The genre and style is not for me, but… If you’re into this style its a big sound will help you make decent quality bass sounds.

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Grand Piano by e-instruments

E-Instruments have recorded a concert grand piano on a classical orchestra hall. This provides you with an 88 key grand piano with subtle nuances, dynamic layering, sustain resonances and release samples. At 1.5GB the free pack offers you 12 piano presets and 9 hybrid presets that blend synths and effects with the acoustic piano samples.

Free Ableton Live Pack Contains

23 Presets
4 Live Sets

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Guitars and Bass by e-instruments

Need electric guitars and bass for your productions? This pack has it. Guitars and basses features 17 multisampled Instrument racks covering jazzy basses to metal guitars. Some sample packs miss the nuances of playing string instruments, this pack addresses that by providing multiple articulations such as palm muted, slap bass, open etc. Have a listen to the soundlcoud link below, the pack sounds very good. These instruments would sit well in your mix or used to write guide parts with.

Free Live Pack Contains

60 Live Clips
20 Presets
10 Live Sets

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Kalimba by Ghost Syndicate

I strongly recommend checking out www.ghostsyndicate.net ! There are a bunch of free Ableton packs available, free samples and paid content. I’ve included a few of their downloads in this list, however the Kalimba pack stands out for me because it sounds great! With or without the effects this is a very versatile instrument. Check out the video below:

Ableton Free Live Pack Contains

134 Kalimba Samples
Effect Rack

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Kickbank by Puremagnetik

Kickbank by Puremagnetik

Puremagnetik is another favourite of production team of mine. They often do production work for Ableton Live building packs and sample libraries. Their own website sells plugins and packs too and is worth checking out.  

Kickbank is 200 kick drum samples taken from analog modular synths, 1980s digital synths, drum machines and analog beatboxes. Perfect as standalone pack or for building your own drum racks for dance music.

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Konkrete Breaks by Soniccouture

This live pack features MIDI drum loops paired with sounds from the Konkrete Drum series by Soniccoutre. You get 100 MIDI clips from some well known IDM/EDM producers, five live sets and Glitch Machine 2. This is a useful pack if you want to improve your breakbeat productions as you can to open up the live sets to see how the featured artists cut up and edit their beats.

Free Live Pack Contains

101 Live Clips
16 Presets
5 Live sets

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Lo-fi Synth & Key Presets by Subaqueous

Subaqueous has offered us up some 80s style, retro synth action. If you are after the sounds from 80s movies where the VHS has gone a bit wonky, this is for you. Subaqueous made these synths by running Juno samples through old tape cassettes and VHS machines.
Features Poly synth, reverse tapes, Lo-Fi Casio piano, Tubular, leads.
If you like Boards of Canada, you might like.

Also contains a free Ableton Live template of the project for more creative inspiration.

Check out the video below:

Free Live Pack Contains

7 Synths
Effect Racks

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Loopmasters Mixtape by Loopmasters

Found sounds, instrumental loops, acoustic drums and synthesised sound design from Puremagnetik, Soniccouture, Digable Planet, Todd Terry & Coldcut.

You get 2289 live clips and nearly 3.5GB of samples! Includes Instrument and effects rack, Impulse Kits, modular synths, strings.

Free Live Pack Contains

2289 Live Clips
23 Live Sets
Effect Racks

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Mad Beatz by KJ Sawka

DJ Sawka has created a loop library which includes Ableton groove templates, MIDI grooves, bass loops, melodic and drum loops. Will suit the drum & bass, dub step & breakbeat genres.

The video alone is worth checking out, just to watch DJ Sawka go through his musical ideas and production process.

Free Live Pack Contains

337 Live Clips
15 Presets 

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Melange 70 Handpicked Instruments and Loops

Melange offers up 70 Ableton Live instruments and over 1GB of electronic sounds. This free Ableton live pack features instruments inspired by film scoring techniques, legendary synths, and retro games. 

The free pack is assorted in to Modular Loops, Film Score, Transwave, Vintage Chips and Omnichord categories.

Modular Loops – Kick & Bass Loops and audio effect racks: Alien Filter & Glitch Rack
Film Score – Handy for sound designers and producers working in games or picture.
Transwave – A selection of sounds from Puremagnetik’s Waveframe library that emulate the Ensoniq Fizmo (Transwave Synthesis)
Vintage Chips – 8 bit flashback!! Think sounds from early digital synthesis: Atari, Intellivision & Commodore 64 instruments taken from Puremagnteiks “Retro Computers” library.

Free Live Pack Contains

70 Instruments 
1 GB of sounds

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Paper by Ghost Syndicate

A straight forward free live pack for you; recordings of paper! Contains 75 samples of different paper recorded on the Zoom H5 then slightly processed . Ghost Syndicate have created this pack for foley work and sound design uses. Great for creating unusual drums, FX and risers.

Free Live Pack Contains

75 foley sounds

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Recording Hybrid Kit by Drumdrops

This live pack provides you with MORE drums! It’s a free pack with a multi-sampled, multi-velocity mix of different Yamaha drumsets. The idea being that Hyrbid’s recording techniques provide a more well rounded, well balanced drum rack with a big sound. More suitable for Rock & Pop.

