Monthly Archives: August 2024

The44thfloor Wildflowers (Analog Lab V Bank)

The44thfloor – Wildflowers (Analog Lab V Bank) – 75 presets for Arturia’s Analog Lab V. For this bank I sampled my entire synth and pedal collection using unique methods to process, emulate and shape these sounds. Each and every preset focuses on capturing the characteristics of Vintage & Unique Instruments. A bank preserving the integrity of Vintage sound with an experimental blend.

• Requires Arturia Analog Lab V
• Includes 75 Presets
• Mac & Win Compatibility

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CineTrance Morning Trance Vol.2 for Dune 3

Following the huge success of Morning Trance, we are back with another Bank of Presets for the VST Synthesizer Dune 3, by Synapse Audio. This time, you will find 64 presets, carefully designed by Yahel Chabs at CineTrance studio. These presets are suitable for any Trance genre. Revisiting the sound of your favorite Trance Classics with some perfect Sequences, beautiful distorted Pads and melodic Plucks, this soundset is designed to give you an instant inspiration. Morning Trance Vol.2 is professionally mixed and tested on Tance & Psy-Trance productions. Volumes of each presets are carefully normalized. Bring the best music experience at your fingertips right now, with Morning Trance Vol.2!

Total Presets: 64

• ARPs 8
• Bass 1
• FXs 1
• Pads 9
• Plucks 7
• Sequences 38

Total MIDI Files: 29
Total Custom Wavetables: 28
Modwheel on all patches.
Patches Normalized at 14db LUFS.

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Top Music Arts Chapter & Verse – Lights Go Out Ableton Remake (Tech House)

A deconstructed Ableton Remake version of “Lights Go Out” by Chapter & Verse. And released by The Myth of NYX Records. A track with a lot to learn about Transitions, Drums, Beatmaking, Sub Basses, Synths, Leads, Arps, Pads, Fx, Song Structure, Vocals, and many more modern Tech House Music Production Elements.

The Template was made for Ableton Live 10.1. Using Xfer’s Serum v1.334 (or higher), and Nicky Romero’s Kickstart Vst Plugins. Also making use of, Stock FX and Stock Instruments. Tech House Style samples for beginners are included, with a full arrangement Beat. Both fully Mixed and Mastered, ready for you to download and start playing it!

TEMPLATE SPECIFICATIONS:

• Software, DAW: Ableton Live 10.1.25, or higher.
• VST Plugins: Xfer’s Serum v1.334 (or higher), and Nicky Romero’s Kickstart Vst Plugins required.
• Song Key: Eb Min
• Time Length: 3:46
• Genre: Tech House
• Drums: All Drum Samples are part of this zipped project. You can find them there.

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Musical Sampling Atelier Series – Austin Saxes KONTAKT

Atelier Series Austin Saxes is a true legato saxophone library performed by session player and educator, Colin Houlihan.

Recorded at Orb Studios in Austin, TX – the goal with this release was to create a true workhorse full saxophone library that could accomplish a variety of musical tasks with vibe and ease. Just play your parts in and ride the modwheel!

Vibrato is a crucial characteristic. Just like our Sasaki Trumpet release, we captured the natural, progressive vibrato found in Colin’s performances to keep things as musical and credible as possible. We’ve also provided both Natural (untuned) and Tuned variations of our patches – the former retaining natural pitch biases up the range of the instrument.

We’ve included two playing styles. The Workhorse patches cater to upbeat, energetic contexts. Great for jazz, rock and pop genres. The Emotional patches were recorded soft with a more subtle, emotive vibrato for delicate and expressive passages.

Colin Houlihan is a jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader based in Austin, TX. His musical influences include jazz luminaries such as John Coltrane and Miles Davis, as well as avante-garde rock artists such as Radiohead, Tool, King Crimson and many others.

Colin has enjoyed a decade-long career as a session musician and frequent call in Austin, appearing in recordings and on stage with countless musical groups, theatre productions, jam sessions in the city and can also be found in liner notes along such musical greats as Brian Eno.

