The story

This is technically two “instruments”, but they go together so well both sonically and conceptually I felt they should be bundled together. This is my first sample pack, featuring some samples I’ve had kicking around for a few years now, of two different chairs that I no longer own:

The Chairlesta(metal) preset is based on samples of a drafting stool I used to have. It was not super comfortable, but it did have a footrest bar that was a solid piece of some kind of metal, and would resonate beautifully (and for a surprisingly long time) if banged into on accident (which of course led to me banging into it on purpose). Three velocity layers to hopefully humanize it a bit.

The Chairimba(wood) preset is based on samples of the unscrewed legs of a wooden chair which again just had a surprisingly good resonance when struck. For this preset, I had a much longer file of me randomly whacking the legs together (with no particular idea what I was doing at the time), so I was able to include three sets of Round Robins in addition to three velocity layers for each note, so that may result in a somewhat livelier performance?

Both presets include all the effects and controls I thought might be useful:

– Attack
– Release
– Low pass filter
– High pass filter
– Glide time
– Fine tuning of +/- 50 cents
– the weird overtones of the metal chair made me feel less than 100% confident in my tuning of the sample, so I spun this knob up to help me check that; figured I might as well leave it in once I had it!
– Delay
– Mix
– Time
– Feedback
– Tempo sync
– Reverb
– Mix
– Room Size
– Dampening

Additionally, the Chairlesta(metal) preset includes the following that just didn’t make sense for the wooden chair, since the samples are so short

– Chorus
– Mix
– Depth
– Rate
– Sample looping button to allow for sustained notes if desired

Hope you enjoy!

Contributors

Ever Westerly

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  • Instant inspiration

    Had to write music for a cue for a TV series and was feeling uninspired. Roamed around Pianobook looking for sounds that would trigger ideas, and found Musical Chairs. From the first note ideas started to come, and for this I am grateful.

    RaggiSlave23 October 2024
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