For the next few months, I’ll be living in London. The thing about taking long transatlantic trips is that at some point you start to miss your physical instruments. Lately, I’ve found myself missing my violin which I had to leave back in Philadelphia. My solution? Build a new one right here in my Airbnb.
In this video, I build an actual physical synth out of resistors, capacitors, and a 555 timer. I then sample it and turn it into a synthwave-inspired Kontakt patch.
In this video, I show how to make drums out of regular, run-of-the-mill party balloons. As a bonus, I’ve sampled some of mine and turned them into a free Kontakt / SFZ instrument. You can download a free Kontakt / SFZ sample library of the balloon drums here.
In this video, I take some first steps towards coding my own arpeggiator script. I also show off the great arpeggiator script that comes bundled with Kontakt. Along the way, I turn some samples of a toy piano I sampled and turn them into a full-featured Kontakt library. The Toy Piano Kontakt library I made…
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Have you ever had an audio file that contained a bunch of extra frequencies in it that you wish you could just remove? Spectral editing may be for you. In this video, I show how to use spectral editing to clean up a sample so that I can make a Kontakt instrument–but not just any…
In this video, I provide a basic introduction to SFZ – a free sampling format that provides a lot of the same functionality as Kontakt, albeit with a far more basic UI. The toy xylophone sample I created in this video can be downloaded here: https://www.decentsamples.com/product/tiger-xylophone-kontakt-sfz/ Download Sforzando (Windows and Mac) here SFZ Format Reference…
In last week’s video, I recorded my own voice and turned it into a free choir library. In this video, I work with those same samples to add modwheel crossfades to the instrument.