Cyclick Samples - Heavy Industry [24Bit WAV]_Sin

This collection gets highly metallic and mechanical with a heap of loops,
atmospherics, hits, beats, abstract instruments and all the raw ingredients
used to make them. The raw materials used are a little more domestic than
their products with recordings made from saws, drills, extractor fans, an
oven, a microwave, pots and pans, a toaster and, probably for the first time
ever, a breast pump! These were all captured with the Tascam portable recorder
via one of the three mics listed below. The recordings were edited down into
the chunks presented in the Raw Sources folder and then loaded into Nuendo and
run through a variety of reverbs, time/pitch effects and distortion, either
via plugins or the Kurzweil K2600 KDFX engine (using its ADAT I/O expansion board).

The Loops Etc folder contains all the looped and one shot sounds (atmospherics,
factory sounds, fan hums, etc.) that were created through extensive layering and
processing of the raw sources. Hits were compiled and processed further to make a
set of beats/percussion loops (five kits in four tempos). As the bulk of the sources
were captured in small, non-industrial rooms they were treated to more than one
reverb process to expand them out, which often made use of impulses taken
from real halls and factory units as well as standard digital plates, chambers and
halls. Running one reverb into a pitch shift and then into another reverb can
really inflate the space and obscure the humble origin of the sounds; careful
application of EQ, filtering, stereo imaging and compression between these
processes goes a long way to producing a fully flavoured result!

The eight multi-sampled instruments and their SFZs were created from layering
partials from some of the more resonant raw sources and using lashings of
processing to zone in (to varying degrees) on their strongest harmonic elements.
This often involved bandpassing the source to focus on the closest thing to a root
note the source possesses and linking the cutoff to the sampler's key pitch so it
follows the 'note'. Due to their essentially inharmonic nature these instruments
are not strictly 'in tune' though their dominant resonance is locked to a real note
– this makes chords more of a flavour than a strictly coherent musical expression!