Coming soon: Reaktor Sound Bank Evil Things for Reichatron

I started working on a Bank for Reaktor's Reichatron, an ensemble build by Matt Mower. I'll focus on creating dark and evil soundscapes, noises, sci-fi textures and otherworldy ambiences as Halloween is around the corner...
The sample map will include +1 GB of original samples, about 30 longer Soundscapes made with an array of virtual instruments and effects also using processed field recordings. There will be about 60 Snapshots, release is planned for mid septembre, also waiting for the release of Reaktor 5.6.1 here.

The final price will be 17.95 €, you can pre-order this Bank nowfor 14.35 € and save 20%

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SoundPack Violina released

I just released the SoundPack Violina:


587,1 MB unzipped - 274 violin samples/48 Khz/24 Bit/wav/stereo - Price: 24.95 €

Played by a professional female violinist, she has a beautiful tone, a very good instrument and a superb technique. Recorded using 3 top notch Neumann microphones in L-C-R, the Neumann U87 being the center Mic and a stereo set of KM-184 for the left and right side. Originally sampled for my Sound Bank Alchemistry Beyond

NOTE: Customers of Alchemistry Beyond don't need this Pack, they have all the samples and sfz-files already!

Content
There are 15 folders, each one containing different articulations. Many folders include a sfz-file with mapped instruments, you can import those maps into any sampler that reads sfz-files.

Violin Arpeggios - 4 samples/sfz
Violin Col Legno - multisampled instrument 59 samples/sfz
Violin Flagolet Tremolo multisampled instrument 29 samples/sfz
Violin Flagolet Tremolo FX - 4 samples
Violin Flautato - multisampled instrument 5 samples sfz
Violin FX - 6 samples/sfz
Violin Glissando - 8 samples sfz
Violin Col Legno Loops - 14 samples sfz
Violin Long 4 Bows - multisampled instrument 43 samples sfz
Violin Long Dynamics - multisampled instrument 10 samples sfz
Violin Runs - 5 samples sfz
Violin Spiccato - multisampled instrument 48 samples sfz
Violin Staccato - 7 samples (loops/stabs) sfz
Violin Sul Pont - 10 samples
Violin Sul Pont Tremolo - multisampled instrument 22 samples sfz

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Reaktor Sample Map Vocal Arts

Sample Map Vocal Arts - Sample Map for Reaktor 5.6
38 female voice samples (48 Khz/24 Bit) originally produced for my Sound Banks Alchemistry and Alchemistry Beyond
128.8 MB unzipped - price: 11.95 €

This sample map is a compilation of 38 female voice samples incoporating catlike sounds, processed and unprocessed sighs, gremlinlike material, gibberish, tremolos and glissandi.

NOTE: Customers of my Alchemistry Banks should not purchase this map as they already have the involved samples.

Demo using the Map in Reaktor's Lugubrioso Ensemble (by Rick Scott)

Now available on patchpool: Annual subscription for Kontakt patches

For 82 € you can now buy an annual subscription for all Kontakt items released on patchpool until now and during the duration of the subscription. Instead of buying single or bundled items this will give you a great discount as lots of stuff is going to be released during the next year. The price for this subscription will increase, the more items become available.

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SoundPack Tokyo Tuna Auction

I finally found the time to prepare a SoundPack with samples recorded at a tuna auction in Tokyo some years ago. We went there at 4 o clock in the morning and experienced this strange ritual, huge tunas lying around and the chanting and yelling auctioneers sticking their fingers into the tunas to test their quality. At the end of each small auction there was this concert of bells.
The Pack contains 22 wavs recorded in 48 Khz/24 Bit - 328 MB unzipped. Price is 14.95 €
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Alchemistry Beyond for Alchemy released on patchpool

I just released Alchemistry Beyond for Alchemy after more than 2 months of Alchemania:

