7 Best Free Virtual Instruments – VST/AU Plugins for Mac & PC Virtual instruments are software emulations of traditional instruments or hardware electronic musical instruments. There is a staggering range of virtual instruments available nowadays, covering multi-timbral rompler modules to dedicated emulations of guitars, basses, drums. Once the plugin is installed, open Ableton Live. Go to the “Live” tab at the top left, and click “Preferences”. Click on the Plug-In section and make sure to activate “Use Audio Units”, “Use VST2 Plug-In System Folders” and “Use VST2 Plug-In Custom Folder”. If necessary, also.

Create with new devices
Meet Wavetable, Echo, Drum Buss and Pedal: new devices that mean colorful new sounds are possible with Live’s instruments and effects.

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Wavetable
Immediately playable, infinitely capable, Wavetable is a new synthesizer built by Ableton. Shape, stretch and morph sounds using wavetables derived from analog synths, and a range of other instruments and sounds. Start sculpting sounds right away—even without a deep knowledge of synthesis—or explore its rich palette and potential through an intuitive interface.

Echo
Echo brings together the sound of classic analog and digital hardware delays in a single device—your new go-to delay. Drive and shape sounds with its analog-modeled filters, turn up the noise and wobble for vintage imperfections, or add modulation and reverb to create diffuse soundscapes, wailing feedback and more.

Drum Buss
Drum Buss is a one-stop workstation for drums, capable of adding subtle character or bending and breaking drums to your will. Add warmth and distortion with drive and crunch, take control of dynamics with compression and transient shaping, dial in and tune boom and control bass decay with the dedicated low end section.

Pedal
With separate circuit-level models of overdrive, distortion and fuzz guitar pedals, Pedal brings the character of analog stomp boxes to Live. The effect goes all the way from subtle to reckless—it excels at warming up vocals and other instruments, driving synth sounds or completely smashing drums. And of course, it sounds great with guitars.

10.1.17 Release Notes
New features and improvements
Interface Improvements

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Updated various info texts and translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.

Control Surfaces

Added support for the Blackstar Live Logic MIDI Footcontroller
When the Launchpad Pro MK3 is in Note Mode and a Drum Rack is present, holding down Clear and pressing a pad will now delete the pitch associated with that pad from the current clip. Pressing and releasing Clear will still delete the current clip.
In the Launchpad Pro MK3’s Device Mode, the last selected parameter bank of each device instance will now be recalled upon reselecting the device instance.

Bugfixes
Interface Improvements

Fixed a bug that prevented HiDPI support from working on Windows 10 (version 2004).
When Live is set to Japanese, the formatting of lesson texts in the Help View is once again displayed correctly.
Previously, Live would not respond to mouse clicks if a dialog opened while another application was in focus (macOS only).
Previously, newly-created clips sometimes did not inherit their track color.

Devices

In the Wavetable device, Undo commands performed on changes to user wavetables should now work as expected, and provide more meaningful undo descriptions for parameters that previously only displayed the default “Change Value” Undo action description.
Previously in the Echo and Delay devices, the first repeats of the audio signal were repitched, under certain circumstances.
Fixed an issue that caused intermittent dropouts in the DS Kick device.
Running multiple instances of the DS HH device in a Drum Rack now works as expected.
In the Scale device, the Aeolian Mode Natural Minor Scale preset now works as expected.

Misc

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Reduced GPU power usage when Live is idle on Windows.
Fixed a crash that occurred when loading Live Sets, under certain circumstances.
Fixed a bug that created unintended fade-ins, under certain circumstances.
Fixed the display and editing of continuous parameters in VST3 plug-in devices. Where supported, VST3 plug-ins now use a linear knob mode.
Live will now display content on remote Mac machines and macOS VMs without a monitor attached.
Previously, Live’s Preferences were reset after updating to a new version, under certain conditions.
Fixed a bug in the implementation of Steinberg::Vst::IAttributeList::getString.
It is no longer possible to change parameter values in a Max for Live device, if the track containing that device is frozen.

10.1.15 Release Notes
New features and improvements:

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Added support for the Novation Launchkey [MK3] series
Added support for Presonus ATOM SQ control surface

10.1.14 Release Notes
Bugfixes:

Live will no longer crash when using the Axiom 49 61 Classic script.