Friday, December 31, 2021

Free Bass Guitar Soundfont. Studio Bass Collection. Soft Finger P-Bass.

 



Soft, clean and warm Fender P-Bass .SF2 Soundfont. Free to download.

.SF2 Soundfont format for use with a range of compatible sample/player instruments including Reason NN-XT and Bitwig Sampler. 

Part of The Electric Bass Studio Collection. Available as .SF2 Soundfonts, Zampler patches, Reason NN-XT/Combinator patches and Bitwig Sampler Instrument Container Presets. End of January 2022.  

 

Bass Guitar Soundfont Download Link.


Download from the following link. Just download the .SF2 file and drag/load into your chosen soundfont player. No need for separate sample folder as all the samples are 
wrapped into the .SF2 file. 




Part of a collection of free soundfonts. You'll find loads more over at the Soundfont Library Page


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Thursday, December 30, 2021

'Burnin' Moog' Solo Lead Synth. Zampler Patches

 


Solo synth lead for burnin' solos and arpeggios. 
Thin, but expressive solo 'analog' ready-to-play synth patches for Zampler. 
16 patches utilizing Zampler's synth style parameter editing and effects suite. 

Demo soon. 

Zampler is a free sample player/synth with a full range of synth editing and effects. 
It's a great VST plug-in, and it's free. You can download your copy from the link below.
 



'Burnin' Moog' is part of The Essential Songwriter Suite for Zampler and you can find all the patches at the link below. 




Lead Synth for Zampler Download Link


You can download your copy of Burnin' Moog at the link below. 
Just download the entire folder and use Zampler's Load Patch function to load your sounds. 



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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

'Smokin' Moog' Synth Lead Soundfont. .SF2

 



This Moog sawtooth synth lead soundfont is built for burning solos. 
A thin, edgy, expressive synth lead soundfont for all those progressive synth solos. 
   
.SF2 format so compatible with many sample players including Reason NN-XT and Bitwig Sampler. Zampler/sfz patches available shortly. 

Lots of scope for creating your own patches if you've got a soundfont player with synth editing and/or effects.

Synth Lead Soundfont Download Link:


You can download your synth lead soundfont from the following link. Just download the file to your hard drive then use with your player. Sometimes you can 'drag' the .SF2 file into the player or you may need to use the browser section of your DAW. 

The .SF2 soundfont format 'wraps' the raw samples into the .SF2 file so there's no need for a separate sample folder. 




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Monday, December 27, 2021

FREE Fender Rhodes for Zampler. Fender Agenda-Z

 


Fender Rhodes Stage MK2 'Fender Agenda' is now available as 8 ready to play Zampler patches. 

Utilizing Zampler's powerful synth editing and effects processing, Fender Agenda offers a authentic and expressive Rhodes electric piano experience.

With clean and processed patches there's a Rhodes EP here for all songs and genres. 

Check out the demo below:

   


Fender Rhodes for Zampler Link:

Just download the entire folder to your hard drive and use Zampler's 'load patch' function to load and play the desired sound. These are the .fxb files. You'll need the samples folder and the .sfz soundfont file otherwise you may see an error message when loading. 




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Sunday, December 26, 2021

FREE SOUNDWARE: Winter Ensemble. Bitwig Instrument Container Presets.

 



Powerful, evocative, wide string ensemble samples and ready-to-play Bitwig Instrument Container presets. 

Four Presets are included utilizing Bitwig's Stereo Imager, EQ-5, and Reverb processors for fast, slow,warm and bright presets.

Check out the demo below. Winter Ensemble is part of the 'Session Strings' collection and you can check out the demo for it below. Winter Ensemble starts at 2.43.   




Winter String Ensemble for Bitwig Download:


Just download the entire Winter Ensemble folder to your hard drive using the link below, then use Bitwig's browser to load and audition your required preset. Bitwig Instrument Container Presets 'wrap' the samples into the files so there's no need for a separate sample folder. 


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Saturday, December 25, 2021

Free Fender Rhodes Stage 88 MK2 .SF2 Soundfont. Fender Agenda.

 


Fender Agenda Rhodes Stage 88 Mk2 electric piano sample library is now available as a .SF2 soundfont. 

