Switch from Peak to RMS mode, and it should help that a lot. Otherwise, finding something with the old Live 8 Compressor can do it.

Well, in the first track the FX just sounds like high passed white noise - you can either use a synth or a sample of white noise, then high pass it and either sweep a low pass filter down or fade the volume out and voila.

For the vocal samples, they probably used a microphone and recorded it themselves.

Regarding sampling, we at The Producer's Forum don't condone using copyrighted material without express written permission of the copyright holder BUT I can say that Audio Hijack is my go-to for capturing audio from my computer that might not be easily downloadable.

A lot of these FX can be made by just high pass filtering or low pass filtering some sort of noise (or maybe something like a triangle/distorted sine wave if it sounds tonal) with an LFO on the cutoff. You can use LFOtool, you can use the filter's built-in LFO if it has it, you can draw it in manually... there are a thousand ways to get to the answer you're looking for. If you don't want to design it yourself, sign up for Splice and do a lot of digging!

Don't take this the wrong way, but did you get your copy legitimately? If you pirated it, there's a good chance it's just not gonna work. Consider saving up and buying a version of Lite!

If you got your copy legit, then we'll need much more information than "You've tried everything". What OS are you using? What version of Ableton Live are you using? What troubleshooting steps have you tried?

It's apparently a plugin they designed themselves. this is from the youtube comments of that video:

It's a plugin I made for internal/testing purposes. I guess I could make it public, but it wouldn't come with any support or anything, and I can't guarantee that it will be stable, although I've never had issues with it and I use it every day. I don't remember if I ever made anything but a vst version of it.

As a general rule, updating your software or operating system or anything at all tends to happen on as-needed basis or at the very least "wait a few patches". You rarely - if ever - want to update right after a huge new version has been released.

The reasoning tends to go like this: You never know what's gonna stop working, because you never know who is on board with all the new updates. Some developers, like Native Instruments, will be able to verify that all their software is compatible (though some hardware will no longer work if you update, because they no longer provide patches). Others, like Universal Audio, cannot update their hardware and software so quickly and advised against updating.

I updated, and while I enjoy Sierra, I had a hassle getting my system up and running. I needed to go into the recovery mode command line access and disable certain features to be able to correctly reinstall the UA drivers in Sierra, and a number of my (thankfully freeware) plugins from Plugin Alliance and Izotope stopped working. I would suggest waiting if you're really interested in updating until all your third party plugin providers have verified they're ready. If you have a lot of outboard gear, do not update!!! It's probably not worth it.

Coachella was really awesome and my first EDC (2014) was revolutionary in terms of how I experienced music festivals. Seeing Tyler the Creator live was absolutely insane, seeing The Bloody Beetroots live was incredible, getting to see Worlds when Porter came to SF with it was also a huge highlight.

There's tons of others, but those three have always stuck out in my mind.

I was referring to the other people posting unhelpful answers, not you. don't worry!

And I personally use iTunes as my music managing software. It can be a bit risky, but I prefer it over organizing my songs within my DJ software. I use Traktor and rekordbox, so I focus on building smart playlists inside iTunes based on key and genre/style as well as whatever other tags I can think of, then I either import songs one by one into rekordbox or just play off the smart playlists through Traktor.