SpectrumWorx demo tracks

I've created some demo tracks to show off the capabilities of SpectrumWorx, a creative sound-mangling program by Little Endian.

Click the play button below to listen to the audio stream on SoundCloud (you'll need Flash).

Loops - Iain by SpectrumWorx

The first drum montage demonstrates ten new SpectrumWorx presets that I designed. The other montages use existing presets, including signature banks by Martin Walker and Syndicate Synthetique.

Hybrid Factory

Precisionsound has released Hybrid Factory, a sample-based synthesiser for Native Instruments Kontakt 4, which I created and programmed.

The samples in Hybrid Factory were created using a wide range of techniques, including resynthesizing acoustic instruments; physical modelling; granular synthesis; processing Foley recordings; FM synthesis; sampling old cassettes; and convolving instruments with one another.

Hybrid Factory contains:

• Over 1,160 stereo samples at 24-bit, 44.1khz quality
• 80 NKI presets, including basses, leads, keys and pads, demonstrating the capabilities of Hybrid Factory
• Twelve unique impulse responses
• A default NKI to use as a starting point for user patches
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hybrid Factory main interface - designed by Lars Westin

Here are some demonstrations of the sounds in Hybrid Factory. I added some third-party drums, but everything else comes from Hybrid Factory, with a few sound effects from the Biosphere and Sonic Laboratory libraries. (You'll need Flash to play the audio; click the button to hear the track):

All Your Base
Astral Cheeseburger
Electrify
Flow West
March of the Trilobites

Click here to visit the Hybrid Factory product page at Precisionsound, for more information and to purchase.

Quicksand

What is the craziest thing that has ever happened to you? Could it be... walking through sand?

Quicksand is a mashup of an interview by Angela Saucier with train passengers in California. Stylistically it's a companion to my earlier Panther Track.

 Click the button to play the track (you'll need Flash), or here to download it as a high-quality mp3 file (6.7mb).

The interview is used under a Creative Commons license. I'm grateful to Laura Gregory for assistance with the production. 

Biosphere and Mechosphere

Precisionsound has released Biosphere and Mechosphere, two collections of looped soundscapes which I designed.

Biosphere and Mechospere synthesise original material from field recordings, Foley performances, generated noises, and human voices. Biosphere evokes environmental and biological processes, supernatural atmospheres, and living organisms; Mechosphere evokes electronic and mechanical devices, industrial spaces, and robotic creatures.  

Each collection contains:

• 50 stereo 48khz 24-bit WAV files, between 1:01 and 1:10 in length, edited to loop seamlessly
  
• 1 program for all versions of Steinberg HALion
• 1 program for Native Instruments Kontakt 1 and 2  
• 1 program with scripted interface for Native Instruments Kontakt 3 and 4 (full versions required, not the free Kontakt Player)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biosphere and Mechosphere Kontakt 3/4 interfaces

 

Here are some demonstrations of the sounds in Biosphere and Mechosphere. Each is a reel of six sounds, with no additional processing (you'll need Flash to play the audio; click the button to hear the track):

Biosphere

Environments 
Organic 
Supernatural

Mechosphere

Electronic 
Robotic 
Industrial   

Click here to visit the Biosphere product page at Precisionsound, or here to visit the Mechosphere page, for more information and to purchase.

One More Round (Obvious Mix)

One of the first cassette singles I bought was Bette Midler's From a Distance, the B-side of which was the jolly One More Round. 

In the same year, 1990, Paul Simon released The Rhythm of the Saints, with its equally jolly The Obvious Child.

At last, Bette and Paul are brought together in One More Round (Obvious Mix).

 Click the button to play the track (you'll need Flash), or here to download it as a high-quality mp3 file (4.8mb).

Credits: me - production; Laura Gregory - vocals.