Yesterday i played some of my music at Grandblue, a Second Life community very nice and welcoming. It was snowing, but we were all well covered.
In the heart of a snowy little village in Second Life, where music and magic blend under a canopy of twinkling stars and softly falling snow.
My music filled the crisp winter air, creating a warm, enchanting atmosphere. Let the music guide you home.
Location: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Grandblue/112/92/27
Video by d-oo-b Virtual Vibes Radio.
Machinima (IPA: /məˈʃiːnɪmə, -ˈʃɪn-/) is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. (Wikipedia)
In Second Life there are many people who make machinima of all types and genres. But two people in particular film live concerts, with very different approaches.
Glasz films the concert and works a lot in post-production, making it a personal work. D-oo-b instead makes real documentaries full of ideas and original shots, as well as a musician himself.
So now at The Hexagon there are two corners reserved for their creations, where you can see some of their work on a dedicated screen.
The screen used is really simple to use, just turn it on.
Glasz’s corner is located at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pelican%20Reef/65/223/1736,
Glasz’s screen
D-oo-b instead is at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pelican%20Reef/25/229/1737.
D-oo-b ‘s screen
Next to each screen there is a small cube, click to receive the relevant documentation. Both have a large production, refer to notecards to have access to their archives on the web.
I think it’s an important completion of The Hexagons, and watching some machinima about musicians in Second Life is pleasant. Good vision.
Transonic Second Life Sessions 2023 by Glasz.
Betty @ Akipelago by D-oo-b.
by proton d-oo-b –
For those who missed the unforgettable Halloween 2024 concert by nnoiz Papp at The Hexagons, the video recording is here! This exclusive video captures every moment of nnoiz’s extraordinary live performance, weaving modular synthesizers with live instruments—including a hauntingly beautiful oboe performance. Known for his inventive approach to sound design and deep musical expertise, nnoiz Papp left the audience spellbound.
From his renowned work with Sendung mit der Maus to his celebrated collaborations with artists like Klaus Schulze, nnoiz Papp’s career is a testament to innovation in sound. This video release is a must-watch for fans of experimental music and anyone fascinated by live electronic and instrumental fusion. Don’t miss the chance to experience his Halloween concert’s atmosphere, intensity, and raw creativity.
// scoremusic-composer / music for animated movies / sound-designer / keyboarder / oboist / guitarist
In SL since end of may 2007, trying to put the things together…..
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I think we’ve all tried a bit to use artificial intelligence to make music. Initially amazed, then slowly you find the limits, and above all the costs.
My personal view is that machine learning can be used to enable and enhance the creative potential of all people, and I’d like it to be like that for everyone.
That said, there are many platforms on Web, even complex ones, that offer the possibility of creating a song from a text prompt. The “trial” generation is free, but if you need more, you have to switch to a payment plan based on the amount of rendering you need.
However, there is also the possibility of generating music with AI on your computer, downloading several different models, and thus avoiding the costs of online platforms.
I would like to talk here about two solutions that work locally, on your PC: Pinokio and Magenta Studio, two completely different approaches to AI-generated music.
Pinokio It is really a possible solution: its scripts take care of downloading everything you need and configuring the working environment without disturbing your file system in any way. At the installation you will be asked to indicate a Pinokio Home, and everything you download will go inside this directory, no mess around the PC.
Installation procedure and setup are very simple and easy, and it’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The scripts available obviously do not concern only music, but a myriad of applications in all the areas concerned: text, images, videos, and so on and so forth.
Warning: each application requires disk space, and the download is quite heavy. Make sure you have space on the disk where you created your Pinokio Home.
I have installed several libraries on my PC, currently the ones you see in the image below. Well, that’s 140 GB of disk space, and unfortunately appetite comes with eating.
Anyway, interesting. Worth a try.
Magenta Studio follow a complete different path and is based on recurrent neural networks (RNN). A recurrent neural network has looped, or recurrent, connections which allow the network to hold information across inputs and these connections can be thought of as similar to memory. RNNs are particularly useful for learning sequential data like music. Magenta currently consists of several tools: Continue, Drumify, Generate, Groove and Interpolate.
These tools are available as standalone programs, but version 2 has become a integrated plugin for Ableton Live, with the same functionality as version 1. They use cutting-edge machine learning techniques for music generation, really interesting.
