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Dub Siren

Four dub sirens with the echo built in.

A Max for Live instrument for firing, shaping and throwing classic sound-system sirens, with a tape echo and spring reverb ready to ride.

Four pads, seven shapes, and Throw: hold it to send the siren into the echo for a moment, then let go and let it ring out while the siren stays dry.

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Max for Live instrument. Needs Ableton Live with Max for Live: Live Suite, or Live Standard with the Max for Live add-on.

M4L · 002Dub Siren iconDUB SIREN
Dub Siren in its dark theme: four fire pads (Sweep, Step, Wail and Laser), the Siren page settings, and Echo Live with Ride, Bend, Throw and Send
Pad A firing with Throw held, dark theme. Rendered from the device.
SEVEN SHAPES

Each with its own colour

  • Pad set to SweepSweep
  • Pad set to StepStep
  • Pad set to WailWail
  • Pad set to RiseRise
  • Pad set to AlarmAlarm
  • Pad set to LaserLaser
  • Pad set to RandomRandom
HOW IT WORKS

Three moves

  1. 01

    Fire

    Hold a pad to play its siren, or play it from a MIDI keyboard or Push. Shift-click to latch a pad on.

  2. 02

    Shape

    Give each of the four pads its own shape, pitch and rate. Seven shapes, from the classic Sweep to Laser and Random.

  3. 03

    Throw

    Hold Throw to send the siren into the echo, then let it ring out. Ride the feedback and bend the echo time like tape.

Close-up of the four fire pads, each showing its shape, pitch and rate
Four pads, four sirens. Drag the pitch and rate numbers right on the pads.
Close-up of Echo Live: Ride and Bend dials, Throw button, Send and the output meter
Echo Live: Throw, Send, Ride and Bend, ready to perform.
FEATURES

What it does

Four pads, four sirens
Each pad has its own shape, pitch and rate for call-and-response.
Seven shapes
Sweep, Step, Wail, Rise, Alarm, Laser and Random. Rate can lock to the song tempo.
Tone
Morph from sine through the classic siren tone to saw and pulse, with a resonant filter, filter envelope and drive.
Release modes
Fade, Dive (the pitch falls as it fades) or Hold.
Tape echo
Synced or free time, wow and flutter, Stereo, Ping-Pong, Walk and Bounce modes, and feedback up to 120% that howls but never runs away.
Spring reverb
On the siren and its echoes.
Stop All
One button cuts the siren and every echo tail at once, even a feedback howl. MIDI-map it or use it from Push.
MIDI and Push
Play pitches from a keyboard, or fire the four pads from drum pads. Every control is a Live parameter with Push banks.
Light and Dark themes
Switch at the bottom left of the device.
AT A GLANCE

Every part, labelled

Dub Siren at a glance: numbered callouts for the fire pads, Stop All, pages, pad settings, Ride and Bend, volume and meter, theme, pitch and rate on the pad, and Throw and Send
From the Dub Siren guide.
INSTALL

Up and running

  1. Unzip the download.
  2. Copy the whole Dub Siren folder into your Ableton User Library. On Windows that's Documents\Ableton\User Library; on a Mac, Music/Ableton/User Library.
  3. In Live's browser, open User Library → Dub Siren and drag the device onto a MIDI track.

Always load it from your User Library, not straight from Downloads. Live only copies the .amxd, and the device needs the other files in its folder.

Needs Ableton Live with Max for Live: Live Suite, or Live Standard with the Max for Live add-on.

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