Saturday, December 22, 2012

Coming soon on patchpool: Soundset Cosmic for Padshop Pro







Cosmic for Padshop Pro focusses on rich cinematic pads, drones, soundscapes and cosmic sound effects mainly derived from electronic sources like Hardware and Software synths and more experimental audio applications like Metasynth and CosmosÆ’, a fascinating program which I discovered recently. These sounds will be very usable for genres like Ambient - New Age - Soundtrack and Electronica.

There will be about 80 patches in this set including roundabout 1.5 Gigabyte of samples produced in 48 Khz / 24 Bit. Release is scheduled for the second half of January 2013.

The final price will be € 28 Euros, pre-order Cosmic for € 22.40 now and save 20%.

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Soundset Framedrum for Alchemy released on patchpool







Framedrum for Alchemy contains multisampled framedrum instruments with up to 4 velocity layers and 8 variations per sample (Round Robin). Played with hands and fingers in the centre and on the rim of the drum, rubbing the skin, playing the drum with mallets and sticks and treating it with various objects and materials like rubber balls, tibetian soundbowl, chopsticks, rice and peanuts (in their shell). I played and sampled a Meinl 22" Tar African Brown Framedrum with Goat Skin Head to produce the samples for this set.

This library also contains many patches made from processed Framedrum sounds, treated with granulators, stretching devices, saturators, distortion units, spectral tools, pitch shifters, convolution reverbs and more exotic FX Plug-Ins resulting in a large variety of beautiful and dramatic soundscapes and textures, dark and massive drones, percussive synths, mysterious noises, rich pads, edgy synth sounds and massive impacts.

As nothing beats a real drumming performance there is also a collection of loops in various time signatures, all synced to host tempo by using Alchemy's granular mode and temposynced MSEGs and LFOs.

This set compiles 63 patches / 1 variation with 8 Snapshots each in the Remix Pad, the sample folder contains 1.61 Gigabyte of original samples, 35 MB of resynthed files are included. 35 sfz-files are also included so that you can use the samples and sfzs in other samplers as well.

All Framedrum samples were recorded with 3 Neumann microphones in L-C-R
in 48 Khz/24 Bit - U87 center mic - a stereo set of KM 184 for L-R.

As in all my soundsets for Alchemy I make extensive use of Alchemy's complex modulation possibilities and Filters, often intermodulatin LFOs/MSEGs/Sequencers with each other and assigning numerous parameters to a single Controller. This enables the user to deeply interact with the sounds and shape it according to his needs and preferences. Also the patches can serve as a starting point for the user's own creations when loading new samples into them and then using the pre-assigned Controllers and Snapshots in the Remix Pad.

You can view/download the PDF for this library with more details, the licence agreement, some pics and the patchlist, including playing tips and descriptions for each patch here.


  • Delivery: Download
  • Library size in total: 1.64 GB
  • Download size (RAR archive in 2 parts): 1.03 GB
  • Price (paypal): 33 €


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

All demos were produced entirely with Alchemy using only patches from Framedrum for Alchemy, no post-processing was applied apart from a Limiter on the Master Outputs.



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