Sunday, December 17, 2017

Interview on Pro Audio Files Blog


An interview with Philip Mantione on the topic of my musical background and my patchpool endeavours in particular was published on Pro Audio Files.

Monday, November 27, 2017

Toolbox for Soundtoys FX Rack released on patchpool



Toolbox for Soundtoys FX Rack contains a versatile collection of 107 presets (including some variations) for a wide variety of styles. From dreamy ambient spaces to edgy beat processing to intricate delay lines and groovy pad gaters, from endlessly sustained ambiences and creamy filter-scapes to total sonic mayhem, from deep flangers and modulated tapestry to outstanding instrumental spaces, just pick a preset from your toolbox and start making music.
All presets are programmed 100% wet for inserting the effect rack on a bus.

You can view/download the PDF for this set including the licence agreement, technical info and a patchlist here.

Specs:
  • 107 patches including some variations.
  • Programmed 100% wet for bus insert.
  • Delivery: E-Mail.
  • Price: € 22 EUR.

Patch categories:
  • Atmospheres (39).
  • Drum FX (13).
  • Filter Scapes (10).
  • Rhythmical (30).
  • Spaces (15).

Please note: Soundtoys version 5.2 has to be installed in order to use the presets from this expansion.


All demos were produced using only effects provided by the patches from Toolbox, all tracks start dry.


Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Patchpool Black Friday Sale



Until Tuesday November 27th, selected patchpool items will be discounted by up to 30% for single items and 20% for bundles. Prices will go back to normal sometime after Cyber Monday (November 27th).

Check out this KVR thread to keep up to date with the available discounts items, the list will be updated daily until it has been completed by Black Friday.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Coming soon: Toolbox for Soundtoys FX Rack

https://www.patchpool.net/soundtoys_fx.html


Toolbox for Soundtoys FX Rack contains a versatile collection of presets for a wide variety of styles. From dreamy ambient spaces to edgy beat processing to intricate delay lines and groovy pad gaters, from endlessly sustained ambiences and creamy filter-scapes to total sonic mayhem, from deep flangers and modulated tapestry to outstanding instrumental spaces, just pick a preset from your toolbox and start making music.

Specs:
  • *Approximately 100 patches.
    *Programmed 100% wet for bus insert.
    *Delivery: E-Mail.
    *ETA: End of November.
    *Price on release: € 20 EUR.
    *Pre-order price: € 16 EUR.
Product page.

Please note: Soundtoys version 5.2 will be needed in order to use the presets from this expansion.




Falcon Singles - Water Bells released on patchpool

https://www.patchpool.net/falcon_singles_mallets.html

Falcon Singles - Water Bells contains multi-sampled water bell samples borrowed from my sound library Resurrection for Alchemy 2, various different sized Nepalese bells dipped into a bathtub after the initial accent, sampled with up to 8x round robin. A singing bowl also dipped into the water after hitting it with a wooden beater, various processed waterbell textures and ambient soundscapes derived from those bell samples, two wavetable patches using wavetables extracted from the samples and a few original soundscape samples produced for this library.

Up to 25+ Macros and switches are assigned in each patch, most presets make use of the modulation wheel, many patches also use aftertouch and modulation via velocity, providing detailed control over volume envelopes, filtering, amplitude- and pitch modulations, dynamics, EQ, stereo animation and more. All patches use some sort of background image in the UI.
All water bell samples were produced at a resolution of 48Khz/24 Bit/stereo/wav - recorded in L-C-R with 3 Neumann microphones, all signals are phase-aligned.


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

Content:
  • 290.1 MB of samples (47 wavs/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit), 5 background images for the UI, 2 impulse responses for the convolution reverb, 2 wavetables.
  • The content is not encrypted, so you can use the samples and wavetables in other samplers and synths or directly in your DAW.
  • 19 patches combining many synthesis forms available in Falcon.
  • Library size in total: 301.3 MB 
  • Delivery: download (zip)
  • Price: € 18.50 EUR (50% discount for license holders of Resurrection for Alchemy 2). 
Product page.




Friday, September 29, 2017

Droneland 2 for Padshop Pro - library update released on patchpool




For the first version of this library, I used 14 drone samples from my SoundPack Droneland and also made 9 new samples derived from electronic sources and field recordings. In 2017 this library was updated/extended to 42 presets, adding another 29 wav samples and 22 presets.

Many of these sounds are huge and deep tonal drones with a cinematic touch, but you‘ll also find some more experimental textures, atonal timbres and haunting tones. All patches have the modulation wheel assigned, many also use aftertouch or velocity as modulation source.

There are now 42 presets using 52 samples - 1.37 GB of audio samples (wav) produced in 48 Khz/24 Bit stereo. As the samples are not encrypted, they can be used in other sample players, granular synthesizers or directly in your DAW. 

