Patchpool Summer Group Sale - ends July 15

In this group sale every participant pays the fixed sum of € 40 Euros and chooses from the products available for that group sale level. The more buyers join the group buy the more products can be obtained.

You can either wait until the sale is over to choose your products and SoundPacks, or you can immediately choose your products once you've joined this sale. Whenever the sale reaches the next level, I will send out group mails to notify you about the current level.

Choose from soundsets and preset expansions for Alchemy, Kontakt, Absynth, Reaktor, Zebra, MFM2, Filterscape, Iris, Stutter Edit, Diversion, Chromaphone, ElectraX, Padshop Pro and Tremor and from SoundPacks and LoopPacks for post production and sound design.

Visit the group sale page to get an overview of the various product categories.

Two Kontakt items released, excerpts from previous Alchemy Banks

Flagolet Guitar
Kontakt 4 - 66.6 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 4 nkis/Instruments
38 Samples compressed using Kontakt's ncw format - 2 Impulse Responses
Price: 7.50 €

Content:
This soundset contains 4 guitar flagolet patches played on an acoustic western guitar and sampled in L-C-R using 3 high quality Neumann microphones. These samples and their electronic derivatives were originally produced for my Alchemy Bank Warped Strings.

There are 4 instruments/nkis available:

3 Flago Chords Split XFade
3 flagolet chords plucked with the fingernail and their electronic derivatives split across the keyboards:

• Chord 1 - C0 - B1 - root note E1
• Chord 2 - C2 - B3 - root note E3
• Chord 3 - C4 - C6 - root note E5

Controls:
The Modwheel crossfades between the pure flagolet samples and their electronic derivatives. You can reverse the samples using the keyswitch B-1, the default setting for normal playback is A-1.

A modified script from the factory library gives you control over:

• Knob 1 - Attack
• Knob 2 - Release
• Knob 3 - Lowpass Filter Cutoff
• Knob 4 - Temposynced Filter Modulation
• Knob 5 - Modulation Speed
• Knob 6 - Convo Reverb Mix, an Impulse Response made with good old EMT245 is creating the reverbration
• Knob 7 - Chorus Mix
• Knob 8 - Chorus Speed

Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones.

4 Coin Flago Chords Split XFade
4 Flagolet chords and their 4 electronic derivates plucked with a coin (Euro) split across the keyboard.

• Chord 1 - C0 - G#1 - root E1
• Chord 2 - A1 - D#3 - root E2
• Chord 3 - E3 - G#4 - root B3
• Chord 4 - A4 - C7 - root B5

Controls:
The Modwheel crossfades between the pure flagolet samples and their electronic derivatives. You can reverse the samples using the keyswitch B-1, the default setting for normal playback is A-1.

A modified script from the factory library gives you control over:

• Knob 1 - Attack
• Knob 2 - Release
• Knob 3 - Lowpass Filter Cutoff
• Knob 4 - Low EQ, middle position->no change
• Knob 5 - Reverb Mix
• Knob 6 - Amount of Convolution Reverb, an Impulse Response I made using the B2 Plug-In is creating the reverbration
• Knob 7 - Flanger Mix
• Knob 8 - Flanger Speed

Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones.

Flago 6strings RR2 2Vel
Flagolet samples on 6 strings (3rd position) plucked with the fingernail with 2 velocity layers and 2X Round Robin, Range: C0 - C6

Controls:
The Modwheel adds pitch modulation/vibrato.
A modified script from the factory library gives you control over:

• Knob 1 - Attack
• Knob 2 - Release
• Knob 3 - Lowpass Filter Cutoff
• Knob 4 - Saturation Amount
• Knob 5 - Stereo Phasing
• Knob 6 - Amount of Convolution Reverb, an Impulse Response I made using the B2 Plug-In is creating the reverbration
• Knob 7 - Chorus Mix
• Knob 8 - Chorus Speed

Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones.

