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.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
May Special Discounts for Alchemy Soundsets
Warped Strings for Alchemy
Alchemistry Metallurgy
Alchemistry Beyond
Alchemistry
Friday, April 20, 2012
ChromaZone review
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Annual subscription for Iris presets
This again was a totally spontaneous decision, after iZotope released Iris yabout 36 hours ago. I immediately dived into making presets and experiments as I'm quite fascinated and inspired by this Plug-In. As I don't have the time right now to make a full preset Bank I just setup a subscription page for Iris presets:
Get the annual subscription for my Iris presets for currently 15 Euros. The more patches I post, the higher the subscription price will be. Whenever I find the time I will create and upload smaller patch collections and send out the download links to all subscribers.
All samples involved are embedded in the presets using the "Export"-function in the Iris Browser. Just create a folder in your Iris Library named "patchpool" and drag the downloaded patches inside that folder to access the presets.
Uploads
Set 1 uploaded on April 19 - 2012 containing 6 presets (124.8 MB) including:
Deep Dragger Groove - 2 Macros
In the Zoo - Split - 3 Macros
Piano Hammers
Sax Patch (see video below)
Spectral Wonderland (demo below)
Tam Tam Pad
Current price: 15 €
Subscription page
P.S.:
Some videos:
Get the annual subscription for my Iris presets for currently 15 Euros. The more patches I post, the higher the subscription price will be. Whenever I find the time I will create and upload smaller patch collections and send out the download links to all subscribers.
All samples involved are embedded in the presets using the "Export"-function in the Iris Browser. Just create a folder in your Iris Library named "patchpool" and drag the downloaded patches inside that folder to access the presets.
Uploads
Set 1 uploaded on April 19 - 2012 containing 6 presets (124.8 MB) including:
Deep Dragger Groove - 2 Macros
In the Zoo - Split - 3 Macros
Piano Hammers
Sax Patch (see video below)
Spectral Wonderland (demo below)
Tam Tam Pad
Current price: 15 €
Subscription page
P.S.:
Some videos:
Friday, April 13, 2012
New Kontakt Patch: Vocal Scape
This patch combines 4 mysterious samples/soundscapes produced by processing male and female voices with various apps and Plug-Ins. The samples are layered in pairs, split-point is C3.
Controls:
Each layer (consisting of 2 samples) has it's designated control knobs for Attack, Release and Volume control. Each sound is also modulated by a LFO-driven Bandreject Filter, there are control knobs for modulation amount and modulation speed, turning up the LFO speed fully will create interesting ringmodulation-like effects. The inverted Modwheel controls the Cutoff of a Lowpass Filter.
FX section:
There is a Chorus and a Delay active in the FX section, bypass switches are available for both of them. The Chorus has 3 control knobs for Speed, Depth and Send amount. The Delay also has 3 control knobs for Time, Feedback and Send amount.
Product page
The demo was produced improvising with one instance of Kontakt tweaking some of the available controls, no post processing was applied.
Monday, April 2, 2012
New Kontakt Instruments: Prepared Guitar
Here comes the second excerpt from Warped Strings for Alchemy for Kontakt - the Prepared Guitars. All Warped Strings-customers can get this item for free, just contact me via patchpool and I'll send you the download link.
Content:
The two contained patches use 36 multisamples from Warped Strings. For these instruments the A and G strings of an acoustic Western Guitar were prepared with various objects and multisampled with 3 velocity layers and 6x Round Robin (variations per sampled note).
Controls:
A modified Midi script from the Fatory Library gices you control over:
Knob 1 - Attack
Knob 2 - Release
Knob 3 - Amount of Aftertouch controlling the pitch, good for expressive vibrati and bends
Knob 3 - Saturation amount
Knob 5 - Chorus Mix
Knob 6 - Reverb Mix (Kontakt's algorithmic Reverb)
Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones
Modwheel adds vibrato
Price: 5 €
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Demo improvising with 2 instance of Kontakt each one playing one of the patches, no post-processing:
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 €
Product page
Demo improvising with 2 instance of Kontakt each one playing one of the patches, no post-processing:
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Annual subscription for Tremor Beatz on patchpool
I just setup the annual subscription to single Tremor presets and Kits which I will post frequently depending on my time schedule. The first 3 presets and Kits are available here.
The more presets and Kits there are, the higher the subscription price will be, it's 10 € to start with and will stay like that until about 20 things have been published.
All Tremendous Beatz customers will get this offering as an unlimited subscription.
Annual subscription Tremor Beatz
Here is a demo for one of the new presets, [b]Deep Dragger[/b]:
The more presets and Kits there are, the higher the subscription price will be, it's 10 € to start with and will stay like that until about 20 things have been published.
