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TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 12:48 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote:New Serum patch Octagon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpESPQjABV4

Something distinctly Tuvian(overtone singing) about this example, I see vast plains, huge skies, lone riders on horses..Lets go there!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 2:06 pm

TwoToneshuzz wrote:
Sampleconstruct wrote:New Serum patch Octagon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpESPQjABV4
Something distinctly Tuvian(overtone singing) about this example, I see vast plains, huge skies, lone riders on horses..Lets go there!

Nice, yeah - let's go there, I'll just buy a new saddle for my horse.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:38 pm

It was about time for a Serum Clavi:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/c ... jam-tabula

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:16 am

Jamming live with a new Serum patch "Guitar Machine", I assigned some Midi knobs to the Macros so I had my hands free for the jam, Modwheel and Aftertouch was also used:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfiJLl3FZs

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:26 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:It was about time for a Serum Clavi:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/c ... jam-tabula

Wauw that Clav sound is tasty tasty.. Really three dimensional, i guess its the super Hi Fi quality in Serum that gives that quality.

I was worried about the CPU usage of Serum now that I own it I am very pleased to note that it uses less CPU than some of the other CPU expensive plugs I have...

Nice funky jam too..

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:06 am

TwoToneshuzz wrote:
Sampleconstruct wrote:It was about time for a Serum Clavi:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/c ... jam-tabula
Wauw that Clav sound is tasty tasty.. Really three dimensional, i guess its the super Hi Fi quality in Serum that gives that quality.

I was worried about the CPU usage of Serum now that I own it I am very pleased to note that it uses less CPU than some of the other CPU expensive plugs I have...

Nice funky jam too..

Thank's man, yeah from time to time the good old funk gets over me

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:49 am

Here is a demo for the Hang Plucker - the involved wavetables are derived from my Hang sample collection which I sampled/recorded in December:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/h ... a-rasa-for

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:46 am

And a slow impro with Warm Horn Pad, first I had more sounds from this set added in the demo, but then I muted them all again and left the original pad impro as is, less is more I guess:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/w ... a-rasa-for

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 6:00 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:Here is a demo for the Hang Plucker - the involved wavetables are derived from my Hang sample collection which I sampled/recorded in December:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/h ... a-rasa-for

Wauw, that's a sweet track, the Hang Drum sound character really comes through too. The Hang Drum strikes me as being like a "europafied" asien gong.. or maybe the sound of a lost bronze age instrument to sooth a warrior kinds nerves..

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 6:13 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:And a slow impro with Warm Horn Pad, first I had more sounds from this set added in the demo, but then I muted them all again and left the original pad impro as is, less is more I guess:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/w ... a-rasa-for

Devotional mood here... I like it bare like this, in fact horns seem best on there own unless used like a subliminal pad like background..

I like the pieces by brahms for horn and female choir.. Which seem quite instrumentally minimalistic.

http://youtu.be/KNC8VI7CZgM

Spip · Post by **Spip** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:25 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:And a slow impro with Warm Horn Pad, first I had more sounds from this set added in the demo, but then I muted them all again and left the original pad impro as is, less is more I guess:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/w ... a-rasa-for

Nice ! Indeed, no need for anything else...

Will this preset be in Tabula Rasa or is it "just" a draft ?

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:26 am

Spip wrote:
Sampleconstruct wrote:And a slow impro with Warm Horn Pad, first I had more sounds from this set added in the demo, but then I muted them all again and left the original pad impro as is, less is more I guess:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/w ... a-rasa-for
Nice ! Indeed, no need for anything else...

Will this preset be in Tabula Rasa or is it "just" a draft ?

Sure, it's a finalized preset from Tabula, I don't do draft demos

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:46 pm

This Serum Sequencer patch is a lot of fun to play with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhIVV-WeFxo

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 6:14 pm

I just want to share some tips concerning the wavetable-ization of acoustic instrumental and vocal sources, as the results are often poor when importing samples into Serum, depending on the overtone structure and the dynamics of a given sample.

Fist one should prepare the samples to import in a way, that all non-hamonic content is removes, e.g. in a sustained flute sample, remove all the breathing, this works best with a spectral filter like e.g. RX3 - e.g. in a trombone sample, remove the air hiss and the very high overtones, e.g. in a electric guitar power chord, remove as much of the amp noise as possible and so on. Then level the harmonics, subdue strong harmonics and enhance the root note.

But even with those steps, some instruments and vocal samples just won't resynthesize in any useful way unless you take the time to manually delete the garbled waveforms from the resulting wavetable, only keeping the substantial ones and then using the various morphing functions in Serum to generate a fluent wavetable.

I just spent about 40 minutes doing that with some male overtone singing, a simple transition from u -> i and no matter which import method I tried, the results were very garbled and crackly. I then listened to all 256 waveforms, kept about 15 of them and then morphed spectrally between them - the result was stunningly beautiful!

So, don't give up too early when an import doesn't yield instantly usable results, investing time and patience can bring out some very good and organic waveforms.

Everything metallic without a distinct pitch and a lot of odd harmonics is very hard to resynthesize in Serum though, but these sources can yield good results when using the FFT import or for generating single cycles which can then be combined in a wavetable or used as standalone.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 5:41 pm

Four fresh Serums in this SciFi Garden:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/s ... a-rasa-for

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