Sawmill is an instrument inspired by the supersaw sound. In a broad sense, it doesn’t try to emulate the classic supersaw sound but I think it’s interesting how layering detuned saw oscillators turns a static sound into a moving texture. I have been wondering how would it sound if you detuned other parameters, not just pitch. For example, you could also detune filters, LFO frequency, effects etc…
Welcome to Sawmill, where you can detune everything, on every oscillator.
There are seven oscillators and it is quite like having a stack of seven synthesizers, with controllers conveniently grouped by type. So if you want tune a filter cutoff you have a row of seven knobs to deal with. It makes it easy to experiment with oscillator layering.
WAVEFORMS
Sawmill is not your standard sample library. It is an advanced and powerful synthesizer with sampled oscillators. There are 32 waveforms, generated mostly with a modular analog system and vintage analog synthesizers.
The samples are fairly long to capture bits of analog drift and tiny electronic imperfections which makes it sound more alive. Each sample has been looped by hand without any additional processing, to preserve as much of the original flavor as reasonably possible.
The waveform selection is focused mainly on different variations of saw, but it also includes other basic shapes, as well as some fancy waveforms you can generate in a modular by mangling the oscillator with rectifiers, ring modulators, inverters and the like, all in analog domain.
Sawmill includes nearly complete palette of what Kontakt has to offer in signal processing: full range of filter types, classic effects, different types of envelopes, LFOs with various shapes and frequency modulation.
SEQUENCED MODULATOR
Additionally there are several innovative functions.
There is a sequenced modulator, which is a crossover between a step sequencer and an LFO – you can program a value pattern and shape it to the LFO waveform.
There are six patterns which can be combined and/or patched to different parameters, like pitch or filter cutoff. In fact, any parameter can be automated using MIDI CC.
There is pitch glide function with adjustable acceleration curve.
And then there is the advanced multi-arpeggiator, which is like having a stack of eight arpeggiators, which you can sequence or combine in different ways to create complex note patterns out of a simple chord.
DETAILS
7 oscillator stack with all parameters editable individually for each oscillator
32 sampled oscillator types, analog and vintage digital
2574 hand looped samples (2.75 GB unpacked – open wav)
107 presets in snapshot format
Multi-arpeggiator with 8 arp patterns to combine
Step sequencer and LFO crossover modulator with 6 editable waveforms
Comprehensive set of 32 scales to choose from so the arp can be locked to precise musical notes
35 filter types
105 Snapshots
49 Page User Guide
Kontakt 5.8.1 or newer (full version) – Not Kontakt Player
V1.1 Update:
added some drop-down tool menus for modulator
added some snapshots
fixed some typos in manual
3 of our best selling packs to date.. all in one affordable package.. we are super excited to present: Premium G-Vocals… over 400 vocals ready at your disposable!
With the festive season close approaching, we decided to bring the presents early… 3 of them all in one box. If you’re looking for that cool, g vocal or just want that something extra with your track.. this pack is the one for you
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Hype & Gangster Vocals
This is quite like nothing else.. and we bring you 121 Wav files of cool chants, phrases and rap lines.
There truly is nothing else around like this.
After the huge success of “”Hype Vocals” we went back in the studio and focused more on the grittier, cooler vocals.. and this is what came out!
The pack can be used in a wide variety of dance music.. from g-house to tech house, hip hop to trap, deep house to techno, future house to EDM.
Looking for that little bit extra to give you track that unique and fresh cool feel?
Then look no further… we got you!!!
Contains:
• 121 Vocal Loops
– 100% royalty free
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Hype & Gangster Vocals 2
We are ultra proud to present: Hype & Gangster Vocals 2, the follow up to a Beatport Sounds top seller, and our best ever selling pack!
Carrying on from where Hype & Gangster Vocals dropped off.. We bring you 121 Wav files of cool chants, phrases and rap lines.
After the huge success of the first edition, we went back in the studio and focused on more of the same… you asked…we listened!
The pack can be used in a wide variety of dance music.. from g-house to tech house, hip hop to trap, deep house to techno, future house to EDM.
Looking for that little bit extra to give you track that unique and fresh cool feel?
Then look no further… we got you!!!
Contains:
• 121 Vocal Loops
Pack only contains vocals… all music/drums are for illustrative purposes only
100% Royalty Free!!!
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Groove Vocals
Looking for that groove to take your track to the next level? We got you covered! 121 Groove vocals to drag and drop into your next house/techno banger!
