The vision here was not only to make a realistic sounding Kalimba but also to give it another layer of expressiveness. Adding a frosty reverb, panning delay, filtering, chorus, flanger, eq, adsr, arpeggio, poly step, interval and reverse sampling technique makes this kalimba an enchanted instrument.
While sampling the church organ in the town church I made this organ stop combination that had an ethereal quality. I put all the other sounds aside for a while due to this vision: What about combining even more sound sources together? Like having a giant church organ with even more sound opportunities. For some reason, while editing sounds I kept watching these pictures of arctic norwegian churches and spectacular mountains on Baffin Island. What was first maybe a more spacey sound idea tilted to northern lights, crystal clear lakes, sun reflections on icy landscapes etc. Now the ambience was set. So the concept of Ethereal Keys is you having a giant keyboard creation with interconnected sound sources such as church organ, tonewheel organ, electric organ, harmonium, analog synthesizers, solo vocalist & choir, electric guitars and various wind instruments plus mark tree.
‘Epic Electro & Tech House’ fuses Main Room Electro styles with Tech House, to form a symphonic cauldron of massive, attention-grabbing leads and full force beats. This pack includes the essential ingredients to fill the belly of any hungry Tech House, Progressive, or Electro House producer wanting to destroy dancefloors everywhere! In detail, you’ll get 1.21 GB, 529 Loops, 765 One-Shot samples including 121 Bass Loops, 138 Full Drum Loops, 146 No Kick Drum Loops, 57 Music Loops, 67 Real Hat Loops, 25 Dub Bass Tones, 4 Bass Multi-Sampled Instruments, 400 Drum Hits, 30 Moog One-Shots, 6 Multi-Sampled Synth Instruments, 32 Synth One-Shots, 22 Chord Hits, 530 REX2 Files and 138 Soft Sampler Patches For Kontakt, Halion, NN-XT, EXS24 and SFZ Formats. Apple Loops, Ableton Live Pack and Reason Refills.
We were provided a unique opportunity to preserve an important piece of musical history in its final days. Word had come to us that the historic Clinton Recording Studios in midtown Manhattan was forever closing its doors, destined to be transformed into a modern condominium complex. One of the many treasures contained therein was this particular Steinway Model D Concert Grand which used to live in the Columbia Records 30th Street Studios. The CBS 30th Street Studio, “The Church” was perhaps the most influential recording studio of the 50’s and 60’s producing dozens of legendary albums in various genres.
Solos of the Sea – Solo Violin A is a very simple solo legato instrument. The library continues along the lines of the unfolding Con Moto series with ‘active-bow’ sustains and legatos recorded con moto (with motion). The latter is here expanded upon with a ‘pitch-memory’ adaptation, which helps minimize a musician’s susceptibility to timbral variation between sustain and shorter legato assets.
Adventure Strings is the follow-up to our debut offering, Soaring Strings. Performed by the same number of players, recorded in the same room, seated in their traditional positions — both share the same performance aesthetic. Strong, passionate and relentlessly energetic. So why another string library with the same, familiar collection of short articulations? Well, it’s how we produced them that makes it interesting. Shorts are normally recorded in isolation — perhaps one or two notes per bar during the recording process. This makes the editing process a snap and the end result is often satisfactory. The sane choice. With Adventure Strings, we recorded repetition phrases; a quick succession of notes at a procured tempo. We then edited and programmed each note of that phrase to be playable, which resulted in a fetal position-incurring post-production process.
While not the biggest, baddest, wettest brass library out there, Adventure Brass accomplishes what we initially set out to do; to create an instrument that is first and foremost, fun to play. Second, and very much like Soaring Strings, we sought to really limit the controls needed to achieve a believable brass line. Just your keys and the modwheel. We’ve also included an adjustable “Humanization” feature, which automatically staggers the starts and ends of individual notes to help enhance a quantized passage. Third, we recorded medium-sized sections that would treat well to both unison and harmonic passages with believable transparency. Except the Tuba — I think we can all agree one of those is enough. Last but not least, to get that intangible little somethin’ — why not record in Los Angeles; a town with some experience performing and recording for film and television.