Free Live Pack Contains

34 Presets

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Rocks to Riches by Subdivizion

This free pack contains a multilayered synth that was created from an audio recording of rocks being shuffled around! The result is a dubby house organ with a bit of grit.

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Samplification by Ableton Live

Ableton put together this pack to help you improve your sampling abilities (or to show off their product ‘Sampler’). 
The free pack features new sounds, presets and clips from Puremagnetik, Sonarte & Cycling ’74.  Very wide selection of samples are included from Rock, Techno, Sound Effects to Experimental.

Free Live Pack Contains

179 Presets
7 Live Preset
120 Live Clips

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Singularities by Ableton Live

Singularities uses single samples and tweakable parameters to offer the sound of classic samplers and synths.

Free Live Pack Contains

42 Presets
3 Live Preset
150 Live Clips

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Kleine Stücke – Small Tape Collages

Small Tape Collages by Kleine Stücke

Do you like analog tape sound design? Kleine Stucke aka HAND is a Berlin based producer who has made available over 20 textural pieces from an analogue tape machine. Features Analog Hum, wowed splices, fluttered oxide and tape hiss to give you a start with tape effects. If you like drone textures and classic ambient music this maybe for you!

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Snare Designer by Puremagnetik

Snare Designer is a free pack that focuses on getting that ‘perfect snare’ sound you always crave! Puremagnetik have sampled the legendary Mapex Birch, Pork Pie Little Squealer and Ludwig Acrolite snare drums.

The samples include, direct, room and special effect mic recordings which are delivered in a custom control panel. The panel allows you to tweak individual microphones and sculpt tone. 

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Solid Sounds by Ableton Live

I see this pack as more of an ‘Intro’ to Ableton Live. As such the pack contains a wide range of musical styles to cover most genres.

Free Live Pack Contains

186 Live Clips
140 Presets (128 Simpler presets)
400 Loops
12 instrument racks

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The Forge by Hecq

Another idiosyncratic free live pack! I love the creativity and peculiar production styles of these types of sample packs! I think it’s the more unusual sounds that really help you craft your own unique sound, and this pack definitely has unusual and amazing sounds!

Ben Lukas Boysen (Hecq) has produced kick samples, noise loops, pads, leads, and bass sounds from recordings made with a coil pickup. The coil pickup registers fluctuations in the electromagnetic field, so when placed on a home appliance, it captures strange tones and textures.

The samples created are then laid out in 25 Instrument racks, 5 drum racks and also includes 4 demo songs. There’s a small documentary below that shows Hecq’s production process in making The Forge.

Free Live Pack Contains

8 Max Devices
104 Live Clips
30 Presets
18 Live Sets
100+ MIDI Clips

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The Foundation | 8 Free Ableton Live Packs by Puremagnetik

The Foundation is a collection of 8 Ableton live packs which provide you with a massive introduction to Puremagnetik’s catalogue of goodies. The live pack includes the following:

Foundation Analog Synths – Analog style synth sounds from 1970s Moog to Buchlas.

Foundation Digital Synths – Ensoniq Fixmo, Yamaha DX-7, KORG wavestation, Casio phase distortion synths.

Foundation Drums- 
Classic percussion instruments.

Foundation Guitar & Bass – Instrument racks of Stratocaster acoustic guitar chords & Big Bertha bass instrument.

Foundation Keyboards – 
Rhodes electric piano, electro Wurlitzer, Clavinets. Includes lite versions of Puremagnetiks Mark One.

Foundation Glitch, Toy & Lofi –
Circuit bent toy instruments, lofi chip sounds from Nintendo NES, Atari 2600, Commodore 64.

Foundation Atmospheres – 
Soundscapes, space, ambient sound design and film scoring samples.

Foundation Effect Racks – 
Glitch Shifters, sonic mutilators, lo-fi beat parsers and more.

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Unnatural Selection by Puremagnetik

The Unnatural Selection features Construction Kits and audio clips to cover a variety of different genres. You get a bunch of pre warped clips of beats and melodic elements including leads, pads and bass.

Free Live Pack Contains

156 Live Clips
2 Live Sets

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Vinyl Classics by Zero G

This free live pack includes Clips, construction Kits and Loops influenced from 70s, 80s, and 90s dance music. Features melodic and percussive elements from soul, house, downtempo & disco styles.

Ableton Free Live Pack Contains

426 Live Clips
53 Live Sets

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Wicked Kits | 5 Free Drum Kits for Ableton Live by Puremagnetik

Wicked kits samples classic drum machines, vinyl and synths to provide you with 5 free Ableton drum kits.

I hope that you found some creative inspiration for your next musical idea. 

Note – All the Ableton packs listed above work on Ableton Live Suite and on Windows & Mac OS. 

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Want more Free Stuff?

Try out these posts:

My Free Ableton Live Packs
100+ Best Free Ableton Templates

Free Reverb Plugins
List of Free Drum Machine Plugins
List of the Best Free Synth VSTs
100+ Free Effect Plugins
31 Best Free Saturation Plugins


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