At the Magenta site you can also become familiar with the so-called DDSP-VST.
Okay, talking about Neural Synthesis may seem like science fiction, but it’s actually simpler than it seems. At the end of the day, it’s just a matter of installing a VST3, which is complex.
If you like to experiment, I find very interesting the part dedicated to the creation of your own instruments, where artificial intelligence can be trained with your samples.
If you use Linux or Mac, take a look at the Magenta Midi Interface and say wow.
In short, as they say a lot of stuff to play and many acronyms to learn.
For various reasons Hexagons changed address, and is now in Pelican Village (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pelican%20Reef/65/209/1746).
It’s been overlooked lately, but one of the great things about Second Life is that time is truly relative.
Taking advantage of the new location and the renewed attention, we would like to organize a small festival, refreshing the walls a bit and inviting all composers of SL’s own music to continue to send a photo and a note about themselves to Livio Korobase and/or Renee Rebane, so they can be added to the directory.
Many are already on the walls, but there is still room.
See you soon.
Destination Guide: https://secondlife.com/destination/the-hexagons
Some time ago I bought a software for VJ (VJing (pronounced: VEE-JAY-ing – is a broad designation for realtime visual performance). Characteristics of VJing are the creation or manipulation of imagery in realtime through technological mediation and for an audience, in synchronization to music.
NestDrop is an ingenious software based on the visualization system produced by the programming language called Milkdrop, originally developed by Ryan Geiss in 2001.
I like Milkdrop’s beat detection system, it works well and we all know how music and lights in sync can produce pleasant moments.
So, after playing on my own for a bit I said to myself why not try to do a music and light show in Second Life, live?
It’s not as simple as it seems, especially when it comes to Second Life for video. The support is rudimentary, all you can do is apply a URL to the face of an object and start playing it (this is called MOAP, media on a prim). However, this does not guarantee at all that everyone will participate in the event, because in the case of a film, for example, each user start a playback from the beginning and so if someone arrives late they will never be aligned with the other participants, who perhaps are not even aligned with each other. We would like to have a party, not watch a movie each on a separated sofa. Give us our keyframe.
There are systems in Second Life that try to overcome this problem with scripting and other systems, but they are unreliable and complex. How to do it in a transparent, simple and economical way?
A day i visited a sim, Museum Island, where a guy with nickname Cimafilo was streaming a movie, Alice in the wonderland, and i noticed that data stream was small but fluid, in sync (also if on sim was used the parcel media and was not possible understand who and what was managing the sync), so i tried to get some infos about. Cima was using a for me unknow video format, WebM and OBS, with good results in my opinion. So I tried to create a similar system, but suited to my needs: analogous workflow, but using a dedicated server and a higher frame rate.
I can say I succeeded, the system devised can stream and sync audio and video events in Second Life using simple open source tools. Let’s see how.
As mentioned, my goal was to use a VJ program to create an audiovisual event in Second Life.
All you need is any audio player (personally I use Winamp because it’s very light, but any other player is fine) and a VJ software (in my case NestDrop, but any other is fine). The result of our audio and video mix must be able to be captured by the OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), so any program that generates video output on your PC monitor is fine.
Your desktop at the end of first part of setup: from left, Winamp produces sound, NestDrop make the visuals and OBS capture all.
I was thinking to myself, how can I send this output from OBS to Second Life with acceptable quality and in sync for anyone? Showing the video is easy, almost, there are many methods by going from a web page or a streaming service but they all lack the detail that is so important to me: sync.
However, I noticed one thing: almost all of these services use MP4 container or its variants to distribute the content. And by studying, I realized that the MP4 container does not have a sync system suitable for my purpose. I need the sync to be sent at pre-established intervals during the projection. Codecs world is a real jungle managed through trade wars.
At this point I entered a hell of questions and answers on forums, web pages, approximate and/or wrong answers, you name it. I’m also no expert on these things, and this was new territory for me. Double difficulty then.
I convinced myself along the way that the secret was in the format, and indeed it was.
Arguing with FFMPEG specs I discovered the format that’s right for me: compact, manages good audio (in Opus) and video (VP8 or VP9), open source, all browsers can view it: WebM was the trick.