This Sound Bank for Alchemy comprises a whole universe of unique and fascinating sounds. A violinist and a female vocalist were hired to record unique source material using top notch Neumann microphones, all samples were recorded in L-C-R in 48 Khz/24 Bit/stereo, many of those were processed with an array of FX-Plug-Ins to create unheard electronic textures. Multisampled violin and vocal patches featuring conventional and unusal articulations create evocative, cinematic, dark and touching atmospheres as well as beautiful pad sounds. Various chromatic and achromatic percussion instruments as well as metal and glass objects were multisampled, piano strings treated with coins and lots of processed field recordings from around the globe recorded on trips during the last months are included in the 3,71 Gigabyte sample content.
Otherworldly electronic textures using mutlisampled software synths with sounds I made for this Bank and fascinating textures created with the incredible Metasynth are another important ingredient of Alchemistry Beyond.
Quite a few patches have 4 alternations (Round Robin) for more realism and expressiveness, some also use up to 3 velocity layers.
You can read/download the pdf-file with further instructions, more details, the licence agreement and a patchlist here.

This Bank contains 128 patches with 8 variations each in Alchemy's Remix Pad. All 8 Performance Controllers as well as both x/y-pads are assigned for each patch. The sounds are delivered as a RAR-archive split up into 5 parts for better download handling. The download size is 2,67 GB.

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

Price: 49.95 €

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What's next?

Thinking loud here:
After releasing Alchemistry Beyond for Alchemy some time next week I shall first concentrate on making/finishing a bunch of Absynth patches to be released on absynthsounds.com
A second volume of "Best of absynthsounds.com" is then due to be released on patchpool
After that it will be my second Zebra Bank I guess. Also I might release something for Turnado which is a great Multi FX by Sugarbytes.
From the vast amount of sample I made for Alchemistry Beyond I will probably make some derivates for Kontakt, especially all the violin samples would be very cool to have as Kontakt instruments.
More SoundPacks and single-wavs will be released as well.
Looking into the possibility to make video demos and trailers for patchpool as well.

Alchemistry Beyond - The finishing line...

I can feel it, the finishing line must be around the next corner. After almost 2 months of working on this new Bank almost every day, sometimes for 12 hours and more I now have over 100 patches with only +20 to go. My passion for sampling, resynthesizing and granulating known and unknown sounds has manifested itself on a new level in this work and I'm pretty happy and excited about it.
As I'll use these sounds in my own compositional work during the next months and years making a Bank like this is also like creating a new source of inspiration for myself, so the feeling I have right now is bit like on the day before christmas :)
I've dug deep into Alchemy's possibilities (and limitations) with my 2 Alchemy Banks, I really know this piece of software now and my list of improvement wishes is long, maybe a few of these requests will be made possible by Camel Audio in future versions.

SoundPack Animals Vol 1

There is a new SoundPack available on patchpool:

SoundPack Animals Vol. 1
21 wav files - 525.9 MB unzipped - 48 Khz / 24 Bit - Price: 17.95 €

21 field recordings of frogs, ducklings, my cat Luise (she died some years ago), zoo ambiences with sounds of penguins, storks and exotic birds.

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July special - 3 SoundPacks for 21 Euros

Get 3 SoundPacks/LoopPacks of your choice for 21 €.
Select any of the SoundPacks/LoopPacks from the various categories, the 43 single-wavs are excluded form this offer. After your order has been processed you will receive a confirmation Email, just respond to that mail and tell me which SoundPacks you want. Please allow me a few hours to process your order.

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Group Buy for Kontakt patches and libraries until June 20

Buy into this Group Buy for 21 Euros and choose you patches and libraries from the various categories listed below. You can receive your patches/libraries right away when buying into this Group Buy or you can wait until the campaign is over and receive them all at once. The download links will be sent manually to the Email address provided via paypal, you will receive a confirmation Email, please respond to that and tell me which patches/libraries you would like to have. Please allow me a few hours to process to your order.