Flago E2 RR2 2Vel
Flagolet samples played on the low E-String (3rd position) - 2 velocities, 2X Round Robin

A modified script from the factory library gives you control over:

• Knob 1 - Attack
• Knob 2 - Release
• Knob 3 - Lowpass Filter Cutoff
• Knob 4 - velocitiy to filter cutoff, reduce the filer cutoff and then dial in knob 4 to control the cutoff with the velocity
• Knob 5 - Aftertouch to pitch, nice for expressive little glissandi
• Knob 6 - Amount of Convolution Reverb, an Impulse Response made with my good old EMT245 is creating the reverbration
• Knob 7 - Flanger Mix
• Knob 8 - Flanger Speed

Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones.

Note: All customers of Warped Strings for Alchemy can get this item for free, just contact me and I will send you the download link.

The demo was produced improvising with one instance of Kontakt, no post processing was applied apart from a Limiter on the Master Outputs.



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Surreal Snippets
Kontakt 4 - 33.2 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki/Instrument
5 Samples compressed using Kontakt's ncw format
Price: 4.50 €

Content:
This patch uses 5 instrumental snippets recorded during an improvisation wih several musicians and originally belongs to my Alchemy Bank Alchemistry Beyond. These snippets were later processed with various tools and all are split across the keyboard:

• Snippet 01 Cello - mapped from C-2 - F1, root note F1
• Snippet 02 Cello - mapped from F#1- B2, root note F2
• Snippet 03 Cello Doppler - mapped from C3- F4, root note F3
• Snippet 04 Squeaks and Cello - mapped from F#4 - B5, root note D5
• Snippet 05 Squeaks and Drone Doppler - mapped from C6 - G8, root note D#7

Controls:
The Modwheel moves the sample playhead to the right and slightly increases attack time to avoid clicking. A modified Midi script from the Factory Library gives you control over:

• Knob 1 - Attack
• Knob 2 - Release
• Knob 3 - Amplitude Modulation
• Knob 3 - Modulation Speed
• Knob 5 - Lowpass Filter Cutoff
• Knob 6 - Amount of Stereo Delay

Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones.

Note: All customers of Alchemistry Beyond can get this item for free, just contact me and I will send you the download link.

The demo was produced improvising with one instance of Kontakt, no post processing was applied apart from a Limiter on the Master Outputs.



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Mini Bank The Vase for Alchemy released on patchpool

The Vase for Alchemy is a Mini Bank, containing 15 patches made entirely from a multisampled vase using unprocessed samples for beautiful and delicate mallet-like instruments and processed, spectralized and metasynthed samples for pads, synths, soundscapes and otherworldly noises.

The vase was played with soft mallets, hitting it at the top, bottom and side, recording 10 variations for each hit (10x Round Robin). It was also played with the hand for claydrum-like sounds (9xRR), it was rubbed with a drumstick, it was filled with water for nice drips and drops and it was resynthed to create keyboard-like instruments.
All vase samples were recorded with 3 Neumann microphones in L-C-R in 48 Khz/24 Bit, a U87 as the 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 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 this library with more details, the licence agreement, some pics and the patchlist, including playing tips and descriptions for each patch here.

The Vase Specs:

• 229.1 MB of original samples
• 15 patches with 8 variations each in Alchemy's Remix Pad 
• Delivery: Download
• Library size in total: 240 MB

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

Price (paypal): € 11 Euro

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All demos were produced entirely with Alchemy using only patches from The Vase, no post-processing was applied apart from a Limiter on the Outputs.



And a video demonstrating the patch "Water Stabs" - audio is slightly off sync but you get the idea.

Coming soon on patchpool: Mini Bank The Vase for Alchemy

The Vase for Alchemy is a Mini Bank, containing 15 patches made entirely from a multisampled vase using unprocessed samples for mallet-like instruments and processed, spectralized and metasynthed samples for pads, soundscapes and otherworldly noises.

The vase was played with soft mallets, hitting it at the top, bottom and side, recoring 10 variations for each hit (10x Round Robin). It was also played with the hand for claydrum-like sounds, it was rubbed with a drumsick, it was filled with water for nice drips and drops and it was resynthed to create keyboard-like instruments.

