Welcome to our free Ableton Wavetable preset pack of drones, making use of the modulations move the wavetable and modulate the effects for evolving drones.
Here’s a preview of the presets over a kick drum…
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A run down of the Ableton Wavetable drone presets…
There are three drone presets that make use of envelopes modulating the wavetable and effects on it for dark and eerie soundscapes.
This drone uses formant wavetables, which mimic vowel sounds, so they sound little bit like people speaking. I like pitching them down so they growl. Then distorting them so they’re nasty a.f.!
Here I want a dark detuned drone for techno or drum n bass. I detune the oscillators and play the keyboard low, or in the video I have used 2 Pitch units both dropping the pitch down an octave each.
There is also loads of Unison on it too (using the Noise mode.)
I use the OSR distortion at the filter to make it nicely distorted. I get movement from modulating the wavetable position with a slow envelope. If you scroll these Formant wavetable it sounds like a robot speaking. You want to find a good sweet spot then use the Mod Matrix to set Envelope 2 to move the wavetable across the sweet spot and you get a growling sound.
I use Envelope 3 to modulate pitch slightly too with a slow attack.
You can tweak this patch loads with the filters, and you can obviously add more effects afterwards, like Drum Buss.
A video tutorial, how to make the drones in Wavetable…
Here’s a video of how I made these drones…
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