Level 1 10 patches/libraries - 1 - 15 participants
Level 2 15 patches/libraries - 16 - 30 participants
Level 3 20 patches/libraries - 31 - 45 participants
Level 4 25 patches/libraries - 46 - 60 participants
+1 Bonus SoundPack Trains and Subways
Level 5 30 patches/libraries - 61 - 75 participants
Level 6 40 patches/libraries - 75 - 90 participants
+1 Bonus SoundPack or LoopPack of your choice
Level 7 all 49 patches/libraries - +90 participants

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coming soon: Alchemistry Beyond - 128 patches for Alchemy

So I started working on a new Bank for Alchemy a few days ago:

ALCHEMISTRY BEYOND

This Bank will comprise a wide spectrum of unique sounds. A female vocalist and a violinist wil be hired to record unique source material using top notch Neumann microphones. Multisampled vocal and violin patches featuring known and unknown pad and phrase instruments, resynthed and granulated vocal and violin patches featuring conventional and unusal articulations processed with an array of FX Plug-Ins. Also many percussion instruments will be multisampled and lots of field recordings recorded during the last months will be included in the +2,5 Gigabyte sample content produced at 48 Khz/24 Bit. Otherworldly electronic textures using samples made or processed with the incredible Metasynth, crusherX and GRM tools will be another important ingredient of Alchemistry Beyond.
This Sound Bank will contain 128 patches with 8 variations each in Alchemy's Remix Pad. All 8 Performance Controllers as well as both x/y-pads will be assigned for each patch.
Release is planned for mid July and the final price for this Bank will be 39.95 €, you can pre-order it now for 30 € and save 25%.

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Thank's for reading
Simon

New SoundPack Trains and Subways

42 wav files - 831.4 MB unzipped - 36 wavs in 48 Khz/24 Bit and 6 wavs in 44.1 Khz/16 Bit - Price: 39.95 €

Collection of 42 wavs comprising Train and Subway sounds as well as station ambiences recorded in various countries like Japan, Russia, Germany, Taiwan and South Korea. Trains passing through stations at various speeds, arriving and departing trains, long subway rides with announcements, rattling old school trains (found in Russia), squeaking metal noises, ticket machines, steps, passemgers and escalators. This SoundPack will supply you with a great variety of sounds for post production and sound design.
Introductory offer until May 20:
Buy the SoudPack Trains and Subways and get one SoundPack of your choice for free. Here is the overview page with all the various categories.

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Trip to Russia Part 2

For the next 3 weeks I'll be travelling Russia making sound recordings for a documentary film. So processing your orders on patchpool can take a bit longer than usual.

Over and out
Simon

Meta Voices - Patch Collection for Kontakt 4

I just uploaded this patch collection:

Meta Voices
5 samples - 3 patches - 73,8 MB unzipped - 48 Khz/24 Bit - Price: 6,50 €
Samples are compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format - 2 Impulse Responses (wav)

This collection contains 3 patches made with processed female voices:
Evolution Vox
3 layered samples (looped), female singing straight notes processed in Melodyne and GRM Evolution, mapped from C0-C6. Each sample has it's own Group with modulated Volume and Band Reject Filter at different speeds so the patch is constantly moprhing. The Modwheel controls the Cutoff of the Lopwpass Filter. An Impulse Response made with the good old EMT 245 is active in the Convolution engine.

Female Cloudvoice
A strange and mysterious vocal Soundscape, 2:32 long, made from a Solo Soprano voice first totally mangled in crusherX and then processed with GRM Evolution, Bandpass and ValhallaRoom. Group 1 triggered by Keyswith A0 plays back that samplle in Sampler mode, control the sample start position with the Modwheel. Group 2 triggered by Keyswitch B0 plays in Time Machine 2 mode, control the sample speed with Midi Controller 21 and the sample start position with the Modwheel. Mapped from C0-C8. A long IR made with Aether Reverb is active in the Convolution engine.

Female Overtones
Female overtone singing processed in Metasynth resulting in a long synthetic, voicelike texture, 2 min long. Mapped from C0-C7. The sample is looped, control the sample start position with the Modwheel. A long IR made with Aether Reverb is active in the Convolution engine.

