new Kontakt patch Tam Scapes

Tam Scapes
Kontakt 4 - 91 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki - Price: 5.50 €
3 samples compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format

This patch uses 3 long soundscapes produced by processing and mixing various Tam Tam (Gong) samples from my soundset Alchemistry Metallurgy. Treated with an array of apps and effects these 3 scapes are split across the keyboard and 3 playing modes are selectable with keyswitches.

Mapping
Soundscape Moaning Dungeon Scape (untuned)
root note C1 - mapped from C0 - B1
Soundscape Moaning Tam Tam processed 01 (tuned)
root note A#2 - mapped from C2 - C4
Soundscape Mist and Rain (tuned)
root note F5 - mapped from C4 - C7

Keyswitches
Keyswitch A-1 (default) - triggers the samples in normal sampler mode, the Modwheel controls the sample start point (50%).
Keyswitch A#-1 - triggers the samples in Time Machine 2 mode, the Modwheel controls the sample start point. Time Machine is set to Legato so playing overlapping notes will mot retrigger the sample from the beginning.
Keyswitch B-1 - triggers the samples in Tone Machine mode, the Modwheel controls the sample start point, a slow LFO modulates the formant shifting. Tone Machine is set to Legato so playing overlapping notes will mot retrigger the sample from the beginning.

Midi Script
A modified Midi Controller script from the factory Library gives you control over:
Knob 1 - Release time (all samples)
Knob 2 - Lowpass Cutoff Frequency (all samples)
Knob 3 - Sample speed of Group 2 (Time Machine 2 mode)
Knob 4 - Sample speed of Group 3 (Tone Machine)
Knob 5 - Smoothness of the Tone Machine sound, turning the knob to the very left adds more "edge"
Knob 6 - Amount of stereo delay

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Soundset ChromaZone for Chromaphone released on patchpool

This soundset contains 100 original patches and 22 variations for Chromaphone by AAS. I focussed on emulations of known and und unknown instruments like mallets, bells, chimes, plucked strings, keyboards, hybrid strangers and percussive sounds as well as experimental patches, lush pads, dark drones, beautiful textures, funky synths and funny noises.
As soon as AAS updates Chromaphone to add Pitchbend, Microtuning, Aftertouch and whatever else I will add these controls to the patches and all customers will receive a free update of ChromaZone.

Combining materials like metal, skin and wood with elements like air and articulations like beating, plucking and bowing can create physically modelled instruments that are hard to describe with words. Although they might sound familiar due totheir "organic" nature, words sometimes fail to describe what they "really are" and how they actually sound. Quite a few of these hybrid strangers are included in ChromaZone.
Chromaphone is advertised as a percussion synthesizer which in my opinion only covers a smaller aspect of it's virtues. Physical modeling has been rivaling with conventional sampling for years in terms of emulating "realism". The creation of sonic "surrealism" based on organic sounding materials is a far more powerful aspect of this technology and Chromaphone in particular.

You can view/download the PDF for ChromaZone with more details, the licence agreement and the patch list including playing tips and descriptions for each patch here.

Price: 18 €
Delivery: Email

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Soundset Alchemistry Metallurgy released on patchpool

The soundset Alchemistry Metallurgy for Alchemy is the first in a series focussing on specific materials and single instruments. The set contains 57 patches with 8 variations each in the Remix Pad and focusses on metallic sounds derived from real instruments, metal objects and industrial field recordings. This patch collection keeps the balance between real sounding metal instruments, otherworldly textures and wondrous soundscapes using also some processed electronic derivates of the sampled materials.
All sounds are sample-based, some patches use the resynthesis features in Alchemy.
You will find many patches and snapshots which sound wam, delicate and beautiful, characteristics one may not normally associate with metallic sounds.

Alchemistry Metallurgy Specs:

1.81 GB of original samples - source material:

Instruments:
China Cymbal bowed, scraped and beaten - multisampled and Round Robin

Glockenspiel multisampled
23 semitones (C4-A#5), 4x RR, 2 velocity layers (179 samples/386,7 MB)

2 microtonal handheld Bell Trees 8x Round Robin, 2 articulations, +textures
2 Thai Gongs multisampled + 8x Round Robin, 4 velocity layers, +texures
Thai Ching Bells - 6x Round Robin, 3 velocity layers
Tam Tam 45 cm - beaten (7xRound Robin/4 velocities), scraped and rubbed

Various multisampled metal objects:
Caviar Cans, Metal Bowl, Coins, Dumbbell plate, Small Thunder Sheet
Metal Plate (dinner tray), Anvil

Industrial metal sounds recorded in factories

All samples recorded with 3 Neumann microphones in L-C-R - 48 Khz/24 Bit
U87 center mic - a stereo set of KM 184 for L-R
The industrial field recordings were done with 2 shotgun mics - Sennheiser MK 70

57 patches with 8 variations each

You can view/download the PDF for Metallurgy with more details, the licence agreement, some pics and the patch list including playing tips and description for each patch here.

Delivery: Download
Library size in total: 1.82 GB
Download size (RAR archive in 2 parts): 1.04 GB

NOTE: This Sound Bank requires the full version of Alchemy.
It does not work with the Alchemy player version.

Price: 25 €

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