Very playable and expressive recreation of the classic electric piano. The best free Fender Rhodes soundfont. 

Check out the demo below. 




Fender Rhodes Stage 88 MK2 Soundfont. Download Link.


You can download the soundfont using the link below. Just download it to your hard drive then either drag into your soundfont player or load from your DAWs browser.
 



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Thursday, December 23, 2021

TECHNIQUE: The Art of Sampling Part Four. Multi-Sampling. Velocity Mapping.

 




So we saw in Part Three how different samples need to be mapped across the keyboard to produce authentic, playable, and/or musical sampled instruments. That samples very often stop sounding like we want them to once we start moving away from the original sample's pitch. 

Well, we will very often need more samples, and employ another form of 'mapping' in order to arrange them. 

Velocity mapping allows us to sound different samples depending upon how fast a key or group of keys are struck. Whilst 'keyboard mapping' can be considered as the 'horizontal' mapping of a number of samples across a keyboard, 'velocity mapping' can be considered as the  'vertical' mapping of sounds/samples. 

We can take another look at our piano instrument from Bitwig's Sampler sample mapping editor:






You can see from this image that if you look at the sample zones above the keyboard there are three 'vertical' sample layers in addition to the 19 'horizontal' key mapping 'zones'. These are called 'velocity layers'. 

The reason we need velocity layers exists because of how musical instruments behave in the real world. Many instruments can be struck, plucked or hit either hard, soft, or any level in between. If we take a piano, as in the diagram above, for example, a note played 'hard' on a piano does not simply sound the same as the same note played softly. The 'timbre' of the sound changes. The same applies to many other instruments. Drums, acoustic guitar, electric pianos and all brass and wind instrument such as saxes, flutes, and trumpets. 

There are exceptions. Instruments such as organs and harpsichords can not actually be played at different velocities. Some modern organs may have velocity sensitive keyboards, but 'classic' organs such as a 'Hammond' or a Vox Continental could only be played at a single velocity. True, you could adjust the swell pedal for more or less volume, but the timbre always remained the same. Harpsichords are also only 'plucked' at a single velocity, so a single velocity layer can (and should) be employed for recreations of these instruments. 

So you can see for our piano sound above, three velocity layers are employed. A 'soft' layer (p/mp, pianissimo/mezzo-pianissimo), a medium layer (mf, mezzo-forte) and a 'hard' layer (f, forte). This will give us good degree of realism although more layers can be employed for greater detail and realism.

Keyboard velocity is usually measured from 0-127, so a typical arrangement for a piano instrument might be 0-64 (soft, p, mp), 65-110 (medium, mf), and 111 - 127 (hard, f). 

At this point we are only 'switching' between the layers depending upon how hard a key is struck, however, many sample players/editors allow us to 'crossfade' between velocity layers. Rather like 'crossfading' between key zones, velocity layer scan often employ crossfading so the different layers 'merge' softly.    

Of course, velocity layers don't have to be used just for realism. With synthesizer type sounds, for example, different elements can be added depending upon how hard (or more accurately, how fast) a key is struck. Timpani could be added to a string ensemble type sound at higher velocity levels. The possibilities are endless!

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Free Soundfont Library Updates.




The latest updates in the free .SF2 soundfont library page are now available to view and download. 

They include the new Temple Sitar, Winter String Section, and Synth Pad One soundfonts. 

Sitars are such versatile instruments. They add some Eastern spice to almost any musical genre including pop, rock, and electronica. Temple Sitar is a great sounding recreation that you can literally 'throw' effects at and it sounds great. Reverb, delay and all forms of modulation, and even distortion and overdrive. 

Synth Pad One is a pad/motion synthesizer soundfont edited in a famous software/VST synth. Great for soundtracks and ambient pieces.....

as is........ the Winter String Section soundfont. An evocative and expressive string section. You can check out the demo below. 




So check 'em out. All free to download and use in your songs and pieces. You'll find the free .SF2 library page at the following link. 


https://www.simonthompsonmusic.co.uk/p/soundfont-library.html


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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Zampler Essential Songwriter Suite Updates.

 



New updates to the Zampler Essential Songwriter Suite are now available. 