All Tremendous Beatz customers will get this offering as an unlimited subscription.
Annual subscription Tremor Beatz
Here is a demo for one of the new presets, [b]Deep Dragger[/b]:
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
New Kontakt Instrument: Stick Guitar
Stick Guitar RR5 3Vel
Kontakt 4 - 203.4 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki/Instrument
135 Samples compressed using Kontakt's ncw format
Price: 7.50 €
Content:
This patch uses 135 multisamples from my Alchemy soundset Warped Strings beating the 6 open strings of an acoustic Western Guitar with a drumstick - 3 velocity layers and 5x Round Robin (variarions per sampled note) were sampled. To extend the range of the instrument the low E-String was also tuned down to a G0 and the high E-String was also sampled at B3 and E4.
Controls:
A modified Midi script from the Fatory Library gices you control over:
Knob 1 - Attack
Knob 2 - Release
Knob 3 - Chorus Mix
Knob 3 - Saturation amount
Knob 5 - Reverb Mix (Kontakt's algorithmic Reverb)
Knob 6 - Reverb Size
Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones.
Product page
Kontakt 4 - 203.4 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki/Instrument
135 Samples compressed using Kontakt's ncw format
Price: 7.50 €
Content:
This patch uses 135 multisamples from my Alchemy soundset Warped Strings beating the 6 open strings of an acoustic Western Guitar with a drumstick - 3 velocity layers and 5x Round Robin (variarions per sampled note) were sampled. To extend the range of the instrument the low E-String was also tuned down to a G0 and the high E-String was also sampled at B3 and E4.
Controls:
A modified Midi script from the Fatory Library gices you control over:
Knob 1 - Attack
Knob 2 - Release
Knob 3 - Chorus Mix
Knob 3 - Saturation amount
Knob 5 - Reverb Mix (Kontakt's algorithmic Reverb)
Knob 6 - Reverb Size
Pitchbend is set to +2/-2 semitones.
Product page
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Spring Special Discounts
Spring Special Deals March 2012
ends on March 31
There are discount prices available for individual products and bundles and there will be occasional freebies of the day. Check out the Spring Special page.
ends on March 31
There are discount prices available for individual products and bundles and there will be occasional freebies of the day. Check out the Spring Special page.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Tremendous Beatz for Tremor released on patchpool
I just released my soundset Tremendous Beatz for Tremor:
Tremendous Beatz for FXpansions Tremor contains 50 presets with at least 8 patterns and pattern variations per preset. All instruments created in the synth engines are available individually in instrument folders so that the user can import them into other presets, kits and projects.
Tremor's most versatile modulation capabilities like Graphs, Envelopes, LFOs and Macros are used in all presets creating vivid and interesting rhythms, deep grooves, ambient beats, futuristic music and otherworldly textures usable for a wide variety of musical styles.
Besides 27 presets with even metered grooves in the TB Even Beatz-folder there are 16 presets with odd grooves which have odd time signatures like 5/8 - 6/8 - 7/8 - 9/8 - 12/8 - 13/8 - 3/4 - 5/4 - 6/4, as rhythms and grooves in 4/4 only represent one aspect of today's music production. Triplet based 4/4 Beats are also to be found in the TB Odd Beatz-folder. In the TB Scapes-folder you will find 7 intriguing soundscapes evolving over time with lots of randomization going on, something one would not associate with a "Drum Machine".
Also there are 50 Kits available which were created for the individual presets, some of them have one or two empty slots. You can view/download the PDF for Warped Strings with more details, the licence agreement and the patch list including playing tips and description for each patch here.
Price: 27.50 € (including the unlimited subscription for single presets)
Delivery: Email (zip) 1.3 MB - 19.6 MB unzipped
Product page
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
Product page
Monday, February 13, 2012
Soundset Warped Strings for Alchemy released on patchpool
I just released my new soundset for Alchemy on patchpool:
The soundset Warped Strings for Alchemy is the second in a series focussing on specific materials and single instruments. For this soundset an acoustic Western Guitar was multisampled, treating it with all sorts of tools to create unique sounding real and unreal instruments, otherworldly textures, groovy sequences, beautiful and dark soundscapes and cinematic pad sounds. Multiple velocity layers and Round Robin variations were produced for the creation of expressive and organic sounding instruments.
All samples were recorded with 3 Neumann microphones and processed with native and outboard gear, to make the best out of the recorded audio material. A wide variety of electronic textures derived form the recorded guitar sounds were produced and often combined with the original samples and sounds resynthed inside Alchemy.