The Vase Specs:

• 150 MB of original samples
• 15 patches with 8 variations each in Alchemy's Remix Pad

Delivery: Download
Library size in total: 150 MB
ETA: April 20

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

Price on release: 10 € - pre-order The Vase for € 8 Euro and save 20%
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22% Discount on all Alchemy Banks

Until March 15 there is a 22% discount on all my individual Alchemy Banks. This offer is especially adressing those people who haven't bought the various Alchemy bundles before and want to complete their collection of patchpool Banks.

The price for the unlimited subscription remains as is, so do the bundle prices. There is also a Super Bundle available for € 150 Euro which gives you all 5 Banks plus the unlimited subscription to my single Alchemy patches, this bundle currently contains +450 patches (x8 variations) and +11 Gigabyte of original samples.

There are currently 5 soundsets available, listed in the order I created them over the last +2 years:

Alchemistry
[url=http://www.patchpool.de/alchemistry_beyond.html]Alchemistry Beyond[/url]
Alchemistry Metallurgy
Warped Strings for Alchemy
Framedrum for Alchemy

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Diversity for Diversion released on patchpool

This soundset contains 101 patches and 6 variations for the incredibly capable Diversion synth by Dmitry Sches. The goal was to create a wide range of diverse sounds reaching from mellow and beautiful bells, pads, textural instruments and expressive lead sounds to edgy and soaring sequences and synths to dark and mysterious drones and soundscapes to otherworldly and abstract textures.

A lot of new waveforms were created in- and outside of Diversion to expand the sonic palette of this synth, complex modulation routings were used to create animated and expressive sounds usable for a wide variety of musical styles.

All sounds have the x/y-Mastermorph pad assigned for deep interaction with the sounds, many also use Aftertouch for even more expressive playability.

Patch categories:

• Bell & Plucks (9 + 1 variation)
• Keys & Synths (21)
• Pads (19 + 2 variations)
• Scapes & Drones (29 + 2 variation)
• Sequencers (23 + 1 variation)

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

Delivery: Download - download size 23.4 MB - library size unzipped 29 MB
Price (paypal): € 25 Euro

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All demos in the widget below were produced entirely with Diversion using only patches from Diversity, no post-processing was applied apart from a Limiter on the Master Outputs.

Coming soon on patchpool: Soundset Diversity for Diversion

This soundset will contain about 100 patches for the incredibly capable Diversion Synth by Dmitry Sches. The goal is to create a wide range of diverse sounds reaching from mellow and beautiful bells, pads and textural instruments to edgy and soaring sequences and synths to dark and mysterious drones and soundscapes to otherworldly and abstract texures.

All sounds will have the Mastermorph pad assigned for deep interaction with the sounds, many will also use Aftertouch for even more expressive playabilty.

Delivery: Download
Estimated release date: End of February

Price on release (paypal): € 25 Euro
Pre-order Diversity for € 20 Euro now and save 20%.

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Soundset Cosmic for Padshop Pro released on patchpool

Cosmic for Padshop Pro focusses on rich cinematic pads, drones, soundscapes, bells, synths and cosmic sound effects mainly derived from electronic sources like Hardware and Software synths and more experimental audio applications like Metasynth and Cosmosƒ, a fascinating program which I discovered recently. These sounds are very usable for genres like Ambient - New Age - Soundtrack and Electronica.

Cosmic contains 82 patches making use of 123 original samples produced in 48 Khz / 24 Bit, with a total sze of 1.59 Gigabyte. All patches have the Modwheel assigned, many use Aftertouch and Velocity to control numerous parameters for deep interaction with the sounds.

Patch categories:

• Cosmic Bells (8)
• Cosmic Noises (12)
• Cosmic Pads (17)
• Cosmic Scapes (27)
• Cosmic Sequences (9)
• Cosmic Synths (9)

Sampled Hardware synths:

• Clavia Nordlead
• Roland D 50
• Korg Z1

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

Price (paypal): € 28 Euro

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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 Cosmosƒ, 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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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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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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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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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%

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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:

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

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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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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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

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.