Above all, a specification of webM container shoot me: Key frames SHOULD be placed at the beginning of clusters.
Exactly what I was looking for, bingo. In a few words, when the Play key is pressed in the SL viewer, each visitor gets a key frame to sync at the exact point of the actual key in the video. Yes, I want to use this!
Okay, but where do I send this WebM stream if I manage to convince OBS to do broadcasting?
Read here, search there, a server that accepts WebM is Icecast2.
Now comes the slightly complex part, because you need an Icecast video hosting, which will work like Shoutcast hosting which – if you have ever played music in Second Life – you surely already know. Or, you can implement your own server there. I obviously chose the second path both for its affordability and to fully understand how it works.
On the Web it is easy to find offers of virtual servers, even at very low prices. For me I got a VPS with 1 processor, 1 GB RAM, 100 GB hard disk. For an experiment it’s fine, in any case you can always expand. We go.
The installation of a Linux distro is always quite automated, just choose the desired distro from a drop-down menu and in a few minutes the basic server will be operational. So far so good, and I chose Ubuntu 20.04 for myself.
Preparing my VPS
In a few minutes the server is ready. I chose not to install anything apart from Icecast, but obviously the space can be used for all that you need.
Installing Icecast2 is very simple, all you need is a little familiarity with the terminal (for me, Putty) commands and your server is ready in 10 minutes. You can find dozens of tutorials, all copy/pasted from each other.
The only detail that I recommend you take care of is to open port 8000 of the server firewall, or no one will be able to connect and set your audio card setting on Windows at 48000 Hz for the audio side. You don’t need anything else.
Now test if Icecast is responding with a browser, adding :8000 to your server address.
In my case, for example: http://vps-94bab050.vps.ovh.net:8000/
The server will most likely be listening.
Pelican Village TV waiting for a mountpoint
When configuring Icecast (you will be asked to specify passwords for admin and other details), you may have a doubt about mountpoints, and the documentation isn’t very clear either: should I create them now? Or when? In reality you don’t have to do anything, OBS (or the software you use for broadcast) will create the mountpoint with the name you chose in the connection string (we see later how).
I connected OBS to server, and the connection created the mountpoint /video, as specified in connection string.
Opening the URL http://vps-94bab050.vps.ovh.net:8000/video (following the example) you can already see what you are going stream in Second Life in a browser window (if someone is streaming, or you get a “Error 404 page Not Found”). The mountpoint is dynamic, this means it is alive as long as the stream is up. When you disconnect your broadcaster, the mountpoint disappears.
To connect OBS to the Icecast server, the issue is not very simple but it can be solved.
In File > Settings > Output > Recordings, select as Output Mode Advanced.
Type: Custom Output (FFmpeg)
FFMpeg Output Type: Output to URL
File part or URL: icecast://user name:password@server URL:8000/mountpoint name
User name and password you have set installing Icecast2, remember?
Container Format and Container format Description: webm
Muxer Settings open a chapter apart. This specs and Encoder settings have do be decided carefully reading the documentation at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/EncodingForStreamingSites and https://developers.google.com/media/vp9/live-encoding Configurations depends on many factors based on your material, hardware, connection, server. For me personally the string that worked for Muxer Settings is:
content_type=video/webm cluster_size_limit=10M cluster_time_limit=5100The part most important is Encoder Settings. The string that for me worked is:
-r 30 -g 60 -quality realtime -speed 6 -threads 6 -frame-parallel 1 -tile-columns 4 -row-mt 1(For each parameter meaning and some sample configurations, refer to specs)
To start the broadcasting, push Start Recording button in OBS (we are recording to a URL).
Now what you need is to prepare the “screen”. In Second Life, associate the URL of your mountpoint with the Media texture of object you have chosen as screen and press Play on the viewer. Nothing else is needed.
Let the rave begin 🙂
What a strange title, right? I’ll try to explain better.
Some time ago, I received an invitation to play at this event:
Astral Stories presents Nino Vichan and Waveform in
✦ Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair ✦
12 pm SLT Saturday, 11 November art opening of Nino Vichan’s scenes from Macbeth
12 pm SLT Sunday, 17 December opera recital of Macbeth inspired pieces by Merryjest
12 pm SLT Saturday, 20 January live improvised music performances by
Poppy Morris - Echo Starship – Daddio Dow – Livio Korobase
Could I say no?
