Hi All,

After some intense weeks with my Framedrum I just released my new Alchemy soundset:




Framedrum for Alchemy contains multisampled framedrum instruments with up to 4 velocity layers and 8 variations per sample (Round Robin). Played with hands and fingers in the centre and on the rim of the drum, rubbing the skin, playing the drum with mallets and sticks and treating it with various objects and materials like rubber balls, tibetian soundbowl, chopsticks, rice and peanuts (in their shell). I played and sampled a Meinl 22" Tar African Brown Framedrum with Goat Skin Head to produce the samples for this set.

This set also contains many patches made from processed Framedrum sounds, treated with granulators, stretching devices, saturators, distortion units, spectral tools, pitch shifters, convolution reverbs and more exotic FX Plug-Ins resulting in a large variety of beautiful and dramatic soundscapes and textures, dark and massive drones, percussive synths, mysterious noises, rich pads, edgy synth sounds and massive impacts.

As nothing beats a real drumming performance there is also a collection of loops in various time signatures, all synced to host tempo by using Alchemy's granular mode and temposynced MSEGs and LFOs.

This set compiled 63 patches / 1 variation with 8 Snapshots each in the Remix Pad, the sample folder contains 1.61 Gigabyte of original samples, 35 MB of resynthed files are included. 35 sfz-files are also included so that you can use the samples and sfzs in other samplers as well.

All Framedrum samples were recorded with 3 Neumann microphones in L-C-R 
in 48 Khz/24 Bit - U87 center mic - a stereo set of KM 184 for L-R.

As in all my soundsets for Alchemy I make extensive use of Alchemy's complex modulation possibilities and Filters, often intermodulatin LFOs/MSEGs/Sequencers with each other and assigning numerous parameters to a single Controller. This enables the user to deeply interact with the sounds and shape it according to his needs and preferences. Also the patches can serve as a starting point for the user's own creations when loading new samples into them and then using the pre-assigned Controllers and Snapshots in the Remix Pad.

NOTE: This Sound Bank requires the full version of Alchemy.
It does not work with the Alchemy player version.

You can view/download the PDF for this library with more details, the licence agreement, some pics and the patchlist, including playing tips and descriptions for each patch here.

Delivery: Download
Library size in total: 1.64 GB
Download size (RAR archive in 2 parts): 1.03 GB
Price (paypal): € 33 Euros

Product page

All demos were produced entirely with Alchemy using only patches from Framedrum for Alchemy, no post-processing was applied apart from a Limiter on the Master Outputs:
http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/sets/framedrum-for-alc hemy/

Thank's for reading

Simon Stockhausen
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Here is a vid with a little impro using the patch Bodran Scape from this library:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBC_-v6md0Y
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And a vid for the Muted Framedrum patch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmagn5nAFo

Patch "Beyond the Drum Scape Split":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG5bt3eMzTo

Congratulations on the release Simon!
As ever fabulous audio demos to demonstrate soundset capability and now some vids to enjoy as well! Really looking forward to exploring this superb creation over the holiday break - Thank you.

Thank you Don
I finally got myself a decent video app, I had planned this for longer, now is the time to do it.

Here is another vid demonstrating the Framedrum patch "FD 5 Art Split 4Vel RR4" - meaning 5 articulations with 4 velocity layers each and 8 variations per sample (Round Robin):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv5p3aBb1rk

Bank Bump...

Here is a video with a little night impro using the patch "Framedrum Gongs All untuned"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2xVtlduKFw

A little evening bumpage for the library...

nice set. Little expensive for me at the moment but will put it on my list of wants

Thank's - this set won't run away, so take your time

Bumping the Framedrum...

Pre-Christmas-Framedrum-Bumpage...

Great sounds .
Amazing that some of those beautiful pads originated form a framedrum!
Merry xmas