What could be more fun than playing the Justin Bieber Keyboard Guitar by Paper Jamz? We can think of many super fun alternatives, but AfroDJMac's enthusiasm for the new Justin Bieber Super Fun Ableton Pack, a free sample library for Ableton Live, is hard to ignore. Who knows -- you might also get a kick out of plugging in AfroDJMac's sampled sounds from the said instrument into Ableton Live and manipulating the heck out of them until they sound lo-fi, crunchy, and perhaps less Bieber.

The following is AfroDJMac's description of how he sampled the instrument and what the free sample pack includes:

This week I took the Paper Jamz Justin Bieber Keyboard Guitar toy, which boasts a synth engine, drum samples and Bieber vocal snippets, and sampled them into a couple of very usable Ableton Live Racks. This download contains a synth that functions very nicely for ambient tones, a drum rack of some seriously lo-fi drum sounds, a drum rack loaded with some entertaining Justin Bieber samples that can be mangled via the macro knobs, and also a Slice to MIDI preset that I find pretty useful.

Open up this Ableton Live Pack and you get a total of four different racks to toy with. First is a synth created by sampling the Justin Bieber synth. I’ve augmented the original’s capabilities by giving you easy access to the Flanger effect that comes built in, there are controls to play around with Sampler’s morph filter. The knob labeled “Crowd noise” is Sampler’s Shaper control being added to the sound. The Zone Shifter knob alters which of the samples are being used, and doing so alters the overall timbre of the instrument. I’ve thrown on a vocoder effect to add some nice noises, and a delay set to re-pitch mode to enhance those noises. The result is a dirty ambient sounding synth.

I’ve also sampled the drum sounds that come with the toy. There are only three, but I’ve made a drum rack with two of each sound. The last three sounds are the same sounds except they are housed within the Impulse instrument. What’s cool about Impulse is that it allows you to stretch the samples, and that is exactly what the “4-6 Stretch” macro knob does. Aside from some bit crushing and reverb, I also threw on a Resonator effect. The drums themselves lack much bottom end, so this knob allows you add in some sub frequencies.

The next track you’ll find in the Justin Bieber Super Fun Ableton Live Pack is a drum rack containing the Justin Bieber vocal samples. "Hey girl” “Lez go” “OOOoooOOOooOO” they are all here. You can play around with the tuning of them by using the “Transpose” knob, and further alter them using the other macro knobs. If you like this slicing preset, the next track has that template, which you can save to your Ableton Library/Defaults/Slicing Folder so you can use it anytime you use the “Slice to MIDI” function.

AfroDJMac continues, "One thing I have discovered is that Bieber is capable of stirring up the emotions of not just 7-13 year old girls, but also those of Ableton Live producers and electronic musicians and artists everywhere. So, with this release I ask that you open your minds and enjoy this exercise in interesting-sounds-can-come-from-anywhere, and I think you will be pleased with the results."

The Justin Bieber Super Fun Ableton Pack is available as a free download from afrodjmac.com.