What adds further to this experience is the ability to loop and retrigger from any point in the sample, or specify on the individual note level which part of the wavetable might play.This means that chords become unbelievably interesting and full of intrigue and movement, complete with the ability to control filtering and gating on a per-note level. There’s also a remix control with 32 methods of combining previously made patterns. So there is a lot of room for making composite timbres on this instrument – and despite the distressed nature of the original instruments, the end result is a beautiful sounding piano – not a Steinway, to be sure, but a piano with lots of character and warmth.It can also be microtuned, following the method I discussed in the last issue of Soundbytes. We talk production techniques, his renewed popularity and his secrets to longevity in an ever-changing industry.Get your head around how to manipulate your samples, share them with collaborators and make your sampled drums sound clean – and dirty.There are numerous ways to share your track’s raw ingredients with other producers. Each arpeggiator can have up to 64 steps, twelve different kinds of arpeggiation, nineteen different rhythmic values (off a common clock), swing, decay, pitch offset, and rhythm offset. A complex, beautiful sounding variation on a sampled piano theme. There are plenty of settings forSign up to our newsletter for all the latest news, reviews and tutorials – and get MusicTech’s Freeware issue for free!We provide insight and opinion on the gear, tools, software and services to enhance and expand the minds of music makers and listeners.© 2020 MusicTech is a member of the media division of Eventide’s plug-in incorporates pitch-shifting technology from the H3000, H910 and H949A classic electronic keyboard of the 70s gets a 2020 freeware rebootThe device brings MIDI-based parameter control to loop-based music setupsDistant Dancefloors looks at the ‘new normal’ in the electronic music scene.Classic samplers get reimagined in this intuitive plug-in from Beatskillz.With Logic’s 10.5 update changing the game, this easy-to-follow online course should help get you up to speed.Let the sun into your studio with this scorching new sample pack from Loopmasters.Keeping the soul torch burning as Loopmasters presents a range of vocal samples to lift your tracks higher and higher.Stephen and David Dewaele of electronic rockers Soulwax have dedicated their lives to unearthing, mixing and spreading the sounds of the future. Meanwhile, the upright is not so much a prepared piano as a set of prepared samples which have been effected with envelopes, filters and reverbs. Of these, the “nothing” setting seems to be the most useful, as it will allow you to have gaps in your scale – very useful if you have a random note source pumping the instrument along here – this will allow you to have randomly spaced silences in your random melody. It’s an enthralling product and one that should be considered and explored. Samples include synths and acoustic strikes, such as dulcimer and Rhodes.Once timbral selection is made, the next option is to engage the sequencer element, which in turn triggers the sample in a number of ways, dictated through choice. One of my sound treasures is his sample set of an 1884 Dulcitone instrument, which I acquired many years ago. It a set of six sampled instruments, each of which can be selected and modified in many ways.

Sound Dust Vol. More details here or check out the official press release below. I could write at length about the Pendleonium 3, but exploring it is the best way to experience its richness. I’ve been working with them for about three months now and I’ve barely scratched the surface. Pendle Poucher is a British sound designer based in Brighton UK. Three (in different polyrhythmic relations) cheers!If you share these interests, you’ve come to the right place for gear reviews, developer interviews, tips and techniques and other music related articles. Some of the modules are complex – there is no denying that. The sheer creativity in each of his products is a joy to experience, and he keeps his prices low, as well. Email. These five consist of two straightforward sample players, Pendleonium and Ship’s Piano; one granular sample-based engine, Flutter Dust; one rhythm-based synthesizer with a wealth of algorithmic features, Oddhop; and one three-voiced rhythmic-phasing based poly-arpeggiator, Infundibulum. Microtuning is available by selecting the Arp Recorder page in the Script Editor and loading your tuning script on that page.

The Fernandez guitar samples extend for miles, thanks to the inclusion of Sustainiac pickups and built-in EBows.The look of Pendleonium3 is somewhat reminiscent of an old 4-track tape machine, inviting you to mix and blend the sounds accordingly. Meanwhile, the upright is not so much a prepared piano as a set of prepared samples which have been effected with envelopes, filters and reverbs. At $199 US, it’s a bargain. Each of these instruments can be turned on or off, its volume and sample start position can be adjusted, its envelope, filtering, convolution reverb setting can be individually adjusted, AND, there can be an individual vibrato on each one, and this vibrato can have a very wide range of both amplitude and frequency, to the extent that any vestige of “piano-ness” can be removed from the resulting frequency-modulated-like sound. Pendle’s work is just that good, that you may find a whole raft of other sonic delights. Spitfire Audio nous présente sa toute dernière réalisation avec le deuxième volume de sa libraire Sound DUST. This is like a number of the other Sound Dust modules we’ve looked at so far. The Fernandez guitar samples extend for miles, thanks to the inclusion of Sustainiac pickups and built-in EBows.The look of Pendleonium3 is somewhat reminiscent of an old 4-track tape machine, inviting you to mix and blend the sounds accordingly.