domingo, abril 27, 2025

Tenor Saxophone by Hidde Pieters [Decent Sampler] $0.00

 

A multi-microphone sax with a roomy sound. Available in Decent Sampler format.

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Categories: Freebies, Hidde Pieters, Wind Instruments

Tags: decent sampler, saxophone, tenor

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User Interface for the Tenor Saxophone Library

“Hey hey, it’s Hidde Pieters again!

My younger brother strikes again. I mentioned in the story of my previous submission, the LaPaz Guitar, how my younger brother wanted to learn guitar. What I didn’t mention in that story, is that the guitar would have been the umpteenth instrument he would have tried his hand at at that point. He’s played recorder, violin, xylophone, and a few others I can’t even remember. However, none of the instruments he’s tried his hands at have captivated him as long as his current instrument, the tenor saxophone. Where the other instruments held his attention for a year at most, he’s been playing saxophone for well over four years now, and even plays in the local intermediate orchestra. Having said all that, I never even thought about sampling him playing the sax.

Then, a few months ago, I had to do a project for school; me and a few classmates had to write and orchestrate a piece of balkan brass music. This composition had to include obvious distinct sections, one recorded instrument, one synthesised instrument, and one sampled instrument. Me and my team got to brainstorming who would do what, what we would record and sample, and what we would synthesise. The last part was the easiest, as we luckily had someone on board who was quite good at sound design, who also offered to synthesise a trumpet. The tricky part was figuring what to sample and what to record, as we didn’t know anyone who played brass. However, I then realised, I did know someone who played a brass woodwind: my younger brother! So me and my brother booked a few hours in one of the school’s recording studios, along with a small assortment of microphones, and got to work.

This is also my second experiment with multi-microphone recording setups, and my first voyage into mic controls. Admittedly, I used a somewhat unorthodox recording setup for this. One cardioid microphone (the Close Mic) about half a meter in front of the sax, a figure eight microphone (the Mid-Room Mic) about two meters from the sax with the sensitive side aimed towards the sax, and an omnidirectional microphone (the Far-Room Mic) behind the sax in a corner of the room. Though I don’t have a lot of experience in recording, I’ve found that I quite enjoy having a more roomy sound, hence this setup, as it both nicely captures the sax, and the room around it.

We recorded two octaves, with three velocity layers per note, and three round robins per velocity layer. We also recorded the various pads and keys of the sax, which I mapped onto the lower keys of the keyboard, free for you to add in as you please. I also have these sounds their own volume knob.

The one crux of this library, I think, is the volume disparity between velocity layers. I tried to fix that as best I could, but didn’t go too far with it for fear of disturbing the noise floor too much. Still, I don’t think it’s too big an issue.

In the end, I’m really happy with how this project turned out! I’ve got a few other sample libraries in the works which I’m slowly working on, and I want to experiment with true legato in the future as well, so this is not the last you’ll hear from me.

Cheers!

Specs:

Sample rate: 24-bit 48khz

Library size: 21MB


https://www.decentsamples.com/product/tenor-saxophone-by-hidde-pieters/




Felt & Fog A Cinematic Piano Experience

 


Felt & Fog

A Cinematic Piano Experience for Decent Sampler Felt & Fog is a minimalist, ambient, and neo-classical piano library designed for composers, producers, and sound designers seeking depth, texture, and atmosphere. Whether you’re crafting delicate piano themes, cinematic soundscapes, or eerie documentary underscores, this library offers six expressive layers to shape your sound.


https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/felt-fog/



segunda-feira, abril 21, 2025

Waves Free Plugin Pack: Get 7 audio plugins for FREE

 


Waves Free Plugin Pack

Waves Audio has announced the release of a bundle pro-level tools used by some of the world’s top producers and engineers, at no cost. The Waves Free Plugin Pack contains 7 plugins.

