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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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Coming soon: Sample Library Framedrum for Alchemy




Framedrum for Alchemy will contain 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.

As nothing beats a real drumming performance I will also play and sample a collection of loops in various time signatures, all synced to host tempo by using Alchemy's granular mode and temposynced MSEGs and LFOs. Then there will be patches made from processed framdrum sounds, treated with granulators, saturators, distortion units, spectral tools, pitch shifters, convolution reverbs and more exotic FX Plug-Ins.

Framedrum Specs:
  • Roundabout 2 GB of original samples
  • 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
  • Roundabout 50 patches with 8 variations each in Alchemy's Remix Pad
  • Delivery: Download
  • Release: around mid Decembre
  • Price: € 30 Euros
NOTE: This Sound Bank requires the full version of Alchemy.
It does not work with the Alchemy player version.

Pre-order Framedrum for Alchemy for € 24 Euros now and save 20% - please allow me a few hours to process your pre-order.


Monday, November 19, 2012

Soundset No Boundaries for Reaktor DRON-E released


No Boundaries is a soundset for Reaktor DRON-E, an ensemble by Antonio Blanca which can be downloaded directly from his websitefor free.

This set contains a wide variety of soundscapes, drones, one-finger-pads, vocal sounds, soprano sax sounds, textures made from percussion samples like gongs, bells, Glockenspiel and framedrum (Bodran), acoustic guitar sounds (plucked and bowed), Okarina textures (clay flute), processed field-recordings and some otherworldly, more experimental stuff.

Most of the 103 samples (48 Khz / 24 Bit / stereo) were produced exclusively for this set, some were borrowed from the vast pool of patchpool samples. All acoustic instruments were recorded with 3 high quality Neumann mics through a RME FF 800 using my regular L-C-R setup.

The download contains the Sample Map and the Snapshot Bank. The Sample Map can also be used in any other Reaktor ensemble that supports sample players and granulators. The samples can also be downloaded in a folder with single wav files so that they can be used in other samplers and granulators or directly inside a DAW without having to extract the samples from the Reaktor Sample Map.

Please download / read the pdf with the licence agreement, description and a patchlist here.

Specs:
  • 86 Snapshots / 3 variations
  • 103 Samples (48 Khz / 24 Bit /stereo - Reaktor Sample Map 2.1 Gigabyte)

NOTE: This soundset requires the full version of Reaktor.
It does not work with the Reaktor player version.

Delivery: Download (Snapshot Bank and Samplemap) - compressed RAR-archive in 3 parts Download size: 1.3 GB
Price (paypal): € 28 Euros

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Coming soon on patchpool: Soundset No Boundaries for Reaktor DRON-E


Soundset No Boundaries for Reaktor DRON-E, an ensemble by Antonio Blanca.

This set will contain a wide variety of soundscapes, drones, one-finger-pads, vocal sounds, textures made from percussion samples like gongs, bells and skindrum, processed field-recordings and some otherworldly, more experimental stuff. Most of the samples will be produced exclusively for this set, some are borrowed from the vast pool of patchpool samples.

Specs:
  • 70 - 80 Snapshots
  • +100 Samples (48 Khz / 24 Bit - roundabout 2 Gigabyte)

NOTE: This soundset requires the full version of Reaktor.
It does not work with the Reaktor player version.

Release: Around Decembre 1st, probably earlier
Delivery: Download (Snapshot Bank and Samplemap)
Price (paypal): € 28 Euros

Pre-order No Boundaries now for € 22.40 and save 20%

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Novembre Bundles and Deal of the day

During the month of Novembre you can make up your own bundles and save some cash. The more products you add to your bundle the higher the discount will be:
  • 2 products - 15% discount
  • 3 products - 20% discount
  • 4 products - 30% discount
  • 5 products - 40% discount

Please make your selection from the product list and inform me via Email, which products you would like to get. I will then send you a paypal adress so that your order can be completed. Existing bundles are not regarded as a single product and are excluded from the list.

