Saturday, October 29, 2011

What's coming next on patchpool?

Besides numerous Kontakt patches which have to be finished (I'm looking for a new Kontakt scripter btw) I'll start working on a new Bank for Zebra. Also I will make several smaller Banks for Alchemy, not these huge sets like my first 2 Alchemistry Banks which take months to produce and require bigger financial investments for studio musicians and buying/hiring instruments. No, things on a smaller scale, less expensive too - maybe 40 patches per Bank (with 8 variations each) focussed on special materials and instruments. I think the first one will be about Ceramics, ceramic materials of all sorts samples and transformed into playable instruments, Soundscapes, sequences, percussive instruments, abstract textures...I'll just go into a second hand shop (there are hundreds of them here in Berlin) and buy all good sounding ceramics I can find, if they sound less interesting, I'll buy them anyway and smash them to get some interesting percussive sounds.
More info soon...

Simon

Friday, October 21, 2011

New Kontakt patch: Metal Thunder

Metal Thunder
Kontakt 4 - 30,4 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki/Instrument - Price: 4 €
10 samples (wav) - 1 Impulse Response (wav)


10 keyswitchable samples produced with a metal thunder sheet I found hanging in a sculpture park in Dresden/Germany.

Keyswitches/Mapping
Each sample has it's dedicated Group, switch between the Groups with the keyswitches located from C0-A0. The samples are mapped from C1-G8.

Controls
There is a modified Factory Midi script with 7 control knobs giving you control for Saturation, Lowpass Filter Cutoff, Low EQ, High EQ, Stereo width (if that knob is turned all the way to the left the samples play in mono), Convolution wet amount and StereoDelay wet amount. Pressing the sustain pedal will reverse each sample.
The Impulse Response active in the Convolution Reverb is one of the thunder sheets, so the Reverb stays inside the family sort of.
You can easily automate the knobs in your DAW, they are pre-assigned and ready to roll.

A Limiter is active at the end of the effect chain to avoid clipping when using high amounts of Saturation/Convolution/EQ, but as Kontakt's Limiter is no the best on this planet I would advise you to bypass it and use a good external one.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Sound Bank TripleX for ElectraX released on patchpool


Sound Bank TripleX for ElectraX:
This Bank contains 102 patches with 30 variations for the Synthesizer ElectraX by Tone2.
There are 6 sound categories with Pads&Synths, Sequences, Soundscapes, Sci-Fi Textures, Instruments and Percussion (chromatic and achromatic) suitable for a wide range of musical styles. Many sounds are sample based utilizing samples especially produced for this Bank, also making use of a split-stereo workaround so that there are true stereo samples involved. You'll find sampled Saxophones, Flutes, Kalimba, electronic and vocal textures and lots more, often modulating VA Oscillators with those samples via FM, a unique ElectraX feature yielding very interesting results. Quite a few resynthed waveforms are incorporated as well expanding the sonic palette even more. The unique Fractal Oscillators and Filters in ElectraX are used extensively creating dense and fascinating electronic textures. Up to 4 layers per patch make many of these patches sound TripleX, quite a few patches were programmed in split mode, distributing different sounds over the entire keyboard range. All patches have the Modwheel assigned and often use Aftertouch for additional sound sculpturing so it is advisable to use a keyboard with 88 keys and Aftertouch to make the best out of this Bank.
The download folder includes the original sample content as well, mainly split stereo and mono samples so that you will be able to use these in other samplers or inside your DAW.
You can read/download the pdf-file with further instructions, more details, the licence agreement and a patchlist here.
Library Size: 162.8 MB (patches) - 195 MB (extra samples)
Download size: 283.5 MB

Price: 29 €

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Friday, October 14, 2011

New Kontakt patch: Space Sines

Space Sines
Kontakt 4 - 53,8 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 2 nkis - Price: 5.50 €
13 samples compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format - 2 Impulse Responses (wav)


Patch Space Sines
This patch uses 10 electronic textures produced with a modified Reaktor Ensemble (created by Rick Scott) and various FX Plug-Ins.

Keyswitches and Mapping:
Select the 10 different samples using the keyswitches located from C0-A#0, keyswitch A#0 will play all 10 samples simultaneously. The sample currently selected will be displayed in the GUI, all samples are mapped from C1-B7. The QHI switch let's you select between 3 interpolation modes, HQI mode "Perfect" can be very CPU intensive when extremely transposing the samples.

Controls:
There is an Envelope section with Attack and Release time control.
Pulse-shaped pitch modulation can be added with controls for Speed and Depth and a slider for the Pulsewidth of the pulse wave. You can also modulate the Pulsewidth with a second LFO on the right of the GUI, conrols for Speed and Depth are availble here as well.

FX Section
There is bypassable Stereo Delay with 4 control knpbs for Time, Dampoing, Feedback and Wet amount and you willl find a bypassable Convolution Reverb using 2 strange Impulse Responses which you can select by clicking into the IR Tab. The Convolution Engine has full control over Predelay, IR Size, High- and Lowpass, Wet amount and a Reverse switch.




Patch Space Sine Clouds Split
This patch uses 3 more dense electronic textures which are aplit across the keyboard. You'll find 2 Layers, Layer on running in Sampler mode and Layer 2 in Time Machine 2 mode.
Mapping:
Each sample plays over 2 octaves starting at C0.

Controls:
You can change the sample start points with the Modwheel or the slider on the left of the GUI.
Each Layer has a Volume knob and two knobs for Attack and Release. Layer 2 also has a control for Sample Speed . There are two bypassable Filters for each Layer, Lowpass and Highpass with controls for Cutoff and Emphasis/Resonance. You can apply LFO-modulation to each Filter seperately selecting the wave of the LFO and using two knobs for Speed and Modulation Depth.

FX Section:
There is a bypassable Stereo Delay with 4 controls for Time, Damping, Feedback and Wet amount.

Scripting by Mario KruĊĦelj (a.k.a. EvilDragon)

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Golden Octobre on patchpool

During Octobre many patchpool items will be available at a discount of 25%.



Sound and Preset Banks

u-he

Sound Bank Zebra2 1st Encounter - 14.95 € - Discount price: 11.21 €

MFM2 Beat Twista - 9.95 € - Discount price: 7.46 €

Edgy Scapes for Filterscape - 9.95 € - Discount price: 7.46 €

u-he bundle (all 3 Banks for u-he Plug-Ins) - 24.95 € - Discount price: 18.71 €


iZotope

Glitchmania for Stutter Edit - 15.95 € - Discount price: 11.96 €


Reaktor

Eternity for Metaphysical Function - 19.95 € - Discount price: 14.96 €

Spectral Territory for Razor - 15.95 € - Discount price: 11.96 €

Evil Things for Reichatron - 18.95 € - Discount price: 14.21 €

Reaktor bundle (all 3 Banks for Reaktor) - 44 € - Discount price: 33 €


Absynth

Sound Bank Best of absynthsounds.com Vol. 1 - 15.95 € - Discount price: 11.96 €


Kontakt

10 Patch Bundle

Choose 10 items from the various categories - 24.95 € - Discount price: 18.71 €


SoundPacks and single-wavs

Select 4 SoundPacks from the various categories for 21 €

Select 10 single-wavs for 15 €

Here is the Golden Octobre overview page