This month is an absolute behemoth of a pack Patrons! Here is the pack with impulse responses that I used for last month's Patreon pack, plus some more that I made today. Included are two main folders, one for chord based impulses and one for longer ambience impulses.
The CHORDS impulse folder contains several different subfolders for various kind of instruments. This includes 216 impulses made from a plucky saw based synth, 61 impulses made with a Koto and 360 piano impulses. All...
2023-04-22 23:40:00 +0000 UTC
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A big one this month!
I spend an afternoon or two running foley sounds through convolution impulses and made this large pack of atmospheric sounds. A lot of them are quite textural but are also following a single chord or note.
How I did this is I created a lot of short impulses with a piano for each chord for each key, then did the same with a koto patch. I also still had some other impulses I made earlier and using those in combination with Ableton's Hybrid Reverb, I created the...
2023-03-31 13:49:50 +0000 UTC
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It's that time of the month again! SAMPLES!
This time I prepared a folder with noise samples I made for my own use, these are long sustained (mostly perfect looping) samples that were made by running various drum sounds through a long reverb with a freeze function. I then edited the files so they can be looped and used as noise fillers for tracks.
Number of samples: 50
Total unpacked filesize: 276MB
Cheers,
ARTFX
2023-02-24 13:12:12 +0000 UTC
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Guess what?! MORE RACKS!
Below is a list of all the new racks and racks that have been updated since the last release. If you have downloaded the older version of the racks pack you should be able to just replace the old folder with the new one. All the racks from the previous packs (not in the list below) are also included.
Btw if there are any other rack requests, then let me know since I want to keep doing these so I not only create content for you all, b...
2023-02-13 22:23:36 +0000 UTC
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First sample pack of the year, this one has a whole bunch of random sounds thrown in that I've taken from old projects that will probably never get finished anyways. I've also been working on a rack update, which will come out soon as well!
Total samples: 41
Total size: 119MB
Cheers,
ARTFX
2023-02-06 00:02:53 +0000 UTC
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I discovered you can skin Kilohearts PhasePlant so I obviously had to go make one that fits my Ableton Live and Minimeters skins (both are also available on my Patreon).
Just download the "colors.conf" file below (unpack the zip file) and place it in the right folder.
Windows: "C:\ProgramData\Kilohearts"
MAC: "/Library/Application Support/Kilohearts"
Cheers!
ARTFX
2023-01-31 12:09:04 +0000 UTC
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There we go everyone, the last pack of the year! This time I have 50 pads and atmosphere samples that would work very well for dark Drum & Bass tunes, or some dark Ambient like what I did on stream not too long ago. Most of these were made during a sound design afternoon with Omnisphere plus some post processing and some of these have been run through PaulxStretch VST.
Below are the downloads for the December pack, it's split up in multiple archives due to the filesize, just downloa...
2022-12-31 18:28:46 +0000 UTC
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There we go Patrons! I'm expanding the collection of racks I made with a bunch of new ones. From now on the racks will be organized in folders to make things easier to find (especially when I add more racks in the future). Below is a list of all the racks in this pack, asterisk indicates the rack is a new addition to the collection:
DISTORTION
*DISTORTION RACK: a rack that combines multiple distortion effects into one rack, helpful to m...
2022-12-15 20:49:11 +0000 UTC
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Just a little quick video I recorded tonight while I was messing with some resampling myself and I came up with this interesting technique that will work well for any type of sound basically.
Have fun!
PS: The portal rack will be included with the next update to my Ableton Live racks pack, which I plan to upload somewhere the coming week.
- ARTFX
2022-12-11 23:02:57 +0000 UTC
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I'm currently working on making a lot of new snare samples for a sample pack and figured this would be a good moment to show how I would start a project like that.
In this video I show you the full process of setting up a sound design template for making loads of snares. Setting up such a template is a bit of work (hence the almost 2 hours long session), but when you are done with the template it will be a piece of cake to make more samples quickly.
Since this one is unedited ther...
2022-11-08 14:01:51 +0000 UTC
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As I said in the previous download post (Minimeters Theme) I'm almost done working on the new preset pack for Arturia Pigments which will be released through Black Octopus Sound. I also said that I would get back to regular packs next month but I came across a bunch of percussion samples I recorded a while ago made from an empty Pringles can 😅
So here you go, a little extra this month so there still are some samples for you all to download while I finish up this audio job.
In o...
2022-10-20 16:41:29 +0000 UTC
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Hello Patreon fam!
Just a quick update post, there's a little change to how my Patreon page handles payments.
For any current Patrons nothing will change and you will be billed on the 1st of the month like usual, however new Patrons will now be billed on the day they subscribed to my page instead of on the 1st of the month. If you subscribe on the 20th of October, you will be billed on the 20th (or potentially one day later) moving forward. This prevents new Patro...
2022-10-16 15:05:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey there Patreon fam! Still busy on the job for Black Octopus Sound so I didn't have much time to make stuff for you all, I'm sorry but deadline of the job is approaching so just a little more and I'll be back to doing more Patreon content.
For now I do have something to share, as some of you might've seen on the last stream, I replaced the WaveCandy analyzer overlay with a new one called MiniMeters by a company called Dir...