Temple Sitar, Moog Bass, and Winter String Ensemble have now been added. 

Add some Eastern spice to your tracks with the Temple Sitar, shake the room with the new Moog Bass collection, and/or channel your inner Vaughan Williams with the evocative, pastoral Winter Ensemble string section. 

Zampler is a really powerful VST sample player with synth type editing and a comprehensive and great sounding suite of effects so it's the perfect platform to develop a library of essential sounds for your music making/songwriting endeavours.

You can download your free copy from the link below. 



Head over to the Essential Songwriter Suite page now for these three latest updates and the rest of the collection.  

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Thursday, December 16, 2021

VST News: Sample Science Analog Waveforms DS.

 


Sample Science continue to offer interesting software instruments, some of which can be downloaded free. 

Also with the new Decent Sampler platform they now offer more parameter controls and better looks and interface. 

The latest addition is the Analog Waveforms DS which is an 'analog' synth recreation using four sampled analog waveforms. These are taken from a Dave Smith Mopho synthesizer. 

Each waveform generator has it's own level, pan, tuning and envelope generator with a global filter with resonance. 

Delay, reverb, chorus, and phasing are available as effects and glide/portamento is also provided (I would say a must for any analog synth recreation.)

Each note from each waveform has been individually sampled, so the sampling process is very detailed!

Analog Waveforms DS requires the new Decent Sampler platform to run, but this is a free download as well. You can get your copy from the following link. 




..... and Analog Waveforms DS is available from the Sample Science website:




I shall dive in and take a closer look very soon......

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

VST NEWS: Rob Papen Predator 3. Hybrid Virtual 'Analog'/Wavetable Synthesizer.

 


Alongside the likes of Synapse Audio's DUNE and U-he's Zebra, Rob Papen's Predator series 'analog'/wavetable software synths represent the pinnacle of the type, and it's now into it's third regeneration. 

Predator 3 now packs more parameters into a single screen so it's easier and quicker to navigate, has new arpeggiator features, multi-envelopes, and the 'analog' modeled sound code from the B.I.T. synthesizer, so it's analog waveform recreations sound even more authentic. 

It also comes with 6500 presets. 

More info at the Predator 3 page over at the Rob Papen website:




I'll take a closer look soon......  

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Monday, December 13, 2021

TECHNIQUE: The Art of Sampling. Part Three. Multi-Sampling. Keyboard Mapping.

 



So in Part Two we learned the basic processes of recording samples and the essential editing procedures of trimming, normalising, reversing and looping. 

In that example we were dealing only with a single sample. 

However, in order to make both acoustic recreations and creative synth type sampling sound authentic and musical we will usually require more than a single sample. 

Playing a single sample across an entire keyboard is not very musical. The different pitches of a sample are achieved by slowing down or speeding up the rate at which the sample is played back. The original sound undergoes major changes when it's pitch is shifted beyond even just a few semi-tones. 

The other reason we need several samples to accurately re-create authentic acoustic sounds lies in the nature of many instruments and sound. If we take a piano as an example and compare, for example, the sound it produces from key C3 and key C4 it is not simply the same sound an octave higher. The sound differs not only in terms of pitch but also in terms of 'timbre', and also possibly level. In other words, C4 isn't just C3 an octave higher, it's a completely different sound. 

To demonstrate this, take a single C3 piano sample and play it across your sampler's keyboard. See how far you can move away from C3 before it stops sounding like a piano!

So to achieve sampled instruments that sound authentic and musical, we need several samples recorded at different pitches which are then 'mapped' across the keyboard. The original 'root' pitch of the sample is at the centre of each sample group. Each group can be described as a 'keygroup' or 'zone'. 

So now each sample only needs to deviate a few semitones from the original before the next sample zone 'takes over' so to speak. If you have the available time, available memory, and a suitable sampler, there's nothing to stop you sampling every note from an instrument and have keygroups consisting of just a single note.  

See the following screenshot from Bitwig's Sampler instrument to illustrate the concept of keyboard mapping. 





Using a sampled piano instrument as an example, you can see the different samples that each note of the keyboard plays. Here, there are 19 zones each with it's own sample with a different sample every perfect fourth (5 semitones). 

