New tool for composers! Resonance: Emotional Mallets

[zircon]

Hello all! I wanted to share a new sample library I designed called "Resonance: Emotional Mallets". With the help of master craftsman Jim Doble, we (Impact Soundworks) managed to get our hands on a collection of incredible and unique percussive instruments made from glass, wood, metal and stone. We sampled these instruments with intense depth, then created a wide variety of sound design patches to accompany them, inspired by Spectrasonics and their 'psychoacoustic' approach.

Check out this 15 minute patch walkthrough video, which also includes footage from our recording sessions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR9EGphnfUE

We wanted this library to be very inspiring and usable out of the box, and to that end have included a wide variety of both Natural and Designed patches to facilitate compositions in any genre. We recorded 14 unique instruments and ensembles in total, often with multiple mallets (soft vs. hard) and playing techniques (bowing, FX treatment). All instruments were recorded in depth with multiple velocity layers and round robins; we of course also created an intuitive scripted interface to help sculpt these sounds easily. The sum of these patches are in the "Natural" category, representing sounds that have not been processed and are simply the result of pristine recording and deep multisampling.

We think these sounds will be of immense interest to any composer looking for sounds that are both highly usable but also of a unique timbre. In particular, we had composers like Thomas Newman in mind.

As mentioned earlier, we also did extensive sound design patches using an arsenal of tools. These sounds cover the spectrum from evocative pads and ambiances to tone-shifted, playable keys, percussion, leads and more. The focus was definitely on powerful and usable material, split into six categories and 49 patches.

We will be creating additional Designed patches over time and releasing them for free to our users.

Pricing/Availability:

Resonance is available now at our website for an introductory price of $79. The price will go back up to $99 in several weeks, so check it out now!

Audio Demos:

http://impactsoundworks.com/audio/demos ... tation.mp3
http://impactsoundworks.com/audio/demos ... dnight.mp3
http://impactsoundworks.com/audio/demos ... Forest.mp3

Thanks for reading, watching and listening. I hope you'll enjoy this library; let me know your thoughts!

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[Kolstad]

Looks interesting, Andrew!
It's great you guys take the time to develop our soundpallette.

Every available choice is a ressource, so more power to ya!

[matto]

Andrew,

this looks like a great library of unique but yet very useful sounds, and it's more than fairly priced. I will definitely be adding this...

matto

[mazz]

+1

Also, I might add, Shreddage and Sitar Nation (in particular the Tablas) get some good usage in my studio.

See you at GDC Andrew!!

[guitaroboe]

BOUGHT IT ALREADY!!!

INSTALLED -SOUNDS GREAT!!!!

great work you guys!

thanks
Adonis

[matto]

BOUGHT IT ALREADY!!!

INSTALLED -SOUNDS GREAT!!

Oh well...those guys from 'Cyprus, Greece' always have to one-up everybody...

[mazz]

BOUGHT IT ALREADY!!!

INSTALLED -SOUNDS GREAT!!

Oh well...those guys from 'Cyprus, Greece' always have to one-up everybody...

Yeah, they really know how to manage their money over there!!

[guitaroboe]

Hey !
we're all big spenders!!!

cheers!

Adonis

[zircon]

Haha, thanks for the kind words, guys! And I'm glad you're enjoying the sounds, Adonis

Within the next 2 months we plan on releasing another set of sound design patches as a free update, so that's something to look forward to.

[fusilierb]

That demo video was very convincing. I just bought it. Downloading now. Can't wait to get me hands all over it.

Thanks for the heads up.