Sound designer and Ableton Live expert Brian Funk let us know that he has released a new Ableton Live Pack, available in both free and paid editions, the Casio SK-1 Ableton Live Pack.
What he say about it:
“I sampled all the preset sounds of the SK-1, as well as its drum hits and 11 rhythm patterns. Using its additive synthesis feature, I created another 11 sounds and sampled those.
In total, it’s 23 Ableton Instrument Racks with 83 Macro Variation Presets. The rhythm patterns are tempo-synced to fit into any Ableton Live Project. I also included 2 Audio Effect Racks: One mimics the SK-1’s Vibrato and adds Tremolo, Reverb, and Delay. The other is the Casio-ize Effect which captures the exact sample and bit rate of the SK-1 and makes anything sound like it was sampled to the SK-1.”
A quick demonstration of the Casio-ize Audio Effect Rack:
Casio SK-1 Ableton Live Pack Audio Demo:
Casio SK-1 Ableton Live Pack is available now for $15. A free edition is also available.
Reader Chris Beckstrom lets us know that he has released a “weird free sample pack” based on the Roland TR-808, featuring 808 samples treated in unusual ways.
“These sounds aren’t intended to be ‘bread-and-butter’ 808 sounds,” he notes. “There are already millions of those!”
Here are some of the ways Beckstrom processed the sounds:
“Playing the samples through a Zoom call and GoTo Meeting, playing the samples through a little speaker inside a güiro, using very bad mp3 compression as a filter, spectral resynthesis using Virtual ANS etc.
I also ran the sounds through my homemade modular which is very much NOT a Eurorack system – it’s based mostly on CMOS logic chips and is aggressively DIY. Like made of wood and uses machine screws and alligator clips for connections DIY.
I did some more typical stuff with the 808 samples too, like tube amplification and playing the sounds through a boombox.”
In his latest Loopop video, synthesist Ziv Eliraz offers an in-depth review of the Echo Fix EF-X3 Chorus Echo.
“It’s the only 4 playhead tape echo in production,” notes Eliraz. “What really interested me about it was that it has separate outputs for each tape head, making it, to my knowledge, the only stereo tape echo – and quad if you use all the outputs.”
EF-X3 Table Top Chorus Echo is 100% analog, featuring tape delay, an analog BBD chorus & analog spring reverb.