Deal of the day: During this campaign there will also be daily discounts (25 %) on selected products.

Please note: For customers without a paypal account I can set up a dedicated paypal button on a dedicated webpage so that credit card payment will also be possible.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Halloween SoundPack Discount


Until Octobre 31 selected patchpool SoundPacks related to Horror and SciFi are discounted at 50%.

SoundPack Horror Scapes
26 wav files - 849.7 MB - +50 min playing time - Discount Price: 17.50 €
48 Khz/24 Bit (24 wavs) - 44.1 Khz/16 Bit (2 wavs)

26 exceptional Soundscapes and Horror effects ranging from haunted voices to dark and otherworldly textures, industrial horror sounds and spooky creatures.

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SoundPack Incantation Witches
12 wav files - 176.3 MB unzipped - 48 Khz/24 Bit/stereo
Discount Price: 8.50 €

A haunting collection of 12 electronically processed female voices. Moaning and screaming witches performing strange incantation rituals and surreal voice textures ideal for Horror and Fantasy movies.

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SoundPack Alien Voices
23 wav files - 353.6 MB unzipped - 48 Khz/24 Bit/stereo
Discount Price: 12.50 €

A special collection of 23 alien voices. Aliens, Devils, Witches, Monsters and other processed male and female voices for use in Sci-Fi and Horror movies, Game Design, Videos and Animations.

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SoundPack Future Worlds
32 wav files - 694.3 MB - 48 Khz / 24 Bit - 40:14 playing time
Discount Price: 15 €

32 exceptional Sci-Fi textures exploring future worlds and unknown locations in the Universe. From abstract rhythmical textures to evil machines to robotic sounds and starting Spaceships to creepy and scientific alien ambiences this SoundPack will provide you with a great variety of sounds for Sci-Fi and Horror movies and Computer Game design.

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SoundPack - Alien Sci-Fi Textures
17 wav files - 112,6 MB unzipped - 48 Khz / 24 Bit
Discount Price: 4 €

17 electronic state of the art Sci-Fi textures in pristine quality. Usable for Science Fiction movies, Science Clips, Video Games and Computer tones.

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SoundPack From Light to Darkness
71 wav files - 1.12 GB - 48 Khz/24 Bit - +65 minutes playing time
Discount Price: 17.50 €

A big collection of electronic samples compiled in four thematic folders comprising a wide spectrum from ethereal and beautiful textures to more ominous and electronic sounds to dark and haunting soundscapes. Selected wavs from various of my samplesets with some files exclusively produced for this SoundPack.

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SoundPack Unknown Dimensions
20 wav files - 868.6 MB unzipped - 48 Khz/24 Bit
Discount Price: 17.50 €

20 outstanding Soundscapes for Film productions, Ambient Music and Game Design. Reaching from galactic and mysterious atmospheres to more bizarre and ominous textures.

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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Modelled Reality for Chromaphone released on patchpool


















This soundset contains 100 original patches and 13 variations for Chromaphone by AAS.


  • *Achromatic Percussion - 20 patches / 1 variation
  • *Chromatic Percussion - 9 patches / 1 variation
  • *Hybrid Instruments - 15 patches / 3 variations 
  • *Pads & Textures - 32 patches / 5 variations
  • *Synths & Keys - 24 patches / 3 variations


Modelled Reality focusses on physically modelled instruments like chromatic and achromatic percussion and mallets from different musical cultures, flute and string sounds, gentle and hypnotic pads and soundscapes, expressive synths and fat bass sounds, temposynced madness as well as mysterious and ethereal textures from a different reality.

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

NOTE: Modelled Reality requires the full version of Chromaphone.
It does not work with the AAS Player.

