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envoy · Post by **envoy** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:17 pm

Anybody know where I can find waterphone samples? If you haven't seen them, they are shown right here Since I work with sampler/synths and no samplers per se, I'd need to find it in either .wav or .sf2 formats.

TIA,
Envoy

alriley · Post by **alriley** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:47 am

Never heard of a waterphone but i'd love to hear what it sounds like.

xander · Post by **xander** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:55 am

The first I've ever heard of it. I reckon you'd need to talk to someone who owns one and get them to do up some samples for you.

The demos sound really excellent, but, er... Do you really have to go swimming with it in order for it to work?

* Just to add: It probably wouldn't be that hard to emulate if you know your way around a decent programmable FM synth..

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:56 am

One of my favourite instruments

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:36 pm

btw Harm Visser has made a Waterphone patch for Tassman - it's a bit noisy but you can tweak it - I don't think it's quite right still (sounds a bit too hammered at times) but it's playable and definately better than a sample (Waterphones are too non-linear for sampling to capture their playing quality adequately imho). He's managed to pull of some of the sloshy swirly quality using the modwheel nicely though. He's also done some Bowed Gongs recently that sound closer in some respects.

aldred · Post by **aldred** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:01 pm

The Korg Trinity has a preset 'Waterphonics'. It sounds as if it might come from that instrument.

gravehill · Post by **gravehill** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:00 pm

Also, Absynth comes with pretty usable waterphone preset. I think it's the best non-sampled / non-physically modelled waterphone out there. Except for the real thing, of course.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:46 pm

gravehill wrote:Also, Absynth comes with pretty usable waterphone preset. I think it's the best non-sampled / non-physically modelled waterphone out there. Except for the real thing, of course.

Which bank is that in please?

gravehill · Post by **gravehill** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:40 am

It's in "Ethnic, ambient & FX" bank. There are actually 4 variations. Combining them is usually for me the way to go.

ChimeraMan · Post by **ChimeraMan** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:56 am

VSL Horizon Series / Fx Percussion. There's a waterphone with different articulations included in the library. From my experience with VSL, it's probably the best you'll find.

They've got a deal going at the moment too!

dasjambo · Post by **dasjambo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:01 am

thats awesome, water phone...never heard of that before

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:02 am

gravehill wrote:It's in "Ethnic, ambient & FX" bank. There are actually 4 variations. Combining them is usually for me the way to go.

which version(please dont say3

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envoy · Post by **envoy** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:20 am

ChimeraMan wrote:VSL Horizon Series / Fx Percussion. There's a waterphone with different articulations included in the library. From my experience with VSL, it's probably the best you'll find.

They've got a deal going at the moment too!

Thanks, I'll give that a look. As an update, I've had to complete this piece pretty quickly (modern dance music), and had to think of some other sounds to use. But, short of getting a waterphone some day, the sound would be handy now and then.

Thanks, all, for your suggestions!

Cheers,
Envoy

krushing · Post by **krushing** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:54 am

I actually do have some waterphone samples...

metalsvinet · Post by **metalsvinet** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:27 am

I think there was one in the great E-mu soundfont giveaway. About six years ago.

Waterphone sample needed...