Publisher : Sound Dust
Website :
dulcitone1884.virb.com/prepared-pianet
dulcitone1884.virb.com/oddhop
dulcitone1884.virb.com/modularchaosengine4
Format : KONTAKT 5.5.1+
Quality : 24 bit 44.1 kHz stereo
Description : Instruments from Sound Dust (Percussion and Keyboards)
Additional Information:
Sound Dust – Prepared Pianet:
A plebeian Pianet T: poked, prodded and pampered produces powerful, pleasing and pretty perverse powered pianic possibilities.
This little marvel comprises three instrument sets – acoustic, muted and amped. Each set features a number of fully tweakable sounds which can be edited, blended together and given the full Sound Dust treatment to create your own unique Prepared Pianet.
As with all Sound Dust instruments the Prepared Pianet is rich with possibility. The audible charms and eccentricities of classic tine and pickup electric pianos are utilized and brought under the control of the player as never before.
All sounds were carefully sampled from the source instrument, a Hohner Pianet T, using three techniques; Very close mic-ed for acoustic harmonics and dissonance, muted with a finger placed delicately on each tine for a thumb piano feel, and through high quality pre-amps. As with other Sound Dust instruments the results can be thought of as a self-contained orchestra of the surreal. The Prepared Pianet offers superb standard electric pianos and heavily processed tines. Stratospheric pads are under-laid with electronic tweets and chatter. Played lower down the scale, a muted piano becomes an unstable electro bass. Whacked out opportunities abound, from evolving electronics, snappy acoustics and indescribable musical tones and frequencies. The percussive blasts and tinkling subtleties which can be achieved inspire the imagination.
What’s inside?
Acoustic Pianet – very tricky to record because these things are very quiet – 6 velocity layers of close mic-ed tines
Muted Pianet – a delicate finger layed expertly on each tine and recorded through a Warm Audio Tone Beast preamp – 6 velocity layers
Amped Pianet – nice long resonant notes, clean or amped – 4 velocity layers
Individual controls for octave, volume, sample start, pan, stereo width, attack curve, ADSR, vibrato and reverb send per pianet
960 24bit mono samples = 280mb with Native Instruments propriety compression
24 custom convolution reverbs per piano
4 fully controllable instrument effects – chorus, rotor, phaser and master algorithmic reverb
Master FX page – master EQ, tape and valve modeling plus transient designer
Keyboard Velocity and Round Robin modeling page
3 Kontakt instruments – Prepared Pianet, 3 X Muted Pianets and 3 X Acoustic Pianets
46 instrument snapshots
Handy build in instructions in RTFM page
Sound Dust – OddHop Modular Chaos Engine # 3:
OddHop is packed to the gills with 100’s of original acoustic and electronic sounds arranged into 5 octaves of oneshot kits with plenty of control for an infinity of sound design and beat making possibilities. But things get really exciting when you use the new drum and bass sequencing engines, each with twelve tracks of draw-able per note control over nine parameters.
What’s inside?
• Drum Engine page – 12 user programmable, key triggered patterns with 12 tracks per pattern. Up to 62 sounds available per note.
• Bass Engine page – 12 user programmable, key triggered patterns with 12 tracks per pattern. 15 sounds available per note.
• One Shot Kit page -5 octaves of programmable one shot kits with chaos and order parameter randomisation control.
• Sends and Master FX page – control of master levels, master EQ and Transient designer.
• 700 + original 24bit samples (see box for sources).
• Instrument presets (.nki’s) for Kontakt 4 and Kontakt 5.
• 2 Vintage sampler emulation preset modes (K5 only).
• Drum / Bass Engines – drawable, per note control of: sound selection, volume, reverb send, hold time, low pass filter, pan, sample start, tune, compression.
• Drum / Bass Engines – sound selection chaos control.
• Drum / Bass Engines – timing chaos control.
• Drum / Bass Engines – ‘remix’ control with 32 loop variations.
• Drum / Bass Engines – 16 or 32 beat per track selection.
• Drum / Bass Engines – solo & mute per sound.
• Drum / Bass Engines – copy / paste of patterns & tracks.
• Swing amount control for extra hippity hoppity.
• One Shot Kits – individually editable note articulations with jitter, release, flam, drag, ruff, roll, muted, speed roll & geiger settings
• One Shot Kits – per note control of reverb send, pitch, high & low pass filters, volume attack & decay, volume & pan.
Built in instruction manual in RTFM tab.
A plebeian Pianet T: poked, prodded and pampered produces powerful, pleasing and pretty perverse powered pianic possibilities.
This little marvel comprises three instrument sets – acoustic, muted and amped. Each set features a number of fully tweakable sounds which can be edited, blended together and given the full Sound Dust treatment to create your own unique Prepared Pianet.
As with all Sound Dust instruments the Prepared Pianet is rich with possibility. The audible charms and eccentricities of classic tine and pickup electric pianos are utilized and brought under the control of the player as never before.
All sounds were carefully sampled from the source instrument, a Hohner Pianet T, using three techniques; Very close mic-ed for acoustic harmonics and dissonance, muted with a finger placed delicately on each tine for a thumb piano feel, and through high quality pre-amps. As with other Sound Dust instruments the results can be thought of as a self-contained orchestra of the surreal. The Prepared Pianet offers superb standard electric pianos and heavily processed tines. Stratospheric pads are under-laid with electronic tweets and chatter. Played lower down the scale, a muted piano becomes an unstable electro bass. Whacked out opportunities abound, from evolving electronics, snappy acoustics and indescribable musical tones and frequencies. The percussive blasts and tinkling subtleties which can be achieved inspire the imagination.
