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Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:32 am

Got up at 4, heard about the terror in Paris, started sampling bells and stuff, also these 4 Japanese windbells:

edited the samples, made a patch layering 4 long windbell textures and played this little track still under the impression of the Paris horror:

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Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 4:43 pm

Three fresh Falcons from AIR in a rather horizontal jam:

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Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:20 am

This one is quite mysterious and beautiful - Arctica - automating some of the 11 Macros and 2 keyswitches on the fly, keyswitch 2 adds some granulated bell tree texture to highlight certain notes in the music.

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Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:26 pm

Three fresh Falcons in Three Falcons - involving the patches Chinese Opera Cymbal Synth - Swirling Bells Layered - Living Pad.

The swirling bells are multi-sampled sonic triangulars, 3 velocity layers and 2-3 round robins, higher velocities trigger faster swirling speeds. The opera cymbal is sampled at 3 velocity layers and 4x round robin (I still have 7 other opera cymbals to edit - LOL, I will most probably not include them all in Air, it's overkill), layered with a big synth drone, lots of pulsations and swells can be dialed in. The pad is a unison wavetable pad.

The sonic triangulars:

2 of the opera cymbals are on the inner left of this pic:

the demo:
https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:20 pm

Here is a little impro with Wahwah Tube Synth, making multi-sampled use of this lovely instrument:

There are 3 key-switchable layers, one without vibrato, one with slow vibrato and one with vibrato variations, each layer is sampled at 3 velocity layers/3x round robin. Later I will also make a version where I mix these samples with the model synth and analog stack synth, but this is the pure version:

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:14 pm

Here are three fresh Falcon patches in a slightly epic soundtrack sort of Drama Queen, including the patch Chinese Opera Hand Cymbals KS which has 5 key-switchable layers with round robin accents (sampling and granular) dynamic tremolos (sampling/granular) and reverse sampling. The bells are 3 multi-sampled bronze bells with round robin in the upper half and a granulated derivative/dronepad in the lower half, the airy pad and drone is a split pad - Falcon rocks!

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 5:08 pm

A slightly fragile/mysterious duet here, Wahwah Tube Granular meets Moon Pad - automating numerous Macros and the wheels on the fly.

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sat Nov 28, 2015 10:55 pm

Is this still scheduled for the new year? I love that you are taking your time over this, too many seem to want to rush out a bank before they have fully mastered a plugin.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 12:45 am

aMUSEd wrote:Is this still scheduled for the new year? I love that you are taking your time over this, too many seem to want to rush out a bank before they have fully mastered a plugin.

I am actually aiming for a release between the years, shortly after Christmas maybe. As I already provided 100+ Falcon factory patches I am not in the rush to be the first, as I was one of the first

And recording/editing/polishing all those new samples (hundreds of them) just takes time and discipline, there is no way to accelerate that process without making compromises on the sound quality, and I am also trying to keep my sanity intact -

Especially one sound dev seems to have totally lost it concerning quantity/speed over quality, but that's none of my business.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:22 am

Three fresh Falcons in Desert Music - the repeating sequence is played with the full glass gong patch, 3 velocity layers/6x round robin, two different mallets (hard/soft) can be either layered or key-switched individually, lots of things can be dialed in (ring modulation, bit destruction, filter envelope, random pitch/pan and more), then we have two long camel bell textures (bells they put around camel's ankles) layered with their granulated electronic derivatives /soundscapes and a big wavetable drone patch layered with some drone/pad samples.

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 5:21 pm

Improvising with a fresh Falcon patch - Vocal Ebow:

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Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:53 pm

After cutting almost 100 water pumpkin (water drum/jicara de aqua) samples over the last days which will make for some great bass and percussion instruments, here is a first granular soundscape using key-switchable dynamic tremolos, processed by tuned combfilters, filters, waveshapers and whatnot.

The smaller pumkin was sampled in a dry studio environment, as it can swim in the bigger pumpkin, and the big one I multi-sampled in the bathtub which added a nice gated-room-sort-of-ambient to each hit and also some dripping drops were captured here and here.

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:42 am

Spent the entire day yesterday programming water drum patches, so here is a first groove in 6-8 combining several pumpkin patches, one being a split articulation switch-patch, where you can select three different mallet types (with up to 6 velocity layers and 3x round robin) ranging over the lower 3 octaves, via key-switches, the upper sounds in that patch - 2 different sets of hand accents with plenty of velocities and round robins and tempo-synced finger trills (in stretch mode) with 5x round robins - are not affected by the key-switches. Then there is patch which layers 4 articulations (3 different mallets and hand accents) and you can level and tune each layer. Then there is the big bathtub pumpkin and more. Each patch has 20+ Macros for effect/filter/EQ/random pitch/pan-control and whatnot, all split zones are colored in the Falcon keyboard GUI for easy navigation, I'll make an explanation-video later.

My subwoofers were having an absolute blast while playing/programming this track:

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 5:04 pm

This rather surreal/dark impro track combines two new Falcon patches with multi-sampled Chinese opera cymbals, also layering the dry cymbals with some re-synthesized cymbal scapes. Plenty of round robins/velocity layers, plenty of controls to dial in all sorts of modulations:

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:28 pm

After cutting and fine-tuning dozens of bowed Chinese opera cymbals over the last days, here is a track with two patches making use of these, one patch spreading out many bowed cymbals over a 3+ octave range, fine-tuned to the main pitch in each sample. The other patch splits bowed cymbals in granular mode, as smooth as metallic silk, a second velocity layer adds a bright, moaning-like cymbal sound, a keyswitch adds a model synth which also uses a stretched bowed cymbal as excitation for the resonators.

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

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