Description:

Abstraction 04 is an all-you-can-eat buffet of domestic “found sound”, which has been purposefully polished, refined, and formated into rhythmic loop adders designed to spice up your percussive pallet and inject freshness into your grooves. This time around however, it is targeted directly at down tempo breaks, centrally-Intelligent hip-hop, and experimental urban futurism. Furthermore, this massive second helping of glitch rhythms and real-world sampled eccentricism, is for the first time paired together with analog kick and snare loops to synergistically co-create some seriously freaky future funk designed to make 3008 look old-school.

All Abstraction 04 loop content is produced at a native tempo of 106 BPM and is designed to effortlessly stretch from 90BPM to 120BPM and beyond to fit all tempo ranges used in current urban and down-tempo breaks music sub-genres.

Features:

• 1,040 new cutting edge loop files (over 1GB, 44.1K/24bit): 160 Solo Kick Loops, 160 Solo Snare Loops, 320 Abstraction Percussion Loops, 320 Mix Loops, 80 Extra Bonus Abstraction Perc Loops.
• Both Mix and Solo Element loops are provided. Four different loop types are available.
• All solo element loops are provided without additional auxiliary Reverb or delay effects. This keeps the loops pristinely clean and sharp, enables easy custom slicing and editing, and allows the producer to apply his own favorite effects.
• All percussion samples are made in stereo and make use of extreme spatial processing techniques at the sample level to produce sounds that literally jump out of the speakers.

Abstraction 04: Found Sound Urban Intelligence is available in Apple Loops, Acid Loops, REX Loops, and Single Hit Samples versions, starting at $39.95 USD for a single format, with additional formats available for $14.95 USD. A free set of samples is available for download from the product page.

All Abstraction 03 loop content is produced at a native tempo of 128 BPM and can be stretched to fit all tempo ranges used in current dance music sub-genres.

According to Galbanum, Abstraction 03 is suitable for:

• Tech House
• Minimal
• Progressive
• Electro
• Deep House
• DnB and Breaks
• Ambient and Chill Out
• Glitch Hop
• Trip Hop
• Electronica and IDM
• Left Field
• Abstract Rock
• Film and Game Scoring
• Sound FX

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS:

• 1,792 new cutting edge files! 768 Loops plus 1024 single-hit abstract electronic percussion samples. All files are 44.1K/24bit content.
• Loops available in Apple Loops, Acid Loops, or REX2 formats. All loops are 2 measures long and are designed to allow using partial segments of the full loop to give thousands of variations.
• Single-hit samples are intelligently grouped into 32 instrument folders and named with MIDI note names to facilitate auto-key-mappings for supported samplers.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• All loops are provided without standard embedded kick/snare/high-hat patterns. This makes the loops much more usable in various genres of dance music where the producer is free to mix and arrange them with his own favorite samples.
• All samples are made in stereo and make use of extreme spatial processing techniques at the sample level to produce sounds that literally jump out of the speakers. This produces loops which are very active spatially while keeping perfect silence in-between hits when desired. The result is loops that can cut and punch through even dense mixes without taking up huge amounts of mix space.
• All loops are provided without additional auxiliary reverb or delay effects. This keeps the loops pristinely clean and sharp, enables easy custom slicing and editing, and allows send effects to be added as needed at the mix stage by the producer to perfectly suite the needs of the given project. The result is more flexibility and better coherence between the loops and the other elements of the project.

PRICING

Apple Loops, Acid Loops, REX Loops, and the Single Hit Samples are all separate downloads. Various combinations are available to allow customers to pick, choose, and pay for only exactly what they need. Customers may choose a single format for $39.95 and may add additional formats for only $14.95.

Galbanum’s Synth Expansion Line products are downloadable collections of professionally designed presets and resources for industry-leading virtual synths. Galbanum’s Piscis Rapture Expansion is the first of this series and focuses on lush ambient pads, evolving atmospheres, and novel textures developed for Cakewalk’s Rapture synthesizer.

Abstraction 02 content is suitable for Tech House, Electro House, Minimal House, Minimal Techno, Minimal Trance, Progressive House, Deep House, Progressive Trance, DnB and Breaks, Ambient and Chill Out, Glitch Hop, Trip Hop, Electronica and IDM, Left Field, Abstract Rock, Film and Game Scoring, Sound FX, and any other cross-genre music style that successfully borrows from these influences.

Specifications:

• Over 1GB of new content 1,652 files in total
• 250 new meticulously designed presets for Rapture and Rapture LE
• 1,402 new resources

Features:

• All 250 Piscis presets are based exclusively on 1GB of new custom resources designed to compliment Rapture’s Expression Engine
• Piscis includes 61 special “Spectrum Sample” SFZ instruments which stretch across eight octaves and consist of perfectly diffuse band-limited spectrums made up of over 2,000 voices each
• Piscis includes 50 velocity cross-faded multi-waveform SFZ instruments which allow velocity dependent shifting and morphing of timbre without even using filters
• Piscis includes 80 custom 65,536 point LFO waveforms which allow complex fractal-like LFO shapes that cause modulations to morph between slow shifting and fast FM-like behavior
• Piscis was developed for Rapture version 1.1 or later and makes extensive use of the its new features including new filter modes, new DSP transforms, new signal routing, tempo-synched envelopes, 64bit waveforms, and more
• Piscis makes extensive use of the modulation matrix, continuous controller assignments, velocity sensitivity, dynamic envelopes, SFZ definitions, and other techniques to produce incredibly expressive and dynamic presets which encourage performance, inspire creativity, and enhance usability

PRICING & AVAILABILITY

The Piscis Rapture Expansion is priced at $59.95 and is available here.

