Cassette Plucks.01

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Audio Demos

The Idea & Process

Cassette Plucks.01 is a mixture of physical modeling, some subtractive synthesis and sampling. It contains two different pluck instruments with an oriental vibe - both designed from the ground up. Because of all the care that was put into making of every layer and the magic touch of old cassette recorders Cassette Plucks.01 is another lofi & tasty sounding collection.

Both instruments were recorded in range of 5 octaves, with 4 dynamic layers using 2 different cassette decks. Overall there are 979 samples - 244 samples per deck, plus 2 noise samples from each deck (1,32 GB of uncompressed 24-bit WAV files).


Below, you can listen to each of the instruments, plus how each deck affects the sound in their own different way:


  • Sound 01 deck A MONO - dark, wooden sound - neutral cassette sound

  • Sound 01 deck B MONO - dark, wooden sound - lower quality, loose drive belt introduces a lot of pitch instability

  • Sound 02 deck A MONO - bright, metallic, more aggressive sound - neutral cassette sound

  • Sound 02 deck B MONO - bright, metallic, more aggressive sound - lower quality, loose drive belt introduces a lot of pitch instability


Every note has been carefully denoised with a high quality algorithm to avoid noise stacking when playing more than one note (there’s still some noise left in the samples to avoid denonising artifacts). Noise can still be added with the noise knob - it’s much more flexible this way and allows the ability to adjust the volume of the noise independently whilst also applying parameters such as filtering. It also creates a more realistic sound, so when playing a five voice chord, only one sample of noise instead of five stacked on top of each other will be heard.

Cassette Plucks.01 in audio demos

Custom impulse responses in Kontakt version

Kontakt version contains custom impulses (4 spring impulses, 4 hall impulses & 3 corridor impulses), along with a choice of whether you want it to be placed pre or post insert effects - same thing goes for the delay.

Useful and fun production tool

If you like vintage sounds and you're looking for something to enhance your production toolbox, then this product will be for you.

Simulated Round Robin

Makes faster note passages sound more realistic and adds to the overall nonlinearity of the instrument - available in Kontakt and SFZ versions only.

Variety of sounds

Aside from the sound of a cassette record with this instrument you can easily create some weird sounds and there are already quite a few presets included to get you started (Kontakt & Ableton Live versions only).

Specs

Available in multiple popular formats: Kontakt 5, Ableton Live 9, Logic, SFZ & Multiformat

1,32 GB of uncompressed 24-bit WAV samples (979 samples in total)

Recorded on 2 different decks

Simulated round-robin in Kontakt and SFZ versions

2 instruments

2 noise samples (each around 2 minutes long)

4 dynamic layers

Organic sound with lots of little imperfections

Kontakt version

Full version of Kontakt 5.6.6 (or higher) required - not compatible with Kontakt Player

Simulated round-robin

43 presets

One-page interface for easy and fast sound design

Convolution Reverb with custom impulses (spring, hall, corridor)

Ableton Live version

Full version of Live 9.7 (or higher) required

46 Instrument Racks: 8 basic + 38 additional presets (both with mapped macros)

Custom Effect Racks

Logic version

Full version of Logic Pro X required - not tested in Logic Pro 9

20 basic presets (normal, reverse 100%, reverse 75%, reverse 50% & reverse 25% for each deck)

SFZ version

Compatible with any SFZ player, for example: Plogue Sforzando

Simulated round-robin

8 basic presets (with and without simulated round-robin for each deck)

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