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

ChromaZone review

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

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 €

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P.S.:
Some videos:

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.

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:

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]:

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.

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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.

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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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 €

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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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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.

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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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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new Kontakt patch Tam Scapes

Tam Scapes
Kontakt 4 - 91 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki - Price: 5.50 €
3 samples compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format

This patch uses 3 long soundscapes produced by processing and mixing various Tam Tam (Gong) samples from my soundset Alchemistry Metallurgy. Treated with an array of apps and effects these 3 scapes are split across the keyboard and 3 playing modes are selectable with keyswitches.

Mapping
Soundscape Moaning Dungeon Scape (untuned)
root note C1 - mapped from C0 - B1
Soundscape Moaning Tam Tam processed 01 (tuned)
root note A#2 - mapped from C2 - C4
Soundscape Mist and Rain (tuned)
root note F5 - mapped from C4 - C7

Keyswitches
Keyswitch A-1 (default) - triggers the samples in normal sampler mode, the Modwheel controls the sample start point (50%).
Keyswitch A#-1 - triggers the samples in Time Machine 2 mode, the Modwheel controls the sample start point. Time Machine is set to Legato so playing overlapping notes will mot retrigger the sample from the beginning.
Keyswitch B-1 - triggers the samples in Tone Machine mode, the Modwheel controls the sample start point, a slow LFO modulates the formant shifting. Tone Machine is set to Legato so playing overlapping notes will mot retrigger the sample from the beginning.

Midi Script
A modified Midi Controller script from the factory Library gives you control over:
Knob 1 - Release time (all samples)
Knob 2 - Lowpass Cutoff Frequency (all samples)
Knob 3 - Sample speed of Group 2 (Time Machine 2 mode)
Knob 4 - Sample speed of Group 3 (Tone Machine)
Knob 5 - Smoothness of the Tone Machine sound, turning the knob to the very left adds more "edge"
Knob 6 - Amount of stereo delay

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Soundset ChromaZone for Chromaphone released on patchpool

This soundset contains 100 original patches and 22 variations for Chromaphone by AAS. I focussed on emulations of known and und unknown instruments like mallets, bells, chimes, plucked strings, keyboards, hybrid strangers and percussive sounds as well as experimental patches, lush pads, dark drones, beautiful textures, funky synths and funny noises.
As soon as AAS updates Chromaphone to add Pitchbend, Microtuning, Aftertouch and whatever else I will add these controls to the patches and all customers will receive a free update of ChromaZone.

Combining materials like metal, skin and wood with elements like air and articulations like beating, plucking and bowing can create physically modelled instruments that are hard to describe with words. Although they might sound familiar due totheir "organic" nature, words sometimes fail to describe what they "really are" and how they actually sound. Quite a few of these hybrid strangers are included in ChromaZone.
Chromaphone is advertised as a percussion synthesizer which in my opinion only covers a smaller aspect of it's virtues. Physical modeling has been rivaling with conventional sampling for years in terms of emulating "realism". The creation of sonic "surrealism" based on organic sounding materials is a far more powerful aspect of this technology and Chromaphone in particular.

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

Price: 18 €
Delivery: Email

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Soundset Alchemistry Metallurgy released on patchpool

The soundset Alchemistry Metallurgy for Alchemy is the first in a series focussing on specific materials and single instruments. The set contains 57 patches with 8 variations each in the Remix Pad and focusses on metallic sounds derived from real instruments, metal objects and industrial field recordings. This patch collection keeps the balance between real sounding metal instruments, otherworldly textures and wondrous soundscapes using also some processed electronic derivates of the sampled materials.
All sounds are sample-based, some patches use the resynthesis features in Alchemy.
You will find many patches and snapshots which sound wam, delicate and beautiful, characteristics one may not normally associate with metallic sounds.