121 vocals in both wet and dry form… all unique and different.
This pack can be the topline you are looking for, or that extra icing on the cake, or that instant inspiration you need to make your next club banger.
All vocals are completely royalty free and can be used how you wish!
This extraordinary sample library is a melting pot of beautiful organic sounds that have been tinkered with and processed into completely unique textural elements. A superb and wonderful exploration into sound design, the texture and harmonics within these sounds are simply stunning and will add new depths and possibilities to your music.
Toying with the familiarity we have when we hear something we recognise, the loops and samples invoke a sense of nostalgia yet are hard to place, leading us off into all sorts of creative tangents. Devised by master sound manipulator Aneek Thapar, this experimental sound design sample library contains a vast amount of truly creative and inspirational material that can be applied to add excitement and experimentation to your music.
Morphed acoustic guitar samples, Mbira chords stretched and manipulated into ambient textures, pulsating throbs made using processed recordings of a Harmonium and a whole host of other organic sounds have been turned upside down and inside out using a mixture of convolution processing, formant shifting and pitch morphing, amongst other things.
All loops and samples in this pack are 100% royalty free and come as 24 Bit Wav, Apple Loops, Acidized Wav or Rex2 files, with sampler instruments for Kontakt, NNXT, Ableton Sampler, EXS24, Maschine, Motu MachFive, Halion and SFZ.
DEVIANT ACOUSTICS DETAILS:
Innovative collection of processed organic sound samples
Diverse range of live instruments loops
Expert recording and processing
Hugely versatile and inspirational sounds
Multiple file formats and sampler instruments
Concept Samples Field Recordings Vol 1 WAV
Size 477 Mb
‘Field Recordings Vol 1’ by Concept Samples comes up with a selection of professionally recorded sound backgrounds, suitable for music productions, scenes for film, games, multimedia projects and more. This collection was recorded using a top class Nagra field recording & a pair of Sehnheiser 8040 by implementing the ORTF recording technique, resulting in a clear, warm & shiny sound.
Field Recordings Vol 1 files:
CS_FR_Amateur Cricket Game Park Ambience.wav
CS_FR_Ambience In Warehouse Crane Working And Idle
CS_FR_Ambience In Warehouse Crane Working.wav
CS_FR_Ambience In Warehouse Spraying Machinery.wav
CS_FR_Ambience In Warehouse.wav
CS_FR_Ambience Under A Bridge.wav
CS_FR_Beach In The Morning Background.wav
CS_FR_Car Bypass.wav
CS_FR_Car Engine Full Power.wav
CS_FR_Car Engine Idle and Full Power.wav
CS_FR_Car Engine Startup and Full Power.wav
CS_FR_Car Engine Startup.wav
CS_FR_Children Crowd Screaming While Playing At Water Fountain.wav
CS_FR_Children Crowd Screaming While Playing At Water Pond.wav
CS_FR_Children Train Passing By Ambience.wav
CS_FR_Crane In Warehouse With Water Steam.wav
CS_FR_Crane Working In Warehouse With Water Steam.wav
CS_FR_Crow Flock Ambience 2.wav
CS_FR_Crow Flock Ambience 3.wav
CS_FR_Crow Flock Ambience.wav
CS_FR_Highway.wav
CS_FR_Huge Waterfall.wav
CS_FR_Ibiza Beach Background.wav
CS_FR_Industrial Ambiences Background Hammering Natural Reverb.wav
CS_FR_Modern Train Departure.wav
CS_FR_Mountain Quiet Stream Bubbles 2.wav
CS_FR_Mountain Quiet Stream Bubbles.wav
CS_FR_Mountain River Medium Half Metre Distance 2.wav
CS_FR_Mountain River Medium Half Metre Distance.wav
CS_FR_Mountain Spring Stream Small Waterfall Background.wav
CS_FR_Mountain Spring Stream Waterslide Background.wav
CS_FR_Mountain Stream Bubbles Background.wav
CS_FR_Quiet Beach Background.wav
CS_FR_Quiet River.wav
CS_FR_River 10m Distance.wav
CS_FR_River In Forest.wav
CS_FR_River Small Stream.wav
CS_FR_River Stream And Waterfall.wav
CS_FR_Sea Waves 01.wav
CS_FR_Sea Waves 02.wav
CS_FR_Sea Waves 03.wav
CS_FR_Sea Waves 04.wav
CS_FR_Sea Waves 05.wav
CS_FR_Sea Waves 06.wav
CS_FR_Sea Waves 07.wav
CS_FR_Sea Waves 08.wav
CS_FR_Sea Waves 09.wav
CS_FR_Small Mountain Stream Bubbles Background.wav
CS_FR_Swimming Pool Ambience.wav
CS_FR_Train Stand Off And Departure.wav
CS_FR_Water Pouring In Metal Bucket.wav
CS_FR_Water Stream Stereo.wav
This forward-thinking fusion of futuristic vocal chops, synth wave inspired chords, heavy drum hits, luscious lead synths and time warping FX.
