Korg Kronos Sounds – Featuring The Austrian Grand Piano EX
Other Worlds – A demo from our second release for the Korg Kronos – Soundtrack Mix. Featuring the Korg Austrian Grand Piano EX.
V2 Soundtrack Mix for the Korg Kronos includes 64 New Programs, 32 New Combis & 75 new sound effects from our Effectron sound libraries. More info and demos can be found at:
http://www.kidnepro.com/KN/Korg/Kronos/korg-kronos-v2.html
Note: The Austrian Piano does not have to be installed in order to use Soundtrack mix.
Freefarm Film
Originally conceived as a home for Simon Pyke’s Freeform project, Freefarm has evolved as a creative nerve-centre for the complete spectrum of sound design & music. Today we work from our studio based in Brighton UK on everything from high profile branding for TV to gallery based art projects. We feed off the challenges of new projects and we often bring in additional music talent if the project requires it.
Olivia Louvel’s new video “Night And Day”
“Night and Day” Composed by Cole Porter in 1932 for the musical play “The Gay Divorce”
Audio:programmed, performed and produced by Olivia Louvel
mix and additional programming by Paul Kendall
Video: filmed and edited by Louve
The last Olivia Louvel album “Doll Divider” is out on Cat Werk Imprint and available as a limited edition vinyl (the purchase of the vinyl includes a free digital) or digital only via i-Tunes.
Cinesamples – Piano in Blue Walkthrough
Walkthrough of this piano library from Cinesamples.
Background information:
With a mind to the handful of historic pictures from the recording Kind of Blue our engineer Tim Starnes (Drums of War, HollywoodWinds, Cinesnares, Cinetoms 2, CineCrash) set up three sets of microphones. The first pair – the U49’s from old Columbia set up in historical position (note that the original was in mono), the two other pairs each set back a touch further from the other.
We recorded two signal chains for each mic, a clean signal going through the Neve board and one going through a historic tape machine and finally into pro tools. We highly suggest exploring the charming colorization of the tape signal but both are provided for your convenience. For some of the youngsters out there note that tape will alter the sound of medium to high gain velocity layers and that often engineers go through great lengths to achieve this distortion.
Due to the delightful variances in timbre with each key the piano was sampled chromatically; this was the only way to get a true representation of the instrument. Barry was the pianist for the sampling and he employed a unique strategy.
“Perhaps this library benefits from having someone so intimate with sampling striking the keys. The way this particular piano was voiced was very unusual and charming. Certain notes when struck with matching velocities would sound rather different in tone from one another. One would scarcely notice this in a session but it would be greatly amplified via sampling. We decided the most faithful way to capture the samples was to do it by ear, rather then by touch. Instead of concentrating on a perfect velocity match across the keyboard we listened for sweet-spots/landmarks, identifiable, pleasing string to hammer ratios. This is a method employed by pianists to layer notes upon one another with clarity. I think the end result is better for recording in this manner rather then a straight key-weight dependent system.”
We sincerely hope you enjoy this piano as much as we do.
PIANO SPECS:
- 1949 Steinway D via Neve 8078 Console
- 8 Velocity Layers Sampled Chromatically
- 9300 Samples
- 3 Microphone Positions
- Close/Vintage – 2x Neumann M49 near the lid
- Mid – 2x B&K 4007 at the tail of the piano
- Far – 2x Sennheiser MKH20′s in the hall
- 2 Processing Paths (Tape; Direct in)
- Studer A800MKIII 24 Track Analog Tape Machine
- Programmed by Sam Estes; scripted by Greg Schlaepfer; recorded by Tim Starnes
As always we share our revenue with our brilliant team of programmers, engineers, editors and musicians.
Low Beats Clipbox – new clip collection for Ableton Live
Cluster Sounds has announced Low Beats Clipbox, a clip collection for Ableton Live.
Low Beats Clipbox is a powerful and ultra-flexible collection of sliced clips for Ableton Live, specifically designed for electronic and tech-based music productions. The library consists of 195 Clips, 240 deep samples organized in 6 drum Kits with dedicated macro controls and 12 extra synthesizers created by looping and tuning percussive elements. This Live Pack is basically dedicated to electronic low beats but thanks to the powerful effect modules you can easily create unusual Snares, Hats, Kicks, Glitches and several pseudo-drum elements.Sliced Loops : The included Clips has been extracted from 195 WAV loops carefully selected from Cluster Sound catalog. Each Clip consists of an Instrument Rack, created by slicing and key mapping the original WAV file, bundled with a MIDI loop that triggers each slice. This design allows to instantly create new patterns by simply editing the MIDI notes and to drastically change the track tempo with no artifacts.
Instrument Racks : Each Instrument Rack consists of the dry loop coupled with two parallel layers dedicated to the dynamic effects including Resynthesis, AM/FM Oscillators, Resonators, Noisers, Pitch Shifters, Reverse and Filter Shapers. Additionally, the 3 layers share the Pitch and the Decay controls and a very versatile FX module that allows to add sub harmonic frequencies, Delay, Reverbs and Metal effects. Thanks to this huge amount of parameters the original loop can be easily twisted and altered beyond recognition.
Low Beats Clipbox features
- Size : 330 Mb.
- 195 Live Clips.
- 6 Drum Kit Instruments.
- 12 Synth Instruments.
- 240 WAV Drum Samples.
- 3.500 WAV Slices.
Making of a TR 909 sequencer clone
“Video of my MB909 sequencer with the 9090. combined you have the greatest TR-909 clone.
You can see that all of the instruments have individual accent. velocity normal makes the leds go orange and velocity accented makes the leds go red.”
More information on this project and similar can be found here >>
Moog – The Fundamentals of Synthesizer Programming Pt. 4
Moog Music Inc. is proud to present Dr. Joseph Akins’ five part series on the fundamentals of synthesizer programming. Dr. Akins is an associate professor at Middle Tennessee State University and strives to teach his students a complete understanding of synthesizers and computers as tools for modern music production. In this five part series Dr. Akins uses a Voyager to teach the process through which a synthesizer’s sound is generated and the techniques needed to program your own sounds and sonic experiments. In part four of this five part series Dr. Akins gives an in depth lesson on the envelope generator.
How to make a gated filter sweep – Reason Sound Design
Propellerhead Software’s product specialist James Bernard shows you how to do a gated filter sweep in this Reason Sound Design video. This effect is great for transitions and it’s very playable once you’ve set up the Combinator controls!
You can download the patches shown in the video here: http://www.propellerheads.se/stuff/RSD5.zip
Squarepusher To Release New Album
Squarepusher is to release a new album in May through Warp Records, entitled Ufabulum. There’s scant information available about what it will actually sound like, save this quote from the ‘pusher himself, Tom Jenkinson: “I’ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.”
There’s also an advance trailer, featuring music that does indeed sound, at least, very aggressive. You can watch it below. He’s also set to perform Ufabulum live at a number of venues and festivals over the next few months, including Bloc in London on the weekend of July 6th-7th.
Squarepusher. http://warp.net/records/squarepusher/announces-ufabulum/
http://www.facebook.com/squarepusher
Trash80 at Blip Festival Australia 2012
Trash80 ends the first night of Blip Festival with some snazzy sounds.
You can find Trash80 at http://trash80.net
Blip Festival Australia was presented by 8bitpeoples and SoundBytes.
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