As in all my soundsets for Alchemy I make extensive use of Alchemy's complex modulation possibilities and Filters, often intermodulating LFOs/MSEGs/Sequencers with each other and assigning numerous parameters to a single Controller. This enables the user to deeply interact with the sounds and shape it according to his needs and preferences. Also the patches can serve as a starting point for the user's own creations when loading new samples into them and then using the pre-assigned Controllers and Snapshots in the Remix Pad. You can view/download the PDF for Warped Strings with more details, the licence agreement and the patch list including playing tips and description for each patch here.
Warped Strings Specs:
1.59 GB of original samples - source material:
Plucked Guitar using various objects like coins, screwdrivers
Tremolo Guitar
Beaten Guitar using drumsticks and mallets
Scraped Guitar using various metal objects for scraping the strings
Prepared guitar
Bowed Guitar - bowing the strings with a violin bow
Chimed Guitar - playing on the strings with the metal beam of some small windchimes
Flagolet Guitar
Trash Guitar
Slapped Guitar
Guitar loops
All samples recorded with 3 Neumann microphones in L-C-R - 48 Khz/24 Bit
U87 center mic - a stereo set of KM 184 for L-R using RME Preamps.
Delivery: Download
Library size in total: 1.61 Gigabyte
Download size: 1.04 Gigabyte
NOTE: This Sound Bank will require the full version of Alchemy.
It will not work with the Alchemy player version.
Price: 25 €
Product page
The soundset Warped Strings for Alchemy is the second in a series focussing on specific materials and single instruments. For this soundset an acoustic Western Guitar was multisampled, treating it with all sorts of tools to create unique sounding real and unreal instruments, otherworldly textures, groovy sequences, beautiful and dark soundscapes and cinematic pad sounds. Multiple velocity layers and Round Robin variations were produced for the creation of expressive and organic sounding instruments.
All samples were recorded with 3 Neumann microphones and processed with native and outboard gear, to make the best out of the recorded audio material. A wide variety of electronic textures derived form the recorded guitar sounds were produced and often combined with the original samples and sounds resynthed inside Alchemy.
As in all my soundsets for Alchemy I make extensive use of Alchemy's complex modulation possibilities and Filters, often intermodulating LFOs/MSEGs/Sequencers with each other and assigning numerous parameters to a single Controller. This enables the user to deeply interact with the sounds and shape it according to his needs and preferences. Also the patches can serve as a starting point for the user's own creations when loading new samples into them and then using the pre-assigned Controllers and Snapshots in the Remix Pad. You can view/download the PDF for Warped Strings with more details, the licence agreement and the patch list including playing tips and description for each patch here.
Warped Strings Specs:
1.59 GB of original samples - source material:
Plucked Guitar using various objects like coins, screwdrivers
Tremolo Guitar
Beaten Guitar using drumsticks and mallets
Scraped Guitar using various metal objects for scraping the strings
Prepared guitar
Bowed Guitar - bowing the strings with a violin bow
Chimed Guitar - playing on the strings with the metal beam of some small windchimes
Flagolet Guitar
Trash Guitar
Slapped Guitar
Guitar loops
All samples recorded with 3 Neumann microphones in L-C-R - 48 Khz/24 Bit
U87 center mic - a stereo set of KM 184 for L-R using RME Preamps.
Delivery: Download
Library size in total: 1.61 Gigabyte
Download size: 1.04 Gigabyte
NOTE: This Sound Bank will require the full version of Alchemy.
It will not work with the Alchemy player version.
Price: 25 €
Product page
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Coming soon on patchpool: Soundset Tremendous Beatz for Tremor
Tremendous Beatz for Tremor will contain about 50 presets with a minimum of 8 pattern variations per preset. All instruments created in the synth engines will be available individually in instrument folders so that the user can import them into other presets and projects. Tremor's most versatile modulation capabilities will be used in each preset creating vivid and interesting rhythms usable for a wide variety of musical styles. There will also be some grooves included with odd time signatures (7/8 - 9/8 - 5/4) as rhythm and grooves in 4/4 only represent one aspect of today's music production.
Price: 25 € - pre-order Tremendous Beatz for 20 € now and save 20%
Delivery: Email
Release: End of February
Product page
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Kontakt patch Sonic Attack released on patchpool
Sonic Attack
Kontakt 4 - 104,8 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki - Price: 7 €
46 samples (wav)
This patch uses 46 experimental effect samples I made with noise impulses sent through different effect chains, there are short percussive sounds as well as longer textural sample available.
Mapping
The 46 samples are mapped only on the white keys from C0 - F6.
