Sexy Funk Guitar with Ableton’s Tension

By Steven Campbell | 20 October 2011 | 9 Comments

Warning: free rack inside!

I play in an electronic space-funk group called Spaceman Superstars. Yes, it’s as ridiculous as it sounds. We’re working on some material to start playing some more shows — we’re basically a brand new band. For our most recent song, He’s Invisible, we decided we needed a funk guitar. Here’s what the chorus sounded like without the funk guitar:

And now, with the guitar:

Here’s the guitar loop itself:

This is actually the first time I’ve ever played with Tension seriously — before I had just used the presets to add ethnic string flavor into my tracks. I never thought sounds like this “sexy funk guitar” patch were even possible in Live!

I still don’t fully understand Tension; I mostly just fiddle around with the knobs until I get something out of it. But I do understand the aim of Tension — expression. It accomplishes this by making tiny details of the instrument responsive to velocity or key, and by making every part of the sound editable. You don’t get this kind of control in Operator or Analog.  It’s a wonderful device, I intend on cracking its secrets soon enough.

Anyway! Here’s the patch — Sexy Funk Guitar. feel free to use it in your own projects. Send us links (or comment on the post) if you use our instruments, we love to hear our stuff out there in the wild!

Download the Sexy Funk Guitar Tension Patch

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9 comments on “Sexy Funk Guitar with Ableton’s Tension”

1. alexandre on 20 October 2011 at 12:21 said:

   really nice stuff

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2. Ayso on 21 October 2011 at 01:30 said:

   nice! ive never done anything with tension yet so im lookin forward to reverse engineering this patch lol

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3. John Tague on 21 October 2011 at 09:38 said:

   Very cool.

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4. Harald Jacobsen on 21 October 2011 at 10:33 said:

   Gee, thanks a lot dude, and nice sounding tune :)

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5. Chris Brass on 21 October 2011 at 15:21 said:

   Great stuff, I love it !! Ableton is a must for composers as DJs !!!
   Please discover my new track composed with Ableton Live software : http://soundcloud.com/chrisbrass/catching-the-groove
   Chris

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6. surfmuse on 22 October 2011 at 16:21 said:

   Thanks! Love this and stuff like it.

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7. Lexx on 23 October 2011 at 06:55 said:

   Да.Понравилось. Приятный мотив!

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8. tony on 15 July 2012 at 15:22 said:

   wow, can imagine why this isnt a preset with the software. Sounds incredible!!

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9. eldebarge on 16 July 2012 at 20:47 said:

   is there anyway to get this to work without ableton amp?

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