Coming soon on patchpool: Sonic Cinema for HALion 5

This sound library comprises dozens of cinematic soundscapes, evocative pads and musical textures designed for producing epic soundtracks, ambient music and anything that needs inspiring sonic ingredients beyond the ordinary.

Sonic Cinema also contains dark cinematic brass instruments made with/derived from sampled instruments like the sousaphone, trombone, euphonium and french horn which were exclusively recorded for this library, mainly in a dry studio envronment. Some of the french horn recordings were conducted in a church.

The patches will combine HALions outstanding granular engine, the normal sampling mode and the very versatile synth module. Eight Macros and the Modwheel are programmed for each preset to enable the user to deeply interact with the sounds, some patches also use Aftertouch.

The library will be distributed as a protected HALion sound-archive for the sample content and tagged vet3-presets.

Specifications:

• around 100 presets
• around 2.5 - 3 Gigabyte of samples (48 khz/ 24 Bit / stereo)
• ETA: January 2014
• delivery: download
• price on release: € 55 Euro

Please note: the full version of HALion 5 is required to play the patches from this library.

Pre-order Sonic Cinema on the product page now for € 44 Euro and save 20%.

Scattered Entity Vol. 1 released on patchpool

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

Specifications and content:

• 4.38 GB of samples (wav/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit)
• 121 patches/instruments + 8 variations, combining all synthesis methods available in MachFive. 

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

Sampled Instruments:

• Celtic harp with 27 strings - multisampled with several velocity layers and round robin, harp glissandi, bisbigliando and more
• Timpani
• Waterphone
• other string instruments (violin, piano, cello)
• Woodwinds (sax/duduk)
• Chromatic and achromatic percussion (Thai gongs, Tamtam, bowed and beaten vibraphone, tibetan singing bowls, Glockenspiel)

20 patches have custom scripting for extended sound manipulation features and a user interface (check out the videos below), all non-scripted patches have the Modwheel and the 8 Macros assigned in the info tab, many also use Aftertouch.

Scripting by Iain Morland.

All acoustic instrument-samples in this library were recorded with 3 Neumann microphones in L-C-R at 48 Khz/24 Bit, a U87 as the center mic - a stereo set of KM 184 for L-R.
The field recoordings were made with a pair of Sennheiser shotguns inside a windshield cage, mounted on a boom recorded onto a Tascam HD-P2 recorder.

Patch categories:

• Celtic Harp - 13 + 1 variation
• Mallets - 5 + 2 variations
• Orchestral - 3
• Pads - 11 + 1 variation
• Percussion - 8 + 2 variations
• Sequencer - 8
• Soundscapes - 17 + 2 variations
• Strings - 4
• Synths - 12
• Timpani - 10
• Voices - 7
• Waterphone - 19
• Woodwinds - 4

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

Delivery: download - RAR-archive in 5 parts for better download handling - download size: 2.68 GB - fast download speeds guaranteed.

Please note: this library requires the full version of MachFive 3 (version 3.2 and higher), it will not work with the UVI workstation.

Price (paypal): € 79 Euro

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Fresh deal of the week: Granular Worlds for Padshop Pro

Granular Worlds for Padshop Pro, my first library for this exceptional granulator, is discounted at 25% through Novembre 17 (Sunday).

Next deal of the week: Diversity for Diversion

Diversity for the one and only Diversion synth is now discounted at 25% through Novembre 13.

Deal of the week: Tremendous Beatz for Tremor

Here comes the next deal of the week, valid through next Monday (Novembre 11):

Tremendous Beatz for Tremor, including the unlimited subscription, discounted at 25%.

Waterphone patches from Scattered Entity

Here is a fresh video - 40+ minutes long - demonstrating/explaining plenty of the waterphone patches from Scattered Entity for MachFive which are now all finalized:

New deal of the week: Framedrum for Alchemy

Here comes the next deal of the week, valid through Friday (Novembre 8) - 25% discount on Framedrum for Alchemy, much more than just a drum library, drones, pads, soundscapes all derived from this beautiful instrument.:

Next deal of the week: Cosmic for Padshop Pro

Through Novembre 6 this sound library is discounted at 25%. Check it out here.

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.

New MachFIve 3 video