Layering and Control Scripting
Each sample has 2 layers, one in Sampler mode and one in Time Machine 2 mode. The volume of each layer can be set with the volume knobs in the GUI. Layers 2 also has a control for sample speed.
The Modwheel controls the sample start point (+50%), there is also a slider on the upper left of the UI for that. Each layer has a knob for Attack and Release. Activate a Lowpass and a Highpass FIlter in each layer by clicking into the Filter tabs and control the Cutoff and Resonance with the assigned knobs. Each Filter has a LFO assigned with controls for depth and speed, select from 5 different waveforms by clicking into the waveform tab. At the bottom of the UI you can activate the Stereo Delay by clicking into the Delay tab, 4 controls for Time, Damping, Feedback and Wet amount are available.
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Kontakt 4 - 104,8 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 1 nki - Price: 7 €
46 samples (wav)
This patch uses 46 experimental effect samples I made with noise impulses sent through different effect chains, there are short percussive sounds as well as longer textural sample available.
Mapping
The 46 samples are mapped only on the white keys from C0 - F6.
Layering and Control Scripting
Each sample has 2 layers, one in Sampler mode and one in Time Machine 2 mode. The volume of each layer can be set with the volume knobs in the GUI. Layers 2 also has a control for sample speed.
The Modwheel controls the sample start point (+50%), there is also a slider on the upper left of the UI for that. Each layer has a knob for Attack and Release. Activate a Lowpass and a Highpass FIlter in each layer by clicking into the Filter tabs and control the Cutoff and Resonance with the assigned knobs. Each Filter has a LFO assigned with controls for depth and speed, select from 5 different waveforms by clicking into the waveform tab. At the bottom of the UI you can activate the Stereo Delay by clicking into the Delay tab, 4 controls for Time, Damping, Feedback and Wet amount are available.
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Promo offer: Glitchmania for Stutter Edit
As a promotional offer everybody who purchases Glitchmania for Stutter Edit until February 1st will receive the LoopPack Urban Drumloops for free on top.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Coming soon on patchpool: Soundset Warped Strings for Alchemy
I've started working on a new soundset for Alchemy:
Warped Strings for Alchemy
For this Alchemy soundset an acoustic Western Guitar will be multisampled, treating it with all sorts of tools to create unique sounding real and unreal instruments, otherworldly textures, groovy sequences, beautiful soundscapes and cinematic pad sounds. The guitar will get hurt during the process but it will be well worth it. All samples are recorded with 3 Neumann microphones and processed with native and outboard gear, to make t the best out of the recorded audio material.
Warped Strings Specs:
About 1,5 GB of original stereo samples recorded in 48 Khz/24 Bit
Multisampled acoustic guitar played and treated with various tools, multiple Round Robin variations and velocity layers will be sampled for many patches
Fingered and slapped Guitar
Plucked Guitar using various objects like coins, screwdrivers
Tremolo Guitar
Beaten Guitar using drumsticks, mallets and hammers
Scraped Guitar using various metal objects for scraping the strings and the corpus
Prepared guitar
Flagolet Guitar
Bowed Guitar - bowing the strings with a violin bow
Guitar loops
A wide variety of electronic textures derived form the recorded guitar sounds will be included
Recorded with 3 Neumann microphones in L-C-R - 48 Khz/24 Bit
U87 center mic - a stereo set of KM 184 for L-R
This soundset will contain about 50 patches with 8 variations each
Delivery: Download
Library size in total: n.a.
Download size: n.a.
Release: 2nd half of February, maybe earlier...
NOTE: This Sound Bank will require the full version of Alchemy.
It will not work with the Alchemy player version.
Price: 25 € - pre-order Warped Strings for 20 € now and save 20%
Product page
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%
Product page
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Kontakt Library Gongland
Kontakt 4 Library Gongland
Kontakt 4 - 389,8 MB unzipped - 48Khz/24Bit/stereo - 10 nkis/Instruments
156 Samples compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format - 4 Impulse Responses (wav)
Price: 12.95 €
This library contains 153 Tam Tam and Gong samples from my Alchemy Bank Alchemistry Metallurgy and 3 new samples. A Wuhan Tam Tam (45 cm in diametre) and 2 different sized Thai Gongs were multisampled in 48 Khz/24 Bit using 3 Neumann Microphones (L- C-R), a U87 for the centre and a stereo set of KM-184 for the sides. The Instruments were beaten with various mallets, scraped with various tools and rubbed with Rubberballs. Up tp 4 velocity layers and 10x Round Robin were sampled.
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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.
Product page
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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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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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Thursday, December 22, 2011
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
Product page with demos
Monday, December 12, 2011
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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Saturday, November 26, 2011
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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