ill.Gates Studio Template

March 4, 2011 By 46 Comments

This intense studio template is designed to save you tonnes of time whether sketching out an idea or writing your next hit tune from scratch. It comes with built in drum racks and bass machines and ill.Gates’ famous “128′s” – banks of 128 similar elements stored in Samplers.

This innovative system allows samples to be swapped real-time… as quick as the turn of a knob or the press of a midi key. Why try to force the sounds to get along when you can use 128s? Take advantage of years of programming and workflow philosophy today!

ill.Gate’s Studio Template is in an Ableton format and available for $100.

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PREREQUISITES

The latest version of the *FULL* Ableton Suite is needed for the ill.Gates Studio Template


TEMPLATE UPDATES

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TEMPLATE VIDEO TUTORIALS

Studio Template Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDETSjeyhJo

Studio Template Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFjyQUtq_gA

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  • Anonymous

    FINALLY! lol… MAN did this thing ever take a lot of work. but it’s DONE! :D :D:D

    Enjoy!

    i.G

  • Kristian Siggi Thorson

    Great work Bruv…VERY Inspiring

  • http://twitter.com/GUNNERBASS GUNNER BASS

    i don’t know what’s more disturbing, the unbelievable amount of time that it must have taken to create this template or the fact that i understood every word of these vids, lol! you sir are an ableton legend.

  • Adam Alexander

    this template is legit… after some minor tweaks and almost 3000 samples loaded, i can see producing a track a day as a serious possibility

  • StRiCtLy AlBeRt

    Wow… Really excellent thinking. I have used Ableton since version1 for triggering live percussion and improvising live sound design… I waited patiently for “sampler” and proceeded to misunderstand it. My first sampler was akai s20 with foppy drive so i have love for this concept, though I am Foolish… My Live sets have tons of clips sitting there hogging CPU as Gates described. Not anymore. Gates you are beyond a bro for sharing this. APPRECIATED… StRiCtLy AlBeRt
    P.S would you recommend sampler for ZenDrum?

    • Anonymous

      glad to help man! zen drum is that crazy controller thingie, right? i am actually not that familiar with it. give me more info and i’ll answer your question tho!

      • StRiCtLy AlBeRt

        Its all good man… i spent some time on it and still think Addictive Drums plugin is the best option 4 me.
        Though im curious if you have midi flipped the Maschine controller at all? Seems like a really interesting choice for remapping…Also curious if you would ever consider collaboration with live electronic percussion..? i would be extremely DOWN!

        • http://www.illgates.com illiam Gates

          send me some jams man! i’m all ears :D

  • danksta

    iLLiam waddddiT do its danksta!!!

    im fina copp this in the morning ALL of it, ur sounds the best like i sed. i need it like ASAP whats the fastest i can get it shippd? and u sed u wud make a deaL on all of it??? or did i miss read. Either way enjoi ur 420 in seaTTLe Playa

    • http://www.illgates.com illiam Gates

      sure! send me a personal email and we’ll take it from there. lots of love!

      • yoooooooooooo

        what are you guys talking about?? can i get in on this deal?

        • http://www.illgates.com illiam Gates

          hey albert, thanks for stopping by :D

          glad that the system has helped you.

          i would indeed recommend using samplers in a drum rack with your zen drum. (those things are so sick btw… i’m jealous!)

  • http://www.blackmarketfunk.com PRR

    I have so many unfinished songs because of my slow work flow. I was looking for something like this and it’s truly a great template… extremely well thought out. One thing to note though, I’m still on XP and my 3.2 gigs of RAM just ain’t cutting it. So I’m going through and trying to simplify the template. I was replacing the template sounds with my own sounds and instead of doing 128 kicks I’m putting in 25 kicks. I was wondering if you had any other suggestions?

    • http://www.twitter.com/dayshabass Daysha

      Hey PRR. That’s good to note. Big thanks. While the template is being used on both Mac and Windows 7 systems, not versed on limitations on the XP platform. I’m going to have our guys poke around under the hood and see if there any quick-wins to offer you. You may be able to delete some of the unused effects in the template to alleviate issues with processing power, but be sure you don’t save over the original template. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1524319998 Sky Doherty

    Aloha mai, Dylan!

    …now that I’ve got your super helpful insights on music production through the ill.Methodology workshop, I’m interested in purchasing this Studio Template.  I’m interested in getting a pack of 128′s, more than I am interested in the Studio Template.  Tell me this: What 128′s, if any, do you include in this?
    Mahalo nui!

    Sky
    Audiomath Music, Hilo, Hawaii

    • http://www.twitter.com/dayshabass Daysha

      Hey Sky. Sorry for the delay. Gates is away so stepping in to help answer questions.  The studio template comes with kicks, snares, subs, and percussion all as 128s…. over 1200 one-shots in WAV format.

      • Sombunall

        Hey stupid question – are all of the samples licensed so people who purchase them can use them commercially?

        Thanks!