Pro Tip

The “Natural” patch variations are great for solos that don’t share the same register as the accompaniment. It’s also great for doublings and harmonies with other saxes when used in more upbeat passages. The subtle (and not so subtle) pitch discrepancies playing against each other often adds a lot of life to arrangements.

While we like the adjustable reverb chosen for this library, we would suggest turning it off and putting the saxes through your favorite reverb plugin to give it a sense of presence/space that suits your track.

To add extra realism and spice to your saxes, try riding the pitch wheel slightly upwards quickly during more “difficult” passages to imitate sharp pitch corrections.

Patches

• Soprano Workhorse
• Alto Workhorse
• Tenor Workhorse
• Baritone Workhorse
• Alto Emotional
• Tenor Emotional
• Baritone Emotional

Features

• Legato saxophones
• Two performance styles
• Performed with natural, progressive vibrato
• “Natural” and “Tuned” patch variations
• Recorded dry for mixing flexibility
• Adjustable reverb of custom hall impulse

Specifications

• Requires full retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher
• Free Kontakt Player NOT supported
• Recorded in 48khz / 24bit
• 3.9 GB compressed NCW format

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Musical Sampling Hoard Picked Acoustic v1.1.0 KONTAKT

Hoard Picked Acoustic is a versatile and agile legato guitar library meticulously crafted for Kontakt.

Like our Hoard Mandolin library, our goal was to create an instrument capable of handling a wide range of guitar melodies seamlessly, eliminating the necessity for keyswitching.

The Master Legato Main patch is a versatile workhorse, incorporating multiple legato articulations: Natural legato, slide to pluck (with CC slide speed control), hammer-on/off, and slide without plucking – all seamlessly switchable via velocity control. Additionally, we provided a distinctive palm-muted legato patch with its own unique flavor.

The Performance Sustains patch is equally significant, showcasing five velocity levels, including the two softest ones for palm-muted and slightly palm-muted performances, significantly broadening the range of phrasing possibilities.

To enhance the authenticity of your guitar tracks, we’ve included a comprehensive, yet subtle, fret noises patch, along with a room tone, breath, and movement patch — all designed to infuse character, warmth, and humanity into your compositions.

For added versatility, we’ve thoughtfully included tuned and doubler versions of several patches to cater to your double-tracking requirements.

Patches

• Master Legato Main
• Muted Legato
• Performance Sustains
• Sustains & Hammer Pull – K6
• Harmonics
• Muted Sustains

Patches

• Guitar Percussion
• Chugs Scrapes & Slaps
• Chord Fret Noises
• Room Breath & Movement
• Tuned & Doubler variations

Features

• Agile and expressive legato acoustic guitar
• Three legato articulations activated by velocity
• Automatic down/upstroke legato
• Natural temperament
• Adjustable reverb of custom hall impulse

Specifications

• Requires full retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1+
• Sustains & Hammer Pull require Kontakt 6.8.0+
• Free Kontakt Player NOT supported
• Recorded in 48khz / 24bit
• 2.8 GB compressed NCW format

FREE UPDATE: As of June 26, 2024, we’ve updated Hoard Picked Acoustic with the Sustains Hammer Pull feature (originally created for our Hoard Fingerstyle library). For users who’ve downloaded this library before this date, you can easily update the library with the new patches via Pulse. These new patches only work in Kontakt 6.8.0 or higher.

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Musical Sampling The Upright KONTAKT

The Upright is plucked legato upright bass library for Kontakt.

We’d been talking about doing this one for a while, but we weren’t sure it’d properly benefit from the sampling techniques we employed for our legato guitar libraries. Thankfully, we were proven wrong and the end result exceeded our expectations.

For the Master Legato patch, we included natural legato up to a major 3rd, slide-plucks up to an octave and slide no-plucks up to a major 2nd (the latter two with slide speed CC control). Great patch for a variety of settings due to its enhanced expressive capabilities.