And I agree about improvisation, but calmly. I’m not a musician who can improvise a lot since I’m not an octopus for now, and I like to use a lot of instruments. So first of all I prepare my work tools.
Synopsis:
Lady Macbeth waits anxiously for Macbeth to return from killing Duncan.
When Macbeth enters, he is horrified by what he has done. He has brought with him the daggers that he used on Duncan, instead of leaving them in the room with Duncan’s servants as Lady Macbeth had planned. When he finds himself incapable of returning the daggers, Lady Macbeth does so. She returns to find Macbeth still paralyzed with horror and urges him to put on his gown and wash the blood from his hands.
So I started studying the how and why, and for this event I prepared a palette of sounds and synths, all in-the-box.
It is not a simple thing to “set” the scene of an opera and play it. So I’ve identified some tools to make the performance easier.
You certainly need a DAW, which for me is Presonus Studio One, which I will use as a looper and to organize sound changes and so on.
It’s easy to create tracks and assign to each track what it needs, the correct VST, automations, etc. etc.
One difficult thing to do is play and mix at the same time, which as it is a primarily sonic, sound-based event requires a lot of attention.
A really annoying thing is mixing with the mouse… but I have an iPad and Studio One has a dedicated mixer interface (Studio One Remote) which allows you to use faders with finger tips on a touch screen. Great, a true mixer.
Another tool that helps a lot in these events is the Studio One Rehearse and Perform template, made especially for these situations.
With Studio One 6 and the Rehearse and Perform smart template, Studio One allows you to get up and running incredibly quickly with a templated session – instead of sitting down, adding all of the elements you need for the performance, linking them together etc, the smart template sets it all up for you, making it easier to go from booting up to creating in a matter of seconds. Great and easy to use.
I add two empty audio track for play live (useless more, still have few hands) and done.
So far we are. But do we have everything? No, we’ll have to connect the DAW’s output to Shoutcast somehow, or no one will hear anything in world.
Personally the simplest and most effective solution I’ve found is a VST plugin called ShoutVST. It is available in 32 and 64 bit and the installation is really simple. Fill in the plugin interface with your stream data and when you press Connect on plugin and Play on the DAW will start sending your music to the Shoutcast server.
There are probably other solutions, but this one is free and works. If so, let me know yours in the comments.
Today is the 12th, still a few days left for the 20th, day of the show.
I feel like I have it all, but who knows.
In case we’ll see you at the event, at Waveform, Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair,
12 pm SLT Saturday, 20 January
slurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Waveform/62/202/1150
I think the musicians here apart from me are among the best in Second Life. If you like music it’s a good opportunity to listen to something interesting.
Friday, October 27th 12PM SLT
Bsukmet on the roof of The Hexagons – Second Life Music Composers Directory
Taxy:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Museum%20Island/66/115/1452
Bsukmet begins his musical journey at the age of 6, attending piano and musical language classes at an academy with exams through the Toledo Conservatory. Since he was little, he has traveled to various locations giving piano concerts with a classical repertoire.
In 2006 he joined the Madrid gothic pop rock band Evil Thoughts, taking on the role of keyboardist and lead songwriter. Together with them he writes 2 albums, the second of which is composed entirely by him.
In 2010 he entered the virtual world of Second Life, where he began his career as a DJ, focusing on artistic events, such as the SL anniversary party, and other projects with diffusion in the real world such as the Nice Carnival.
In 2019 he abandons his role as a DJ to start showing his own creations in Second Life. Since then he has released 4 solo albums: “Zero”, “Third Demise”, “Shattered, Almost Detached” and “Imniali: Forced Perspective” and the “Silent Beauties” album, in collaboration with the violinist Fly Kugin.
Bsukmet mainly uses electronic and orchestral resources, but his style is eclectic, and his method consists in using exclusively free resources available to everyone and avoiding the use of sounds created by other composers, writing each piece note by note.