Alchemistry Metallurgy Specs:

1.81 GB of original samples - source material:

Instruments:
China Cymbal bowed, scraped and beaten - multisampled and Round Robin

Glockenspiel multisampled
23 semitones (C4-A#5), 4x RR, 2 velocity layers (179 samples/386,7 MB)

2 microtonal handheld Bell Trees 8x Round Robin, 2 articulations, +textures
2 Thai Gongs multisampled + 8x Round Robin, 4 velocity layers, +texures
Thai Ching Bells - 6x Round Robin, 3 velocity layers
Tam Tam 45 cm - beaten (7xRound Robin/4 velocities), scraped and rubbed

Various multisampled metal objects:
Caviar Cans, Metal Bowl, Coins, Dumbbell plate, Small Thunder Sheet
Metal Plate (dinner tray), Anvil

Industrial metal sounds recorded in factories

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
The industrial field recordings were done with 2 shotgun mics - Sennheiser MK 70

57 patches with 8 variations each

You can view/download the PDF for Metallurgy with more details, the licence agreement, some pics and the patch list including playing tips and description for each patch here.

Delivery: Download
Library size in total: 1.82 GB
Download size (RAR archive in 2 parts): 1.04 GB

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

Price: 25 €

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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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What's coming next on patchpool?

Besides numerous Kontakt patches which have to be finished (I'm looking for a new Kontakt scripter btw) I'll start working on a new Bank for Zebra. Also I will make several smaller Banks for Alchemy, not these huge sets like my first 2 Alchemistry Banks which take months to produce and require bigger financial investments for studio musicians and buying/hiring instruments. No, things on a smaller scale, less expensive too - maybe 40 patches per Bank (with 8 variations each) focussed on special materials and instruments. I think the first one will be about Ceramics, ceramic materials of all sorts samples and transformed into playable instruments, Soundscapes, sequences, percussive instruments, abstract textures...I'll just go into a second hand shop (there are hundreds of them here in Berlin) and buy all good sounding ceramics I can find, if they sound less interesting, I'll buy them anyway and smash them to get some interesting percussive sounds.
More info soon...

Simon

New Kontakt patch: Metal Thunder

Metal Thunder
Kontakt 4 - 30,4 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki/Instrument - Price: 4 €
10 samples (wav) - 1 Impulse Response (wav)

10 keyswitchable samples produced with a metal thunder sheet I found hanging in a sculpture park in Dresden/Germany.

Keyswitches/Mapping
Each sample has it's dedicated Group, switch between the Groups with the keyswitches located from C0-A0. The samples are mapped from C1-G8.

Controls
There is a modified Factory Midi script with 7 control knobs giving you control for Saturation, Lowpass Filter Cutoff, Low EQ, High EQ, Stereo width (if that knob is turned all the way to the left the samples play in mono), Convolution wet amount and StereoDelay wet amount. Pressing the sustain pedal will reverse each sample.
The Impulse Response active in the Convolution Reverb is one of the thunder sheets, so the Reverb stays inside the family sort of.
You can easily automate the knobs in your DAW, they are pre-assigned and ready to roll.

A Limiter is active at the end of the effect chain to avoid clipping when using high amounts of Saturation/Convolution/EQ, but as Kontakt's Limiter is no the best on this planet I would advise you to bypass it and use a good external one.

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Sound Bank TripleX for ElectraX released on patchpool

Sound Bank TripleX for ElectraX:
This Bank contains 102 patches with 30 variations for the Synthesizer ElectraX by Tone2.
There are 6 sound categories with Pads&Synths, Sequences, Soundscapes, Sci-Fi Textures, Instruments and Percussion (chromatic and achromatic) suitable for a wide range of musical styles. Many sounds are sample based utilizing samples especially produced for this Bank, also making use of a split-stereo workaround so that there are true stereo samples involved. You'll find sampled Saxophones, Flutes, Kalimba, electronic and vocal textures and lots more, often modulating VA Oscillators with those samples via FM, a unique ElectraX feature yielding very interesting results. Quite a few resynthed waveforms are incorporated as well expanding the sonic palette even more. The unique Fractal Oscillators and Filters in ElectraX are used extensively creating dense and fascinating electronic textures. Up to 4 layers per patch make many of these patches sound TripleX, quite a few patches were programmed in split mode, distributing different sounds over the entire keyboard range. All patches have the Modwheel assigned and often use Aftertouch for additional sound sculpturing so it is advisable to use a keyboard with 88 keys and Aftertouch to make the best out of this Bank.
The download folder includes the original sample content as well, mainly split stereo and mono samples so that you will be able to use these in other samplers or inside your DAW.
You can read/download the pdf-file with further instructions, more details, the licence agreement and a patchlist here.
Library Size: 162.8 MB (patches) - 195 MB (extra samples)
Download size: 283.5 MB