Price (paypal): 20 €
Delivery: Email

Please allow me a few hours to process your order and send you the soundset via Email.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Coming soon: Soundset Modelled Reality for Chromaphone


















My third soundset for Chromaphone will contain about 100 patches and some patch variations. Focussing on physically modelled instruments like chromatic and achromatic percussion and mallets, flute and string sounds, gentle pads and nasty synths, temposynced madness as well as mysterious and ethereal textures from a different reality.


NOTE: Modelled Reality requires the full version of Chromaphone.
It does not work with the AAS Player.
  • Release: Mid Octobre 2012
  • Price on release (paypal): 20 €
  • Delivery: Email
Pre-order Modelled Reality for 16 Euros now and save 20%

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Granular Worlds for Padshop Pro released on patchpool


Granular Worlds for Steinberg's Padshop Pro contains 105 presets making use of 1.8 Gigabyte of exceptional samples mostly created exclusively for this soundset. All samples were produced in 48 Khz / 24 Bit / stereo, the acoustic sounds and instruments in this library were recorded in L-C-R using 3 high quality Neumann mics. The electronic samples were produced with an array of soft- and hardware synths and FX-processors.

This soundset covers a wide range of expressively playable sounds ranging from huge cinematic soundscapes, warm and mellow pads, dark and haunting drones, real and unreal percussion instruments, temposynced sequences and loops to more bizarre experimental sounds, ethereal textures and beautiful instrumental sounds derived from flute, guitar, bowed/plucked strings and Okarina recordings. Some feld recordings, glass and wood sounds, Kalimba, harmonically playable plastic tubes as well as vocal samples also found their way into this soundset.

The 141 wav-samples in this set are not locked or encrypted so they can be used in any other sampler or directly in the DAW of your choice.

The 105 presets are categorized in five folders:


  • Instrumental (13)
  • Pads and Drones (30)
  • Percussive (9)
  • Sequenced (11)
  • Soundscapes (29)
  • Weirdo Zone (13)


All patches have the Modwheel assigned and often make use of Aftertouch and velocity control to add expressiveness and musicality.

Granular Worlds is available in 2 formats:
“.aupreset“ for Mac-users who work with the AU-version of Padshop Pro and want to use the native Preset Browser e.g. in Logic Pro and “.vstpreset“ for users who work with the vst3- or au-version of the Plug-In and want to use Padshop's native preset browser at the bottom of the GUI.

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

Delivery: Download
Library size in total: 1.8 Gigabyte - 1.21 GB download size (compressed RAR-archive in 3 parts) - 141 samples - 105 patches

Price: 30 €
After your order has been manually processed you will receive a confirmation Email to the adress stated in the paypal including the download links and instructions. Please allow me a few hours to process your order.

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All demos in the widget below were produced with Pashop Pro only using patches from this set. No post-processing was applied apart from a Limiter on the Master Outs:


Friday, August 10, 2012

August Special on patchpool - Buy 2 get 1 for free!


Until August 24 you can select 3 products and get the least expensive one for free. Please make your selection from the list below and inform me which 3 products you would like to have, then I'll send you my paypal adress to complete the purchase. If you don't have a paypal account, I can setup a dedicated webpage for your order so that you can also use a credit card of your choice.
You can also purchase 2 products directly via paypal and make a note in the paypal form about the choice of your free product, please remember that the free product has to be less expensive than the 2 items you purchase.

Please note: All bundles are excluded from this offer.

Here is the August Special page with a list of all patchpool products.

Thank's for reading

Simon

Friday, July 13, 2012

Soundset Granular Worlds for Padshop Pro coming soon on patchpool




Granular Worlds for Steinberg's Padshop Pro will contain about 100 presets making use of about 2 Gigabyte of exceptional samples mostly produced exclusively for this soundset. Additionally I will also use selected samples from the large pool of samples produced for various of my soundsets over the last years. All samples are produced in 48 Khz / 24 Bit.

The sounds in this set will cover a wide range of expressively playable sounds ranging from huge cinematic soundscapes and warm pads to more bizarre experimental sounds and ethereal textures. Also I will use a lot of samples generated by acoustic instrument like woodwinds, brass, string instruments and Okarina. Field recordings, various objects, glass sounds and vocal samples will also find their way into these granular worlds.