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


Specs:
  • 42 Presets 
  • 1.37 GB of samples (wav/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit) 
  • Delivery: Download (RAR-archive in 2 parts for better download handling) 
  • Library size in total: 1.37 GB (961.3 MB download)
License holders of the first version of Droneland can update their license for € 8 EUR


All demos were produced entirely with patches from Droneland 2 using only Padshop Pro. No post-processing was applied apart from a limiter on the master output.


Saturday, July 8, 2017

Patchpool - Interactive Summer Sale Through July 23

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=487214

Through July 23rd, an interactive patchpool sale is on following these rules:

Single item tiers:
  • If 3 people or more vote for a single item (not bundle), that item will be discounted at 15%.
  • If 6+ people vote for a single item, it will be discounted at 20%.
  • If 9+ people vote for a single item, it will be discounted at 25%.
  • If 12+ people vote for a single item, it will be discounted at 30%.
Bundle tiers:
  • If 4 people or more vote for a bundle, it will be discounted at 10%.
  • If 7 people or more vote for a bundle, it will be discounted at 15%.
  • If 10 people or more vote for a bundle, it will be discounted at 20%.
Excluded from this offer are renewals of existing subscriptions (Iris / Kaleidoscope). Multiple votes per user for several items are of course possible but only one vote per item per user is allowed.

Cast your votes as a reply to this Blogpost, in this KVR thread or on the patchpool Facebook page.

Friday, June 16, 2017

Cornucopia for HALion 6 released on patchpool


https://www.patchpool.net/halion_cornucopia.html


Cornucopia for HALion 6 provides a wealth of predominantly wavetable-based patches, all wavetables were be produced exclusively for this sound library by re-synthesizing dozens of samples from various acoustic instruments (string instruments, woodwinds, brass), vocals, percussion and electronic textures.
The sounds focus on warm and moving pads, dark and epic drones, digital hybrids, animated sequences, profound bass and pluck sounds, cinematic textures and soundscapes, crispy mallets and obscure sound effects. Some patches also layer the wavetable synth with Halion's granular and/or sampling engine, some patches also make use of Halion's analog synth, a few patches only use the granular and/or sampling oscillators. All presets have a designed Macro interface with a background image, more complex modulation routings are sometimes also assigned to the eight Quick Controls at the bottom of the main interface and the modulation wheel, quite a few presets also make use of aftertouch.

The wav-samples in Cornucopia are a mixture of field recordings, soprano sax tones and phrases, a huge gong recorded open air in a garden, tubular chimes (also recorded in that garden), electronic soundscapes, multi-sampled synth sounds and experimental electronic textures. All wavetables are embedded in the preset files, yet an additional folder with all wavetables used in Cornucopia (plus some extra ones) is included in the download folder, so that the user can easily create new patches using these tables.

You can view/download the PDF for this soundlibrary including the license agreement, more relevant info and a detalled patchlist here.

Specifications:

  • 103 tagged presets
  • 155 wavetables (153.1 MB, also available in a separate folder for easy access).
  • 769.9 MB of original samples (67 wavs / 48 Khz / 24 Bit / stereo)
  • Library size in total (with all assets): 1.03 GB
  • Delivery: download (compressed RAR-archive, download size: 768.5 MB).
  • Price: € 42 EUR.
  • The full version of HALion 6 is required to play the patches from this library.
  • Please note: With the current release version of HALion 6, all tempo-synced envelopes programmed for this library play out of sync with the DAW and other HALion modulators (step modulator/LFOs). This is a known issue and will be fixed with the first maintenance update of HALion (version 6.0.1), to be released very soon.

Product page.

All demos were produced entirely with HALion 6 using only patches from Cornucopia, no post-processing was applied apart from a limiter on the outputs and some volume automation, if several instances of HALion were used in a track.



Here is a Youtube playlist with video demos for this library and other wavetable experiments which led to the creation of this sound libray. There is also a tutorial for the wavetable synth towards the bottom of the list.



Thanks for reading.
Simon Stockhausen

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Falcon Singles - HANG released on patchpool




Multi-sampled HANG percussion, deeply sampled with plenty of articulations, textures and electronic derivatives. The nine pitches of the Hang were sampled at 5 velocity layers and 6x round robin, two articulations were sampled (mallet/hand), also the backside of the Hang was captured, producing some remarkable sub-bass tones. Dynamic tremolos for each pitch (hand/fingers/mallet) were also recorded, dozens of little rubber balls were inserted into the instrument creating sublime pentatonic textures, wavetables were extracted from Hang samples, textural Hang sounds were re-synthesized and processed with a plethora of sonic tools to compose a unique collection of mellow, beautiful, mysterious, haunting and new-age sounds. The original tuning of the Hang was preserved in many patches, in quite a few presets there is a Macro installed which will tune the samples to the traditional tempered tuning.

Up to 25+ Macros and switches are assigned in each patch, most presets make use of the modulation wheel, many patches also use aftertouch and modulation via velocity, providing detailed control over volume envelopes, filtering, amplitude- and pitch modulations, dynamics, EQ, stereo animation and more.
All patches use some sort of background image in the UI, split patches have colored key-zones in the Falcon keyboard for easier navigation.