Horizontally, you can see the 19 different key zones each with it's own sample, but the actually number of samples is 57, that's because each key zone has 3 samples with a different one sounding depending on how hard a key is played, or at what velocity to use the correct term. This is called velocity mapping and we'll take a look at this in Part Four. 


Keygroup Zone Crossfading. 


Some sample instruments further enhance the concept of keyboard mapping by allowing you to 'crossfade' between groups. Slowly and gradually 'weaving' audio from adjacent groups so the differences between each keygroup sounds less 'defined' and stark. 


So in this post we've seen that to musically recreate acoustic instruments and synthesized sounds we need several samples recorded at different pitches, not just one. 


In the next post we'll discover that often one sample per group is not enough. Instruments also sound completely different depending upon how they are struck, plucked or hit. How loudly an instrument is played can produce completely different timbres. So in Part Four we'll deal with 'velocity' switching and fading. 

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Sunday, December 12, 2021

Piano Mechanics One: Prelude. Youtube Demo Video.

Prelude is the first in a series of piano soundware products under the Piano Mechanics series.

It's an  expressive, authentic and playable grand piano collection. Available as an .SF2 Soundfont, 8 Zampler patches, 9 Reason NN-XT Combinator patches, or 8 Bitwig Instrument Container Presets

Zampler is a freeware VST sample player, so if you don't use Reason or Bitwig, or don't have an .SF2 Soundfont compatible player, then download yourself a free copy at the link below. Despite being freeware, it's a really powerful sample player with synth style editing and a great suite of powerful effects processors. 

https://www.zampler.de/


Here's the demo video with captions showing the three presets used. All the piano is from Prelude, the occasional strings are from my Session Strings soundware pack. 



 


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Purchase/Download Link. 

Piano Mechanics One: Prelude is available to purchase from my Payhip store. The purchase/download process is fully automated. Use the link below. 


Simply download the single .zip file, unzip then use your instruments browser to load the .SF" file, or Zampler 'load patch' function if you're using Zampler. The .SF2 Soundfont and the Zampler patches are all 'ready to play', no addition editing or sample mapping is required. 

Any questions or issues with the download process, please contact me via simonthompsonmusic@outlook.com


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Saturday, December 11, 2021

Grand Piano for Bitwig. Piano Mechanics One: Prelude. Now Available as Bitwig Instrument Container Presets.

 



Piano Mechanics One: Prelude is now available as a collection of Bitwig Instrument Container Presets. 

Eight ready-to play-presets using Bitwig's Sampler instrument alongside a 'suite' of powerful processing options to complete a powerful collection of great sounding grand pianos suitable for a wide range of musical genres including pop, jazz, soundtrack/ambient, singer/songwriter and EDM/dance music styles. 

I've produced a demo which is now available to hear at my Soundcloud channel. It's a bit melancholic, but it should give you an idea of how the pack sounds!  



The Piano Mechanics range of acoustic piano samples, soundfonts, Zampler patches, Reason Combinator patches and Bitwig Instrument Container Presets are available to purchase through my secure and fully automated e-Junkie/Paypal accounts. 

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

STM Soundcloud Demo Channel Launched.





I've now started a Soundcloud channel for all the soundware pack demos, so please check it out. 

Soundcloud is a little easier and a bit more 'instant' than Youtube since you don't have to put together any images, so the demos will generally appear here first. I also think it sounds a bit better. I don't know the technicalities, it just seems to sound a little bit 'cleaner' to my ears.

So I think the Soundcloud demos will offer the best quality.  

You'll find the channel via the following link. 

https://soundcloud.com/dream_mechanics

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Friday, December 3, 2021

Piano Mechanics 'Prelude' for Reason NN-XT/Combinator Patches.

 



Piano Mechanics 1: Prelude is now available as a set of samples and 9 NN-XT/Combinator patches. And we're really pleased with them. 

First in a series of acoustic piano soundware projects, Prelude is an acoustic grand piano, sampled in detail with nine ready-to-play Combinator patches utilising Reason's NN-XT sampler, RV7000 reverb, Mclass Equalizer and MClass Stereo Imager. All 'standard' issue Reason processors so all Reason users can access and use these patches. 


