Monologue Refill
Friday, December 25th, 2009 | 4:29 pm and filed in Reason, Combinator, ReFill, Record.
The Monologue Refill is a monophonic analogue synthesizer library for the Reason 4.0 NN-XT sampler. The sets include the standard sawtooth, square, triangle waves. Also included are a fixed rate pulse width modulation set, and hard sync sawtooth set. Other sources include, detuned pulses, frequency modulated oscillators, tuned oscillator layers, white noise, and sine wave samples from a self-oscillating resonant filter.
Each category of oscillator waveform is multisampled and looped (some more carefully than others). The NN-XT patches are expanded in dozens of combinator patches (Record and/or Reason 4.0 only) which cover classic bass tones, mono leads, sound effects, arpeggiated and sequenced patches, and a set of analog drum sounds. Also, a pseudo voice set was created using a hard sync sawtooth modulating the filter frequency. This was particularly challenging as each sample zone required careful tweaking.
The raw waveform samples were recorded with the monosynth filter wide open. The synthesizer was connected through an active tube D.I. box, modified with a NOS Telefunken 12AX7. The D.I. was amplified through a Neve 1095 Mic Pre/EQ, and the signal was digitized through a Universal Audio 2192 AD/DA converter. As I previously posted, the samples were tracked in Propellerhead Record where no processing was applied - EQ was applied using the Neve. The audio clips were bounced out and further edited using Redmatica KeyMap Pro for mapping and looping the instrument samples.
Record & Reason 4.0 required to fully use all combinator patches. Included in the archive are a few .record session files and a Reason song file which demonstrate using the drum combis. There are several dozen combinator patches which take advantage of the Thor Low Pass Filter to shape the raw oscillator sets. The combis include several mono bass and mono lead instruments, synthesized drum patches, sound effects, arpeggiated and sequence driven patches, and polyphonic instruments. The Systems directory contains some of the basic architectures for these patches which allow you experiment and create your own variations of the patches.
Download Peff 034 - Monologue.rfl 164MB zip archive.
December 25th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Hi, Peff
You’re really crazy…peff. thanks for the wonderful Christmas gift!
does that Redmatica KeyMap Pro is good? do you have another suggestion about this kind of
application?
December 26th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Hi, Peff
If I’m going to setup Random Samples for each key note in NNXT or Cmb in one velocity layer,
do you have any suggestion to do that? i think this is important for percussion.
thanks!
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December 26th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
yeah I highly recommend keymap pro. I haven’t upgraded yet, but version 2.0 will export to NN-XT format. With version 1.5, i save the patch as an exs24 instrument, then import the samples separately. It still save tons of time. As far as sample edit/looping applications for MacOS X go, I don’t know of any that come close to what kmp is capable of.
As far as random assignments go, you might want to arrange the zones so that they take advantage of the ALT zone feature so that each time a key is pressed, a different zone is selected. I’m not sure how useful this is, but it’s worth a shot
December 27th, 2009 at 1:10 am
actually i’m not quite sure if random samples feature will work well. but we used a lot in games
and they works well. so I’d like have a try:-)
ALT zone feature…that seems cool. thank you so much, peff!
happy new year!
December 27th, 2009 at 5:28 am
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January 5th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Excellent sounds in here, Kurt. This will change my life for the better! Off the bat, I am especially fond of Distortion Saw and also several of the Mono Drums. Congrats on this release!
February 18th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
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