Second Life Group: secondlife:///app/group/917a83e1-c186-b237-c47f-087e148e07f8/about
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/bsukmet-imniali
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bsukmet
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/bsukmet.stormcrow/
Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgWlQUS0ctkoAjFfM9n2fZWv9Qyj8bsi6
Kontakt Player by Native Instruments is a free sample player for playing libraries made by Native Instruments or 3rd party manufactures / developers. There are many free libraries for Full Kontakt, but they can’t be played in free Kontakt Player (offers only 15 minutes DEMO). But here we are talking about some free libraries which are made for Kontakt Player, means they can be played without any limitations with the free player. Is it sounding interesting? Let see which they are (don’t forget to download the full Komplete Start bundle, free).
Native Instruments offers a selective part of their factory content for free with Komplete Start. This selection has 5 types instruments –
Download: Kontakt Factory Selection
KINETIC TREATS is a unique new instrument based on the timeless sounds of vintage children’s toys – The tiny ballerina atop this music box and her creaking tin companion may seem a mismatched pair, but dancing together they conjure up a world of twisted, evolving sounds.
Streamlined versions of 3 intuitive yet powerful hybrid instruments – ANALOG DREAMS, ETHEREAL EARTH, and HYBRID KEYS.
Download: Play Series Selection
The Strezov Sampling “Diamond Jazz Trio Freebie” consists of a 3 instruments – Piano, Alto Saxophone and Double bass, distributed in the following 4 patches”
If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, THE FELT SEILER in the same way, only in a musical context, instead – you can convey so many different emotions only with a few strokes of your hands. Nothing too complex or “puffy”, yet powerful and moving enough to allow you to express yourself freely, with nothing holding you back.
The content of the library was recorded in the Sofia Session Studio B with a variety of close microphones, later summed into one microphone position. Along with that, The Felt Seiler contains 3 more synth/sound design layers for you to choose from, which will help you shape a unique sound. We’ve named those three layers based on the mood that feels closest to the way they sound – Warmth, Ache and Loneliness.
The Minimalist String Section of Afflatus features a Chamber String Ensemble playing flautando with poco vibrato. The Polyphonic True Legato makes this section ideal for lush sounding string beds in the style of Arvo Pärt or Thomas Newmann.
Download: Minimalist Violins Legato Freebie
To commemorate 10 years of Strezov Sampling we have created the “Creative ToolboX”. The primary focus of this series is to serve all aspiring songwriters and producers as a sort of “one-stop VI shop”, giving everyone the sonic variety and freedom they’re in need of. The drums and percussion are just the first part of the COMPLETELY FREE VIRTUAL BAND we’re aiming at giving all of you who read this!
Download: The Creative ToolboX – Drums and Percussion
To commemorate 10 years of Strezov Sampling we have created the “Creative ToolboX”. The primary focus of this series is to serve all aspiring songwriters and producers as a sort of “one-stop VI shop”, giving everyone the sonic variety and freedom they’re in need of. The Steinway Grand Piano is the second part of the COMPLETELY FREE VIRTUAL BAND we’re aiming at giving all of you who read this!
Download: The Creative ToolboX – Steinway Grand Piano
A superb classic and warm p-bass tone is now available for free, compatible with Kontakt Player! Shreddage 3 Precision FREE has the same great sample quality and depth as the full version, with two playable octaves and the crucial fingerstyle articulation along with popping and release noises. Includes tons of editing features and a complete Console FX rack with built-in tones. The ultimate free bass instrument for your DAW!
Download: Shreddage 3 Precision Free
The ultimate FREE electric guitar sample library for KONTAKT PLAYER! Includes deep-sampled sustain, palm mute, and choke articulations with 3 octaves of playing range, up to 24 samples per note, and tons of performance options. Also features TACT 2.0 and the new CONSOLE mixer and modular FX rack!
Download: Shreddage 3 Stratus Free
What if you tuned every note on a piano to “E”, and played them all at once? Wonder no more: the unbelievably huge sound of The 88E is now playable at any pitch with this free virtual instrument loaded with sound design options, and created in partnership with YouTuber and mad scientist engineer Mattias Krantz.
Arcane centers around a séance, through which you must appease the evil Kontakt spirits. In order to progress and unlock the mysteries within, there are riddles and challenges to solve. Within this innovative product you’ll find a diverse assortment of sounds, and also an unforgettable experience inside Kontakt.
Cinematic sounds taken directly from ProjectSAM’s acclaimed libraries. From orchestral string staccatos and brass clusters to symphonic percussion and dystopian sound design. Now with new presets and Kontakt Player compatibility! Orchestral string staccatos, heroic horns, luminous choirs and dystopian drones. For free. Welcome to The Free Orchestra.
