Audiomodern has announced the release of Statique, a free glitch & cuts rhythm generator for Native Instruments Kontakt. Statique is a sequencer based pattern generator which is best suited to give your music production a contemporary percussive fundament. You can easily create groovy electronic patterns or add-on loops built out of bits, cuts, glitches and blips!
Clearmountain is the recipient of 6 ENGINEER OF THE YEAR awards!! This is THE most famous drum sampling CD ever, and has become a standard work tool for professionals worldwide. 900 natural drum samples for your studio, recorded in the best studios in the world. REVIEWS: “ A collection of beautifully sampled drum sounds” (Mix) ” A treasure house of great drums” (Keyboard) “Recording standard is immaculate, it simply couldn’t be bettered with any of today’s technology” (MT).
Studio Grand 88 – A huge sample instrument with ultra realism from true 8 Velocity X2 (Pedal Up / Pedal Down) which provides extra responsive velocity layering smooth transition from softest to loudest timbres. Malmsjo Concert Grand Piano. Now added the releasesamples from the White Sister, actually the same piano, but recorded at an other occation. Recorded at Studio Kuling in Orebro, Sweden One of Sweden’s finest rooms for recording acoustic instruments All samples 16 bit 44.1kHz Stereo Originally mastered in 24bit depth for ultra-low noise.
Microtape 15 is a set of psychedelic sounding autoharp chords – Majors,Minors and Major Sevenths, strummed up and also down. Recorded with maximum character on the Vortexion CB1, these are not subtle sounds. 6 presets. Microtape 16 contains percussive sounds of varying degrees of oddness made with the autoharp. 5 presets. Both interfaces feature the usual microtape tape degrader controls, ADSR, expression controls, saturation and vibrato.
The Dish-sponge-under-the-strings 60s bass sound – with some added grit and compression options. Recorded with an Aria (Precision Bass replica made by Matsumoku).
DubDrum 141 – 16 variations of a beat from the Hammond auto-vari64 drum machine, dubbed out through 2 daisy-chained wem copicat tape delays and each mapped to a different key. Tempo at 70.5/141 bpm. With 5 token presets, this isn’t designed as a synth, like Tronto for example, but as a player, with a virtual tape machine running all the time beneath the engine. You have 3 types of control (via the ‘Degrader’) over tape damage – via filter,amplitude or pitch, with a tape speed slider as well, so Boards of Canada style sounds are easily obtainable, or you can set the controls to zero to bypass the effect. There is a simple low pass filter (no resonance) that can be connected to velocity (as can amplitude) for instrumental expression, but also more interestingly is hard wired to the ADSR envelopes, so a slower attack also brings about a slower filter attack (if engaged), to emulate the tape head coming into contact with the tape (likewise with the release).
Antique Metal Percussion (AMP) is a very unique kontakt sample library which is derived from banging (lightly) on a handful of metal antique items. Some of the items heard in this sample library are “one of a kind” and include an old iron bedrail, a library book cart, an old seaside lantern from the North East, a “Childs” brand copper fire extinguisher from the turn of the century (which sounds really cool), a WWII .50 Caliber Metal Ammunition Box, and even a decommissioned WWII Mk27 Hand Grenade. A few of these are pictured below for your viewing pleasure.
