KVR Audio

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 10:26 am

Spitfire31 wrote:
lingyai wrote:I have no idea what I'd do with this, so I bought it.
That's the best reason.

/Joachim

zvon · Post by **zvon** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 5:06 pm

lingyai wrote:Charming samples. The demos made me smile.

I have no idea what I'd do with this, so I bought it.

Glad that the samples made you smile!
And thanks for your comment and support.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 6:11 pm

zvon wrote:
lingyai wrote:Charming samples. The demos made me smile.

I have no idea what I'd do with this, so I bought it.
Glad that the samples made you smile!
And thanks for your comment and support.

Thanks for coming up with the product, and keep up the good work!

elxsound · Post by **elxsound** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 7:18 pm

Spitfire31 wrote:
lingyai wrote:I have no idea what I'd do with this, so I bought it.
That's the best reason. It may give you ideas!

/Joachim

I love this.

Zvon, I will be picking up later today!

zvon · Post by **zvon** » Sat Aug 17, 2013 2:12 pm

elxsound wrote: Zvon, I will be picking up later today!

Cool, thanks!

zvon · Post by **zvon** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:17 pm

I have begun to make a track for video demo using the samples in NanoStudio.
Here are the first 3 bars looped 3 times, note that they may still change.

Kids in NanoStudio

The drums and the synths are from NanoStudio factory content.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:43 pm

zvon wrote: Kids in NanoStudio

404 not found

zvon · Post by **zvon** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:55 pm

lingyai wrote:
404 not found

Ooops sorry, the link was a victim of a double paste. I've fixed it and here it is:
Kids in NanoStudio

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 4:08 pm

Kids on broomsticks!

gassle · Post by **gassle** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:21 am

Nice! You could make the library bigger and adjust the price to match.

zvon · Post by **zvon** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 2:11 pm

lingyai wrote:

Kids on broomsticks!

Thanks, the vibe is indeed different than the 2 other MP3 examples.

gassle wrote:Nice! You could make the library bigger and adjust the price to match.

Thanks for your comment! I cannot really make the library bigger because the original recording is not that long, kids have a short attention span. There are samples that I have not included in it because they were long sentences in French that were not really useful IMO in their full length and it was hard to cut them nicely.

On the other hand, you can get more mileage out of the library by simply transposing the samples by a few semitones by changing the root note in your sampler and they will still sound pretty natural, some samples lend themselves very well to that. For instance, you can have the same sample mapped to 5 keys with a single root note or with 5 different root notes. And transposing by larger intervals may be interesting too.

Other useful techniques are time stretching and pitch shifting, either used together or by themselves. Depending on the software you have, other ways of mangling the samples are possible, for instance using the various audio engines in Kontakt and Battery.

Also those who like vocal one-shot samples can look at the Julie Vocal collections, the 3 volumes together have over 1200 samples.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 10:48 am

Hi sorry to bother, but after purchasing, the link for Kids Kit leads to a 404 page not found error message (the bonus material link works fine though)...

zvon · Post by **zvon** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 1:33 pm

lingyai wrote:Hi sorry to bother, but after purchasing, the link for Kids Kit leads to a 404 page not found error message (the bonus material link works fine though)...

No problem, I update the links from time to time. Assuming that you are the one who emailed me today, I just sent you the new link.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 1:51 pm

zvon wrote:
lingyai wrote:Hi sorry to bother, but after purchasing, the link for Kids Kit leads to a 404 page not found error message (the bonus material link works fine though)...
No problem, I update the links from time to time. Assuming that you are the one who emailed me today, I just sent you the new link.

Got it, thanks very much.

gassle · Post by **gassle** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 9:29 am

zvon wrote:On the other hand, you can get more mileage out of the library by simply transposing the samples by a few semitones by changing the root note in your sampler and they will still sound pretty natural, some samples lend themselves very well to that. For instance, you can have the same sample mapped to 5 keys with a single root note or with 5 different root notes. And transposing by larger intervals may be interesting too.

Sure I will mess with them in every way with granular synthesis, distortion, pitch shifting, formant shifting, harmonizing, creative looping, convolution etc. it's just there is never enough samples.

Kids Kits - children vocal samples