All content within this pack is has been tagged with the relevant key and BPM information.
Designed to inspire any producer wanting to make any genre, from Trap and Future Bass all the way to Tropical House, Pop and Dubstep.
Future Pop House Pack Details:
• Total File Size: 416.9 MB
• Total Audio Files: 179
• Total MIDI Files: 39
• 10 x Bass Hits (Key Labeled)
• 10 x Bass Loops (Key and BPM Labeled)
• 10 x Claps
• 10 x Hats
• 10 x Kicks (Key Labeled)
• 10 x Percs
• 10 x Snares
• 20 x Drum Loops (BPM Labeled)
• 10 x FX
• 20 x MIDI
• 10 x Synth Hits (Key Labeled)
• 10 x Synth Loops (Key and BPM Labeled)
• 3 x Songstarters (Including 59 Audio Files & 19 MIDI Files)
• 3 x Prod-Cast Video Tutorials
• 1 x Mike Monday Studio Productivity Video
• 1 x Budi Voogt Art of Pitching Video
*Other genres that this package may be useful in:
• EDM
• Progressive House
• Sound FX
• Tutorials
• Vocal
This plugin adds earthquake-like rumbles to your kick drum sounds.
It was built in cooperation with Björn Torwellen / sinee who was tired of doing all the steps again and again to create rumbling techno kick drums.
Now with kikzilla you’ve got instant access to these sounds.
Find a video tutorial and sound examples on the sinee web page.
But kikzilla isn’t limited to techno or kick drums.
Also try it on other drum instruments like snares and hi-hats!
kikzilla is a gated reverb combined with a damping filter, distortion and an EQ.
Celemony Melodyne Studio 4 v4.2.3.001 WIN
Size 26 Mb
Melodyne lets you work with audio in an entirely new way. One that is musical, nifty, crystal-clear and almost magical. Working with Melodyne is like being able to say to a singer “hold this note a bit longer” or to a pianist “give slightly less weight to the third in this chord” – hours, weeks, even years after the recording session.
The fantastic editing possibilities, the outstanding sound quality and the intuitive and musical operation make Melodyne an incomparable tool without which it would be hard to imagine modern music production.
Notes are displayed in Melodyne in the form of “blobs” – the precise path traced by the pitch is indicated by the wavy line. With Melodyne’s tools, you can edit the notes directly and modify all important musical parameters. Just grab the notes, and you’ll find you can adjust their pitch, vibrato, volume, timing and much else besides in a highly intuitive manner.
Melodyne identifies the notes and the relationships between them. It is only as a result of this knowledge that Melodyne’s algorithms are able to “think” and operate in such a musical way. The benefits to you as a musician and producer include the famously superior sound of Melodyne and many other advantages that software lacking this understanding of musical contexts is incapable of offering.
What can Melodyne do?
Melodyne offers you algorithms for every type of audio: vocals, instruments, percussive sounds, noise, entire mixes. The algorithm determines how the audio material will be interpreted and displayed.
The Melodic and Polyphonic algorithms offer you, in the case of vocals as well as both mono- and polyphonic instruments, full access to the notes of which the sound is composed as well as to their musical parameters.
The Percussive algorithm offers you a time-sliced display suitable for drum loops, percussion instruments and noise-like, unpitched material. The time slices are edited in a very similar manner to the notes.
The Universal algorithm is ideal for time-stretching or transposing entire mixes or polyphonic instrument tracks in cases where no access to the individual notes is required. It is very sparing in its use of resources and it, too, slices up the material along the time axis.
Melodyne’s algorithms a
llow you to make anything from the subtlest to the most far-reaching enhancements to your audio material, whatever its nature, the resulting sound quality being optimal in every case.
Editing pitch
Melodyne distinguishes between three different types of pitch parameter for each note: the pitch center, the pitch modulation (or ‘vibrato’) and the pitch drift.
