Cassette Tape Keys VST Plugin

November 18, 2022

I made my first VST plugin all thanks to software called Romplur which is how I made the interface and the actual plugin itself. The sounds I got from my loops I made I once again got my cassette player out and recorded the loops onto the tape and then onto my Tascam which is how I managed to get the sound out of the cassette onto my computer I used male to male jack to connect the two for sound. Some I’m happy with and some I’m not, but I’m giving it away as a free download as this is my first and not my last making of plugins, which I look forward to doing in the future. There are some things to be aware of it might need a stereo balance plugin like the one in FL Studio for the balance of sound as it has been recorded on cassette tape so it is a little muffled but with stereo balance you be able to make it a lot cleaner sounding, also a limiter would also be needed. As mentioned before I designed the GUI from scratch and used Gimp and the Rompur website for the artwork as me and Adobe photoshop don’t get along but I will keep trying lol. I decided to make a plugin and find something suitable as I was bored and looking for something to do but as always something that would hopefully come into use I thought a plugin maker would be great. Romplur is a drag-and-drop base software for that non-coder like me who rather design than code and have more fun as the trial and error isn’t for me but it’s a great software I suggest you should check it out if designing and music-making is your thing or you like the sound of it. It’s very easy to use and works a treat inside FL Studio the DAW I’m using I’m not sure about any other as I only use one but hopefully, it should work. Please let me know if it works in any other DAW and for anything else I would love to hear your feedback.

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Halloween 2022 Sample Pack

September 29, 2022

HALLOWEEN 2022 SAMPLE PACK

So I made this year’s Halloween album a few months back and I had the samples and felt like giving something away, so here are the samples I made from the 13 Moons album. They are of both cassette tape recordings and the original samples all made within FL Studio, and I recorded most of them on a shoebox cassette tape which I filtered out any noises but they are both clean and dirty samples as I didn’t know what or how you will be using them for or your own tastes. I used Arturia V8 for the sample sounds and one of my favourite synth plugins to make synth music with and also I used a Tascam to record the samples from the tape recorder, also I used FL filters for filtering. The sample pack is royalty-free but I’m interested in hearing what you made of it, so if you would like me to hear your creations from the samples please go to the forum and select the topic SHARE MY MUSIC when making a new post but you must be signed in, this was to cause less damage with spam. 

I didn’t even intend to make this a Halloween sample pack or album I was just messing about with the cassette deck and the FXs and thought how eerie it was so I made a whole album around it which I released in May but rereleased on the 28th of this month.  I would like a better tape cassette but don’t really want to fork out £300 for a cassette deck and I already tried second hand and that turned out to be a waste of money but I have an amp and I like to run the sound through that which I like to do now and then when I messing around with the cassette player.  To be honest I’m glad I did it before the queen passing as I would have cancelled it as I was just about to do it when she died and it felt wrong making dark but light music during and in the aftermath of the funeral so lucky I did it before.

The album which I made from these samples is both the original track and also the taped sample track which makes up 13 songs in total and is all inside the sample pack, the album will be in this post underneath the sample preview and is just some of the samples I would have done them all but it would have been an hour long. 

This sample pack contains;

9 construction kits; – 

172 loop samples in total.

87 cassette tape clean loops

79 cassette tape dirty loops

*10 one shots

 

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In FXs Sample Pack

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Enjoy around the house and streets sounds with found sounds from various places and things including a toy collection and crystal pings, shakers, general noise and lots more.  It involved walking around a lot and also buying odd things like some toys which I got from a charity shop and also things I got around the house stuff which was a lot of things and used anything I could get my hands on. It was fun making the sounds and a nightmare as you start to see sound in anything which doesn’t really sound good once it went through the jack cable. Also, I put some of my video sound clips in there too stuff I got from Black Gang Chine a museum and theme park in the Isle Of Wight and other places and also my holiday to Cornwall a year before where I went to Flambards a Victorian village and also lots of trips on the beach which I really enjoyed but the clips I mostly used was from Flambards and that was fun and got a lot of good footage whilst there but the lighting was bad and we weren’t allowed flash so not that many good pictures which I really wanted I could have used them a lot in my photoshopping and other things. 

It took some while to collect the samples and process them but it was worth it as I used them in some of my own tracks I made House and other genres like experimental and synthy stuff and also used it to make better-sounding rhythms or feels to rhythms whatever way you would like to put it. The sample pack consists of dry and wet loops that have and hasn’t been processed and I used Fab Filter and Arturia FXs and the filters also from Arturia and some filters from SoundToy I was just messing about with settings and presets with those plugins and seeing what interesting sounds I could make or make better as my mic isn’t that great. I recorded the sounds over the 6 months and was fun to get all the things out and make a bit of noise and I nearly made a whole album or was going to of all the sounds but I only had one bass tone and I like my tracks with a bit of variation so I decided to hold them back for different tracks which were released but now aren’t but I still have them.  I don’t really enjoy the processing bit, though I do at first but it takes so long to process each sample, good job for batch convert but my favourite part is making the sounds and I used my Tascam to record the sounds in and a jack to connect it with.  

I haven’t made that many samples packs one or two false starts so please excuse the quality if there is an issue. I was using different plugins to the ones I was using in the past but I think I would have made them a lot better now but saying that they are found sounds so you don’t really want to make them sound too different for this category. I like to experiment with music a lot and tend to go through stages of doing something a bit offbeat and not what I usually do which tends to be experimental and I even in a what I call I got drunk and said ahhhhhh! by buying a Synthbot which is a doll that generates random experimental synthy noise sounds and also gaming noise sounds which I also make a bit of gaming music so I will in the future use that in some of my gaming music. But I’ve made quite a few experimental albums and tracks now such much I have made a playlist on Soundcloud which can also be found on this site under Hub/Experimental it’s off all the ones I made so far and not released or they were but they are now on there and one other place my radio which can be found on this site.

This sample pack contains; 

186 dry loops

163 processed loops

31 loops

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