All patches will have the Modwheel assigned and I'll make use of Aftertouch whenever a sound needs some extra expressiveness.

The estimated release date for Granular Worlds will be mid August 2012 at the price of 30 Euros, you can pre-order this soundset now and save 20%.


Granular Worlds will be released in 2 formats:
.aupreset for Mac-users who work with the AU-version of Padshop Pro and .vstpreset for users which work with the vst3-version of the Plug-In.


Delivery: Download
Library size in total: around 2 Gigabyte
Release date: mid August 2012
Pre-order price (paypal): 24 €

After your pre-order has been manually processed you will receive a confirmation Email to the adress stated in the paypal form. Please allow me a few hours to process your order.



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Monday, June 18, 2012

SoundPack Summer Sale


Until July 9 there is a SoundPack Summer Sale on patchpool. Buy 5 Packs of your choice listed on this page for 50 Euros. You have 17 SoundPacks and 2 LoopPacks to choose from.
You'll find many Gigabytes of top notch audio material (wavs), all files can be demoed via the Souncloud widgets. Soundscapes, Drones, Pads, Ethereal Textures, New Age, Sci-Fi Textures, Horror Scapes, Football Crowds, Alien Voices, Witches, Trains, Birds, Animals, Drumloops, Musicloops and much more, it's all in there.

Licence agreement for patchpool wavs and SoundPacks:  All patchpool samples and loops may be used royalty free in commercial and non-commercial music and sound design productions. The licensee must not trade or re-distribute these files, must not pass them on to someone else and must not resample them for any use in commercial or free sample- and sound libraries.

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Friday, June 15, 2012

Best of absynthsounds Vol 2 released on patchpool


Sound Bank Best of absynthsounds.com Vol. 2 This soundset is the second "best of"-collection of sounds I programmed for Absynth 5 and wich I have published on my website absynthsounds.com since Decembre 2009. The sounds included in this Bank cover a wide range of ambient soundscapes, pads, drones, more experimental sounds and technoid sequences as you can hear in the demos.

Many of the patches are sample based and make use of the new features introduced in Absynth 5 which are the Cloudfilter, Aetherizer, Super Comb and Filter Feedback. Most patches have many if not all available Macros assigned, you can find more detailed infos about each patch, the licence agreement and installation instructions in the pdf.

There are 65 patches and 63 samples (748.3 MB) included. Most samples were produced exclusively for these patches, some were taken from the huge collection of samples I have produced for various soundsets and libraries in the last years. The sample format usually is 48 Khz / 24 Bit some of them are 44.1/16 - 44.1/24 and 48/16.

 NOTE: This soundset requires Absynth 5, the patches will not load in any previous version. The download folder contains 2 preset formats, the old ksd-format and the new nabs-format which was introduced with Absynth version 5.1.

 Price: 15.95 € After your purchase you will receive the download links for the RAR-file. Product page

Wednesday, May 23, 2012


My new Chromaphone Bank Cardinals was released by Applied Acoustic Systems some hours ago. It's my first collaboration with AAS and this soundset is only available on their website, not on patchpool.

Check it out here.

Monday, May 7, 2012

May Special Discounts for Alchemy Soundsets


Throughout May all my Alchemy soundsets are discounted at roundabout 25 %, even bigger discount are available when buying the bundles. Check it out here or on the individual product pages linked below.

