Muted Thai Gongs from Scattered Entity

The now scripted patch "Muted Thai Gongs Split" from Scattered Entity Vol. 1 for MachFive 3 in a little demo video, playing the sequence I composed for the audio demo in 2 passes tweaking the controls live, of course all controls can be automated via Midi CCs as well.

More timpanies from Scattered Entity

Two timpani patches in this track: "Bouncing Timps Granular" made with granulated samples of dropping rubber balls on the timp and then moving the pedal up and down (sending the sound through the Auto Wah FX in the end of the demo) - and "Timpani Dynamic Rolls" with several dynamic timp rolls/swells at different velocities, long/short/hard beater/soft beater...sub-bass fiesta!

Deal of the week: No Boundaries for Reaktor DRON-E

Through Novembre 3 (Sunday) this soundset is discounted at 25%.



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Video with Scattered Entity sounds

Stepping through some sounds from Scattered Entity for MachFive 3 in this video - Evil Grains, Scape Synth, VibraQuencer, Vibratophone:

Deal of the week: Chromaphone Banks

Through Novembre 1st both my soundsets for Chromaphone Modelled Reality and ChromaZone are discounted at 25%.

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Dark Drone

Two MachFive-3 patches ("Waterphone Calm Textures" and "Scape Synth") from Scattered Entity Vol. 1 processed with B2 reverb compose this dark drone texture.

Waterphone Contemplation

After  5 days of cutting and editing waterphone samples I know have a great collection of sounds. Here is a demo using 4 instances of MachFive, each one playing a different waterphone patch. There are 2 keyswitchable Trio-patches involved, where you can choose on the interface which 3 samples/trios you're playing, how you want them mapped, sampling or granular, lot's of modulation options, then there is the Long Bow Pad in the 2nd half of the demo, with 13 multisampled long pitches over the entire waterphone range using a violin bow, sometimes crossfading different parts of a recording to get these ethereal sustained sounds. The metal percussion is also waterphone. There will be about 600 MB of waterphone samples (around 100 samples) in this library.

Deal of the week on patchpool - MetaVox for Alchemy

For the next month or so, every five days one ore more patchpool product will be discounted at 22%.

The first discount is on MetaVox for Alchemy, my latest sound library for Alchemy.

Waterphone Sphere

Ambient demo combining the first three waterphone patches from Scattered Entity for MachFive 3 - 100% waterphone sounds, 100% MachFive 3.
The percussive sounds were made by hitting the bottom of the waterphone with a soft beater, the patch has 6x round robin samples and produces some great sub-bass frequencies.

Granular Piano Snippets

Improvising with the MachFive 3-patch "Granular Piano Snippets" - 21 keyswitchable piano snippets isolated from recordings where several performers are treating a Steinway grand, on the keys and inside the piano. Tweaking the 8 assigned Macros via Midi Controllers on the fly. 100% MachFive 3.

Singing Bowls from Scattered Entity

Here is a video playing around with the now scripted MachFive 3-patch "Singing Bowls Trio Split" from the sound library Scattered Entity Vol. 1.

3 differently sized singing bowls, multisampled at 3 velocities/3x round robin, split across the keyboard. As you see in the vid each bowl has a dedicated panel with lots of options to shape/micro and macro-tune/twist/modulate/animate the sounds around, on the second scripting page you'll find all the FX.

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Coming early Novembre: Scattered Entity Vol. 1 for MachFive 3

Scattered Entity Vol. 1 is the first library in a series of releases for MachFive 3. Over time a universe of sounds for this extremely versatile electronic instrument will be created, combining the beauty and natural expression of acoustic instruments with the miracles of electronic sound design.

Content Vol. 1:
Roundabout 3 GB of original samples (wav/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit).
100+ patches/instruments combining all synthesis methods available in MachFive.

• Multisampled instruments, pure and twisted
• Orchestral sounds derived from orchestral recordings of my own music
• Evolving pads
• Vocal texures
• Experimental textures
• Cinematic and ominous soundscapes
• Complex sequencers
• Processed field recordings

Sampled Instruments: 

• Celtic harp with 27 strings - multisampled with several velocity layers and round robin, harp glissandi, prepared harp samples
• Bowed strings
• Woodwinds
• Chromatic and achromatic percussion (Thai gongs, Tamtam, bowed vibraphone, Djembe and more)
• Timpani

All patches will have the 8 Macros assigned in the info tab, quite a few patches will also have custom scripting for extended sound manipulation features and a nice front end.

