Wednesday 29 December 2010

Christmas (late) SampleTank Freebie

I wanted to make a free glockenspiel patch for Christmas, patch I thought to be for Mu.Lab and Kontakt, but I thought "why not try SampleTank, now that it's free".
Well, took a while to make it, mainly because SampleTank is a very closed and hard to understand, at least the free version. So, because I was late with it, I thought "why not throw in there some more stuff?".
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List of instruments:
Percussion
- Glockenspiel
- Bamboo
Brass and Wind
- Muted Trumpet
- Recorder
Install:
Unzip into the "Instruments" folder.
The structure should be Program Files/IK Multimedia/ Instruments/Mihai Sorohan Sounds/.
You should be able to acces it from ST menu.

No loop points, no velocity multi layering, but still I think it might be useful. All samples recorded at 32 bit and converted to 16 bit wav stereo.
There are available 8 more child presets by jobromedia originally posted on KVR.
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Extract them in the same folder where you extracted the original samples.
In order for the child presets to work, you should previously have the parent original samples.

The Free version of SampleTank Free you can get from IK Multimedia website:
SampleTank Free Download
It comes with over 500 MB samples for over 200 sounds included.

Saturday 11 December 2010

Arpeggio Study no2 For Guitar

Original made way back in 2008, now reworked.
I tried to cover two aspects of guitar playing, the triads and the sweep picking. Basically all started because practicing arpeggios can be boring, so a technique switching and building sort of a melody (and all on top of a backing track) can "spice up" a bit practicing.
Here's the track:
Arpeggio Study no2 For Guitar

DOWNLOAD (right click and "save link as")
Track composed by Mihai Sorohan in 2008.
Track sequenced, performed, recorded and mixed by Mihai Sorohan in 2010.

Arpeggio Study no2 For Guitar- Backing Track
Starts with 2 bars of metronome to get you in the tempo (120 bpm)

DOWNLOAD (right click and "save link as")
Track composed by Mihai Sorohan in 2008.
Track sequenced, performed, recorded and mixed by Mihai Sorohan in 2010.

All guitars recorded with Epiphone SG Special through Guitar Rig 4 Player (free).