The Performance Sustains patch is a real workhorse; comprised of samples all pulled from curated phrases — enhancing the tone, consistency and fluidity.

The Body Perc includes a collection of slaps, thumps, knocks, fret slides and room tone — all of which are mapped below the playable range of the upright bass. With this setup you can arm both patches simultaneously and jam away.

Patches

• Master Legato
• Bonus Beefy Legato
• Performance Sustains
• Body Perc & Room Tone
• Fret Slides
• atures
• Legato, plucked upright bass
• Three legato articulations activated by velocity

Specifications

• Requires full retail version of Kontakt 6.8.0 or higher
• Free Kontakt Player NOT supported
• Recorded in 48khz / 24bit
• 692 MB compressed NCW format

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Musical Sampling Atelier Series Amy KONTAKT

Atelier Series Amy is a legato vocal release intended for emotional and cinematic contexts.

For this we wanted a tone that was somewhere between classical and pop. As luck would have it, our co-producer knew someone who not only fit the brief but also had the kind of vocal stamina this project required. Enter Amy Griffin; a talented vocalist and music educator.

We’ve included two extensively-recorded legato patches performed “long-style”. This means there are no programmed crossfades into a target sustain after playback of the legato interval. This involves far more recording time (12 hours in this case) than traditional legato sampling but ensures a seamless performance that also retains Amy’s natural progression in vibrato; musically-unique for every interval across the range.

Also included is Everlasting – a collection of beautiful, vowel-evolving sustains processed with a variety of hardware pedals. Every sample ebbs and flows; each note unique in how they evolve and loop. This keyswitch suite includes six presets: Beauty, Tundra, Celestial, Elysium, The Signal and Creation.

Amy Griffin is a singer and music educator from Dothan, AL. She studied music education and psychology at Troy University where she sang in the school of music’s Collegiate Singers, Concert Chorale, Opera Workshop, and Frequency vocal jazz ensemble.

Amy’s teaching experience includes elementary music, chamber choir, show choir, a cappella pop, music appreciation, theory, private voice and drama. She also served as a worship leader and church choral director during her education and early career.

Currently, Amy teaches at Houston Academy in Dothan, AL and is an active member of the Alabama Music Educators Association, Alabama Vocal Association and National Association for Music Education. She enjoys singing as a guest soloist for commencement ceremonies, sporting events and weddings. She also enjoys participating in the Southeast Alabama Community Theatre and Tri-State Community Choir.

Patches

• Amy Emotional Legato – Ahh
• Amy Emotional Legato – Mmm
• Everlasting – Keyswitch

Features

• Produced for emotional and cinematic contexts
• Natural, progressive vibrato
• Non-looped performances
• Legato transitions < sustains recorded “long-style”
• Includes beautiful evolving sustains keyswitch patch
• Adjustable reverb of custom hall impulse

Specifications

• Requires full retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher
• Free Kontakt Player NOT supported
• Recorded in 48khz / 24bit
• 1.4 GB compressed NCW format

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Musical Sampling Atelier Series – Orb Trumpets KONTAKT

Orb Trumpets is a proof-of-concept release that is created entirely out of performances.

Recorded in Orb Studios in Austin, TX – the goal was to create a trumpet patch that took our Adventure-style programming techniques to a more natural-sounding level using samples derived from phrases. It’s trickier to program and hone, but the resulting fluidity is compelling.

Like our larger orchestral releases, the Adventure-style programming requires no keyswitching. For quicker notes, you’re going to want to play within the 1-100 velocity range. For longer notes, 101-127 provides a slightly broader attack. Switching between the two provides an effective approximation of how brass players tend to shape certain notes within a variety of phrases.

Tuning was lightly done to taste instead of destructively tuning it with software. We retained the natural biases in intonation up the range/dynamics while pulling in the more squirrely notes, resulting in a more natural temperament.