What’s inside?
Acoustic Pianet – very tricky to record because these things are very quiet – 6 velocity layers of close mic-ed tines
Muted Pianet – a delicate finger layed expertly on each tine and recorded through a Warm Audio Tone Beast preamp – 6 velocity layers
Amped Pianet – nice long resonant notes, clean or amped – 4 velocity layers
Individual controls for octave, volume, sample start, pan, stereo width, attack curve, ADSR, vibrato and reverb send per pianet
960 24bit mono samples = 280mb with Native Instruments propriety compression
24 custom convolution reverbs per piano
4 fully controllable instrument effects – chorus, rotor, phaser and master algorithmic reverb
Master FX page – master EQ, tape and valve modeling plus transient designer
Keyboard Velocity and Round Robin modeling page
3 Kontakt instruments – Prepared Pianet, 3 X Muted Pianets and 3 X Acoustic Pianets
46 instrument snapshots
Handy build in instructions in RTFM page
Sound Dust – OddHop Modular Chaos Engine # 3:
OddHop is packed to the gills with 100’s of original acoustic and electronic sounds arranged into 5 octaves of oneshot kits with plenty of control for an infinity of sound design and beat making possibilities. But things get really exciting when you use the new drum and bass sequencing engines, each with twelve tracks of draw-able per note control over nine parameters.
What’s inside?
• Drum Engine page – 12 user programmable, key triggered patterns with 12 tracks per pattern. Up to 62 sounds available per note.
• Bass Engine page – 12 user programmable, key triggered patterns with 12 tracks per pattern. 15 sounds available per note.
• One Shot Kit page -5 octaves of programmable one shot kits with chaos and order parameter randomisation control.
• Sends and Master FX page – control of master levels, master EQ and Transient designer.
• 700 + original 24bit samples (see box for sources).
• Instrument presets (.nki’s) for Kontakt 4 and Kontakt 5.
• 2 Vintage sampler emulation preset modes (K5 only).
• Drum / Bass Engines – drawable, per note control of: sound selection, volume, reverb send, hold time, low pass filter, pan, sample start, tune, compression.
• Drum / Bass Engines – sound selection chaos control.
• Drum / Bass Engines – timing chaos control.
• Drum / Bass Engines – ‘remix’ control with 32 loop variations.
• Drum / Bass Engines – 16 or 32 beat per track selection.
• Drum / Bass Engines – solo & mute per sound.
• Drum / Bass Engines – copy / paste of patterns & tracks.
• Swing amount control for extra hippity hoppity.
• One Shot Kits – individually editable note articulations with jitter, release, flam, drag, ruff, roll, muted, speed roll & geiger settings
• One Shot Kits – per note control of reverb send, pitch, high & low pass filters, volume attack & decay, volume & pan.
Built in instruction manual in RTFM tab.
Sound Dust – SteelDrumPercussionRoom Modular Chaos Engine # 4:
A kit of lovely, dusty, binaurally recorded acoustic drum samples and slightly prepared steel drums … .a kind of Tom Waits percussion machine featuring drums in all shapes and sizes.
There are huge flappy marching band bass drums, ripped and rattly snares and kicks, frame drums, congas, bongos, toms, hi-hats, cymbals, boxes, broken metal shelving …
Plus the “prepared” steel drums. These are a neglected set of bass and cello steel pans played with fingers and soft mallets to avoid sounding like proper steel drums (more apocalypse than calypso), the tunings are a bit iffy, but there are plenty of velocity layers per hit for a rusty hang drum like effect.
Great for making wonky, dusty beats, chunky acoustic EDM or even epic film scoring. Both kits were recorded binaurally in a great sounding room with long decays.
What’s inside?
• 400 + original 24bit binaurally recorded samples.
• Bang Engine page – 12 user programmable, key triggered sequencers with 12 tracks of drum hits per sequence – up to 30 sounds available per note.
• Klang Engine page – 12 user programmable, key triggered sequencers with 12 tracks of steel drums per sequence – up to15 sounds available per note.
• One Shot Kit page -4 octaves of programmable one shot kits with chaos and order parameter randomisation control.
• Sends and Master FX page – control of master levels, master EQ and transient designer.
• 10 instrument presets (.nki’s) for Kontakt 5.
• Klang / Bang Engines – drawable, per note control of: sound selection, volume, reverb send, hold time, low pass / high pass filter, pan, sample start, tune, lo-fi & compression.
• Klang / Bang Engines – sound selection chaos control.
• Klang / Bang Engines – timing chaos control.
• Klang / Bang Engines – ‘remix’ control with 32 loop variations per engine.
• Klang / Bang Engines – 16 or 32 beat per track selection.
• Klang / Bang Engines – solo & mute per sound.
• Klang / Bang Engines – copy / paste of patterns & tracks.
• Swing amount control for extra hippity hoppity.
• One Shot Kits – individually editable note articulations with jitter, release, flam, drag, ruff, roll, muted, speed roll, geiger plus 16th, 8th and triplet repeats.
• One Shot Kits- 2 convolution reverb sends
• One Shot Kits – 24 custom reverb impulses made from hardware and real spaces.
• One Shot Kits – per note control of reverb send, pitch, high & low pass filters, volume attack & decay, volume & pan.
Built in instruction manual in RTFM tab.
