Zoom In Life Refill

Zoom In Life Refill
I always like to capture the slight sound from the life with very common materials or
stuffs. It’s wonderful if normalizing those sounds. But that’s really hard to make them
having musical performance.
In this pack, all the materials in used are dry and “physical”, without any modular FX
or warp FX chains. The only treatment I did is edition, noise reduction and dynamic
balance. I hope the patches in Reason can sound very realistic and physical, for
musical issues. It’s not simply putting the samples into a sampler. I’m still learning on
this way actually.
In this pack you can find sort of slight sound from life around you every day:
• PVC pipes: 75mm and 110mm
I like the Blue Men Group very much. But never found some good samples from
anywhere. Now here it is and even more. Except tapping by palms, I also tried
using some pure waves like Sine, Pulse and Saw to “strike” pipes. Just tightly
put 1 side of tube with a Genelec 8020 speaker. And then played very short pure
waves to impact the air in the tube. You may simply tone or collect the patch
from Combinator presets(named with Tube_Bass_xxx). Or just directly use the
NN-XT patches. The NN-XT patches sounds more pure and root. But If you don’t
use them as a bass, you may tune the Release or Decay a bit shorter.
•
Cola and sprite cans
They sound different because of the different materials. I just realized it before
starting the record.
•
Different glasses: bulb, glass cup, glass board on wall
Except common lightly striking, I also got the sustaining samples from glass cup.
It’s actually very easy: a little water in the cup and then use wet finger lightly
scratch the edge of the cut very smoothly. Then you can a sustaining ring tone.
Different cups and with different amount of water, the pitch and timbre are
different.
•
Sound from car like cover, ties and seat belt….
Some of the samples have been used in the previous Hub & Vent Refill pack. I
collected some interested samples into this pack for percussions and additional
layers in Combinator patches.
•
Tapes
Just common tapes for tight your cables or box. You’ll need very quiet room to
record it because the sound is really light. And the normalizing shall be very
careful.
•
Fence of subwoofer
Most of the professional subwoofers have a piece of metal cover like a fence.
Bigger subwoofer’s fence sounds lower and longer. I tried different materials and
ways to having different sound from it. But finally the samples in used are from
kicking and rubbing with foot
•
Iron spanner
It’s quite usually spanner if you buying some stuffs from IKEA. The samples in
the Refill are basically for having a sustain ring layers.
*** You also can find some real and big bells samples from the temples, in the
sample folder of FaQi. I used the samples in the pack for some additional layers
in some Combinators.
A little different with another similar sample packs, this time I’d like to build some new
“instruments” with the common noise around us. I don’t like to simply stack sort of
samples. But “noise” means the harmonics of a sound are not quite regular. I used
the concept of multi-layers to “dubbing” different samplers together to “building” or
“simulating” the situation of musical harmonics. The different layer acts different part
of ADSR and harmonics. Then we can hear musical timbre just like Spectrasonic’s
Omnisphere.
Another idea in this pack is the “Resonator”, for instance the acoustic guitar’s body.
Resonator is a key point for most of the real instruments like guitar, violin or piano.
Because resonator can create more harmonics. It’s one of the essential component
in an instrument. Different size, shapes and materials of a resonator create very
different timbre. But most of the software samplers don’t have this type of algorithms
inside.(Recently more samplers are supplying it.) That’s one of main reasons why the
sampled instruments are always not so realistic. Eventually, I used Scream 4 in
Reason as the resonator. It’s used as an amp head just like most of the guitarists are
using, particularly for those electronic guitars. And also Scream 4 has a “body”
algorithm that simulating the some real and typical resonators. That you can use it
for building a new instrument just like the realistic thing. Sometime you don’t need to
use EQ or else to tune the timbre, just try the “Amp Head” on the Combinator panel.
I left the NN-XT patches in the patches. They are dry and clean. All of them have
been tuned for standard scale. The key range is basically from C1 to C5. If you need
very purely root and simple tones, you may use them.
I also left lot of samples what are not collected and used in the patches. That you can
build your own patches or replace the samples if you don’t like. You can easily
realize what the sample is by the names of folder or sample files.
Special thanks to Gina and YuLing for helping me recording the PVC pipes. And also
thanks my baby boy. He helped me recording those sounds from trash.
For more Refills or sounds from me:
http://web.me.com/bspstudio/DigimonkSoundLab/
Have fun!
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Digimonk
Be the passion with you
2011.05.16
about the copyright and license
You can freely use the patches and samples in your production. If the
production is for publish, please send me a mail or donate. Please do not
simply resale the patches and samples in your sample based products in
anyway.