My Demos for Soundiron Instruments

Craig Peters demo is a track using the sounds from Hyperion Strings Ensemble blended with other libraries.

This classical string scoring solution brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Craig Peters - Unleash The Necromorphs - Hyperion Strings Ensemble

Chris Cutting's demo is a track using the sounds from Hyperion Strings Ensemble blended with other libraries.

This classical string scoring solution brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Chris Cutting - 1 And 2 - Soundiron Hyperion Strings Ensemble

This examples are using only the sounds of Hyperion Strings Ensemble.

This classical string scoring solution brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Close Mics Trem And Shorts (Library Only) - Soundiron Hyperion Strings Ensemble

This example is using only the sounds of Hyperion Strings Ensemble.  

This orchestral string library brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Stage Mic Legato (Library Only) - Soundiron Hyperion Strings Ensemble

This example is using only the sounds of Hyperion Strings Ensemble.

This classical string scoring solution brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Far Mic Swells (Library Only) - Soundiron Hyperion Strings Ensemble

Brandon Kootnekoff's demo uses a combination of sounds from Sick Ultimate blended with other libraries.

Sick Ultimate includes 8 libraries covering a huge range of disturbing SFX, atmospheres, instruments and special effects. It features over 17,000 samples, 20+ GB of sample content and 169 nki presets with advanced GUI features and sound design tools.



Dark Summoning

Thawing into motion, ever rising to the breaking point

Spanner

The ever pressure of time, not running out, just running. Momentum forces expression. Time is all that lets us speak. 

This is a song made with the Korg Module version of Soundiron Voice Of Rapture - The Soprano, using only the chromatic articulations and effects. The drums are from Soundiron's Knockout Drum. The bass line is Fab Filter Twin. No other sounds or instruments used.

Speaks

Chris Cutting’s official demo is a naked mix using sounds from Cathedral of Junk only.

Austin, Texas is an odd place. So odd in fact, that “Keep Austin Weird” is virtually the officially recognized slogan of the city itself. The place is packed full of artists and art, musicians and the instruments behind them. In fact, there’s a shop on 6th St, at the heart of downtown Austin, where you can buy a guitar-shaped toilet seat, complete with sunburst finish. Among the strange are many really interesting and creative people, each exploring and giving back in their own way. Sometimes a guy just wants to build a towering castle of steel, plastic, glass and all manner of other glorious scraps that modern progress and consumption has wrought in his own backyard for over 20 years. And sometimes a guy has to fight for the right to keep what he’s built when the powers that be come along and tell him to tear it all down. Meet Vince Hannemann, the “Junk King”, and welcome to his amazing Cathedral of Junk.

Chris Cutting - Bloom (Naked) - Soundiron Cathedral Of Junk

Chris Cutting’s official demo is a dressed mix using sounds from Mimi Page - Light & Shadow blended with other libraries.

Mimi Page - Light & Shadow is our brand new ethereal soprano solo vocal library in collaboration with singer/songwriter, film and video game composer Mimi Page Made for the free contact player and is compatible with complete control and S-series keyboards. 

Mimi Page’s otherworldly and atmospheric style fits perfectly with many different genre’s from EDM, Down-Tempo, Cinematic trailer music, film scoring and much more. We’ve taken all of these elements and packaged them into an easy to use and intuitive experience for you to craft atmospheric and celestial soundscapes and solo vocal passages. This library comes with 8 different nki’s to choose from including the standard articulations like Legato with (Ah, Eh Ee and Oo) vowel types. Above the sound shaping controls you have the vowel drop down window. In the legato, sustain and staccato presets, you can select from several common vowel sounds. The content in this library focuses around “Light & Shadow” textures, So with the sustains and staccatos you get different types of vowel types as well as breathes.

Chris Cutting - No (Dressed) - Soundiron Mimi Page

Chris Cutting’s official demo is a dressed mix using sounds from Tines & Echoes blended with other libraries.

