Thursday, February 25, 2016

Falcon Singles - Falcon Scapes Vol.1 released



This collection assembles a small sonic universe of cinematic, mysterious, wondrous, abstract and ethereal soundscapes - up to 2+ minutes in length - with lush and haunting vocal pad sounds and one-finger-beauties, dark and futuristic drones and some animated sequences with electronic bass, drum and arp sounds using Falcon’s analog and FM oscillators. The samples involved were derived from a broad range of acoustic instruments, electronic sources and field recordings, often using techniques of spectral and additive re-synthesis and/or audio morphing. A bunch of samples was borrowed from the patchpool Iris subscription-library, all other samples were created exclusively for this library.

Many presets make use of Falcon’s multi-granular engine and there is also a wavetable synth included. Quite a few presets are running in split mode and/or layer sound textures via key-switches. Up to 20+ Macros and switches plus the modulation wheel are assigned in each patch, many also use aftertouch, providing detailed control over volume envelopes, filtering, amplitude- and pitch modulations, EQ-ing, dynamics, stereo animation, effects 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.

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


  • 24 patches
  • 780 MB of samples (53 wavs/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit) 5 background images for the UI and wavetable re-synthesis.
  • Content is not encrypted, samples and wavetables can be used in other samplers and synths.
  • Delivery: download
  • Library size in total: 783.4 MB
  • Price: € 18.50 EUR (25% off for active Iris subscribers in 2016 and following)
  • Requires the full version of Falcon, does not work with the UVI player.

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Phonemklatura for PPG Phonem released

http://www.patchpool.de/phonem.html


Phonemklatura contains 108 patches (including some variations) for the unique vocal synthesizer Phonem by Wolfgang Palm/PPG. These sounds are not aiming at any kind of vocal pseudo-realism, on the contrary, I am using the versatile and expressive vocal character of this synthesizer to create beautiful and delicate pads, ethereal overtone textures, fragile and edgy leads, haunting and alien voices, phonetic experiments, tempo-synced vocaloid mayhem, percussive mallet-like timbres, robotic voices, fantasy beings and other synthetic sounds only faintly reminding of their vocal origin.

Often Phonem's wavetable synthesizer is used to excite the vocal resonators using wavetables extracted from acoustic instruments like brass, woodwinds, string instruments, mallets and electronic textures with PPG’s Wavemapper, expanding the possible palette of sounds even more.

All sounds make extensive use of Phonem's x/y-pads which can be automated in any DAW and the modulation wheel, quite a few patches also use aftertouch.

As Phonem's onboard effects are very basic and are rarely used in any of these patches, I included some of the original LogicX demo projects containing Midi data and 3rd party effect plugins, and a Cubase 8-project with some effect chains using the native Cubase plugins, so you could use these settings as a starting point.
  • 108 patches including some variations.
  • 159 resource files - utterances and wavetables in the native utd/wtz-format.
  • 15.9 MB installed

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