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"FEEL, FELT, FOUND" (Modified Felt Piano, Barking Chorus = Bark Filter)
I didn't have these tools before today:
A Module "Monumental Choir" that can Bark (and do-doot-dooties... really)
A Free Felt Piano found at PianoBook.co.uk (using the Kontakt download in AudioLayer)
- audio layer can import samples and do the right assignments with file names or roots *
Cabled together on just this side of an AUM melt down. The players are Riffers, Mozaic RANBO scripts and Rozeta Scalers and not one human required. Atmosphere on loan from @Blue_Mangoo.
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Very Fritz Lang. Felt, Fallen, Fritzed.
It reminds me of the Farkle Family from Laugh-in:
Frank Farkle, his wife, Fanny, and their kids: Sparkle Farkle, twins Simon & Gar Farkle, Mark Farkle, Fritz, Flicker, and Fred Farkle.
The running joke was all the kids looked and motioned exactly like their “faithful and fond neighbor” Ferd Burfel (Dick Martin). Everyone except Frank and Fanny Farkle, the parents played by Dan Rowen and Joanne Worley, wore a bright red wig, chunky black glasses, and big dark face freckles. Ferd would always comment “That's a fine looking family you got there, Fred,” then he'd grab his own shoulder and so would every single Farkle kid. Guest stars would appear in the sketches as relatives or visitors, and every one of them had children that also looked exactly like Ferd.
but... which Felt piano did you use from that site? there is quite a number of them..
I was searching for a felt piano yesterday evening as we dont have LEKKO on iOS
Found this thread and was really excited when I found out about pianobook.co.uk — two things
1) there is an Adventskalender on this site with some cool samples and instruments.
2) question @McD what do you mean with „Kontakt download in AudioLayer“? As many instruments on this site are in Kontakt format (dont have any experience with this) I would love to get them into AudioLayer. My last endeavors in AudioLayer were with the Salamander piano which ended in some Desaster because i had the samples multiple times on my ipad in different folders and nothing worked. I hated AudioLayer at that point. Maybe something changed
Thanks for any help, insights and pointers as usual!
Really interesting stuff going on there. Loved it
Had to search Farkle family... seems funny stuff
Very entertaining piece....and here I was thinking I had all the sounds I need. I didn't know about this site. I need to give myself a day or three to explore AudioLayer.
Please share new insights and knowledge here, as I lost lost my mind the last time I tried to love AudioLayer...
Thanks in advanced!
Hey @McD Happy Holidays. So Audiolayer can download files that are for Kontakt Player? There’s a ton of those out there...
AudioLayer can import wave files as samples and do "root detection" or get pitch details from the file names. I recall using select on all the Felt Piano samples downloaded as a Kontakt package and AudioLayer just put them into the right slots and I had a playable Felt Piano in seconds.
I have also re-visited the site and noticed a small collection of Felt Pianos. Looking at my account on the PianoBook site I see I downloaded "Tatak - Muted Felt Piano Lite". The naming scheme in the "* Samples" sub-folder has Notes Names included so that could have helped the automatic assignment of sample to pitch.
I recommend more of us try various Kontakt instruments and share their results with AudioLayer.
I recent effort failed with yet another Felt piano because the samples had about 1 second of
silence and need trimming. I haven't found an easy way to trim a whole folder of samples but I suspect I already bought the right tool for the job if anyone has any clues.
Its not that hard. I assume that Virsyn has made some significant updates through the years!?
The tip with the import and detect with the filename was really good and worked well.
I made really good experienced with the import of EXS instruments. Also available on this pianobook website. Incredible Ressource. Just copy the EXS file and the audio file (wav or aiff) into the import folder of Audiolayer and tap on the exs file (inside the files app). Import is easy as pie then and works real good.
With Kontakt format I made the experience as @mcd described there is a Pause before the sample. If you only have 10 or so you can easy slide the star marker but if the instrument has many many samples this should be a pain.
I suspect I speak for a silent minority when I plead with you to do a screen recording of this process, if you have time.
There are a couple ABF regulars that do that seriously... @Gavinski, @SoundForMore, etc.
I just spent an hour importing a Tibetan Bowl and it took a long time... the samples in my downloads getting shoved up into the iCloud and then waiting from them to be recalled makes the process take forever. I also think you can potentially end up with a lot of file management issues.
