Attention
My collection of circuit bent toy samples is now $10.
What!? Why???
This is closer to the price it should have been from the start. Since it is a niche product I could have charged way more for it. I feel this is still a very fair price.
This price change does not affect previous purchases.
One of the cool new products from Steven Slate is now ready for you to try. Trigger is a realtime drum replacing software that claims to be phase accurate, easy to use and comes with a great set of Steven Slate drums samples. Below is a video where bedridden (seriously!) Steven takes you through what Trigger can do.
MoReVoX Kaleidoscope takes a unique approach to drum libraries. Instead of using multisamples in the traditional way, with a different samples for each volume level, Kaleidoscope uses multisamples to represent unique sample nuances. Recorded with top audio gear, Kaleidoscope samples have been multiprocessed up to one hundred times to create several thousand dynamic and multicolour drum samples!
Liquid Fat kicks, Wide Killer snares, Aggressive Varipitch hits with up to 15 variations/layers and 14 dynamic levels for each sound, are arranged in very dense patches.
The 122 GOGs and 30 Battery3 Kits are divided into two categories – Full Kaleidoscope Patches, full of nuances and variations in sound (ideal for extreme creative uses) and Fixed Kaleidoscope Patches with limited variations in sound (perfect for everyday music and production).
Engineers, producers and musicians alike will find MoReVoX Kaleidoscope represents a priceless tank of alternative sounds to expand their drum palette.
The other day I was playing around with my bowed cymbals samples and found that they didn’t timestretch particularly well with Elastic Audio or otherwise. I like Elastic Audio for many purposes but I keep running into it’s limitations. Stretching bowed cymbals to 200% is one of them, I later discovered that most other methods aren’t much better either. I’ve created some examples so you can come to your own conclusion about which is the ‘best’ way. As you’ll hear, some of these have the painfully obvious audio equivalent of THIS IMAGE.
Download RAR file with original file and 17 stretched files. 16 bit, 44.1kHz (same as original recording)
original
TCE Digidesign
TCE Timeshift Default
TCE Timeshift Stereo Mix
Audiosuite Time Shift default
Audiosuite Time Shift follow transient
Audiosuite TimeCompressionExpansion Default
Audiosuite TimeCompressionExpansion accuracy 5
Audiosuite TimeCompressionExpansion accuracy -5
Elastic Audio Monophonic No Event markers
Elastic Audio Monophonic
Elastic Audio Polyphonic default no event markers
Elastic Audio Polyphonic default
Elastic Audio Rhythmic default
Elastic Audio Rhythmic default no event markers
Elastic Audio X-Form default
Elastic Audio X-Form Formant
Elastic Audio X-Form No Event Markers
In my opinion and for this specific situation there is one method of stretching that is clearly better, the least “stretch marks” it’s also the most time consuming.
Let me know what you think about the test. What would you like for round 2?