Far from being a ‘set and forget’ plug-in, Drum Buss sounds great if you tweak or automate the controls in real time, whether it’s during recording to capture automation, or in performance. The Dry/Wet control makes all the difference it’s possible to come up with a way-too-much setting, then use Dry/Wet to dial back the excess, and make sure the substance of the clean signal gets through. Drive is applied to the input signal, and offers Soft/Medium/Hard variations, the latter adding more bass and Crunch adds distortion to the upper-mid and higher frequencies. The presets are a good way to get a quick handle on what Drum Buss will do, and it can go a long way with just a few controls.
The example set we’ve provided uses audio clips for convenience and compatibility reasons but Drum Buss works just as well on MIDI instrument tracks. You can replicate most of what it does with a combination of other plug-ins, but it has a charm of its own, and you’ll benefit from the convenience of it.Īlso, it’s controlled more immediately on Push, as a single device with a simple interface.
Who gets it?ĭrum Buss is Live 10 only (in Standard and Suite) and, unlike other Live elements such as Operator, isn’t available as a separate purchase. You could say the most attractive things about Drum Buss are that it reduces dependency on third-party plug-ins for drum processing, and that it introduces some much-needed dirt into Live’s range of factory plug-ins.
It also has a very cool Boom control, for what Ableton calls ‘low-frequency enhancement’. It includes distortion, compression, equalisation and transient shaping. Drum Buss was one of the new audio effect devices introduced in Live 10, and is designed as a one-stop solution for your beat processing needs.
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