Warped Strings for Alchemy
Alchemistry Metallurgy
Alchemistry Beyond
Alchemistry

Friday, April 20, 2012

ChromaZone review


WSM (Wusik Sound Magazine) published a review of my ChromaZone soundset yesterday, author: Jeffrey Powell. Read it here.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Annual subscription for Iris presets

This again was a totally spontaneous decision, after iZotope released Iris yabout 36 hours ago. I immediately dived into making presets and experiments as I'm quite fascinated and inspired by this Plug-In. As I don't have the time right now to make a full preset Bank I just setup a subscription page for Iris presets:


Get the annual subscription for my Iris presets for currently 15 Euros. The more patches I post, the higher the subscription price will be. Whenever I find the time I will create and upload smaller patch collections and send out the download links to all subscribers.
All samples involved are embedded in the presets using the "Export"-function in the Iris Browser. Just create a folder in your Iris Library named "patchpool" and drag the downloaded patches inside that folder to access the presets.

Uploads

Set 1 uploaded on April 19 - 2012 containing 6 presets (124.8 MB) including:
Deep Dragger Groove - 2 Macros
In the Zoo - Split - 3 Macros
Piano Hammers
Sax Patch (see video below)
Spectral Wonderland (demo below)
Tam Tam Pad

Current price: 15 €

Subscription page

P.S.:
Some videos:



Friday, April 13, 2012

New Kontakt Patch: Vocal Scape



This patch combines 4 mysterious samples/soundscapes produced by processing male and female voices with various apps and Plug-Ins. The samples are layered in pairs, split-point is C3.

Controls:
Each layer (consisting of 2 samples) has it's designated control knobs for Attack, Release and Volume control. Each sound is also modulated by a LFO-driven Bandreject Filter, there are control knobs for modulation amount and modulation speed, turning up the LFO speed fully will create interesting ringmodulation-like effects. The inverted Modwheel controls the Cutoff of a Lowpass Filter.

FX section:
There is a Chorus and a Delay active in the FX section, bypass switches are available for both of them. The Chorus has 3 control knobs for Speed, Depth and Send amount. The Delay also has 3 control knobs for Time, Feedback and Send amount.

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The demo was produced improvising with one instance of Kontakt tweaking some of the available controls, no post processing was applied.

Monday, April 2, 2012

New Kontakt Instruments: Prepared Guitar

Here comes the second excerpt from Warped Strings for Alchemy for Kontakt - the Prepared Guitars. All Warped Strings-customers can get this item for free, just contact me via patchpool and I'll send you the download link.


Content:
The two contained patches use 36 multisamples from Warped Strings. For these instruments the A and G strings of an acoustic Western Guitar were prepared with various objects and multisampled with 3 velocity layers and 6x Round Robin (variations per sampled note).

Controls:
A modified Midi script from the Fatory Library gices you control over:

Knob 1 - Attack
Knob 2 - Release
Knob 3 - Amount of Aftertouch controlling the pitch, good for expressive vibrati and bends
Knob 3 - Saturation amount
Knob 5 - Chorus Mix
Knob 6 - Reverb Mix (Kontakt's algorithmic Reverb)
Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones
Modwheel adds vibrato

Price: 5 €
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Demo improvising with 2 instance of Kontakt each one playing one of the patches, no post-processing:

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Annual subscription for Tremor Beatz on patchpool

I just setup the annual subscription to single Tremor presets and Kits which I will post frequently depending on my time schedule. The first 3 presets and Kits are available here.
The more presets and Kits there are, the higher the subscription price will be, it's 10 € to start with and will stay like that until about 20 things have been published.

All Tremendous Beatz customers will get this offering as an unlimited subscription.

Annual subscription Tremor Beatz

Here is a demo for one of the new presets, [b]Deep Dragger[/b]:

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

New Kontakt Instrument: Stick Guitar

Stick Guitar RR5 3Vel
Kontakt 4 - 203.4 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki/Instrument
135 Samples compressed using Kontakt's ncw format
Price: 7.50 €


Content:
This patch uses 135 multisamples from my Alchemy soundset Warped Strings beating the 6 open strings of an acoustic Western Guitar with a drumstick - 3 velocity layers and 5x Round Robin (variarions per sampled note) were sampled. To extend the range of the instrument the low E-String was also tuned down to a G0 and the high E-String was also sampled at B3 and E4.

