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CHROMATIC HITS

Featured in the What's New section of the March 17, 2008 EM Cast (Electronic Musician magazine's podcast). You can listen or download the podcast from here. The part about the Chromatic Hits starts about 26 minutes into the podcast with a musical example also featuring our Julie Scats collection at 27 minutes.

Reviewed on rekkerd.org HERE

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The concept: often when I use one-shot samples, I would like to have them play higher or lower without changing their duration and/or having them slow down or speed up. That gave me the idea for this set. The set contains 101 sounds and over 2500 chromatically mapped samples (205 MB). The complete list of programs is HERE

To achieve this, I resynthesized one-shot samples to make them chromatic and playable across the keyboard. Most of the original samples used for resynthesis come from our Electronic drums/percussions kits and the Sidekick sets. I also created 25 new original sounds. All the above were made with various drum softsynths. On the acoustic side, there are 7 cymbals, 2 hi-hats and 1 cowbell (courtesy from Manytone).

The result: many sounds that can be used as tuned or semi-tuned percussions and others (like the cymbals) where you have low and high pitched sounds of the same speed and lenght. Good for chromatic percussion (metallic and others), keyboard like instruments and sound FX. All programs have 4 samples per octave and most cover at least 6 octaves.

Available in soundfont, sfz, Cakewalk Rapture, Emulator X2 and Native Instruments Kontakt 3 formats.

Downloadable DEMOS of all formats on the Free Sounds page.

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Soundfont + sfz formats: $24.99 US

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Emulator X2 version with 205 presets. The first 101 presets correspond to the sounds of the original version. The other 104 presets make use of the Emulator X2 features. I mainly combined the samples in various creative ways: layers, velocity layers, cycle groups and random groups. I did not use much the filters or the FXs as I preferred to design dry presets so users can apply processing and/or filters as they like. But still there a few presets with filters and/or FXs. Please refer to the text files included with the demo for the complete list of the presets and more details.

It is offered for a limited time at a special introductory price of $29.99 US, regular price will be $34.99. It should work in the Proteus X2 too, but please try the demo before buying.

The Emulator X2 package also includes the above Soundfont + sfz formats.

Emulator X2 format introductory price: $29.99 US

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203 programs for Cakewalk Rapture. The first 101 programs correspond to the 101 sfz files included in the Chromatic Hits sfz version without any processing. The other 102 programs are either layered and/or make use of Rapture's synthesis features, FXs and alternate tunings. IMPORTANT: the sfz format is required to use these programs and it's included in each of the packages above. This means that Rapture users need to buy one of the packages above AND the programs below to use them in Rapture.

They are offered for a limited time at a special introductory price of $4.99 US. They work with both Mac and PC versions of Rapture and they should work with Rapture LE too (test the demo first). Complete list of the programs included in the demo.

Programs for Rapture: $4.99 US

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Native Instruments Kontakt 3 version with 211 instruments. The first 101 instruments correspond to the programs of the original version. The other 110 make use of Kontakt 3 features. I mainly combined the samples in various creative ways: layers, velocity layers, cycle groups and random groups. I did not use much the filters or the FXs as I preferred to design dry presets and let you apply processing and/or filters as you like. But still there a few instruments with filters and/or FXs. Please refer to the text files included with the demo for the complete list of the instruments and more details.

It is offered for a limited time at a special introductory price of $29.99 US, regular price will be $34.99. IMPORTANT: the instruments files are for Kontakt 3 only and will not work with previous versions of Kontakt.

The Kontakt 3 package also includes the Soundfont + sfz formats.

Kontakt 3 format introductory price: $29.99 US

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MP3 demos

Simple demos, featuring 1 sound each:

Electro Buzz	Cym Bell pattern	Ping Marimba	Ping 01
String Bass	String Hi	Low End	Laser Hi
Dub Noisy Hit 1	Metal Brush 3 (reverb)	Low End (demo 2)
Hat Rising (example of Open hihat's pitch raising by 3 half-steps between each hit)		Chime 2b (made with Orion Platinum Jazz Piano style)	Metal Brush 01 (delay + disto)

Demos with layered or multiple sounds:

3 layers (Chime 6, Hard Hit 4, Electro Buzz with reverb at the end)	3 layers 02 (Sweep lo 2, Ploc, Dub Hit 2)	2 layers (Ping Marimba + Bell Like Bright)
Sequence with 7 differents Chromatic Hits sounds (Heavy Machine, Small Bell, Human Mech, Buzz 03, Sweep Lo, Bowed Bell, Metal Brush 03): Fantasia
Sequence with 4 tracks. The bass and snare parts are from the Chromatic Hits set, the kick is from the Sidekick set, the guitar is from the ManyStation: Trio
Pattern drum machine style with 6 sounds (Bell Bright, Metal Brush 01, FX 03, Dub Noisy Hit 01, Metal 01): Pattern 5 bars

All the above examples feature original unprocessed sounds and can be realised with any of the versions available. All are dry, no processing, except where noted.

Emulator X2 and Kontakt 3 versions, these two versions are sonically similar and almost interchangeable. For reference, MP3s in the first table were made with the Emulator X2 and those in the second one with Kontakt 3. No external processing.

Alien Caves	Phased Machine
Mini Chromatic Grab Bag (random groups)	Confused Bunch (preset with random groups)	Metal Brushes Cycle of 3 (cycle groups or Round Robin)

Celtic Dreams	Exotic Percussion 01	Multi Triple Random FX
Hard Hits Cycling	Triple Metal	Outer Space + Phased Machine

Rapture version, and these are specific to the Rapture version, no external processing. One program per demo except where noted:

Exotic Percussion 03	Random Bells	Random Hits 01
Clockwork (Triple Metal, Random Hits 04 Oriental)
Microtonal Fiesta (Two Tunings 01, Two Tunings 02, Filtered Cymbell)
Deep Space (Cosmic Bells 2, Ghosts, Electro Buzz 3, Going Going Gone too, Interstellar Critters, Outer Space)

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There will be no refunds, so please try the demos before buying. All products are downloadable. After we received confirmation of your payment, we will email you the link or links where you can download your products. This will usually be within one business day.

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