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Sampleconstruct wrote:

Kubi wrote:WORD on everything kgdrum says. BIG endorsement from lil' ol' me as well. Simon is insanely talented. I have a lot of his libraries (for Iris, Kontakt, Alchemy, Absynth, etc.) and use them *all the time*.

One of my very favorite sound designers, period. Looking fwd to what he cooks up for M5v3

Thank's for the praise, Kubi

Hello Simon - I just wanted to introduce myself and say hello. It's nice to meet professional sound designers.

Do you do any "hard core" surround work? (Not sure what the term for that is in the sound design universe). There were some great sound designers at the University of North Texas ("my old school"). I was a composition and music theory major there, but I wasn't doing sound design back then. The sound design composers held concerts every friday night in the awesome media room that UNT had at that time. Even back in the 90s when I was there they had a nice JBL Octophonic sound system and two-story video screen. It made friday nights very enjoyable. The theatre held about 30 people and we'd sit there for a couple of hours while things went flying around our heads. To this day I haven't heard sounds that good. Right now I just have 2.1. I'm going to get into 5.1 or 7.2 at some point in the future.

Did you ever use MetaSynth? What's your current favorite software synth?

Anyway, I'll check out your site. I have Alchemy and will probably get MachFive 3 before the end of the year.

Cheers,
Steven

Btw, does anyone know of any good websites that stream surround? I know that Netflix is using Dolby Surround for streaming content (at least I read a press release about it).

nightwatch wrote:

Sampleconstruct wrote:

Kubi wrote:WORD on everything kgdrum says. BIG endorsement from lil' ol' me as well. Simon is insanely talented. I have a lot of his libraries (for Iris, Kontakt, Alchemy, Absynth, etc.) and use them *all the time*.

One of my very favorite sound designers, period. Looking fwd to what he cooks up for M5v3

Thank's for the praise, Kubi

Hello Simon - I just wanted to introduce myself and say hello. It's nice to meet professional sound designers.

Do you do any "hard core" surround work? (Not sure what the term for that is in the sound design universe). There were some great sound designers at the University of North Texas ("my old school"). I was a composition and music theory major there, but I wasn't doing sound design back then. The sound design composers held concerts every friday night in the awesome media room that UNT had at that time. Even back in the 90s when I was there they had a nice JBL Octophonic sound system and two-story video screen. It made friday nights very enjoyable. The theatre held about 30 people and we'd sit there for a couple of hours while things went flying around our heads. To this day I haven't heard sounds that good. Right now I just have 2.1. I'm going to get into 5.1 or 7.2 at some point in the future.

Did you ever use MetaSynth? What's your current favorite software synth?

Anyway, I'll check out your site. I have Alchemy and will probably get MachFive 3 before the end of the year.

Cheers,
Steven

Hi Steven,

Yeas, I do a lot of surround when possible - I mixed several of my soundtracks for cinema documentaries in 5.1, often do concerts with quadrophonic projection (e.g. live-processed orchestra or smaller band/chamber ensemble projects) and also produced a piece together with my dad in the 90s named "Oktophonie" where you have 2x quadro downstairs and upstairs.

I use Metasynth every day and love it's resynthesizing and spectral resynthesis features, resynthesizing a sound then playing it back with multisamples, then importing images to filter it and whatnot, it's an amazing piece software. Besides that I don't have a favourite synth really, always depends what I'm working on. But lately those all-in-one monsters like HALion 5 and MachFive 3 do fascinate me and I have long term love affairs with Alchemy and Iris.

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Here is a new demo from Scattered Entity which I just uploaded using 3 new presets, also involved is a multisampled Glockenspiel (2 velocity layer, 4x round robin, chromatically sampled over 2 octaves, one octave extended to both sides so you have a 4 octave instrument) which I mixed with a harplike FM synth so it's one Glockenspiel-FM Synth-patch.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/f ... -scattered

Demo for MachFive 3 patch "Celtic Harp Granular Bisbigliando" - 7 bisbigliandos played on a celtic harp covering a 3.5 octave range, for each sample 2 strings were tuned to the same pitch to perform the bisbigliandos (tremoli), extended to both sides of the range. Various granular parameters, filter modulation and FX parameters were modulated on the fly with MIDI Controllers controlling the 7 assigned Macros, the Modwheel controls sample speed.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/h ... sbigliando

Here is a demo for "Ozone Choir" combining granulated samples of a children's choir with a synth engine:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/o ... -scattered

Very nice. Now for a stupid question: how much of the Peace Pad recording was NOT the pad? I feel like I should know the answer: it's ALL pad, or it's the pad plus some effects, or… whatever… but I just don't know for sure, so I'm asking.

Wonderful stuff, by the way. I'm wondering if I've heard some of these in recent iOS games.

Shooshie

Shooshie wrote:Very nice. Now for a stupid question: how much of the Peace Pad recording was NOT the pad? I feel like I should know the answer: it's ALL pad, or it's the pad plus some effects, or… whatever… but I just don't know for sure, so I'm asking.

Wonderful stuff, by the way. I'm wondering if I've heard some of these in recent iOS games.

Shooshie

Thank you - well it's all MachFive, some MachFive FX was used like delay/reverb, I would have to check, but this and all other demos are entirely made with M5, except for one demo where I used some B2 verb but that is mentioned in the track title.

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Here is a new one:
Demo for MachFive 3 patch "Turning Thai Gongs", without any scripting yet, so there is no modulation going on, just the plain samples and some MachFive FX.

80 samples, 8 gongs, each gong has 2 velocities (soft and hard beater) and 5X Round Robin, the decay phase of each sample when moving the gongs in front of the 3 mics is also granulated, when scripted grain speed/detune/random position mod and more will be controllable.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/t ... -1st-draft

Here is a new demo combining 2 fresh patches from this library:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/e ... -scattered

Here is a sequenced harp sound, the lowest harp string sampled with 5x round robin, using a MachFive arpeggiator in "chord" mode for the sequencing.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/h ... red-entity

Demo for MachFive 3 patch "Vibratophone" - multisampled vibra, for each note I altered the vibrato speed of the vibra's vibrato engine during the decay phase, accel/rit - there are 2 layers, one running in normal sampler mode and a granular layer, the Modwheel determines sample speed and grain length of the granular layer.

In the demo I used several MIDI controllers for modulating the available Macros, e.g. level of the granular layer, attack speed, Chorus amount, reverb amount/size.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/v ... -scattered

Patch "Evil Grains":

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/e ... -scattered

And to compensate for the evilness, here is a smooth Voxpad, mixing normal sampling with granular sampling and a synth module for the low bass notes.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/c ... red-entity

Sampleconstruct wrote:Patch "Evil Grains":

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/e ... -scattered

beautifully evil

kgdrum wrote:

Sampleconstruct wrote:Patch "Evil Grains":

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/e ... -scattered

beautifully evil

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