CRUNCH AND PUNCH - USING THE DRUM BUSS IN ABLETON LIVE

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. It includes distortion, compression, equalisation and transient shaping. It also has a very cool Boom control, for what Ableton calls ‘low-frequency enhancement’. 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.

WHO GETS IT?

Drum 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 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. Also, it’s controlled more immediately on Push, as a single device with a simple interface. The example