The fact that you can shift notes that are slightly out of tune to (or towards) the correct pitch, as well as – quite independently – controlling the amount of vibrato and pitch drift they exhibit, means that the sound remains natural at all times, with no tell-tale signs of having been edited. You can make very precise, targeted interventions by hand or, if you prefer, take advantage of intelligent macros to make sweeping changes swiftly and easily.
You can move notes continuously in pitch or else up and down the chromatic (or some other) scale. In this way, you can alter melodies and chords in an intuitive way and also copy parts with a view to doubling them at the unison or octave or creating counter-melodies, backing vocals or entire choral arrangements.
When you change the pitch of connected notes, the transitions between them are preserved. As a result, performances continue to sound authentic and credible – even though no trace of their original melodies may remain.
Scales and tunings
Melodyne allows you to work with whatever scales and tunings you like, including exotic or experimental ones.
Unusual scale structures and irregular tuning are often important musical parameters that should on no account be ironed out in some clumsy, clueless fashion. For this reason, Melodyne supports every conceivable scale or tuning system, allowing you to handle the nuances of each musical genre with sensitivity. You can also define and edit scales and tuning systems, as well as analyze those found in existing audio material.
And whether you’re working with orchestral, choral or synthesizer recordings, you’ll find just intonation lends chords greater transparency and penetration. With Melodyne’s Dynamic Just Intonation, you can give your productions the benefit of this unique acoustic impression.
Editing timing
Each note can be moved forwards or backwards in time, lengthened or shortened, or quantized using the grid of your choice. Detailed editing is even possible of the timing within each note.
With the Timing Tools, you can correct specific errors, enhance phrasing and shape the envelope and transients of notes. The Quantize Time macro affords a particularly flexible and user-friendly means of tightening up performances giving them a different feel.
Time stretching in Melodyne is note-based and dynamic: Transients, consonants and sibilants are not stretched or squeezed to the same extent as the parts coincident with vowels that generally convey their pitch. This means you can make even extreme changes in the timing of notes without their transients becoming corrupted or their envelopes assuming unnatural forms.
Editing tempo
Melodyne comes with powerful algorithms for the detection and editing of tempo. Taken together with the timing tools and macros, these offer you complete control over all temporal aspects of your recordings.
The quantization of notes, and use of the time grid when moving notes, only make sense when the grid reflects the true tempo of the performance – including any fluctuations therein. Thanks to the accuracy of Melodyne’s tempo detection, this is invariably the case. It follows the exact tempo of a live recording, with all its human fluctuations – the click is dictated to by the musicians, not the other way round – yet you still enjoy all the practical benefits of a beat-based grid when working in your DAW.
Further functions allow you to transfer the living, breathing tempo of a live recording to rigid loops and even other live recordings, as Melodyne’s ability to create precise tempo maps of each performance allows you to bring them perfectly into sync. You can undertake tempo changes without ironing out the small fluctuations that reflect the vitality of a live performance. And naturally, you can tighten up sloppy timing, too, wherever necessary as well as speed up or slow down the tempo – even to a dramatic extent – for creative purposes.
Editing amplitude
You can make notes louder or quieter simply by dragging with the Amplitude Tool. Double-clicking on notes with this tool successively mutes and unmutes them.
The ability to fine-adjust amplitude on a note-by-note basis is not only convenient but makes an important musical contribution: through targeted intervention, unwanted fluctuations in volume can be corrected easily and the dynamic expression of a performance enhanced or optimized. You can even tweak the volume of individual notes within a chord.
When mixing, too, the ability to fine-adjust amplitude using Melodyne is an invaluable aid: you can rein in the volume of sibilants, consonants and breath noise by intervening directly in the audio material, which means you can make more sparing use of any compressor following in the signal chain.
Shape the sound
The Sound Editor and Formant Tool provide unique ways of optimizing the timbre and achieving spectacular tone colors and effects.
Unlike a conventional sound processor, Melodyne knows the notes on each track and allows far more penetrating access to their sound – direct access, in fact, to their overtone structure. In this way, you can change the timbre of voices and instruments at the source, so to speak – through subtle, fine enhancements or far-reaching experiments in sound design. These might include, for example, varying the sound depending on the notes played, adding emphasis to the individual character of a sound source, or impressing upon one track the sound characteristics of another.