All Hang samples were produced at a resolution of wav 48Khz/24 Bit/stereo - recorded in L-C-R with 3 Neumann microphones, all signals are phase-aligned.

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

As some of these samples are borrowed from my HALion 5 library Aureus Ventus, license holders of AV get a 20% discount on this library, a dedicated paypal button has been installed.

Content:
  • 1.27 GB of samples (627 wavs/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit), 7 background images for the UI,  4 wavetables. 
  • The content is not encrypted, so you can use the samples and wavetables in other samplers and synths or directly in your DAW. 
  • 41 patches combining many synthesis forms available in Falcon. 
  • Library size in total: 1.29 GB 
  • Delivery: download (compressed RAR-archive)
  • Requires the full version of Falcon, does not work with the UVI player.
  • Price: € 46 EUR
Patch Categories:
  • Hang Instruments (15) 
  • Loops (3) 
  • Pads - Drones (7) 
  • Synth - Bass (4) 
  • Textures (12)


Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Takeover for VPS Avenger released on patchpool!




Takeover for VPS Avenger provides a broad palette of timbres suitable for a wide variety of musical styles:

*Monumental, epic, dramatic soundscapes with a cinematic flavor.
*Heartwarming, fragile, lush, elevating pads.
*Ethereal, fascinating and otherworldly textures.
*Dark and massive drones.
*Expressive lead synths and juicy bass sounds.
*Beautiful string instruments (guitars, plucked piano, cello derivatives).
*Bells and pluck sounds.
*Synthetic vocal textures.
*Epic brass swells (horns, trombones, sousaphone).
*Drum/percussion sounds for the drum sampler, dry and processed.
*Playful, edgy and minimal sequences.
*Evolving, rhythmical, often tempo-synced animations of timbre, amplitude and filters.

Specs:
  • 103 patches (including 2 variations).
  • 89 wavetables, also derived from the re-synthesis function in Avenger.
  • 83 sample maps (multi-samples) and one-shots (44.1 Khz - 24 Bit), 1.8 GB (before lossless compression in Avenger).
  • 23 single cycle waveforms (shapes).
  • 2 drumkits
  • Library size in total: 706.1 MB (688 MB download)
  • All patches have the modulation wheel and the three Macros assigned, most also use Macro switches, many also use aftertouch.
  • Comes in the native avenger format, easy import/installation.
  • Delivery: donwload.
  • Price: € 48 EUR

Patch categories (12 sub-folders):
  • Arp - Sequencer (10)
  • Bass (8 including 1 variation) 
  • Bells - Plucks (11) 
  • Brass (3) 
  • Drones (10) 
  • Drums - Percussion (7) 
  • Leads (4) 
  • Pads (14) 
  • Soundscapes (14) 
  • String (6 including 1 variation) 
  • Synth (10) 
  • Vocal Synth (6)
You can view/download the PDF for this set including the licence agreement, more info and a detalled patchlist here.


Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Free Style for XFer Serum released on patchpool

http://www.patchpool.net/serum_free_style.html

This third patchpool set for Serum explores this unique synthesizer to the bone, using conventional and more often unconventional sound design techniques. There are no restrictions, the goal was to create creative, inspiring and musical sounds with the best possible sound quality for each patch.

The palette of timbres in this set addresses and will inspire composers from many genres who are searching for smooth animated pads, complex soundscapes, intricate and minimal sequences, mellow and expressive leads, sparkling bells, percussive impacts, otherworldly noises, cinematic textures and gloomy drones.

Dozens of wavetables were extracted from the vast pool of patchpool samples, others were created inside the Serum waveform editor, images were wave-tabled/re-synthesized, many patches layer two wavetable oscillators and also incorporate the sample and sub oscillator. Numerous samples were created exclusively for this set, others were borrowed from various patchpool libraries. Each patch has four Macros and the modulation wheel assigned, velocity is used as an important modulator - not only for volume - many presets also use aftertouch, giving the Serumist deep control to shape the sounds and adapt them to a given musical context.

You can view/download the PDF for this set including the licence agreement, more info and a detalled patchlist here.

Specs:
  • 101 patches (91.2 MB)
  • 364.5 MB of samples, 29 wavs / 44.1 Khz / 24 Bit / stereo
  • 119 wavetables (85 MB)
  • Library size in total: 540.7 MB
  • All patches have velocity, aftertouch, modulation wheel and four Macros assigned.
  • Price: € 32 EUR
Patch categories (7 sub-folders) - detailed patch descriptions are included in the PDF:
  • Bells - Plucks (10)
  • Leads (6)
  • Pads (14)
  • Percussive - Bass (6)
  • Sequencer (17)
  • Soundscapes - Drones (32)
  • Synths - Keys (16)
Product page.