Saturday, November 7, 2015

Coming soon: Falcon AIR

After spending spring and summer with UVI's Falcon, alpha- and beta-testing it and creating 100+ patches for the Falcon factory library, it's now time to make some more sounds for this hybrid monster:



Falcon Air combines organic acoustic samples with the plethora of synthesis forms available in Falcon. Often several different synth modules will be combined in one patch, many presets will make use of the new multi-granular engine, the wavetable synth and the new physical modelling module. All samples, wavetables and images (for image re-synthesis in the WT synth) will be created especially for this library. Expressive hybrid instruments meet percussive sounds and deep impacts, sweet ambient pads, ethereal texures and minimal sequences are drowned in haunting granular abysses and mesmerizing drones, funky synth arps and big bass sounds are accompanied by ethnic drums and chromatic percussion sounds.

The sample content will be generated from multi-sampled percussion instruments and metallic/glass objects, industrial field recordings executed in factories and scrapyards, acoustic and electric guitar instruments, weird sounds of electronic gadgets captured with special coil mics, vocal performances and electronic soundscapes, also re-synthesizing and audio-morphing acoustic sounds with programs like Alchemy 2, Metasynth, Morph and Kaleidoscope.

All patches have the modulation wheel and 8 or more Macros assigned, quite a few also use aftertouch. In many patches tempo-synced modulators are used to animate the amplitudes and filters of the involved samples and sound generators, often keyswitchable sound combinations or different articulations are available within one patch. All patches which have several different sounds split across the keyboard (often over a range of six octaves or more) use key-colouring in Falcon's keyboard which makes it easier to navigate through the various split sounds.

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, sometimes also adding a 4th microphone for e.g. the backside of a drum. All microphone signals are phase-aligned which enhances the stereo field and the transparency of the recorded samples.

Specs:


  • Approximately 100 patches combining all synthesis forms in Falcon.
  • Approximately 2 GB of original sample content.
  • Approximately 30 - 40 new wavetables.
  • ETA: around New Year
  • Pre-order price (paypal): € 40 EUR
  • Price on release: € 50 EUR

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Videos, tutorials, experiments, demos for my factory sounds:

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Resurrection for Alchemy 2 released

After 2+ months with Alchemy 2, here it comes:



Resurrection for Alchemy 2 contains a broad range of top notch meticulously crafted presets with the focus on as much sonic diversity possible. The 98 patches (x8 snapshots in Alchemy's remix pad) make extensive use of the new features introduced in version 2, like the new spectral and additive re-synthesis and spectral morphing, the improved granulator with multiple grain streams, FM synthesis, and the extended FX section with 4 independent effect racks and convolution reverb.

Multisampled instruments like water-bells, stick cello, marching drum and other percussion sounds meet an array of resynthesized acoustic sounds - also mult-sampled - like flute, violin, trombone,
harp, chimes, e-bowed guitar, psaltery and mandolin or bowed metallophones and are often layered with electronic textures also derived from re-synthesized images. Lush pads, haunting and enchanting
soundscapes, massive drones, expressive fantasy instruments, fascinating morph-textures, playful and groovy sequencers and intricate rhythmical textures compose a versatile collection of new sounds applicable in all kinds of genres, from ambient to new-age to electronica, world-fusion, science-fiction and soundtrack work.

Complex modulation routings and controller assignments enable the user to deeply interact with the sounds and shape them according to his/her needs.

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

Specs:

  • 98 patches (x8 snapshots in Alchemy's remix pad).
  • 1.8 GB of original samples (wav/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit), some samples were borrowed from other patchpool libraries.
  • All acoustic samples were recorded in L-C-R using three Neumann mics, all signals were phase-aligned.
  • 1.22 GB of re-synthesized samples (spectral/additive in Alchemy's aaz.-format).
  • Library size in total: 3 GB uncompressed.
  • Delivery: download - compressed RAR-archive in 3 parts for better download handling.
  • Price (paypal): € 48 EUR

Product page.