Featuring various evolving, sustained vowels and textures paired with a layer of our signature sound design, all housed in a highly customizable interface – FOUNDATIONS | Emotive Choir is an instant mood setter and valuable addition to your scoring toolkit.
Download: Foundations Emotive Choir
Combining the soft dynamics of a grand piano, an expertly crafted sound design layer, and a highly customizable interface – FOUNDATIONS Piano is an expressive cinematic tool created to tell your story.
Combining the lush, soft dynamics of a nylon-stringed acoustic guitar, a meticulously-crafted sound design layer, and a highly customizable interface – FOUNDATIONS | Nylon Guitar delivers a variety of mellow, ambient sounds specifically developed to enhance your story.
Featuring short, bombastic staccatos paired with an expertly-crafted sound design layer, all housed in a highly customizable interface – FOUNDATIONS | Staccato Brass provides a rhythmic and energetic quality specifically designed for expressive and impactful musical storytelling.
Download: Foundations Staccato Brass
Featuring short, crisp staccatos paired with a layer of our signature sound design, all housed in a highly customizable interface – FOUNDATIONS Staccato Strings provides a strong rhythmic starting point to help build your story.
Download: Foundations Staccato Strings
Featuring the thick sounds of analog synth paired with an expertly-crafted and growling sound design layer, all presented in a highly customizable interface—FOUNDATIONS | Synth Bass delivers a fundamental starting point to build your story from the bottom up.
Download: Foundations Synth Bass
Keepforest’s FERRUM, produced by Vladislav Martirosov and Arseni Khodzin, is a modern trailer percussion powerhouse with a huge variety of cinematic percussion from epic and massive cinematic hits, punches, anvils and doors impacts to cymbals, bells, tiny metals and metallic foley.
(Note: Free version products for non-commercial purposes, for personal use only)
Evolution: Devastator Warzone is a premium collection of hand-crafted custom Signature Sound effects, Bass and Braams, Signals and Signs, Drum Loops, Pulses, Guns and Racharges, One Shots, Cinematic loops and Artist Stems. The library has modern and aggressive character that can be hear in a lot of trending movies and TV series. The Evolution: Devastator series will definitely be a irreplaceable part for movie and game sound designs, as well as for composing trailers and soundtracks.
(Note: Free version products for non-commercial purposes, for personal use only)
Download: Evolution Devastator Warzone Freebie
Thrilling, immersive & addictive. The Hammersmith Model D Grand has featured in countless productions & won many fans since its release. Now you can experience the same performance thrill with Hammersmith Free.
Two original music boxes: all such devices work on the same principle of triggering metal tines using a notated melody, either as punched paper or an embossed metal cylinder. The sound is almost universally evocative of early childhood, whether we personally had such a toy as a child or not.
A Thunder Drum is made with a spring attached to the skin, so when it is shaken the spring moves and creates a continuous resonance through the body of the instrument. This results in a sound very much like thunder. The drums come in various shapes and sizes and are sometimes known by other names such as Thunder Tube, Spring Drum or Thunder Maker.
Mikael Jorgensen from Wilco mentioned to us that he had started sampling his ancient RMI Rocksichord keyboard, but hadn’t the time to finish the looping and programing. The Rocksichord is a prog-rock icon, used by a huge array of artists, including: The Beach Boys, Genesis, Dr. John, John Lennon, Sun Ra, Terry Riley, and Wilco.
The legendary multi-layered ‘infinite’ vocal pad from 10cc’s ’70s hit ‘I’m Not In Love’. Tracking, tape-looping and mixing the groundbreaking original was a famously epic endeavour, but Tape Choir boils the process down to a an intuitive engine in which each key across a two-octave range plays an individually recorded stacked vocal note, with randomised start times and adjustable detune delivering that huge ensemble sound. Tape emulation, a multimode filter, an ADSR envelope and an extensive selection of convolution reverb types enable shaping of the ‘choir’,
Abstract is a steel percussion library like no other. Recorded in exceptional detail and performed with a range of sticks, mallets, bows, this wonderful library features a range of energetic hits and abstract effects. The library was performed by world class percussionist Joby Burgess, who is known for his virtuosic performances across blockbusters such as Black Panther, Mission Impossible, Alien and many more. Abstract Free contains 1 free patch from full Abstract.
