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Ronan McDermott
Deep paddler in the waters of music - listening, playing, creating, recording. Irish. Living in Kyiv, Ukraine. Music is not my career. But it is my life.
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The pads, the pads....
Love this pack - very easy on the bandwidth, but offers so much for the size - all the wonderful percussive samples, and then the pads. Oh, I do love those pads. Great character - use the built-in reverb, or send them out dry (well, they're not really dry, but you know what I mean) to your shimmer or cathedral or Supermassive (can you say Valhalla) of choice. Thanks - this is a keeper.
Get yer William Basinski trousers on....
This is simply gorgeous. Goosebumps, right out of the box. Makes delightful and surprisingly unpredictable but musical noises right up and down the keyboard. Don't play C1 loud in a built-up area.... Superb GUI choices - Reverb hurrah!, the Short and Long Loops, and the Low Pass Filter - makes this easy to play. This is absolutely worth the Five Stars for Inspiration!
Don't play this like a guitar, and you'll be fine.
Well, maybe start out playing it like a guitar - but you'll quickly run into the timing problem. So, either start out with heavily modded attack and release times, and crank up the reverb or better still, turn the reverb off, and use a combination of short ping-pong and longer, perhaps worn tape delay to knock the rather rigid timing of the "thrumming" into a less guitar-like instrument. Or play it like a guitar, and work around the timing. I like this library very much and perhaps should invest some time in doing a demo to put my money time where my mouth review is...
A very good ship....
...awash on an ocean of reverb. If this pack had a reverb control, I'd buy you lunch. Sounds absolutely lovely, but the reverb sort of paints me into a corner I'm using the DS version - perhaps the other versions allow some tweaking of the reverb?. I am very fond of my own reverbs. All that said, the demos really work. So the problem is me. Thanks for sharing!
The lower registers deliver
It was Da Fingaz' demo that caught my ear. So I downloaded this pack DS version and discovered the textures of the bottom couple of octaves. Above that it didn't quite work for me. But the mod-wheel, short release, a touch of reverb and those low notes come quite alive. One snag which is why I gave only 2 stars for recording rapid use of the mod wheel caused some crackling noises. This might be I recognise my modest desktop at the limit of it's CPU, but I'm not sure. Thanks for this lovely library - the low notes are rich and beautiful.