Award wining bagpiper, composer and electronic music producer embraces Traditional Music with Electronic, Techno and Ambient Sounds.

Based in the City of Raleigh, North Carolina --  the Wake & District Public Safety Pipes and Drums (Wake & District) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization with a mission to improve piping and drumming quality, culture and tradition in the region; we will not compromise people and the art.  Established  in 2006, our program honors those who sacrifice their lives while serving others; FOR OUR FALLEN is everything we stand for. 

The Grace Note Factory©2019 is the product of many sleepless nights, coming up with an idea to bridge the gap between technology and tradition, without to sacrifice on either side.
Having been a professional bagpiper for over 30 years, I got early on interested in merging both worlds, the traditional Celtic and electronic music. I wanted to give the bagpipes new life and a special place within electronic ambient, dance and experimental music. Melody lines and harmonies, chopped up, destroyed and remixed would give the user so many different opportunities to make use of bagpipe sample loops. The general idea was to create a sample library none like any other.

All bagpipe samples were performed by myself and recorded through a variety of dynamic and condenser microphones in a fairly dead room. Different microphone placements made for interesting sound design opportunities. Some samples include only the melody parts played on the bagpipe chanter, some also include the two tenor and bass pitched drones. All samples were tracked and edited in Pro Tools with some additional mastering in Izotope Ozone. I decided to give some samples a “face-lift” through SoundToys processing to display the sonic opportunities for sound designers, musicians and producers.

All samples and loops were recorded and mastered in 44.1kHz, 16 bit mono audio and can be uploaded in your favorite DAW as playback loop or in your sampler and eurorack sample module.

Chop them up, distort them, play them backwards, pitch them up or down or completely destroy them!
Have fun!

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