It's hard to put into words the feeling you get when you let go of the bonds of your body and explore the vast expanse of the universe by your lonesome self. It may seem lonely at first, but eventually many spirits like yourself pop up, all bearing different shades of purple, al coming from different lifetimes, different world, but all bearing the same struggles you did to get there. In that moment, you are one with the universe, basking in the serenity of the purple rain that is existence.

This started off as an experiment with ambient electronica loops provided by Bandlab. Valerie did most of the work, I just happened to take over the mixing and mastering work. - Julayla

Purple Rain

Moug bass patch made deliberately to have lot of bite and to sound raw as possible. Higher notes are even more aggressive.
After hard attack it ends up with low end bump, and smooths out, so notes have that staccato behavior good for rhythmic bass lines.  
Very simple,full, raw,and organic patch with ton of character.

BiteyMgBass

I already have one upright with similar sound, but i decided to make another one, with larger dynamics,more thinner in sound, and specifically designed to mimic the upright piano from the song"For no One".
Growing up with Beatles took the great influence on me. 
In post processing i used Arturia`s Jun-6 Chorus around 15% to sweeten up the sound additionally.

ForNoOneUP (Upright Piano)

This patch is 2 patches in one and both are nothing short then amazing in their style .Both sounds are demonstrated one after another.

First one you get is Moug type of full, warm, and raw sound. Differently programmed from one i made previously.
Second one is trance bass in hoover style, bright,aggressive and exiting.
I just demonstrated fast options, nothing too musical i`m afraid.
There are programmed 4 CC Midi parameters in real time, so plenty of expressiveness is possibly and crosses between these 2 very different sound sounds.

No post processing.Track also has no effects in module, its very bare bones raw and organic, how bass sounds needs to be.

MougHooverBs (Bass)

This patch is quite probably the one of the most unique i made. Its and organ made out mix of square oscillators, so no organ waveforms there. The sound is very inspiring and would be perfect fit to any music genres really since it sounds lovely.
No post processing, only bit of Waves H-Reverb and thats it.

Digital Organ

Impression of mellotron strings. The goal is to make it the warm, fuzzy, grainy, lo fi , thrashy as possible but to keep high end pleasant which is always hardest thing to do with such a sounds in romplers imho. In one words it needs character.
Original mellotron was first ever analog sampler synth machine and it must be degraded in sound as most possible, but in most musical way.
I only added more notes then it originally had expanding one scale up and one below for sake of versatility.

High shelf on 8.5khz for -8db to warm a tone further, and touch of Waves H-Reverb.

Tronmendous (Mellotron Strings)

6 patches of legato and staccato divided again into sections:  vlns/vcls , cls, vlcs and whole string section. 
Legatos made to be enough smooth and clean for fast lines, staccatos to have accented first note so they easily jumps out in a mix.  
They can probbably be used for other articulations, but i tweaked/programmed them specifically for this task.

Legato And Staccato Strings

Basic 909 kick, snare , open-closed hi hat kit. The reason i choose to make drums in patch mode is that sadly it has more options for sound design then in rhythm mode(especially common section and LFOs).
Each drum component has one octave range so you can choose whatever suits to your taste. Lower gets very chunky, higher are more cutting.
Each waveforms i filtered just right.
5 CC MIDI commands carefully programmed to expand the options of snares giving different flavors for different music genres.
CC examples goes in this direction:
Reverb on snare, LFO1 in rap style, LFO2 in high pitched"side stick alike sound", compressed lo fi effect for gritty, dark and thrashy snare.
With mixing those 5 CC`s you can make your own snare sound, these examples are straight forward, one by one.

909 Kit KSH

Composed for Mortis Chronicles: Tale of Cowardice.

Mix by Manibrandr Soundworks https://soundcloud.com/manibrandr-soundworks
Mix consulted with https://soundcloud.com/studiostriver

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Purple Rain

Manibrandr Soundworks

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