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Tapes.01 demo 01

It's a unique mixture of physical modelling and fm synths recorded on a cassette with an old & wonky cassette recorder. It has a range from C0 to E6 and 4 carefully designed velocity layers. The GUI is very simple, yet useful and almost synth-like - so just like its predecessor Cassette Piano, it’s very easy and fun to work with.

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Cassette Keys.01 - Demo 05 (Kontakt)

Cassette Keys.01 - Demo 03 (Kontakt)

Cassette Keys.01 - Demo 01 (Kontakt)

It's a unique mixture of physical modelling and fm synths recorded on a cassette with an old & wonky cassette recorder. It has a range from C0 to E6 and 4 carefully designed velocity layers. The GUI is very simple, yet useful and almost synth-like - so just like its predecessor Cassette Piano, it’s very easy and fun to work with.

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Cassette Keys.01 - Demo 02 (Kontakt)

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Cassette Mallets.01 is a collection of 3 bell / mallet instruments recorded on a cassette with an old & wonky recorder. Every instrument from this library is a mixture of physical modeling & fm synthesis with a range of E2 to E6 and 3 velocity layers which were designed from the ground-up for good playability range.

The GUI is very simple, yet useful and almost synth-like, so it’s very easy and fun to work with. Every instrument has editable “sample start” parameter (controlled with the GUI or Mod Wheel), so you could easily get rid of the initial transients while designing your sound. Moreover, because of the fact that this kind of instruments sounds great when transposed down there’s an “-12” switch added to the GUI which transposes every instrument down by octave.

Every note of this instrument has been carefully denoised with a high quality algorithm to avoid noise stacking when playing more than one note. Noise can still be added with the noise slider - it’s much more flexible this way and allows the ability to adjust the volume of the noise independently whilst also applying parameters such as filtering. It also creates a more realistic sound, so when playing a five voice chord, only one sample of noise instead of five stacked on top of each other will be heard.

The End Result

Useful and fun production tool

If you like vintage sounds and you're looking for something to enhance your production toolbox, then this product will be for you.

Simple, one page interface

Everything is laid out on one page allowing fast sound design possibilities.

Simulated Round Robin

Makes notes sound realistic when played ostinato (even when playing fast) - check out the introduction video to hear it in action.

Variety of sounds

With this instrument you can easily create some weird sounds and there are already 31 presets included to get you started.

Features

511MB of samples (XXXMB after lossless Kontakt compression)
3 instruments
49 keys range
442 samples in total (147 per instrument + 1 noise sample)
3 velocity layers per instrument
Editable "Sample Start" parameter
Octave down switch
Simulated round-robin
REV (reverse) mode
Mono mode
One-page interface for easy and fast sound design
31 presets
System Requirements

Full version of Kontakt 5.5.2 (or higher) is required - you can load this instrument in Kontakt Player but it'll work only for limited time

Cassette Mallets.01 - Demo 01 - Sound A (Kontakt)

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One of the main improvements of Cassette Piano.02 is a completely new set of samples of an (not so perfect) old upright piano recorded in a ballet training room (in both stereo and mono, with mics at the back of the piano) which resulted in surprisingly organic and tasty sound with all kinds of little imperfections. In order to make the best use of those recordings, and to further expand the sound capabilities of the instrument, four different decks were used to process the samples.

Every note has been carefully denoised with a high quality algorithm to avoid noise stacking when playing more than one note (there’s still some noise left in the samples to avoid denonising artifacts).

Feel free to also check out the introduction video: www.youtube.com/watch?time_contin…553&v=T_2ebcFNZrk

Kontakt version improvements

The GUI of the Kontakt version has been redesigned - it’s still very simple and clear, but it offers much more editing possibilities, including extended modulation section:

- 2 independent LFOs with 5 shapes and 4 destinations each
- AMPLITUDE envelope with velocity modulation
- FILTER envelope with invert switch
- PITCH envelope with invert switch and attack curve knob

Another improvement is the use of impulse reverb with custom impulses (4 spring impulses, 4 hall impulses & 3 corridor impulses), along with a choice of whether you want it to be placed pre or post insert effects - same thing goes for the delay.

In addition, there are also features you may already know from previous instruments in this series, such as the sample start knob (controlled with the GUI or Mod Wheel) which allows you to control initial transients while designing your sound. Moreover, because of the fact that this kind of instruments sounds great when transposed down (it really adds to the overall ‘lofiness’ of the sound) there’s an octave down switch in the GUI now.

And as the last thing - there’s now also a simple 2 band equaliser (Instrument Tone) located at the bottom of the GUI.

The End Result

Useful and fun production tool

If you like vintage sounds and you're looking for something to enhance your production toolbox, then this product will be for you.

Simulated Round Robin

Makes faster note passages sound more realistic and adds to the overall nonlinearity of the instrument— check out the introduction video to hear it in action.

Variety of sounds

Aside from the sound of a cassette record with this instrument you can easily create some weird sounds and there are already quite a few presets included to get you started (Kontakt & Ableton Live versions only).

Main Features:

- Available in multiple popular formats: Kontakt 5, Ableton Live 9, Logic, SFZ & Multiformat
- 5 GB of samples (1325 samples in total)
- Recorded on 4 different decks
- Mono and Stereo versions
- 5 noise samples (each around 2 minutes long)
- 3 velocity layers
- Organic sound with lots of little imperfections

Cassette Piano 02 - Demo 03

Cassette Piano 02 - Demo 02

Cassette Piano 02 - Demo 01

https://thephonoloop.com/products/cassette-bundle-01

Bundle up and save! Bundle includes: Cassette Keys.01, Cassette Mallets.01 and Cassette Piano.02.

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