In addition to reproducing all of the bleeding-edge Abstraction 01 content in MetaSynth native formats, the MS version also offers an additional 200 new loops and grants access to exclusive power tools to transform and algorithmically mutate new custom loops.

The true power of the MS format is that, like the REX format, the loops represent both a collection of isolated samples and the performance data. Many sound-ware developers today offer various technologies to allow manipulation of the musical performance embedded in a REX groove or instrument phrase, but nothing can compare with the unique graphical power of MetaSynth.

Micro and macro edits and transformations which would take hours in other tools can be made in seconds. Abstraction 01 MS includes a collection of 64 graphical groove patterns which can be used as filters and displacement maps to quickly generate variations or completely new performances. It thus represents not only a sample loop collection, but also a custom algorithmic loop production factory.

Abstraction 01 MS Specs

• Over 500MB of 44.1K/24bit content
• Over 450 Loops and Image Synth Presets
• Over 275 MetaSynth Multi-Sampler Instruments each with 32 samples
• Over 8,500 total samples
• 64 custom Image Filter and Displacement Map presets

The Abstraction 01 REX format is also now available.

Abstraction 01 MS is priced at $49.95. Crossgrades from Abstraction 01 are available for $19.95.

The collection offers:

• Vast expansion of available timbre pallet for wavetable synths
• Newly developed timbres offering fresh, unique starting points which stand out from the competition
• Transformation of sampler instruments into synth instruments
• Bleeding-edge sound-design using complex waveforms as modulation sources and other advanced techniques
• Algorithmically developed content that is mathematically perfect and the highest fidelity of anything similar in the market
• The largest and most diverse collection of its kind on the market

This product is supported and co-marketed by Cakewalk and Galbanum. In supported Cakewalk products it provides the following benefits:

• A simple and inexpensive method of quickly and effortlessly expanding the awesome potential of supported Cakewalk products
• Perfect integration into Rapture, Dimension Pro, and other synths and samplers allowing easy navigation and management
• Complex waveforms that retain full detail in bass range, and are transposed and perfectly anti-aliased by Rapture’s industry leading synthesis engine, providing the cleanest and highest fidelity use of the Architecture Waveforms to date

*A limited number of exclusive waveforms available only for the Cakewalk edition

Galbanum Architecture Waveforms were originally developed for Architecture Volume One, a massive 8GB resource DVD for U&I Software’s Metasynth, and contained over 1,000 waveforms. These waveforms were then translated for NI Absynth, and licensed in part by NI for use in Massive. Galbanum continues to update and expand this collection and this edition is effectively the third version of the library. The total number of Waveforms for this version of the collection is now over 2,500. It offers some very interesting new categories and vastly expands on the some of the previous ones.

Architecture Waveforms Cakewalk Edition is priced at $29.95 and is available for direct download.

Crossgrade discounts are available to existing Galbanum customers who have previously purchased other versions of Galbanum’s Architecture Waveforms. Architecture Waveforms Cakewalk Edition is also distributed through the official Cakewalk webstore.

Wavetables are single cycle periodic waveforms that form the most fundamental building block of synthesis. They are the sound generators, and can be thought of as the oscillator of a classic analog synth, but they provide infinitely more variability in shape and spectrum. Wavetables are responsible for determining a given sound’s primary timbre, or “tone color”. This collection offers a huge variety of waveforms logically organized in sub-folder categories.

The first version of this collection contained over 1,000 waveforms and was originally developed for Galbanum’s MetaSynth content DVD, Architecture Volume One. In June of 2006 it was translated to NI Absynth format and released as the “Architecture NI Absynth Waveforms” collection. In August of 2006 a large part of it was then also licensed to NI to use as composite Wavetables in Massive. This is the second version of the library for Absynth and MetaSynth. It is the first time it has been released in Universal (.wav) format, and opens the library to a sea of new users. It contains more than 800 new waveforms to push the total to over 1,800

The collection contains some very interesting new categories and vastly expands some of the previous ones. Many of the new waveforms were designed not only to be used as oscillators, but also to function in more advanced capacities depending upon what application they are used in. These uses include things such as LFO shapes, envelope shapes, modulation shapes, distortion curves, and much more. Users interested in the true bleeding-edge of modern sound-design are encouraged to explore these immensely powerful areas.

According to Galbanum, anyone with aspirations to be on the cutting edge of modern sound-design, or lead new movements in all forms of progressive electronica will find this collection invaluable. Key users include sound-designers, producers, scoring professionals, artists, multi-media developers, and all synthesis and sound-design enthusiasts who are looking to expand their sonic pallet into new territories.

These products are a simple and inexpensive method to quickly and effortlessly expand Absynth’s, MetaSynth’s, or other third-party synths’ and samplers’ awesome sonic potential in various ways including:

• Vast expansion of available timbre pallet for wavetable based synths
• Transformation of sampler instruments into synth instruments
• Bleeding-edge sound-design using complex waveforms as modulation sources and other advanced techniques

Galbanum’s Andrew Souter has been closely involved with the development of MetaSynth for several years and is the sole developer of Architecture Volume One. He is part of NI’s sound-design team, and worked on the recent Absynth 4.0 and Massive releases.

The Architecture Waveforms collection was developed by Souter using tools that allowed for a new level of detail and precision that was previously impossible. Many of them were computed algorithmically in 64-bit floating point using Visual C++. Many others were tediously edited at the single sample level – single sample point that is. Doing this ensured that all waveforms were as mathematically perfect as possible and represent exactly the perfect form at the highest possible fidelity for a given function.

Pricing & Availability

The Architecture Waveforms collections are available for purchase and direct download.

• Architecture NI Waveforms 2: $24.95 or $9.95 for upgrades.
• Architecture MS Waveforms: $24.95 or $9.95 for upgrades.
• Architecture Universal Waveforms: $29.95.