I've had a ton of fun lately with the instruments released by this (to me) new sample developer Insanity Samples. The strings and woodwinds offer quite a lot of unique charm and character in terms of tone and are dirty-but-in-a good-way. Also lots of attention paid to slightly edgier extended techniques.

Like all of my music, it's all pretty much just me playing it all in on a little Arturia board and a laptop. Nothing fancy. Nothing particularly musically interesting. Usually hardly any playing to click tracks. No quantizing. And definitely no fancy mixing to speak off. You know... just me faffing about, All in all it should give you an honest and pretty good idea of the "out of the box" sound character of the instruments in the hands in a complete and utter musical nitwit - for whatever that's worth ;-)

Insanity Samples - doctoremmet's 2022 quick & dirty demo tracks

Little demo made to highlight the Clarinet patch of the Insanity Samples NEO Woodwinds library for Kontakt. The original composition played here is by the genius musician and composer, mister Mick Karn. I do not intend to infringe on any copyrights by posting this here.

No click track used, no quantization nor any MIDI editing was done. Objective of this little composition is to demonstrate the "plonkability" of the Insanity Samples woodwind instruments. Hence just the one (legato) patch was used for the entire recording (both sustained and short notes) and it was all recorded in one take.

Instruments used on this demo:

1. Insanity Samples NEO Solo Woodwinds library, Clarinet patch
2. Xsample Steinway B piano

Insanity Samples NEO Woodwinds - Quick demo of the Clarinet patch - composed by Mick Karn

Little demo made to highlight the piccolo and bassoon patches of the Insanity Samples NEO Woodwinds library for Kontakt. 

No click track used, no quantization nor any MIDI editing was done. Objective of this little composition is to demonstrate the usability of the Insanity Samples woodwind instruments in an orchestral context. Near the end I've used some bassoon multiphonics - no bassoonists were harmed during the recording of this demo ;-)

Instruments used on this demo:

1. Insanity Samples NEO Solo Woodwinds library, piccolo legato patch
2. Musical Sampling Trailer Strings, shorts
3. Performancesamples Vista, legato violins
4. Insanity Samples, NEO Solo Woodwinds, bassoon shorts, trills and multiphonics patches ("the death of the bassoonist")

Insanity Samples NEO Woodwinds - Quick demo of the Piccolo and Bassoon patch (orchestral context)

This is just me speedcomposing using Insanity Samples instruments.

Instruments used:
1. 8Dio 1985 Passionate Piano - Yamaha C5 Una Corda samples
2. Insanity Samples Viola, Cello and Violin from NEO Strings (first bit)
3. Insanity Samples Flute, Bassoon, Clarinet and Piccolo from NEO Woodwinds (first bit)
4. Insanity Samples Cello ONE, both the staccatti and the legato solo
5. Insanity Samples Flute, Bassoon and Clarinet from NEO Woodwinds (last bit)

Insanity Samples NEO Solo Strings + NEO Woodwinds + Cello ONE - Speedcomposing

I made a little demonstration video about Insanity Samples' Celle ONE virtual instrument - for a post on a composer forum. As part of that I challenged myself to record a mini demo under 15 minutes. This is what I came up with, for better or worse. All a bit silly and as usual I may not be doing the instrument any favours.

Instruments used:

- Insanity Samples Cello ONE legato patch with staccato overlay

- synth patches all from Simon Stockhausen's Falcon Singles bundle (which is a stellar collection and the pinnacle of sample based sound design in UVI Falcon):

1) Patchpool Falcon Singles library Ambient Piano - patch: Mixolydian Cloud

2) Patchpool Falcon Singles library Frame Drums - patch: FD Mallets & Slaps RR4

3) Patchpool Falcon Singles library HANG - patch: Clay Bass

Insanity Samples Cello ONE - record a silly tune in 15 minutes challenge

I acquired Insanity Samples' Beatnik Fiddle instrument and decided to compose a little piece together with the NEO Woodwinds bassoon, oboe and flute.

Instruments used:

- Insanity Samples Fiddle 2
- Insanity Samples NEO Woodwinds Bassoon
- Insanity Samples NEO Woodwinds Oboe
- Insanity Samples NEO Woodwinds Flute

Recorded in Ableton Live

Plugins applied:

- Sonible smart:EQ3
- Relab Development VSR REV6000
- PSP Audioware Saturatator
- Waves RBass (bassoon)
- Waves Abbey Road RS56
- Waves Kramer Tape

Insanity Samples Beatnik Fiddle meets NEO Woodwinds

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