Re:Ableton Live 13
by nonethewiser on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:10PM
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If you can point me to somewhere that you can just buy 808/909 sounds to distribute in a DAW please let me know, but everything I've seen is basciallyjust limited to making music. As far as I know Ableton, etc. have (or work with) actual sound designers which either create samples from the actual hardware or they re-create them digitally. Which is what LLM's try to do but fail at.
To be clear, I think sounds synthesized by LLMs and public domain stuff goes a very long way. But when you want to create something very specific you're going to run into a wall. Same for 3d models, video, etc.
Sound design is laborious. My understanding (perhaps wrong) is the TR808/909 sounds are high-quality audio samples that the DAW maker licenses.
I'm slowly picking apart the 808/909 sounds to attempt to get close, but if I'm being honest, I don't love those sounds as the basis for everything I'm doing! My way of saying "my versions that don't sound right"
So - I spend more time on what I create from scratch!