A first in cinematic sampling, Brute Flute is a Contrabass Flute library like no other. Recorded in exceptional detail, the full version features a range of cinematic textures, harmonic embellishments, explosive articulations and an expressive true legato.
Bowed Metals is the final instalment in our Experiments Series of instruments for the free Kontakt Player. Featuring a handpicked collection of Vibraphones, Crotales, Cymbals and Waterphones, performed by virtuoso percussionist, Hugh Wilkinson. Hugh is one of London’s top session musicians, and has performed on scores for blockbusters such as Shazam, Ant Man, Downton Abbey and many more. Together with Hugh, we recorded a collection of delicate bowed textures, creating a unique library of percussion as you’ve never heard it before, which is perfect for ambient and cinematic scores.
Download: Bowed Metals Freebie
Introducing Christmas Bells, a new free sample library featuring 3 sizes of sleigh bells, multiple round robins, dynamics and 3 preset rhythms to give you an instant Christmas sound.
Contemporary Soloists series is a culmination of everything we’ve learned throughout our sampling adventure, and it truly represents Sonixinema’s ideals and taste. After being introduced to Seth and hearing him play, we knew we had to get together in the studio and start with one of our favourite instruments, the Cello. Three patches from the full library includes in this, can be played through Free Kontakt Player.
Download: Contemporary Bass Freebie
Hang Drum is the new instalment in our innovative range of virtual instruments, The Experiments. Featuring a highly unique set of never before captured articulations, this multi-sampled Hang Drum is truly one of a kind and captures an incredibly raw and soulful tone which is perfect for modern cinematic music. Performed by virtuoso Hang player, Marc Constantine.
Saxophone Explorations is a unique sample library for Kontakt Player. Featuring abstract and aleatoric saxophone textures combined with a custom modular effects rig performed by virtuoso saxophonist and artist, Jay Reynolds, It is sublime, evolving and intense.
Download: Saxophone Explorations Freebie
The library is performed by virtuoso soprano, Grace Davidson, who is known for her work on over 200 film soundtracks, and her collaborations with legendary composers such as Max Richter and Eric Whitacre. This library has a wonderfully compelling and intimate sound which is perfect for capturing a modern cinematic sound world. It features a shallow and depth slider which allows you to transform and twist the performance into a whole new dimension.
Desk Bell is a humble library featuring a 3-inch polished brass bell with a simple, yet loud “ding!.” We sampled this instrument in the lush halls of St. Paul’s Church and up close in a dry studio, and designed warm ambiences to provide maximum playability.
Rainsong is a free instrument library for Kontakt, created from a variety of natural rain ambiences and raindrop sound effects, crafted into playable sound-designed synths, pads, atmospheric soundscapes and percussive sfx. It’s full of playable musical elements, as well as useful sonic elements and foley for videogames, animation, film and songwriting.
An expressive keyboard instrument with custom mixing for three settings: Pedal, Toccata, and Principal. This pipe organ virtual instrument was sampled in the Saalkirche in Ingelheim, Germany. The Saalkirche, as it stands now, is an over 200-year-old church that doubles as a concert hall due to it housing a famous E.M. Skinner pipe organ.
Accent Pianos, two Orchestral Pianos set in the center of the MGM Scoring Stage at Sony Studios. This particular sound is highly sought after, and legendary for creating a percussive and harmonically rich tone that has made its mark in film scores of all genres. Perfect for accent hits, percussive melodies, and doubling rhythmic patterns, Accent Pianos has the secret sauce producers need to stand out from the crowd.
This beautiful Celeste is famous for the sound of the beloved character ‘Trolly’ in the television show ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’, but it is much more than just a character sound. Mister Roger’s Celeste is a truly beautiful sounding instrument, with a depth of tone, resonance and character that only comes from decades of use and love. The instrument, and now this library is an important part of music history, and we are honored to preserve and care for it for generations to come.
Download: Mister Rogers’ Celeste
Cinesamples is proud to present the Create Series. A collection of small, yet pristinely recorded, instruments for adding color and depth to your music. We hope that the Create Series of free instruments inspires new songs, fresh ideas and saves you from setting up a session every time you need a melody from that little toy laying around the studio. No more setup, just PLAY.