But the Bowl turned out great.
I really need an iPad with 512GB or more of storage. Hmm... maybe I could make the instruments on my iPhone since it has a lot of storage.
Filemanagement still is the crap Part of iOS 🙈🙊
@iansainsbury
The "Auditor" app can do the batch "trim" and "normalize" functions on a whole folder of
samples. Now, I see that I might have to manually change from "one shot" to "forward" (i.e. loop a segment of the sample) until the MIDI Note off arrives.
I'll work through a collect of PianoBook kontakt format downloads and share my workflow in
a couple days but probably NOT in a Youtube video. I'll let the pros tackle doing a proper video.
You star. Thank you.
You’re welcome. Let me know if anything is unclear
Pianobook is an amazing resource. Thanks @McD
With the Kontakt import, the scanning file names method seemed to work better than analyzing to find root note. But I have to admit I’ve not invested enough time to actually understand what the hell im doing. The results with file name analysis sounded better (I DLd gentle vibes from pianobook)
How’s Kontakt import working for others? Tons of freebies out there so I’m motivated to get this working reliably.
All looks straightforward, thank you. I have some Spitfire Audio stuff on my Mac, so should be able to experiment with those 😊
Not all Kontakt instruments on the Pianobook site expose the samples folder; some are locked to the full Kontakt version afaik. There are a few great instruments in the exs format, and some in sfz. Importing to AudioLayer is a breeze...
I haven't hit one yet. Everything (so far) is downloading as a zip and I open it and see
a complete folder structure. I poke around until I see audio files and import one or more
into AudioLayer which. As a "realism" fan I'm making some very inspiring instruments
at a rapid pace.
The "Found Sounds" section of PianoBook.co.uk has some real gems for sounds that are NOT synthetic and not just the usual recordings of instruments. There's a single sample of
a kitchen "Knife" that makes an incredible keyboard instrument. And the wineglasses... paper towels... Metal Sails... Ice Clouds...
Check out the demos on each sampleset page. Everything is free.
I've only found a couple which are .nki only. Speaking of Felt Pianos, one of my favourites is the Winter Felt. I also love the Pianobook Soft String Spurs layered quite low behind other instruments, particularly with my Streetlytron Pro Soft and Bowed Trem Strings, which I've autosampled into AudioLayer. I autosampled them at half speed for more ethereal weirdness.
The autosampling is big bonus, and so easy to set up.
@rcf thanks for sharing your pearls.
Sky felt piano
Lyra pad
Lowery pad
Are my favorites- if any one cares
Recommendation are always welcome; I haven't tried any of those. Thanks.
Winter felt is amazing!
I forgot the dictaphone drone thing. Wow love that one too you may also like it
The Winter Felt is certainly not perfectly sampled; there are some noticeable inconsistencies over some of the octaves. But that's all part of the charm for me; very atmospheric. I like the Triple Felt too, but it sounds just a little too muted sometimes; they're both Christian Henson instruments. I will try the Dictaphone samples, thanks. The Hildur's Harpsichord demos sound very good, though I haven't downloaded it yet...
P.S. I forgot that my Winter Felt is the Prototype version; I downloaded it a while back via Christian's YouTube channel, before it was available on Pianobook, I think. The inconsistencies might have been addressed in the final version. I'll get round to trying it soon.
I think you could batch edit in Auditor Audio-Editor for iPad.
Yes. I was surprised at how easy it was in the "Auditor" app to select all the files in a folder and apply a "Macro" based upon my criteria (Trim used upon a threshold value and Normalize).
I'm busy demo'ing, downloading and tweaking new instruments from PianoBook.co.uk in AudioLayer. I'm sure a lot of people here have been grabbing samples and using them in their work. I can see how sometimes even a single sample can make a really fascinating instrument when AudioLayer applies pitch shifting across the keyboard.
As I get better at this workflow I can re-visit a ton of other apps that support sample import
and just use the sample I have accumulating in my AudioLayer "Import" folder.
I love my AudioLayer Felt Piano collection. My favourite sounds by far. Big thanks for @DaFingaz for teaching me how to import them.
OK... There are multiple Kontakt sample packaging formats. I just tried to use the "Digeridrone" download and the samples are hidden in the package. Arg. The lead dog always creates their own rules for file formats.