The demo was produced using 3 instances of Kontakt, each one playing a single patch inside Logic, no post-processing was applied.

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What's next on patchpool?

So what's next on patchpool? During this week I'll release my Razor Bank Spectral Territory.
After another 3-week-trip to Russia beginning friday next week which will take me through +10 russian cities and a few other countries together with a documentary-film-crew and the orchestra of the russian Marinsky-theatre, I will start working on a new Alchemy Bank in May. Actually I made the first patch for it today. It'll take longer than Alchemistry did, I'll hire some singers (male and female), a guitar player maybe (electric), a violinist, and make an extra-huge-128-patch-Bank, probably named Alchemistry 2. Pre-order for that Bank will start in May or so, maybe I'll even start this one with a Group Buy :help:
Second half of the year definitely another Zebra Bank and as a longer-term-project a Bank for Metasynth with all kinds of supporting files for this fantastic Instrument. All of this will be great fun and a lot of work indeed.
Thank's for reading
Simon

New subscription scheme for Alchemy patches on patchpool

I just changed the scheme for the single Alchemy patches available on patchpool. It now runs on an unlimited subscription scheme, meaning that buying the subscription for currently 10 Euros will give you access to all current and future patches.
All former donators will automatically become subscribers without paying any additional fees.

coming soon: Razor Sound Bank Spectral Territory

64 unusual and exciting patches for Razor, a new Reaktor Instrument by Native Instruments. I will focus on creating cinematic Soundscapes, big drones, unheard solo instruments, some temposynced stuff and of course weird FX sounds. All patches will have the Modwheel and the Pitchbender assigned for expressive playability, many also use Aftertouch. +20 of my Snapshots didn't make it into the Razor Factory Library so I have a good basis to build on. There will be some variations as well, as some patches sound good with different settings of specific parameters.
The Bank should be ready by April 20 the latest, the final price will be 15.95 Euro. Pre-order now and save 20%. Please allow me a few hours to manually process your order.

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New Kontakt patch: Resonating Scape

Kontakt 4 - 132,1 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - Price: 6 €
1 long Soundscape and a processed derivate thereof divided into 8 segments - Samples are compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format

This patch uses a recording I made in a russian steelpipe factory. Some huge hammers banging on metal pipes. This recording was processed with Metasynth and the result furtherly processed with crusherX, Aether and Shimmer Reverb. The resulting sample was then processed again with Absynth FX pitched Supercombs and More Feedback Machine.
Both samples are mapped from C1-C6 (root key is D2) and are divided into 8 equal segments (looped), triggered by Keyswitches (C0-G0). The segments of the second sample can be faded in using the Modwheel, turning up the Modwheel will also reduce the volume of the first sample.. All segments have their dedicated Groups, which are all set to high Interpolation to reduce artifacts when extremely transposing the sample. This can cause CPU or Disk spikes depending on your system. In this case just swith the Interpolation (HQI) to "standard" in all groups.

In the live played demo all segments are used consecutively in various octaves, sometimes overlapping a bit by pressing a new keyswitch and triggering the next segment sound while holding the former sounds with the sustain pedal. The Modwheel fades the FX derivates (Sample 2) in and out.

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Alchemistry Group Buy on patchpool

Alchemistry Group Buy March 23 - April 10, 11:59 pm
The regular price for Alchemistry is 33.95 €

To buy into this GB each participant pays a 15 Euro starting price. When the GB is over (or has reached Level 5) the difference to the final price is paid by each participant using the paypal adress which will be provided via Email, then the download links will be distributed. When Level 2 is reached all participants get access to the 29 locked Alchemy donationware patches on patchpool right away.
Please allow me a few hours to respond, all orders are processed manually.

Level 1
1-10 participants 10% reduction = 30,55 € final price

Level 2
11-20 participants 20% reduction = 27,16 € final price + bonus patches donationware

Level 3
21-30 participants 30% reduction = 23,76 € final price

Level 4
31-40 participants 40% reduction = 20,37 € final price

Level 5
50+ participants 50% reduction = 16,97 € final price

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