I'm just going through the (relatively) new Visions bank for Alchemy and the musical quality of Alchemy patches never ceases to amaze me, this bank isn't all to my taste but the patches that are, such as 'Photons', 'Cross talk' and 'Iron Forest' (which gives an idea of the sort of patches I love) are just amazing - I would rate them higher than the max of 5 if I could. Pretty sure Biomechanoid had a hand in these although they are uncredited.
Problem is I just haven't had much time to really catch up with the newer Alchemy banks (Apple seem to have released several in the last year but don't provide any documentation or descriptions of them except for a name hidden in release notes). Also there still seems to be very few third party ones which is such a shame as it's a sound designer's dream synth. So what should I look out for in the new stuff (from Apple and elsewhere)?
Your favourite recent Alchemy 2 banks/patches
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- KVRAF
- 37507 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
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- KVRAF
- 12106 posts since 2 Dec, 2004 from North Wales
As a PC user I hope they have done nothing interesting recently with Alchemy!!! 
I am of course bitter as I loved Alchemy and had a lot of sound banks, I had a SSD crash and lost my keyfile, never bothered trying to re-install as Avenger, Falcon and Omni2.5 all came along so I will live!
I guess as there are far, far fewer Alchemy users now than there were in 2015 (when PC users like me owned it and it was still being developed) so there is probably a lot less sound banks being developed (there were a ton of new releases all the time when it was Camel Audio)
I am of course bitter as I loved Alchemy and had a lot of sound banks, I had a SSD crash and lost my keyfile, never bothered trying to re-install as Avenger, Falcon and Omni2.5 all came along so I will live!
I guess as there are far, far fewer Alchemy users now than there were in 2015 (when PC users like me owned it and it was still being developed) so there is probably a lot less sound banks being developed (there were a ton of new releases all the time when it was Camel Audio)
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 37507 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
As I said they have done tons interesting, I just haven't been able to keep up with it. As was the case when Alchemy was Camel the team always drove most of the bank development and it seems this is still the case, hence the Visions bank and several others over the last year or so, every Logic update seems to bring more presets and features. What they don't do any more though is promote it well, new banks are hidden in release notes rather than properly described and promoted. So it's harder for me to keep up with the new stuff.SLiC wrote:As a PC user I hope they have done nothing interesting recently with Alchemy!!!
However, third party development has dropped off, which is a real pity. Still a large number of owners though, technically every who owns Logic/Mainstage but that doesn't mean they all actually use it actively of course.
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- KVRAF
- 14485 posts since 16 Feb, 2005 from Planet Earth, Somewhere
I am not a Logic user so I don't use Alchemy 2 (and tbh I was one of the few that didn't think Alchemy the original was all that great sounding to begin with)..
But one of the sound developers whose omnisphere banks I like a lot has recently released an Alchemy 2 bank.
https://www.tomwolfe.co.uk/quantum-for-alchemy
rsp
But one of the sound developers whose omnisphere banks I like a lot has recently released an Alchemy 2 bank.
https://www.tomwolfe.co.uk/quantum-for-alchemy
rsp
sound sculptist
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 37507 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
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- KVRAF
- 8037 posts since 28 Dec, 2015 from Atlantis Island
I haven‘t had that, but now I have it...aMUSEd wrote:Yes thanks I have that.
Besides Resurrection (Patchpool)… which other soundsets for Alchemy2 you know?
https://sonograyn.bandcamp.com/music Experimental Ambient
https://martinjuenke.bandcamp.com/music Alternative Instrumental
https://martinjuenke.bandcamp.com/music Alternative Instrumental
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 37507 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Just those and the one by Leap into the Void
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- KVRAF
- 8037 posts since 28 Dec, 2015 from Atlantis Island
Oh yeah, I forgot, I already have that as well...aMUSEd wrote:Just those and the one by Leap into the Void
But I think Mikael abandoned the subscription idea he had for it first place.
It‘s a pity that there are virtually no soundsets for this amazing synth...
https://sonograyn.bandcamp.com/music Experimental Ambient
https://martinjuenke.bandcamp.com/music Alternative Instrumental
https://martinjuenke.bandcamp.com/music Alternative Instrumental
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 37507 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Except Apple/Camel still seem to be bringing more presets out - hence this thread
At least all my old ones work (which means pretty much everything except I think for some Pluginguru stuff)
At least all my old ones work (which means pretty much everything except I think for some Pluginguru stuff)
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- KVRist
- 238 posts since 29 Dec, 2012
Camel Audio - Alchemy ( More Free Soundset - High Quality )
Here are Soundsets for the Camel Audio - Alchemy
http://ohlenbostelhelge.magix.net/public/alchemy.htm
Here are Soundsets for the Camel Audio - Alchemy
http://ohlenbostelhelge.magix.net/public/alchemy.htm