Analog Waveform Sampling Project by 3OT and opuswerk

Posted on Sep 8, 2008 in Content, Free Stuff, Instruments, Sample Packs | 3 comments

This project was reborn as Hendrik of opuswerk and 3OT met on the Internet, both looking for single waveforms that they could load into Ableton’s simpler as oscillators… 2 years after one another. The project was dug from the depths of the Ableton forum and brought to life in an effort to make usable tools available to ourselves and to other like minded musicians.

WHAT IS WAVEFORMS?
The pack contains several waveforms all sampled from analog synthesizers (there are a few exceptions like the Elektron SFX-6). All waveforms have been edited, looped and appropriately mapped, then made available in Ableton Live’s Simpler format as this is what we use, but these could easily be converted to Sampler format as well. We’ve also included a folder with just the samples for those of you not using Ableton. In this case you’ll have to load them in your favorite sampler and make the necessary adjustments and loops yourself.

The instruments we’ve created using these waveforms aren’t aiming to be a recreation of analog synth nor an specific emulation of any kind. They are simply tools for the creative musician. You won’t find any “presets” in the pack. Just great raw waveforms who are begging to be mangled and manipulated in countless ways.

To hear some examples of music made with them, head to our myspaces:
www.myspace.com/3ot
www.myspace.com/opuswerk

If you’d like to help this project grow, thank us, offer us mirobolous contracts or even just say hello, then we’d love to hear from you… we can be contacted through our respective email addresses below:
idefeq (at) gmail (dot) com
opuswerk (at) gmail (dot) com

PROJECT ORGANIZERS
Tyler Sol aka 3OT Creator of DefEQ.com
Hendrik van Boetzelaer: 1/2 of Opuswerk (with Benoît Hammard) www.opuswerk.ch (Currently looking for labels to release our music)

Many MANY hours were spent collecting and recording all of those sounds. Hence we’d like to thank all the people who have painstakingly sampled their beloved analog beasts and generously made them available to us.

In no particular order :
The Assembly Worker
SMTL
Baal-Zebub
Poster (ableton forum)

The people behind those forums should be thanked as well for offering us a platform to communicate about music and getting like minded people together:
www.mnml.nl
forum.breakbeat.co.uk
www.dogsonacid.com
www.ableton.com

As always this project is in the open source spirit of DefEQ and we hope to hear the music you make using those waveforms. If you have something you’d like to contribute to the project (samples) please let us know.

Enjoy!

Ableton Live Pack

Samples Only

Waveforms Sample Pack by 3rd Order Trauma and Opuswerk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.defeq.com.