2022-10-02 22:59:44 +0000 UTC
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Damn sorry everyone! Didn't have much time to make samples this past month, had a massive cold first which put me into bed for about a week (no COVID tho), then a big audio job came in which I've been working on a lot the past week because of deadlines, so sorry for that! I had no time to make a sample pack for last month... However!
Instead I have for you a pack with presets for ValhallaDSP VintageVerb organized in 4 categories:
- Huge (10 seconds or more)
2022-09-16 12:17:28 +0000 UTC
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I'm thinking of releasing some of my plugin presets through this Patreon, I'm currently working on finishing up my collection of presets for Valhalla VintageVerb (will be up later this month) but I might do more for other plugins after this.
Currently planned:
- Valhalla VintageVerb (almost done)
- Valhalla Room
- Valhalla Delay
What other plugins do you all use a lot you would like to see custom presets for?
If I own it I might do a pack for that next and mak...
2022-08-16 11:30:03 +0000 UTC
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There we go, this months pack is filled with a whole bunch of stuff. Drums, bass, synths, percussion. I decided to throw a whole bunch of things in from projects I never did something with or from sound design sessions I did on or off stream.
Currently working on a next video talking about 'tension', which I think is always an interesting concept for a tutorial. That one will be done soon and uploaded to Patreon!
Number of samples: 57
Total filesize:
2022-08-01 10:40:23 +0000 UTC
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Pfew, that took some time but I had to figure out where to host the files this month since this pack is BIG! A little backstory about this months pack:
Almost 20 years ago a Dutch website was launched called Sound Transit, which was a website which purpose was to create a database of field recordings, which would allow visitors of the site to 'book a trip around the world' by picking a place on a map and the site would give you field recordings from that area. ...
2022-07-02 21:46:14 +0000 UTC
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Again a little late, been so busy these past months haha. I promise though that the one for June will be out early, so I guess this month has 2 packs now (this one and the one for June).
In this one I have included 4 drum breaks that have been split up in stems for the individual layers. However, there is also an Ableton Live 11 project included in which you can pick apart how the kicks and snares were made using Xfer Serum.
Finally there's also a folder with reverbed synth ...
2022-06-02 21:02:56 +0000 UTC
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Currently finishing up the pack for this month, this one will next to the samples also include an Ableton Live 11 project file in which I made 4 full drum breaks, so you can pick apart how the kick and snare are made. All 4 drum breaks will also be included as WAV files, including the separate parts as stems as well. The pack will be ready somewhere in the coming days.
Next what I've got in store is the 3rd video in the new series in which I do a deep dive into making Drum & Bass dr...
2022-05-25 15:15:56 +0000 UTC
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There we go, this one became quite the episode!
In this second episode of the new DEEP DIVE INTO DNB DRUMS series we have a look at synthesizing snare drums from scratch using Xfer Records Serum. I'll show you how to setup a full snare patch that will work in modern Drum & Bass (think people like Noisia, Imanu, Mefjus, and so forth). We will go over designing the fundamental parts, plus I'll show you how to work on creating resonances in the snare tail without using any samples.
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2022-05-12 17:56:16 +0000 UTC
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Hey little update Patrons. A while ago I did a video about the basic Drum & Bass drum patterns and that video is one of the best viewed videos on my channel. On that video I receive a lot of comments asking for a more deep down look at making modern Drum & Bass drums.
I HEAR YOU!
I just finished recording a 3 part video series of about an hour per part, in which I design a drum loop completely from scratch using Serum and some samples. The first video is about making kicks...
2022-04-11 13:40:11 +0000 UTC
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Hello Patrons and welcome to all the new ones (thanks to all of you!),
Little update for this month, I was going to make the new sample pack and get the content for this month ready, but I'm currently recovering from my COVID booster shot, because man did it hit me good (give me a few more days lol)
Also currently in the process of switching from my Focusrite interface to a new MOTU M4, but I have been having some issues with the new interface which I'm trying to figure out and fi...
2022-02-13 14:59:47 +0000 UTC
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Yesterday I dropped this video, sorry but I couldn't make this one available to you patrons like I would usually with my videos. This one was sponsored by Minimal Audio and it had to be released around the release of Rift 2.0
Let me know what you would like to see in the future with Rift 2.0 in terms of videos, I might do some more tutorials with it later.
Cheers!
ARTFX
2022-02-10 19:00:48 +0000 UTC
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I've been really busy behind the scenes on both music and other audio work, so not too much time to do sound design, but I have some stuff coming next month:
- new 'teal' version of the Ableton Live skin I use
- update to the ARTFX Ableton Racks pack
- samples/presets made in the past month
Also thinking about making some Patreon exclusive video content in the form of short tutorials on various topics or to answer specific questions or issues my patrons have with music produ...
2021-10-20 11:19:07 +0000 UTC
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So my Patreon has been going quite steady and I'm thinking of ways to expand to make the Patreon even better. What would you be interested in? Let's do a little brainstorming session and see what we can come up with. Maybe you struggle with something when it comes to music production for instance.
I already have a few ideas for doing Patreon exclusive production videos, but I'm also considering a monthly sample pack for tiers 2 and up. I'm open to all ideas!
So just drop your thou...
2021-08-16 14:20:57 +0000 UTC
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