        • http://www.twitter.com/dayshabass Daysha

          Samples are free and clear. Go for it. :)

  • Fsbsg

    This sucks dont buy it!

    • http://www.twitter.com/dayshabass Daysha

      Perhaps you can elaborate. Releasing updates free as they are developed. Feedback would be helpful.

  • Stickybuds

    This is a really great template… I’ve spent the last hour diving into it and (trying) to figure out all the complexities within… Really excited to figure it all out…

    You are the man Dylan. Thanks for this!

  • august 9

    Hi! First thanks a lot for a new way of thinking and a great set! 

    Don’t know if I’m missing something, but since the send-dials are gone from some of the tracks, how do I use sends on single elements? For instance if I want a snare-hit to be reverbed through a send?

    • http://www.illgates.com illiam Gates

      there are sends INSIDE the drum rack that you can use for that kind of thing :D

      i love ableton so much!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1524319998 Sky Doherty

    Very nice!  I made a great track the day I got this.  It includes tonnes of samples and some unseen sampler presets to quickly make custom beats, basslines, melodies, etc, etc, etc… QUICKLY!
    Stoked… thanks, bro!

  • Matt

    I don’t produce glitch or dub step, however I have found your tutorials to be very informative. Would you recommend this to someone that might not produce the style of music you make?

    • http://www.twitter.com/dayshabass Daysha

      Hi Matt,

      The studio template does come with an example bank that uses some of ill.Gate’s sounds, but the design is more indicative of methodology and not for any set genre or beat structure.

  • Djcosmoore

    When i try to open up the Demo Tune, it says could not create amp and could not create cabinet, Does this mean i have the wrong version of Ableton? 

    • http://illgates.com ill.Gates Support

       Hi. We usually see this error when you are missing Ableton components. Do you have the full Ableton Suite installed?

  • beeeen

    YO ILL GATES….i dont know what tha fuck u got goin on haha but you sir are a genius! i purchased this AWESOME studio template and although it was overwhelming when i first opened it, i have discovered the unbelieveable capabilities of this studio template.  NICE WORK MAN!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Allan-Grant/12806518 Allan Grant

    Great studio template!  Recently bought the complete suite but what really attracted was the 128s.  I’m trying to move them all out into my library, but want to make sure I find them all.  How many are there in total?

    Also how do you keep them organized in your library — pull them out individually or keep them grouped (“ie SNARES”)?

    Thanks.

  • randy r

    Love this template! However… without adding any additional plugins or anything it seems that it crashes ableton without fail every time I try to save or export.. Nothing else running besides the default provided template.. Any ideas? Bums me out because i keep making sweet things with it but all it does it crash on me :( Thank you – Randy

    • randy r

      I can confirm that it is indeed the template crashing ableton – multiple machines and multiple versions / instances of ableton … Please advise :(

  • Mskills27

    I LOVE YOUR STUDIO TEMPLATE!!!!!!!!  HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!

  • Domnasty

    When i try to add my 128′s in the drum cell and change the receive play to ALL. The Drum cell disappear. Your sample are great and everything but i wanted to use my own 128′s in my production. Is there a way to keep my drum cells?

  • Hipdeejay

    Yo man just got back from your LA workshop. Awesome stuff but the only this is I have a LEGIT version of Live 8 not Suite and didn’t realize Sampler was not included.

    I’d really like to use 128′s what should I do? A little bummed out right now…

  • electric jack

    I’m running live suite 8.09 will this still work?

  • http://www.facebook.com/valexandertapia Victor Goshfather Tapia

    I wish there was more of an in-depth Tutorial for this thing.. I’m literally switching from Logic to Ableton and I want to figure this thing out… is there anything that can be done?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000299096862 Mark Zawodny

    Yo Gates, purchased your templates and love your take on audio arrangement. I did run into an issue with the 128′s. Some of the samples do not play correctly. They play an obnoxious glitch sound instead of playing the full sample. When I check the actual sample in the file browser it plays fine. I have this problem with about 25% of the samples in the 128′s. How do I get these to play normally like the other samples in the rack?

    • http://www.illgates.com illiam Gates

      hm… you’re the first with this problem. i recommend hitting help@illgates.com for a re:up maybe something went wonky with the DL?

  • 7TEN

    Best investment I’ve ever made (besides ableton)!  Really appreciate you sharing this masterful template you created.  

  • Vader1m

    so fucking expensive.
    is there someone here who have ever read the fucking ableton’s manual???????
    he isn’t a magican lord, he just know the function of ableton (and have a nice hat lol )
    100$ for this……….. it’s a joke 

  • Lynchaudio

    Awesome job man. Thanks for the hard work. There is probably an obvious answer to this, but why the preference of distributing drum sounds using key distribution rather than the chain selector? Thanks again.  

  • Besinb09

    I am super new to production but have mad passion for music, havnt gotten too tech into sound design and was wondering where I could get some legit patches to start getting some ideas out, just some sick patches to get started ya dig, any help on this subject would be much appreciated, THANKS!!!