Download: Create Series Kalimba
Cinesamples is proud to present the Create Series. A collection of small, yet pristinely recorded, instruments for adding color and depth to your music. We hope that the Create Series of free instruments inspires new songs, fresh ideas and saves you from setting up a session every time you need a melody from that little toy laying around the studio. No more setup, just PLAY.
Download: Create Series Toy Xylo
Tongue Drum is a beautiful sounding iron tongue drum tuned to a pentatonic scale. Small improvements have been made to the library, including a custom UI, onboard FX, custom Snapshots and the ability to re-map the instrument chromatically for easier use in compositions in any key.
Cinesamples is proud to present Twisted Psaltry – Cinematic FX. Some call it color, some call it vibe, some call it ear-candy. Whatever it is, we all need it to add depth and subtlety to our productions. Twisted Psaltry brings the screechy, hair raising, ear-splitting metallic sound you hear sprinkled throughout horror, sci-fi, cinematic and textural scores. Brilliant in its simplicity, tiny footprint and ease of use, Twisted Psaltry is for the producer who needs that little something to add texture, color, depth, or chaos to their sound.
10 years ago, we took a trip to the funfair and recorded a passion project, the original fairground Carousel. This heritage instrument reminds us of childhood fun, candy floss and steam engines so we wanted to retain all of that joy and excitement within the virtual realm. For 2020 we’ve dusted off those old recordings and brought them right up to date, remastering every single sample with cutting edge acoustic editing, tuning and de-noising. The interface has been given a complete overhaul too, so now you can easily tweak the volumes of each of the ten registers and move them up and down your keyboard. Of course, we had to retain the round robin percussion and bellow noises too, for an experience as close to the real thing as possible.
The electro-mechanical piano has been sampled over and over, so why do it again?
One reason is because each one has its own specific sound, and this one, the Mark 2,
has been overlooked by many other companies, while it has a distinctive sound that especially comes to life in soulful ballads, but also holds its own in more upbeat music styles. Another reason is that, for all the work that’s has been put into recreating this kind of instrument, playing the real thing always tickles us in a way that the sampled counterpart just doesn’t. So, what is the big differentiator? We think much lies in the imperfection of a real instrument…and that’s what we tried to capture in this sampled EMP.
For over 500 years this instrument has been an essential musical ingredient in music styles across Europe, Eurasia and large parts of the Middle East. Forming a base of harmony and rhythm and a solid musical environment for melody instruments to perform in, spreading its sound from the early medieval inns, taverns in the Golden Age to the festive Hobbit scenes of the Lord Of The Rings movies. This versatile and distinctive sound instantly triggers the imagination and lingers on to colour the musical picture the composer tries to paint.
A ridiculously comprehensive collection of tempo-synced sleigh bells. So, for this special package, we donned our comedy Santa hats and recorded 6 different sizes of sleigh bells, ranging from just one bell to a 25 bell stick.
When we released the original vivace, over a decade ago, we had no idea how this legacy of orchestral scoring would develop and shape Sonokinetic in the years that followed. Over the past ten years our orchestral libraries have straddled genres and emotions. However, we’ve always had a yearning to go back to the previously discontinued Vivace recordings and breathe new life into them.
A must-have in any cinematic composers tool kit. We are incredibly proud to present to you, our new brand new soloist: Otamatone.
Stay immersed in your creative flow with Emergence Audio’s Infinite Motion Engine™ Series. Making ambient music creation and sound design simple.
The 4th edition of this online micro festival, which is part of the “Transonic Second Life Sessions”. These events offer, in different Second Life venues, concerts and audio-visual performances by bringing together around a community of sound and multimedia artists, visitors who, in a spirit that is both playful and adventurous, discover or follow the evolution of international talents performing under various avatars.
Location: Second Life Music Composers Directory at Museum Island
Program
This new series of performances by artists associated with the Transconic label in Second Life is also part of the NoLA – No Lockdown Art initiative of Transcultures and European Pepinieres of Creation since the first confinement due to the health crisis since March 2020.
All the details: http://transcultures.be/2023/06/05/transonic-second-life-festival-4-museum-island/