Tines & Echoes is a unique hand-crafted tuned percussion instrument created by instrument designer and sound sculptor Bart Hopkin. It's a pentagonal sound box with 25 chromatically-tuned metal tines that each have a pair of sympathetic strings spanning the instrument's sound board. Rather than tuning the sympathetic strings to their primary tines, they are tuned randomly, so that vibrations resonate different string combinations bound to other tines. When the tines are plucked, they produce a sharp, crisp water-drop note that reverberates through the sympathetic strings and across the instrument in a soft ghostly ring, reminiscent of the celestial wash you hear when playing the undamped top octave of a piano.

Chris Cutting - Chroma (Dressed) - Soundiron Tines & Echoes

Chris Cutting's demo is a dressed mixed using the sounds from Woodentines blended with other libraries.

Woodentines is a nuanced and expressive selection of wooden lamellaphones by master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin. Featuring 3 unique instruments with wildly different shapes and mechanics, the same crisp and yet ponderously watery wooden essence shines warmly through each one. It includes the Bamboo Idiomount, Big Wooden Kalimba and Woodkal, plus a  special bonus instrument called Piezo Tongues.

Chris Cutting - Wooden Ya Know - Soundiron Woodentines

Chris Cutting's demos created using Soundiron's Olympus Choir Elements for Steinberg's HALion platform blended with other libraries.

Chris Cutting - Within (Dressed) - Olympus Elements Halion

Chris Cutting's demo is a naked demo using only the sounds of Kinderklavier.

Kinderklavier is a deep sampled classic toy piano, capturing all of it's heart and distinct character. It has a klonky, reverberant sound, perfect for scoring animation, children's music, and even horror.

Chris Cutting - Float (Naked) - Soundiron Kinderklavier

I'm always looking to shrink the size and weight of my rig. I just love carrying the minimum amount of equipment!  I did this test to see how small I could go with microphone separation without sacrificing quality. All configurations were Clippy EM172 stereo pair to Sony PCM-A10.

My conclusion is that AB40cm rig with simple Rycote lav wind protection gives me a great sound with a very small and light footprint but not great wind protection. The quasi-binaural rig gives perhaps a more accurate stereo field with the advantage of excellent wind protection (it is housed in the equivalent of a blimp with proper windjammer). To get better wind protection for the AB40cm rig would require a massive and heavy (by my standards) blimp.

1. AB20cm - narrow, too narrow...
2. AB30cm - getting wider, pretty nice...
3. AB40cm - wider still but nice balance of width and centre-image?
4. AB60cm - very wide but hole in the middle?
5. Quasi-binaural (20cm spacing with foam cylinder baffles) - improved placement of sounds in the stereo field?

Would be very interested to hear what other folks think. Please comment if you care to.

Omni Spacing Test

I write music for Soundiron and for da got that dope

Soundiron LLC is co-owned and operated by Mix Foundation TEC Award (2007) winning and BAFTA nominated Sound Designer/Audio Engineers Mike Peaslee and Gregg Stephens, and technology, scripting and systems wizard Christopher Marshall. 

We're a premium instrument sample library and virtual instrument software design, production and publishing company, specializing in choral and epic scoring instruments and percussion, pianos, drums, ethnic instruments, professional sound effect libraries and inventive experimental sample collections. 

We specifically gear our libraries toward seasoned pros and working musicians in the film, television, advertising, video game, and music recording arts but we commit ourselves to bringing all users, from veteran to beginner, the same deep quality, outstanding customer service and low prices. 

With over 40 unique products and new releases every month, you'll always find something awesome at Soundiron.

If you’d like to check out current user demo submissions, look for their name to the right in the track title in the Soundcloud Player. 

You can see credits for the non-user submitted demos on our Soundcloud page, by clicking the Song Title to go to the track page, where you can see track info. 

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Chris Cutting - Chroma (Dressed) - Soundiron Tines & Echoes

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