Controls:
A modified Midi script from the Fatory Library gices you control over:

Knob 1 - Attack
Knob 2 - Release
Knob 3 - Chorus Mix
Knob 3 - Saturation amount
Knob 5 - Reverb Mix (Kontakt's algorithmic Reverb)
Knob 6 - Reverb Size
Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones.

Product page

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Spring Special Discounts

Spring Special Deals March 2012
ends on March 31

There are discount prices available for individual products and bundles and there will be occasional freebies of the day. Check out the Spring Special page.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Tremendous Beatz for Tremor released on patchpool

I just released my soundset Tremendous Beatz for Tremor:


Tremendous Beatz for FXpansions Tremor contains 50 presets with at least 8 patterns and pattern variations per preset. All instruments created in the synth engines are available individually in instrument folders so that the user can import them into other presets, kits and projects.
Tremor's most versatile modulation capabilities like Graphs, Envelopes, LFOs and Macros are used in all presets creating vivid and interesting rhythms, deep grooves, ambient beats, futuristic music and otherworldly textures usable for a wide variety of musical styles.
Besides 27 presets with even metered grooves in the TB Even Beatz-folder there are 16 presets with odd grooves which have odd time signatures like 5/8 - 6/8 - 7/8 - 9/8 - 12/8 - 13/8 - 3/4 - 5/4 - 6/4, as rhythms and grooves in 4/4 only represent one aspect of today's music production. Triplet based 4/4 Beats are also to be found in the TB Odd Beatz-folder. In the TB Scapes-folder you will find 7 intriguing soundscapes evolving over time with lots of randomization going on, something one would not associate with a "Drum Machine".
Also there are 50 Kits available which were created for the individual presets, some of them have one or two empty slots. You can view/download the PDF for Warped Strings with more details, the licence agreement and the patch list including playing tips and description for each patch here.

Price: 27.50 € (including the unlimited subscription for single presets)
Delivery: Email (zip) 1.3 MB - 19.6 MB unzipped

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Monday, February 13, 2012

Soundset Warped Strings for Alchemy released on patchpool

I just released my new soundset for Alchemy on patchpool:


The soundset Warped Strings for Alchemy is the second in a series focussing on specific materials and single instruments. For this soundset an acoustic Western Guitar was multisampled, treating it with all sorts of tools to create unique sounding real and unreal instruments, otherworldly textures, groovy sequences, beautiful and dark soundscapes and cinematic pad sounds. Multiple velocity layers and Round Robin variations were produced for the creation of expressive and organic sounding instruments.
All samples were recorded with 3 Neumann microphones and processed with native and outboard gear, to make the best out of the recorded audio material. A wide variety of electronic textures derived form the recorded guitar sounds were produced and often combined with the original samples and sounds resynthed inside Alchemy.

As in all my soundsets for Alchemy I make extensive use of Alchemy's complex modulation possibilities and Filters, often intermodulating 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 Warped Strings with more details, the licence agreement and the patch list including playing tips and description for each patch here.

Warped Strings Specs:

1.59 GB of original samples - source material:

Plucked Guitar using various objects like coins, screwdrivers
Tremolo Guitar
Beaten Guitar using drumsticks and mallets
Scraped Guitar using various metal objects for scraping the strings
Prepared guitar
Bowed Guitar - bowing the strings with a violin bow
Chimed Guitar - playing on the strings with the metal beam of some small windchimes
Flagolet Guitar
Trash Guitar
Slapped Guitar
Guitar loops

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 using RME Preamps.

Delivery: Download
Library size in total: 1.61 Gigabyte
Download size: 1.04 Gigabyte

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

Price: 25 €

Product page

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Coming soon on patchpool: Soundset Tremendous Beatz for Tremor


Tremendous Beatz for Tremor will contain about 50 presets with a minimum of 8 pattern variations per preset. All instruments created in the synth engines will be available individually in instrument folders so that the user can import them into other presets and projects. Tremor's most versatile modulation capabilities will be used in each preset creating vivid and interesting rhythms usable for a wide variety of musical styles. There will also be some grooves included with odd time signatures (7/8 - 9/8 - 5/4) as rhythm and grooves in 4/4 only represent one aspect of today's music production.

