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The Idea & Process
Cassette Plucks.01 is a mixture of physical modelling, some subtractive synthesis and sampling. It contains two different pluck instruments with an oriental vibe - both designed from the ground up. Because of all the care that was put into the making of every layer and the magic touch of old cassette recorders, Cassette Plucks.01 is another lo-fi & tasty sounding collection.
Both instruments were recorded in the range of 5 octaves, with 4 dynamic layers using 2 different cassette decks. Overall there are 979 samples - 244 samples per deck, plus 2 noise samples from each deck (1,32 GB of uncompressed 24-bit WAV files).
Every note has been carefully denoised with a high-quality algorithm to avoid noise stacking when playing more than one note (there’s still some noise left in the samples to avoid denoising artefacts). Noise can still be added with the noise knob - it’s much more flexible this way and allows the ability to adjust the volume of the noise independently whilst also applying parameters such as filtering. It also creates a more realistic sound, so when playing a five-voice chord, only one sample of noise instead of five stacked on top of each other will be heard.
The End Result
Useful and fun production tool
If you like vintage sounds and you're looking for something to enhance your production toolbox, then this product will be for you.
Simulated Round Robin
Makes faster note passages sound more realistic and adds to the overall nonlinearity of the instrument.
Features
- Available in multiple popular formats: Kontakt 5, Ableton Live 9, Logic, SFZ & Multiformat
- 1,32 GB of uncompressed 24-bit WAV samples (979 samples in total)
- Recorded on 2 different decks
- Simulated round-robin in Kontakt and SFZ versions
- 2 instruments
- 2 noise samples (each around 2 minutes long)
- 4 dynamic layers
- Organic sound with lots of little imperfections
Format-specific features
- Compatible with any SFZ player, for example: Plogue Sforzando
- Simulated round-robin
- 8 basic presets (with and without simulated round-robin for each deck)
System Requirements
- Compatible with any SFZ player, for example: Plogue Sforzando
Installation Instructions
(Please Note: Cassette Keys.01 for SFZ Player is being used as the example)
How to Load .SFZ Files
1. Download the 'tpl_cassette-keys-01-v1-1_SFZ.zip' folder from your User Account, and double-click the zip folder to extract and reveal its files.
2. Copy the folder of samples and presets to a safe location on your hard drive.
3. Open the SFZ Player plug-in and load the soundbank file ending with .sfz, e.g 'Cassette Keys 01.sfz'
The Software is now Ready for Use Within your DAW!
