AUDIO examples in RealPlayer Format
This CD-Rom contains over 300 sounds and 36 demos to show some ways how to play them. The CD-Rom is not intended to cover every instrument known to man but to provide useful rhythm-section sounds that has a level of "live"-quality added to them. Here are some general information about the instruments.
BASSES- All bassguitar sounds has ghostnotes (4) on the three lowest keys. On some basses a palmslap is added on the Eb. Most of the basses has one or more layer with fretnoise and buzz. These can easily be deactivated by deleting the corresponding layer.
The Metal Thumbs slapbass is monophonic on seven keys from the low B to imitate the hammer-on technique. The whole instrument is Sample Start modulated. That means it will go from a normal bass sound to the slapsound dynamically using only one layer of samples.(This would be used to a much greater extent if the filters in the ASR-10 had been as fast as the 16+)..
DRUMS- Some of the drumsets (as youll notice) dont quite make it as standalone instruments. This is because they originally was part of a demo where other instruments had a key role ,and as I always made my demos to fit on 1 discette ( this is very obvious on 16+ demos) , I really had to squeeze them in.
The Brush Set has a few neat features. It has two samples of snare buzz ( on top of keyboard) that can be activated when hitting the toms or kick(Patch XO and XX) for added realism. When releasing the kick key there is a sample of the kick pedal chain. There is also a sample of the hihat-pedal mechanics to be used with the footclosed hihat..
On most drumsets there is useful short snare roll on lowest E & F.
All drumsets has a GM Map on patch XO.
The loopdrums are loops made within the ASR-10 with the drums on this CD.Then each useable hit was isolated and GM mapped.When using loops with your sequencer its a good idea to turn off the the Loop of the sample and trigger it by hand.
Record Drums are useful if you want an old sounding kit for a song or groove.
ELECTRIC PIANOS- The King Rhodes has 127 samples.Four velocitysensitive layers and one with the pedal mechanics. This is my own Rhodes and its not in good shape. But I was looking for this crappy sound at the time and if its to dirty for you , you can turn off layer 4 or use some of the other Rhodes sounds. Most of the Wurlitzers and Rhodes are sampled with 2 or more layers.Some are resampled thru the Speaker-effect and they are very small, memorywise.
GUITARS- As with the basses, the four lowest keys include pick strokes and a palmslap sometimes appear at low Eb. The guitars are mostly one or two-layer sounds + a few layers with different fretnoises. The Dobro Slide has a lot of key release noises and a slide vibrato noise only when modulation is applied.
The rhythm guitar part on the Travel Guitar Demo was made by first playing a strum groove with the four lowest keys and then adding the chords which makes it quite realistic.
The Telecaster is my favorite, its very good for blues, soul and country.
ORGANS- There is a wide variety of organs here. The first 10 are sampled thru a Leslie with the speakers stopped to be able to make very short loops and use the ASR-10 Leslie effect which is very good exept that it has to much vibrato using fast speed. Another approach that is more common is to sample a B-3 with both slow and fast Leslie, so you can change the Leslie speed with the modulation wheel .There are some of these here too.A key release click (very important) is added on a separate layer on all organs. The Line Organs are sampled derectly from the B-3 for use with a real Leslie.This is the best way to get a "real" Hammond sound.
SYNTH SOUNDS- My favorite here is the Clean Clav in the DX Deluxe section. Three very expressive layers of an old DX Patch and an extra layer with the typical DX 7 release noise. Otherwise the synth sounds wont make you flip, But some of the synthbasses came out pretty well. The Jurassic synth is originally a sound from the TS-10 from where I borrowed the concept and made it up with 8 layers of detuned percussion sounds.
To emulate the small timbre changes on an analog synth, some of the synthbasses has a copied layer with the same pitch and randomly modulates the start position of the second layer.This creates a sort of flanger sound to the attack.
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