Whereas with the Formant Tool you can edit notes individually, with the Sound Editor you are shaping the sound of the entire track. Here, you can control with surgical precision the level of individual overtones or transform the spectrum systematically with an array of swift and efficient macros. A high-resolution, 1/12-octave equalizer affords you a further, very musical, means of shaping the sound.
Work with multiple tracks
Multi-tracking is one of Melodyne’s most important functions. Because it’s only when you can see and edit multiple tracks in context that the possibilities of Melodyne reveal their full potential.
In the Note Editor, you can display as many tracks as you like simultaneously – some to edit, others purely for reference; you decide. This allows you to see the harmonies, melodies and rhythms of your project in context and keep the overall musical picture in view as you fine-tune, or even rethink, things like voice leading, intonation and timing.
Notes can be selected, edited, copied or deleted across track frontiers. This makes it possible to change the melodies, harmonies and rhythms of multiple tracks simultaneously or edit notes you’ve allocated to different tracks, for the sake of the mix, as though they were still on the same one. This type of simultaneous access to the contents of multiple tracks is afforded by Melodyne alone.
Samplephonics Orbital Frequency MULTIFORMAT
Size 439 Mb
ORBITAL FREQUENCY
If deep sonic explorations and shuffling hyperdriven beats is your thing then stop what you are doing right now! Orbital Frequency is an interplanetary collision of musical styles that fuses melodic Future Garage, half step DnB and deep melodic Dubstep and places a masterful set of production tools right at your fingertips.
Masterfully produced by Samplephonics resident bass merchants Matta, this pack features a genre bending selection of loops and samples, covering deep pulsating basslines, frantic 2-step drum loops, syncopated hi hat patterns, expansive atmospheres, evolving lead lines, mesmerizing arpeggios and reverb soaked keys patterns, to name but a few!
This UK bass and Garage sample pack is 100% royalty free and comes in a variety of file formats including Wav, Rex2, Acid and Apple Loops. Sampler instrument patches for EXS24, Ableton Sampler, NNXT, Halion, Kontakt, Motu MachFive are included as standard, so download now and inject some bass into your productions.
ORBITAL FREQUENCY DETAILS:
Stunning fusion of bass heavy genres
Hard hitting drum loops and one shots
Melodic piano and keys lines
Speaker shaking bass sounds
Multiple file formats and sampler instruments
685.5 MB
320 Loops
198 One-Shots
Sampler instruments for EXS24, Ableton Sampler, NNXT, Halion, Kontakt, Motu MachFive & Sonar SFZ
Samplephonics The Shaker Chronicles MULTIFORMAT
Size 615 Mb
Shaker Chronicles is the holy grail of shaker sample packs! This epic collection houses over 800 MB of shaker percussion loops & samples covering just about every conceivable production style and tempo you could shake a stick at. Played by ex Beautiful South percussionist and hugely talented session player Gary Hammond using his ridiculous collection of things that shake, this pack is full to the brim with over 600 loops and one shots covering every 5 bpm from 60 bpm to 175 bpm.
Percussion instruments include African Shekere, Agogo, Cyclopse, Djembe Nino, Finger Shots, Maracas, Schlagwerk, Wah Wahs and a whole lot me that we don’t even know the name of! All loops and samples have been recorded with the utmost care and attention, through a pair of Coles 4038 ribbon mics and Neve 7073 Lunchbox pre amps, to ensure crystal clear clarity of sound.
With a massive range of patterns, tempos, velocities and time signatures, this incredibly useful percussion library will become your go-to production tool to add unique grooves, texture and natural swing to anything from Pop productions to 4×4 House tracks, up-front Techno and Drum & Bass through to film score compositions and beyond.
This royalty free sample pack download comes as pristine 24 Bit Wav, Rex2, Acidized Wav & Apple Loops files and is ready formatted as playable sampler instruments for Ableton Sampler, Halion, SFZ, Machine, Reason NNXT, EXS24, Mach 5 and Kontakt.
THE SHAKER CHRONICLES DETAIS:
Epic collection of shaker percussion loops & samples
Expert playing and recording
Broad range of instruments and patterns
Ideal for Hip Hop, DnB, Techno, House and more!
Multiple file formats and sampler instruments
You want to add some UI sounds, alert signals, feedback sounds or robots from the future to your production? This is a toolkit containing all those sounds and more. It contains 96 samples with 48 different sound and ships in 48kHz and 24-bit.
If you need those crazy Psy sound effects, but need to save time as well, this pack is what you want. A high quality set of key-labeled loops, nicely produced and ready for you to mangle further and enjoy.