After quite a long while, AfroDJMac returns with another free Ableton Live instrument. His latest release is Telephone Tones, a free Live rack designed for emulating all of those classic telephone sounds.
Remember the longing anticipation of a phone ringing, the powerlessness you felt when you heard the busy signal, or the click of a hang up followed by a dial tone? This Free Ableton Live Pack will allow you to sprinkle those feelings in your music.
The rack uses Ableton’s Operator virtual FM synthesizer to generate all of the telephone sounds you may think of, including the dial tone, busy signal, dial pad sounds, etc. Judging by the demo video embedded below, the tones produced by this freebie instrument rack sound almost identical to the original.
You can also color the tone by using the built-in effects section. The rack includes a simple bit crusher effect and a nifty noise generator for emulating all phone speakers or a bad signal. Also, the built-in EQ takes away a lot of the high and low frequencies in order to emulate the sound of phone speakers.
AfroDJMac has released another freebie pack two months ago, however it wasn’t featured on BPB because I’ve managed to miss it somehow. Anyways, the pack is called EQ8 Filters and it features a set of two effect racks with different filter types and optional saturation, optimized for different mixing purposes.
To download the rack for free, enter “0” as the price in the download section on the page linked below. Of course, you can enter any other price if you’d like to support AfroDJMac for all the work he’s put into these awesome Ableton Live goodies (he has released 106 free racks so far!).
Video Demo
Check out the Telepohone Tones demo video:
Download
Telephone Tones is available for free download via AfroDJMac (3.1 MB download size, contains 1 instrument rack in ALP format for Ableton Live).
