Shivering Waves

A few months ago, I created a few samples with my beloved ASAT guitar by playing some harmonics and messing with the volume knob to create a slow attacks and releases, in order to create sound waves. I then over processed some of these samples, using Valhalla Supermassive and the wonderful Cassette plugin by Wavesfactory.

One sample in particular reacted very well to this treatment, so I put it in a Sampler all over the key range, and I really enjoyed the result, so I decided to share it with the Pianobook community. I made it into a DecentSampler instrument, with a second layer of the sample, this time processed with Eventide Quadravox plugin and a large stereo reverb to have a lush and wide sound. Each layer has independent volume/pan/attack/release controllers, for maximum flexibility.

Two patches:
Shivering Waves: Two looped waves of heavily processed guitar sound, with a lot of tape saturation and artifacts. The two layers don’t loop exactly the same, so over the time it creates multiple waves of sound, even better when panned left and right!

Shivering Keys: An other experiment that turn out well! I isolated the first wave of sound, and make the sample start during the peak of the wave. Then, I then linked the sample start to velocity, so the softer you play, the more the starting point will shift toward the end of the sample. So if you want more of this gritty saturated texture, don’t forget to play harder!

1.4.0 version of DecentSampler required.