ETA: early Novembre 2013
Delivery: Download

Price on release (paypal): € 65 Euro, pre-order Scattered Entity for € 52 now
and save 20%

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MetaVox for Alchemy released on patchpool

MetaVox for Alchemy is build around the exceptional overtone and throat singing of Gareth Lubbe, a true master of his craft. As Gareth is actually a professional orchestral viola player this library also contains several patches with viola sounds, the viola being a string instrument with a great resemblance to the human voice. During the recording session we also recorded duets of Gareth singing and playing the viola at the same time, these sample make for some more beautiful and wondrous sounds in Alchemy.

There are also patches with female vocals, using samples which were recorded during a recent session with Frauke Albert, a renown german vocalist (soprano), working mainly in the field of contemporary music.

As an additional string instrument some sounds also use violin samples, another instrument which has a very voice-like character and blends beautifully with the vocals sounds in this library.

Besides using the original vocal and string samples (and resynthed derivatives thereof) for making the Alchemy patches, I am fascinated in the microcosmic interior of harmonics, so I produced quite a few electronic derivatives of the samples, created by e.g. detaching the harmonics from the root note, then deleting the root note only leaving the harmonics which are then furtherly processed, timestretched, spectralized, tuned to a tempered scale and more.

So you will find a broad spectrum of sounds reaching from meditative overtone drones to fascinating throat singing to otherworldly vocal soundscapes, from technoid and pulsating sequencers to beautiful vocal pads and textures, from warm string pads with an orchestral character to experimental noises from a different universe.

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.


MetaVox Specs:

• 1.8 Gigabyte of original samples (wav) and resynthed files (.aaz)
• 56 patches with 8 variations each in Alchemy's Remix Pad, all Performance Controllers and both x/y-pads are assigned for each patch.
• Delivery: download - RAR-archive in 3 parts for better download handling - download size: 1.4 GB

All samples in this library 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.

Please note: This library requires the full version of Alchemy (version 1.55 and higher). It does not work with the Alchemy player version. 

Price (paypal): € 36 Euro

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Coming soon on patchpool: MetaVox for Alchemy

MetaVox for Alchemy focusses on the exceptional overtone singing of Gareth Lubbe, a true master of his craft who recently became the first professor for overtone singing in Germany. As Gareth is actually a professional orchestral viola player this library also contains several patches with viola sounds, the viola being a string instrument with a great resemblance to the human voice. During the recording session we also recorded duets of Gareth singing and playing the viola at the same time, these sample will make for some more beautiful and wondrous Alchemy sounds.

There will also be several patches with female vocals using samples which were recorded during a recent session with Frauke Albert, a renown german vocalist (soprano), working mainly in the field of contemprary music.

As an additional string instrument I will also use some recently recorded violin samples, another instrument which has a very voice-like character and blends beautifully with the vocals sounds in this library.

Besides using the original vocal and string samples (and resynthed derivatives thereof) for making the Alchemy patches, I am fascinated in the microcosmic interior of harmonics, so I am producing quite a few electronic derivatives of the samples, created by e.g. detaching the harmonics from the root note, then deleting the root note only leaving the harmonics which are then furtherly processed, timestretched, spectralized, tuned to a tempered scale and more.


MetaVox Specs:

• Approximately 1.8 Gigabyte of original samples (wav) and resynthed files (.aaz)
• 50 - 60 patches with 8 variations each in Alchemy's Remix Pad, all Peformance Controllers and both x/y-pads assigned for each patch.
• ETA (release): around Septembre 9 - 2013
• Delivery: Download

Please note: This Sound Bank requires the full version of Alchemy.

It does not work with the Alchemy player version. 

Price on release (paypal): € 35 Euro, pre-order MetaVox for € 28 now

and save 20%

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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
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Alchemistry Metallurgy
Warped Strings for Alchemy
Framedrum for Alchemy

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