From beautiful analog saturation and classic analog-modeled EQs and compressors, to specialty reverbs, FX pedals, and even a powerful FM synth—this pack includes high-end plugins you won’t find in your DAW’s stock library. Plus, future updates for the Free Plugin Pack are also free!

The bundle contains the following plugins:

Lil Tube analog saturation plugin.

IR Live convolution reverb, capturing the real-world acoustics of world-famous spaces.

V-EQ3 analog-modeled EQ (Neve emulation).

V-Comp analog-modeled compressor (Neve emulation).

AudioTrack channel strip plugin.

GTR Solo, including many FX pedals and amp sims, good for synths, guitars, vocals, drums.

Flow Motion FM Synth.

In addition to these plugins, the pack also includes the Waves StudioVerse plugin chain library, which includes many custom mixing chains specific to this bundle of plugins.

The bundle is available now, limited to one registration per account.


https://rekkerd.org/out/waves-free-plugin-pack/



sábado, abril 19, 2025

NUMA PLAYER UPDATE 2.1.0

 


Numa Player is a completely free virtual instrument. It's not only the perfect companion for your SL Keyboard, but it is also much more! The User Interface scales to different monitor sizes to fit best in your Audio/MIDI setup and makes Numa Player the first Studiologic Instrument Player available for Mac, Windows and iOS.

The advanced sound engine of Numa Player 2 takes your performance to the next level. It's now optimized to harness the full power of your device's multi-core cpu, delivering exceptional performance and ultra-low latency even in the most demanding setups1. Enjoy higher polyphony and smoother playback, no matter how complex your project gets.Designed with ultimate flexibility in mind, Numa Player 2 allows you to create and manage infinite Zones effortlessly. Add, duplicate, or drag and reposition zones with ease, all within an intuitive interface that puts full creative control at your fingertips. Customize each zone with its own sound parameters, keyboard ranges, and MIDI settings, or even assign custom colors for clear and easy navigation during your performance.

Numa Player 2 comes packed with an extensive library of professionally recorded, high-quality sounds, covering a wide range of music genres and styles. Among Acoustic Pianos, punchy leads, orchestral textures and intricate percussive elements, find the perfect sound to bring your music to life.Acoustic 


https://www.studiologic-music.com/products/numaplayer/




sexta-feira, abril 18, 2025

Podolski

 

Podolski

Created in 2005 and still going strong. Podolski is a free, straightforward, CPU-efficient virtual analogue synthesizer. One oscillator, one filter, one envelope and an arpeggiator / sequencer. Simple, but with a few tricks up its sleeve. Create high quality sounds with ease.

Podolski UI

See all features:

Oscillator with variable symmetry (sawtooth to triangle, PWM) and glide

Polyphonic (up to 16 voices), mono, legato and arpeggiator modes

4 envelope modes: ADSR or HDSR, linear or exponential. Sustain has Fall/Rise control

Multimode filter: lowpass, bandpass or highpass with drive and FM

Combination arpeggiator / 16-step sequencer with extra modulation source

Skinnable UI

Over 300 factory presets

NEW in v1.2.3: Support for Oddsound MTS-ESP

At the time we released our current plugin versions, Avid could not provide an AAX SDK that would let us build Universal Binary AAX plugins. For this reason, we currently cannot support Pro Tools for Mac. Pro Tools for Windows is still supported.


For the time being, macOS Pro Tools users who are not running the native Silicon version should use the previous versions of our plugins, available from the Release Archive.


We hope to start work on native Silicon AAX support this year, as soon as our tight schedule allows. No ETA can be quoted yet.


https://dl.u-he.com/releases/Podolski_123_12092_Win.zip

https://dl.u-he.com/releases/Podolski_123_12092_Mac.zip

https://dl.u-he.com/releases/Podolski_123_12092_Linux.tar.xz


Tenor Saxophone by Hidde Pieters [Decent Sampler] $0.00

  A multi-microphone sax with a roomy sound. Available in Decent Sampler format. Download Now Categories: Freebies, Hidde Pieters, Wind Inst...