Piano Mechanics One: Prelude. Demo Track:

 

 


They're available to order and download at a great price (see details further down the page), or shipped as part of January 2022's Production Club soundware shipment.

You can get loads of great soundware products delivered directly to your email inbox via Production Club. Sample libraries, synthesizer patches, drum sample collections with resamples and kits, and loops and beats. Accessible to all DAW users as well as specially developed products for Reason and Bitwig users. 

January's package includes seven major soundware projects worth £35 with subscriptions starting at only £5.99. 

Not just loops, Production Club is for songwriters, soundtrack composers, and producers of all musical genres including pop, rock, edm, prog, electronica, country, blues, and all dance type musical genres. 

You'll find more details of Production Club at the link below.




Prelude Acuoustic Grand Piano for Reason NN-XT/Combinator Purchase/Download. 

You can purchase Prelude from our secure/automated service via E-junkie/Paypal from the link below. Just download the entire package, and use Reason's browser to load the combinator patches. 


'Prelude' Grand Piano 
for Reason. 
Only £5

 


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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Piano Mechanics 'Prelude'. Acoustic Piano Samples, .SF2 Soundfonts and Zampler Patches.

 



As part of our first (New Year's Day) Production Club soundware collection, I thought it might be interesting to start with the basics and develop a great sounding acoustic grand piano, and I'm really pleased with the results. 

The acoustic pianos that are supplied as standard with most DAWs don't seem to very good and my search for a free or inexpensive soundfont proved fruitless, so here's the first 'Piano Mechanics' acoustic piano product: Prelude

You can also purchase Prelude via my secure/automated e-junkie store listing. The link is towards the bottom of the page.   

Prelude has a deep, rich bass, a realistic and pure mid-range and a really nice 'tinkling' top end. It's expertly sampled and mapped in detail to deliver a versatile piano sound suitable for many musical genres including rock, pop, and classical/soundtrack pieces. 

It's available as a .sf2 soundfont which can be used with Reason's NN-XT sample instrument or Bitwig's Sampler, or as a collection of Zampler patches. Zampler is a free sample player/synth instrument that anyone can download and use. You can get your free copy using the link below. No magazine subscription is required. Many of our sample libraries and instruments are available in ready-to-play Zampler format so anyone can access them, so download your free copy now.  



Prelude will also be available soon as Reason NN-XT/Combinator patches and as a collection of Bitwig Instrument Container Presets both with a suitable suite of effects and processors to further enhance the sound. 

Prelude is the first in a collection of Piano Mechanics acoustic piano soundware products. We will revisit the acoustic piano in coming soundware projects over the next few months. 
 

Piano Mechanics One: Prelude. Grand Piano. Demo Track.


  


Prelude Grand Piano Soundfont Purchase/Download Link.


Use the button below to purchase your copy of Prelude.
The process is entirely secure and automated via my Payhip store.

Piano Mechanics: Prelude. 
Only £6


   



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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Computer Music - Seaweed Audio Fathom 2 CM.

 


The latest edition of Computer Music has an upgraded version of Seaweed Audio and CM's Fathom modular VST synthesizer, Fathom 2 CM.  

Fathom is a modular synthesizer which means it's oscillators, filters, modulators and effects can be patched together in whatever configuration the user would like. 

As well as offering modular routing and patching Fathom 2 CM also features numerous types of each element category. For example, it offers a number of oscillator types including virtual analog, wavetable, wave-drawing, FM, and additive oscillators, nine effects options, 30 different filter types (!) and a myriad of modulation types and flexible routing. So it really is a synth programmers dream!

New features found in Fathom CM2 include a fractal reverb, 16 channel delay, alternative 'skins' and two new soundbanks: Trance Warehouse and Masters of Ambience, worth $60 apparently. 

I have a copy of the original Fathom CM on my hard drive and maybe through this new version I'll revisit the world of Fathom and sort out a review. One thing I do remember is that it was quite heavy on CPU resources and I found many sounds with long release tails caused my computer to struggle a little. But I'll take a closer look at this new version over the next week or two. 

So stay tuned............


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