Price: 29 €

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New Kontakt patch: Space Sines

Space Sines
Kontakt 4 - 53,8 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 2 nkis - Price: 5.50 €
13 samples compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format - 2 Impulse Responses (wav)

Patch Space Sines
This patch uses 10 electronic textures produced with a modified Reaktor Ensemble (created by Rick Scott) and various FX Plug-Ins.

Keyswitches and Mapping:
Select the 10 different samples using the keyswitches located from C0-A#0, keyswitch A#0 will play all 10 samples simultaneously. The sample currently selected will be displayed in the GUI, all samples are mapped from C1-B7. The QHI switch let's you select between 3 interpolation modes, HQI mode "Perfect" can be very CPU intensive when extremely transposing the samples.

Controls:
There is an Envelope section with Attack and Release time control.
Pulse-shaped pitch modulation can be added with controls for Speed and Depth and a slider for the Pulsewidth of the pulse wave. You can also modulate the Pulsewidth with a second LFO on the right of the GUI, conrols for Speed and Depth are availble here as well.

FX Section
There is bypassable Stereo Delay with 4 control knpbs for Time, Dampoing, Feedback and Wet amount and you willl find a bypassable Convolution Reverb using 2 strange Impulse Responses which you can select by clicking into the IR Tab. The Convolution Engine has full control over Predelay, IR Size, High- and Lowpass, Wet amount and a Reverse switch.

Patch Space Sine Clouds Split
This patch uses 3 more dense electronic textures which are aplit across the keyboard. You'll find 2 Layers, Layer on running in Sampler mode and Layer 2 in Time Machine 2 mode.
Mapping:
Each sample plays over 2 octaves starting at C0.

Controls:
You can change the sample start points with the Modwheel or the slider on the left of the GUI.
Each Layer has a Volume knob and two knobs for Attack and Release. Layer 2 also has a control for Sample Speed . There are two bypassable Filters for each Layer, Lowpass and Highpass with controls for Cutoff and Emphasis/Resonance. You can apply LFO-modulation to each Filter seperately selecting the wave of the LFO and using two knobs for Speed and Modulation Depth.

FX Section:
There is a bypassable Stereo Delay with 4 controls for Time, Damping, Feedback and Wet amount.

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

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Golden Octobre on patchpool

During Octobre many patchpool items will be available at a discount of 25%.

Sound and Preset Banks

u-he

Sound Bank Zebra2 1st Encounter - 14.95 € - Discount price: 11.21 €

MFM2 Beat Twista - 9.95 € - Discount price: 7.46 €

Edgy Scapes for Filterscape - 9.95 € - Discount price: 7.46 €

u-he bundle (all 3 Banks for u-he Plug-Ins) - 24.95 € - Discount price: 18.71 €


iZotope

Glitchmania for Stutter Edit - 15.95 € - Discount price: 11.96 €


Reaktor

Eternity for Metaphysical Function - 19.95 € - Discount price: 14.96 €

Spectral Territory for Razor - 15.95 € - Discount price: 11.96 €

Evil Things for Reichatron - 18.95 € - Discount price: 14.21 €

Reaktor bundle (all 3 Banks for Reaktor) - 44 € - Discount price: 33 €


Absynth

Sound Bank Best of absynthsounds.com Vol. 1 - 15.95 € - Discount price: 11.96 €


Kontakt

10 Patch Bundle

Choose 10 items from the various categories - 24.95 € - Discount price: 18.71 €


SoundPacks and single-wavs

Select 4 SoundPacks from the various categories for 21 €

Select 10 single-wavs for 15 €

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