Computer Music

Cinematic Soundscape

We haven’t been able to go to the cinema of late, so here’s a set of classic samples from the Vault to get you back in the mood…

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Missing a good old trip to the flicks? We’ve raided the Vault for some classic cinematic samples that first appeared on our DVD way back in 2013, but have really stood the test of time.

Here’s what Robbie from Cyclick

said on their production: “Using Bladerunne­r Blues by Vangelis from the Bladerunne­r soundtrack as a sonic template, here are four tempo-based kits of lines, loops, bassline, beats and multisampl­ed instrument­s to take you far, but not too far, into the future.

“Mellow and spacious sounds are the dish of the day, with the Rhodes piano dominating the soundscape. As a real, if slightly battered, Rhodes Mark One has been used throughout, there are some full multisampl­es provided as you just can’t have enough of this beautiful instrument.

“The 80bpm kit has a full and fruity velocity-layered multisampl­e of clean Rhodes, while the other appearance­s are effected (verbed, step-filtered, phased, etc.), and they’re all quite editable.

“Most of the bass instrument­s/ lines are courtesy of the ever flexible Jen SX1000 monosynth that, with some extra effects, has a quality far beyond its appearance.

“The other string and lead sounds come from the Kurzweil

K2600 (Colonel Kurz as it’s called here), which has a synthesis architectu­re that can take a lifetime to master (I hired a time machine to get to grips with the Colonel) and never ceases to form the basis of many juicy sounds.”

“All the samples have their kit number, instrument, version, tempo and key/pitch in the filename, and they are all 24bit/44.1Khz wavs.

“Most of the lines are loopable, but some have a bar or two left on the end to allow for delay and reverb tails.”

The samples can be found in the Free Samples folder on the DVD or at filesilo.co.uk under issue 284.

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Rhodes Mark I 88 stage piano Jen Synthetone
SX-1000 monosynth
Kurzweil K2600
Trident Signature 2 mic pre/ EQ RME HDSP Multiface
Yamaha MSP-5As
Steinberg Nuendo
Adobe Audition
NI Kontakt
GEAR USED Rhodes Mark I 88 stage piano Jen Synthetone SX-1000 monosynth Kurzweil K2600 Trident Signature 2 mic pre/ EQ RME HDSP Multiface Yamaha MSP-5As Steinberg Nuendo Adobe Audition NI Kontakt
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