Friday, April 22, 2011

Trip to Russia Part 2

For the next 3 weeks I'll be travelling Russia making sound recordings for a documentary film. So processing your orders on patchpool can take a bit longer than usual.

Over and out
Simon

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Meta Voices - Patch Collection for Kontakt 4

I just uploaded this patch collection:

Meta Voices
5 samples - 3 patches - 73,8 MB unzipped - 48 Khz/24 Bit - Price: 6,50 €
Samples are compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format - 2 Impulse Responses (wav)

This collection contains 3 patches made with processed female voices:
Evolution Vox
3 layered samples (looped), female singing straight notes processed in Melodyne and GRM Evolution, mapped from C0-C6. Each sample has it's own Group with modulated Volume and Band Reject Filter at different speeds so the patch is constantly moprhing. The Modwheel controls the Cutoff of the Lopwpass Filter. An Impulse Response made with the good old EMT 245 is active in the Convolution engine.

Female Cloudvoice
A strange and mysterious vocal Soundscape, 2:32 long, made from a Solo Soprano voice first totally mangled in crusherX and then processed with GRM Evolution, Bandpass and ValhallaRoom. Group 1 triggered by Keyswith A0 plays back that samplle in Sampler mode, control the sample start position with the Modwheel. Group 2 triggered by Keyswitch B0 plays in Time Machine 2 mode, control the sample speed with Midi Controller 21 and the sample start position with the Modwheel. Mapped from C0-C8. A long IR made with Aether Reverb is active in the Convolution engine.

Female Overtones
Female overtone singing processed in Metasynth resulting in a long synthetic, voicelike texture, 2 min long. Mapped from C0-C7. The sample is looped, control the sample start position with the Modwheel. A long IR made with Aether Reverb is active in the Convolution engine.

The demo was produced using 3 instances of Kontakt, each one playing a single patch inside Logic, no post-processing was applied.

Get it here

Monday, April 11, 2011

What's next on patchpool?

So what's next on patchpool? During this week I'll release my Razor Bank Spectral Territory.
After another 3-week-trip to Russia beginning friday next week which will take me through +10 russian cities and a few other countries together with a documentary-film-crew and the orchestra of the russian Marinsky-theatre, I will start working on a new Alchemy Bank in May. Actually I made the first patch for it today. It'll take longer than Alchemistry did, I'll hire some singers (male and female), a guitar player maybe (electric), a violinist, and make an extra-huge-128-patch-Bank, probably named Alchemistry 2. Pre-order for that Bank will start in May or so, maybe I'll even start this one with a Group Buy :help:
Second half of the year definitely another Zebra Bank and as a longer-term-project a Bank for Metasynth with all kinds of supporting files for this fantastic Instrument. All of this will be great fun and a lot of work indeed.
Thank's for reading
Simon

Thursday, April 7, 2011

New subscription scheme for Alchemy patches on patchpool

I just changed the scheme for the single Alchemy patches available on patchpool. It now runs on an unlimited subscription scheme, meaning that buying the subscription for currently 10 Euros will give you access to all current and future patches.
All former donators will automatically become subscribers without paying any additional fees.