Apartment Sounds
Pads made from sounds found around an appartment
Byryan weeks
The story
This is a collection of pads made from sounds I gathered for a first time sampling attempt.
I grabbed the keyboard duster, a bowl, a crappy learner guitar, some paper, I even tried to sing too (recorded with my SM57) and mixed them together with a bunch of reverb/panning etc
Bowls are really cool, have a dissonant harmonic or overtone or something. I made a second set of pads with the bowl sound that tames that dissonance a little bit. Seems to free up room for more musical playing (more dissonant chords and such), but the original one is also good.
All are mostly pad-like, but some have some quick attack that are little punchy.
Samples with texture have cc11 control for envelope. All have cc1 control for volume.
Reviews
Warm Noise Pads
I named these Warm Noise Pads in my folder because thats what they are to me. There are some previously mentioned issues here, volume turned down on some patches, extremely noisy and so on. There are a good amount of patches here some i don't like at all and some i think are ok. The first patch i think it absolutely amazing and worth the download even if i delete every other nki. All the noise sounds like a beautiful windstorm and the tones are fat and warm. I dont go too high up on the keyboard because it gets really buzzy at this point but staying in the low mid range you really get an indescribable sound. Even in the super low sub part of the keyboard you get this kind of slightly pulsing super deep sub along with the pitched down noise which in my opinion sounds absolutely incredible. Would be an awesome drone for a track. I briefly skimmed through the other patches but I'm seriously in love with this first one. I think its funny how you wrote do not use on this one but this is the one i love
Lovely atmospheres
Some I can use in here, very complex and evocative. Word of caution or I'm a doughnut. The default volume for Screechpad_thin and TonePad_thin is set to zero. Not sure if intentional.
Atmospheric Lofi Noir Pads
Cool collection of pads which would be great for anything from atmospheric lofi music to a mysterious "noir" style track. A little bit of noise in the samples but could work to merit in some situations. There's no gui which limits the versatility of the library but it still sound good out of the box.