Price: 25 € - pre-order Tremendous Beatz for 20 € now and save 20%
Delivery: Email
Release: End of February

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Kontakt patch Sonic Attack released on patchpool

Sonic Attack
Kontakt 4 - 104,8 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki - Price: 7 €
46 samples (wav)


This patch uses 46 experimental effect samples I made with noise impulses sent through different effect chains, there are short percussive sounds as well as longer textural sample available.

Mapping
The 46 samples are mapped only on the white keys from C0 - F6.

Layering and Control Scripting
Each sample has 2 layers, one in Sampler mode and one in Time Machine 2 mode. The volume of each layer can be set with the volume knobs in the GUI. Layers 2 also has a control for sample speed.

The Modwheel controls the sample start point (+50%), there is also a slider on the upper left of the UI for that. Each layer has a knob for Attack and Release. Activate a Lowpass and a Highpass FIlter in each layer by clicking into the Filter tabs and control the Cutoff and Resonance with the assigned knobs. Each Filter has a LFO assigned with controls for depth and speed, select from 5 different waveforms by clicking into the waveform tab. At the bottom of the UI you can activate the Stereo Delay by clicking into the Delay tab, 4 controls for Time, Damping, Feedback and Wet amount are available.

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Promo offer: Glitchmania for Stutter Edit

As a promotional offer everybody who purchases Glitchmania for Stutter Edit until February 1st will receive the LoopPack Urban Drumloops for free on top.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Coming soon on patchpool: Soundset Warped Strings for Alchemy

I've started working on a new soundset for Alchemy:
Warped Strings for Alchemy


For this Alchemy soundset an acoustic Western Guitar will be multisampled, treating it with all sorts of tools to create unique sounding real and unreal instruments, otherworldly textures, groovy sequences, beautiful soundscapes and cinematic pad sounds. The guitar will get hurt during the process but it will be well worth it. All samples are recorded with 3 Neumann microphones and processed with native and outboard gear, to make t the best out of the recorded audio material.

Warped Strings Specs:

About 1,5 GB of original stereo samples recorded in 48 Khz/24 Bit
Multisampled acoustic guitar played and treated with various tools, multiple Round Robin variations and velocity layers will be sampled for many patches

Fingered and slapped Guitar
Plucked Guitar using various objects like coins, screwdrivers
Tremolo Guitar
Beaten Guitar using drumsticks, mallets and hammers
Scraped Guitar using various metal objects for scraping the strings and the corpus
Prepared guitar
Flagolet Guitar
Bowed Guitar - bowing the strings with a violin bow
Guitar loops
A wide variety of electronic textures derived form the recorded guitar sounds will be included

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
This soundset will contain about 50 patches with 8 variations each

Delivery: Download
Library size in total: n.a.
Download size: n.a.
Release: 2nd half of February, maybe earlier...

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

Price: 25 € - pre-order Warped Strings for 20 € now and save 20%

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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Kontakt Library Gongland

Kontakt 4 Library Gongland
Kontakt 4 - 389,8 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 10 nkis/Instruments
156 Samples compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format - 4 Impulse Responses (wav)
Price: 12.95 €


This library contains 153 Tam Tam and Gong samples from my Alchemy Bank Alchemistry Metallurgy and 3 new samples. A Wuhan Tam Tam (45 cm in diametre) and 2 different sized Thai Gongs were multisampled in 48 Khz/24 Bit using 3 Neumann Microphones (L- C-R), a U87 for the centre and a stereo set of KM-184 for the sides. The Instruments were beaten with various mallets, scraped with various tools and rubbed with Rubberballs. Up tp 4 velocity layers and 10x Round Robin were sampled.

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