Patches

• Adventure Workhorse
• Adventure (FFF Sus Layer)
• Stac & Stacmo (VEL Switching)
• Stac & Stacmo (MW Switching)
• No Filter versions of above

Features

• Two-trumpet section
• Keyswitch-less “Adventure” programming
• Two velocity-sensitive attack types
• Entirely performance-sourced sampling
• Tighter studio recordings
• Hand-tuned to taste — no destructive tuning
• Adjustable reverb of custom hall impulse

Manual

The Adventure Workhorse patch is great for most trumpet-writing needs with a dynamic range going from mezzo-piano to fortissimo. The Adventure (FFF Sus Layer) patch includes an additional sustain layer at the top of the dynamic range where the players went properly ham with the volume. Good for those hammy moments.

For both Stac & Stacmo patches, release the notes quickly to activate the release samples. For the VEL Switching patch, the modwheel controls dynamics and playing velocities 1-100 will trigger staccatissimo samples while 101-127 will trigger staccato samples. For the MW Switching patch, velocity controls the dynamics while the modwheel allows you to switch between staccatissimo (down) and staccato (up).

The No Filter folder patches are for the rare few whose DAW setups may be a bit sensitive to certain Kontakt filters (CPU spikes n’ such).

This library is recorded relatively dry but treats well to external reverb setups. Slap an early reflection plugin then pipe that puppy into your favorite hall verb!

Specifications

• • Requires full retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher
• • Free Kontakt Player NOT supported
• • Recorded in 48khz / 24bit
• • 240 MB compressed NCW format

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Musical Sampling Orb Horns & Bones KONTAKT

Orb Horns and Bones is the counterpart to our proof-of-concept brass library, Orb Trumpets.

We recorded the French horns and trombones in their traditional positions in the same space at Orb Studios in Austin, Texas. Aside from the obvious desire to complete the brass package (sans tuba), we wanted to see how this performance-oriented style of sampling would play out in full context.

Like the trumpets, all the samples were extracted from curated phrases and programmed to take full advantage of those performances. The resulting fluidity lends itself to energetic, melodic writing — all without any keyswitching. Just adjust the velocity; soft for quicker notes within a phrase and hard for longer “landing” notes. Modwheel for dynamics. That’s it!

The horns and bones were also hand-tuned to taste, preserving important intonation biases that really reveal their utility when playing chords/lines in context within their respective sections and with their brass counterparts.

Patches

• Orb Horns
• Orb Bones
• Orb Horns (FFF Sus)
• Orb Bones (FFF Sus)
• No Filters versions of above

Features

• 4 French Horns, 2 Trombones
• Keyswitch-less “Adventure” programming
• Two velocity-sensitive attack types
• Entirely performance-sourced sampling
• Tighter studio recordings
• Hand-tuned to taste — no destructive tuning
• Adjustable reverb of custom hall impulse

Manual

The Orb Horns/Bones patches are great for most brass-writing needs with a dynamic range going from mezzo-piano to fortissimo. The FFF Sus patches include an additional sustain layer at the top of the dynamic range where the players blew with full abandon.

Velocities 1-97 activates quicker staccato attacks while 98-127 plays back a slightly heavier, marcato “bloom” – great for longer “landing” notes. Example: If you write a triplet going into a quarter-note, you’d use the soft velocity for the triplets, the hard velocity for the quarter-note while shaping the dynamics with the modwheel. The library is designed with this methodology in mind, resulting in more realistic phrasing.

The No Filters folder patches are for the rare few whose DAW setups may be a bit sensitive to certain Kontakt filters (CPU spikes n’ such).

This library is recorded relatively dry but treats well to external reverb setups. Slap an early reflection plugin then pipe that puppy into your favorite hall verb!

Specifications

• Requires full retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher
• Free Kontakt Player NOT supported
• Recorded in 48khz / 24bit
• 420 MB compressed NCW format

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