Our friends at MoReVox have recently announced some new product bundles.
The Creative Bundle
Includes : Elektromorph I & II + Kaleidoscope
Quick Bundle
Includes : Pocketslam Acoustic 01 + Drumbuster
Prices
The Creative Bundle : $ 289
Upgrade from Elektromorph Bundle to The Creative Bundle : $ 59
Quick Bundle $ 49
For more info : http://www.morevox.com
MoReVox has just announced Kaleidoscope, a new drum sample library in wav, gog, and Battery formats. Sounds cool.
http://www.morevox.com/kaleidoscope/
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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.
Get Kaleidoscope for $79 in the MoReVox store: http://www.morevox.com/orders/index.html
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RetroVerb 2
RetroVerb 1.2 review
Drivedrums
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)
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?
If you’re looking for a basic library of Orchestral sounds, and free, well now you can get one from Sounds Online. The “Starter” Version of Symphonic Orchestra PLAY Edition is a FREE (after short survey) Virtual instrument with a ton of superbly recorded Orchestral instruments.
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Sounds like a pretty decent deal. EastWest is considered one of the best in this field but the PLAY Engine can be buggy particularly in Pro Tools. I’m currently downloading mine (a couple hours to go) and as long as it’s stable I’m sure I’ll find a use for it.
Let me know what you think of it.
Free Sound Of The Week is a new weekly series here on AGZ, once a week I’m going to share a couple sound samples I’ve recorded or created and manipulated.
This week I’ve got a set of samples of bowed cymbals. I LOVE the sound of bowed cymbals, it’s one of those classic sounds that instantly evokes some kind of feeling, suspense, fear, etc.
If you create music for film, no doubt you’ve used bowed cymbals in your scores. Essential sounds for Horror, Suspense, Action and Adventure films.
The sound is created by dragging or pushing a violin bow across the edge of a cymbal. There are 2 different cymbals (china & crash) recorded with a spaced pair of Audio Technica AT3035 into a Presonus Firestudio Project audio interface. No processing has been done except fade ins and out.
Go nuts with them, pitch shift, time stretching, layer with drones (like my Household Drones set), and reverb, these are begging for some ambiance.
I think these turned out really well, I’d love to hear what you guys can do with them.
This pack contains 9 samples. 16 bit 44.1kHz Stereo Wave files.
