Kawaii Dreams From Mars

15 Dreamy Patches from Our Favorite Kawaii Keyboards

After a recent deep dive into early rave records, I went down a rabbit hole to find out what synths were responsible for the sounds that made the music so special. So we grabbed a handful of vintage Kawaii synths and fell in love with the K3 (1986), K1 (1988), and GB-2 A.K.A. Session Trainer (1991).

These wavetable synths have an inherent harmonic distortion from the era's conversion technology that give them a ton of character not possible from analog oscillators (and not captured on the recent plugins that have surfaced). So we sampled a mix of era-defining preset patches and custom patches. These sounds are cinematic, nostalgic, and orchestral... but above all, dreamy.

https://soundcloud.com/samplesfrommars/sets/kawaii-dreams-from-mars-contest-submissions

What You Get

On top of 15 extensively multi-sampled, iconic patches, you'll get thoughtfully designed presets for Ableton, Kontakt, Logic EXS24, Reason, FL Studio, & SFZ to help you dream the sweetest of Kawaii Dreams.

Contents::

• 15 multi-sampled patches organized into 4 categories.
• Samples from the Kawaii K1, K3 and GB-2 Session Trainer.
• Iconic Kawaii sounds like Return Home and Hello .
• Voices, Keys, Pads and Organs.
• Custom programmed K3 patches with Analog Filter modulations.
• Slow sweeps, warm strings, random LFOs, punchy plucks, and 2 custom programmed organ patches.
• 928 24-bit WAV samples.
• WAVs are trimmed, looped, named by note, and mapped to various samplers.
• WAVs feature mapping and looping metadata, for easy drag n drop into unsupported samplers.
• Recorded cleanly through an API 1608 console to Apogee Symphony Conversion.
• Modwheel parameters and FX routing on all software instruments.
• 1.73 GB Unzipped.
• About

Ready For::

• Any 24-bit WAV Compatible DAW or Sampler.
• Ableton Live 9.7+ (Not Intro).
• Kontakt 5.6.5+ (Not Kontakt Player).
• Logic 9+.
• Reason 8+.
• FL Studio 20.8+.
• SFZ Player (Free, cross-platform solution for any DAW).
• 1.73 GB Free Space.