Sunday, September 28, 2014

Comin soon: Sonic Tabulator for Serum




Last week I demoed the new Serum synth by Xfer Records and bought it after ten minutes of testing. Very spontaneously I decided to create a soundset for it:

Sonic Tabulator for Serum contains 100 patches covering a wide range of atmospheric sounds, warm pads, huge drones, tinkling bells, snappy plucks, otherworldly noises and animated sequences. Cold digitalness and darker soundworlds unite with warm, emotionally appealing sonic goodness.

All waveforms in this set are new and fresh, often created by using samples from acoustic instruments from the gigantic pool of patchpool samples as sound sources for the generation of wavetables. Each patch has the 4 Macros and the Modwheel assigned, many also use Aftertouch.

Specs:
  • 100 patches
  • ETA: First half of November (probably end of October depending on the flow of things)
  • Delivery: Download
  • Price on release: € 28 EUR

You can pre-order Sonic Tabulator for € 22 EUR on the product page and save 20+ %.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Coming soon: Ambient Strings for MachFive




Ambient Strings for MachFive 3 focusses on atmospheric sounds and texures derived from string instruments like cello, violin (electric and acoustic), electric and acoustic guitars, psaltery (ebowed and plucked) and oud. The patches will combine textural sounds, multisampled acoustic instruments and more exotic instrument articulations with electronic texures all derived from the dry instrument samples to create wonderful, ethereal, dark and mysterious sound worlds. Temposynced instrument sequences and morphable solistic phrases will also be included in this library.

Approximately 10 - 15 patches patches will have scripted interfaces for extended sound manipulation, all non-scripted patches have the Modwheel and the 8 Macros assigned in the info tab, many also use Aftertouch. Many patches will integrate the wealth of MachFive's sound generators and combine them with granular and normal sampling

Scripting by Iain Morland.

All acoustic instrument-samples in this library are recorded in a dry studio environment with top notch Neumann microphones in L-C-R at 48 Khz/24 Bit. All microphone signals are phase-aligned which enhances the stereo field and the transparency of the recorded samples.

Specifications and content:
  • Approximately 3 GB of samples (wavs/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit)
  • Approximately 70 patches, combining all synthesis methods available in MachFive.
  • ETA: early November
  • Price on release: € 60 EUR
Please note: 
this library requires the full version of MachFive 3 (version 3.2 and higher), it will not work with the UVI workstation.

Pre-order Ambient Strings for € 48 on the product page now.





Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Best Of Iris Subscription Vol. 2 released

Today I released the second excerpt from my Iris subscription:





























Best Of Iris Subscription Vol. 1 - Soundscapes, Drones & Pads

154 patches - 3.79 GB of samples.

This second library excerpt comprises a wealth of ambient and cosmic soundscapes, huge and eerie drones, expressive synths sounds, surreal atmospheres derived from field and studio recordings, beautiful pads and some strange ambiences from a darker sonic universe.

Check it out in the “Buy Excerpt“-tab on the Iris Subscription page.

Friday, September 5, 2014

Diversity 2 for Diversion released on patchpool


This soundset contains 103 patches including 3 variations for the unique Diversion Synth by Dmitry Sches. As with the update version 1.3 Diversion was enabled to play samples, both in normal sampling- and granular mode, this soundset contains 1.35 Gigabytes of samples, half of which were created especially for this soundset, the other half borrowed from other patchpool libraries. 
Organic and electronic textures and soundscapes, vocal textures, field recordings and acoustic instruments like woodwinds, brass, cello, guitars and chromatic/achromatic percussion instruments meet digital oscillators, by intermodulating these sources via ring modulation and FM synthesis new sounds are born, which can be diverse to the extreme. Ethereal textures and angelic whispers meet dark and disconcerting drones, vivid sequences meet minimalistic rhythms, warm pads clash with cold metallic sounds, pristine glass textures are absorbed by surreal and futuristic soundscapes, expressive leads are counterpointed with noises from another sound dimension. 
Besides the sample content dozens of new single-cycle waveforms were created in- and outside of Diversion to expand the sonic palette of this synth, complex modulation routings were used to create animated and expressive sounds usable for a wide variety of musical styles.
All patches have the x/y-pad assigned, many also use Aftertouch. This enables the Diversionist to interact with the sounds and shape them expressively.
All samples are embedded in the presets, so there is no need to install a seperate sample folder. As in some patches a sample is used twice (e.g. by layering sampling and granular modes), the installed library size (1.96 GB) is larger than the actual size of the sample content (1.35 GB). If you want to use the samples outside Diversion (please respect the licence agreement when doig so) or save them to your Diversion library, just save the wavs in the sample editor.
All sounds have the x/y-Mastermorph pad assigned for deep interaction with the sounds, many also use Aftertouch for even more expressive playabilty.
Specs:
  • 103 patches including 3 variations
  • 1.35 GB of samples, 126 wavs/48 Khz/24 Bit/stereo - 1.96 GB installed
  • requires a minimum 2 GB of free disk space on the system drive

Patch categories:

  • Bells & Plucks (5 + 2 variations)
  • Synths & Basses (4)
  • Leads (3)
  • Pads (9)
  • Soundscapes & Drones (36)
  • Sequencer / Arps (10 + 1 variation)
  • Brass & Woodwinds (6)
  • Strings & Guitars (12)
  • Percussion (5)
  • Sound FX (10)
You can view/download the PDF for Diversity 2 with more details, the licence agreement and the patch list including detailed descriptions for each patch here.



All videos for this set are here.