zircon Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Sup guys, with the help of Joshua Morse, I'm proud to announce that the new website of Impact Soundworks is up and running, with a revised ordering system (Share-It), testimonials, and information on some upcoming projects. Check it out here: http://www.impactsoundworks.com/ This company is a joint venture between myself and Wilbert Roget, II (aka bustatunez), designer of the popular Impact: Steel metallic percussion library. As we are both working composers who often use samples, we have often found ourselves disappointed with existing tools, or unable to find certain kinds of sounds at all. Our goal with Impact Soundworks is to provide ergonomic sound libraries of the highest quality, keeping the composer (or remixer!) in mind at each step in development. Besides our new website, here's some info on our upcoming ethnic sample library Sitar Nation. This Kontakt-format library contains the most detailed samples of the sitar, tampura, tabla, and baya ever recorded! We went to great lengths, hiring expert performers and capturing the nuances of each instrument. The result is a virtual instrument that can be used in complete isolation and sound highly realistic, OR sit comfortably in a mix, adding flavor. We'll announce full details, including pricing, when the library is actually released, but we can tell you now that Sitar Nation will be significantly more affordable than other ethnic collections. We'd also like to mention that we are planning to port Impact: Steel over to the EXS-24 platform. It is currently available as a $79 download (with a physical CD option) in Kontakt 1, Kontakt 2, Halion 3, and Gigastudio 3 formats. Feel free to leave any comments... we'll be posting more as new products come out. A hint to something that's in the pipeline: it involves Sixto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 sounds cool; i've always been interested in Impact: Steel, but the lack of AU support has held me back. EXS-24 support is awesome news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 Exactly Many Logic users don't have other samplers, so we figured it would make sense to create a version for them too. However, in the meantime, any sampler that can load Kontakt 1 or Kontakt 2 formats (including Kontakt 3, which you said you might be getting) can load the library. It's not a closed player like QLSO; you get a set of patches and a set of WAV files read by the patches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunahorum Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Cool guys! Where did you and Wilbert go to record the samples for the sitar library? And who is Joshua Morse? Does he do web design or does he program the kontakt patches? Looking forward to the sixto library demos. I bet they will sound cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 We recorded Sitar Nation in "Studio A" here at Drexel University. Gear used included a Neve console, API pres, a Pro Tools HD system and a number of nice mics (I think Neumann was one of the brands.) We had an engineer for the sessions, so we didn't do the actual recording ourselves, but we oversaw the process and did all the editing and programming afterwards. Joshua Morse is a prominent ReMixer (just had a mix posted) and web designer. He designed the new site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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