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jdoo · Post by **jdoo** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:18 am

I am in. Looking forward to these Simon.

Joe

Ridan · Post by **Ridan** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:41 am

The Water Pumpkin is likely the most innovative thing I've seen and heard all year. Wonderful.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:10 am

jdoo wrote:I am in. Looking forward to these Simon.

Joe

Thank's Joe

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:17 am

Ridan wrote:The Water Pumpkin is likely the most innovative thing I've seen and heard all year. Wonderful.

The water drum is quite a common in African countries and south-east-asia, it's been on my what-to-sample-next-list for a long time, I bought one one ebay which sounded bad and was too small, then I asked my local instrument rental guy, who owns some of the most exotic instruments on the planet - and BINGO, he lent me these beautifully resonant sounding pumpkins.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:41 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 5:03 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 5:26 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

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 4:44 pm

Four instances of Falcon in Electric Six playing 4 patches AIR - rather dark and epic...

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

About 25 patches to go, over the weekend I am renting several guitar amps and pedals to sample the final load of material, it's gonna be....GREAT.

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EDIT (a little later):

Here is a demo video for the water drum/water pumkin track, posted on the page before:

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 2:36 am

After spending the whole of yesterday sampling amped electric guitar feedbacks and chord-scapes, here is a first patch, combining 4 long chord-scapes with feedback swells, split across the keyboard. Each sample zone has 5 dedicated controls for envelope shaping, filter modulation, tuning, sample start, the wheel introduces tempo-synced amplitude and pan modulation, then there are 3 master controls for LP/HP filtering, delay and reverb.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:48 am

This track combines 2 new patches - a split amped electric guitar ebow-patch, playing slow flageolet transitions on the open strings with a granulated vocal trill texture:

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

I'm always amazed how similar ebow tones can sound to a bass clarinet when played in the lower range.

quantum7 · Post by **quantum7** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:33 pm

Hey Simon, quit posting and get back to work!

I would love me some AIR before Christmas.

"My subwoofers were having an absolute blast while playing/programming this track" (Pumpkin Groove)

My Focal sub REALLY loved that track also!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 12:29 am

quantum7 wrote:Hey Simon, quit posting and get back to work! I would love me some AIR before Christmas.

"My subwoofers were having an absolute blast while playing/programming this track" (Pumpkin Groove)

My Focal sub REALLY loved that track also!

- No AIR before Christmas, sorry, but before 2016 dooms on us

Two pumpkins a day keep two doctors away!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 4:42 am

Another two finalized split patches, made with/derived from amped electric guitar sounds:

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

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 6:15 pm

Some chillout music for the night: here is an expanded version of the Wahwah Tube-video posted a few pages back, I added some improvised melodic lines in the background using a patch named Spectra Vox:

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

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:53 am

Plastic Angel - a vocal pad sound and a wavetable patch using a resynthesized image inserting two bass drones:

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

Falcon AIR released on patchpool