Coming soon on patchpool: Soundset ChromaZone for Chromaphone

This soundset will contain +100 patches for Chromaphone by AAS. I'll focus on slightly odd emulations of real instruments like mallets, bells, plucked strings and tines, hybrid strangers and percussive material as well as experimental patches, soundscapes and noises. In case AAS updates Chromaphone to add Pitchbend, Microtuning and Aftertouch until the release I will make use of these features. If not then I will add these controls to the patches once the update has taken place and all customers will receive a free update of Chromazone.

Release date: Around Xmas
Delivery: Email
Price: 15.95 €

You can pre-order Chromazone now for 12.50 € and save +20%

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Black Friday Special

More than 50% of my patchpool customers come from the US, so here is little Black Friday Sale.

Until Friday Novembre 25 several patchpool items are discounted:

Alchemy

Alchemistry Beyond - 49.95 € - Discount price: 40 €

u-he

Sound Bank Zebra2 1st Encounter - 14.95 € - Discount price: 11 €

u-he bundle (all 3 Banks for u-he Plug-Ins) - 24.95 € - Discount price: 20 €

iZotope

Glitchmania for Stutter Edit - 15.95 € - Discount price: 12 €

Reaktor

Eternity for Metaphysical Function - 19.95 € - Discount price: 15 €

Spectral Territory for Razor - 15.95 € - Discount price: 12 €

Evil Things for Reichatron - 18.95 € - Discount price: 14 €

Reaktor bundle (all 3 Banks for Reaktor) - 44 € - Discount price: 35 €

Absynth

Sound Bank Best of absynthsounds.com Vol. 1 - 15.95 € - Discount price: 12 €

Kontakt

10 Patch Bundle

Choose 10 items from the various categories - 27.95 € - Discount price: 20 €

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Coming soon on patchpool: Sound Bank Alchemistry Metallurgy

After producing 2 full Alchemy Banks with +100 patches each I will offer something on a smaller scale for my third Alchamy Sound Bank which will be the first in a series focussing on specific materials. Metallurgy will contain about 50 patches with 8 variations each in the Remix Pad and focus on metals sounds derived from real instruments, metal objects and industrial field recordings. I want to keep the Balance between real sounding metal instruments and otherworldly textures and Soundscapes using also processed derivates of the sampled materials. Most sounds will be sample-based, of course also using the resynthesis features of Alchemy.

Metallurgy Specs:
About 1 GB of original sample - source material:
China Cymbal bowed, scraped and beaten - multisampled and Round Robin
Glockenspiel multisampled 24 semitones, 4x RR, 2 velocity layers(192 samples)
Chromatic Asian Gongs multisampled + Round Robin, 3-4 velocity layers
Various metal objects
Industrial metal sounds recorded in factories
Steel Strings

About 50 patches with 8 variations each

Patch list (PDF) with a detailed description and paying tips for each patch

Release date: around Decembre 10
Delivery: Download
Price 20 €

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

You can pre-order Alchemistry Metallurgy now for 16 € and save 20%
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New Kontakt 5 item Spacious Land

Spacious Land
Kontakt 5 - 280,4 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 2 nkis/Instruments
7 samples/soundscapes compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format

7 long cinematic Soundscapes and Drones from my patchpool compilation of single-wavs made available for Kontakt 5.

There are 2 nkis:

3 Scapes split
Divine Cello Drone (1:58) mapped from C0 - C2
Dimensional Drift (2:21) mapped from C#2 - C4
Rising Space (2:36) mapped from C# - C6

4 Scapes split
Behind the Curtain (3:22) mapped from C-1 - C1
Meditational Scape (2:28) mapped from C#1 - C3
Endless Scape (4:12) mapped from C# - C5
Elevation (4:03) mapped from C#5 - C7

All samples are looped using smooth crossfade looping. The Modwheel controls the sample start point (75% maximum) so that you can play different segments of each Soundscape.

There are 4 keyswitchable Groups available:
Group 1 - keyswitch C-2 (default) without Filtering
Group 2 - keyswitch D-2 with a LFO-controlled Notch Filter
Group 3 - with a LFO-controlled Formant 2 Filter
Group 4 - with a LFO-controlled Phaser

A modified Midi Script from the Factory Library gives you control over:
Knob 1 - Resonance for Notch and Formant Filter (Group 2+3)
Knob 2 - Resonance for Phasing (Group 4)
Knob 3 - EQ Low Gain - flat = middle position (64)
Knob 4 - EQ High Gain - flat = middle position (64)
Knob 5 - Amount of Stereo Delay
Knob 6 - Stereo Spread - normal Stereo - > middle position (64), 0 = mono

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Kontakt Library Chainland released on patchpool

b]Chainland[/b]

Kontakt 4 - 274,7 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 8 nkis/Instruments
51 Samples compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format - 1 Impulse Responses (wav)
Price: 12.95 €

For this Library I multisampled 2 metal chains in different sizes with 3 Neumann Microphones in L-C-R stereo. I tried all sorts of different articulations like rustling, shaking in different densities, dropping them on the floor, picking them up from the floor, hitting other objects with them and so forth. A lot of the samples were also processed with an array of Plug-Ins to create otherworldly textures. Comb Filters were also applied to transform the chain samples into sounds with a more distinct pitch. There are 8 nkis/Instrument available in this Library, each one has a different script supplying you with plenty of controls for tweaking and layering the sounds. Each Instrument uses a long Impulse Response I made with VRoom in the Convolution engine. This can be very CPU intense depending on your computer specs, if it is just switch off the Reverb and use an external one.

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

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New Kontakt patch: Kalimba Cloud Scape

Kalimba Cloud Scape
Kontakt 4 - 68,9 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki/Instrument - Price: 5.50 €
10 samples compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format - 1 Impulse Response (wav)

This patch uses 9 processed Kalimba samples stretched to the extreme with Paulstretch so that each note is up to 50 seconds long. Different notes were sampled at different velocities and then mapped across the keyboard (see screenshot below). In the lower ranges between C-1 and C1 another sample is layered on top of the lowest Kalimba notes, a strange drone made from processed metal screws. All samples are looped using smooth crossfade looping.


Controls:
The Modwheel controls the start point of the samples. Moving the Modwheel while playing different notes yields very expressive results, so this patch can be anything from a spacey padlike soundscape to a more percussive kalimba-like instrument.

A modified Midi Script from the Factory Library gives you control over:
*Lowpass Filter Cutoff
*Attack Time
*Amount of Convolution Reverb, an Impulse Response I made with VRoom and Aether is active in the Convolution Engine
*Amount of Stereo Delay
*Amount of Phasing
*Phasing Speed

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