Red Toy Keyboard Springs sample set

zvon

I sampled the springs of the battery compartment of a toy electronic keyboard from the 1990’s.

In the first part of this video, I am using Poly 2 circular sequencer (from James Milton) to play four samples from the pack, pitching down one of them in realtime. The 2 speech samples are from my Patreon Reward Pack 63 - The Fourth Slapstick Pack - Part 2.

In the second part, one sample is played at half speed in AUM file player and a second one is triggered on every step, thus cutting its release and creating a machine gun effect, in Hammerhead Rhythm Station. The big chord at 0:38 is an accordion sample and the third speech sample is from Reward Pack 41.

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Proppa

Great as always, zvon!

zvon

@Proppa said:
Great as always, zvon!

Thanks a lot, your comment is much welcomed!

More info about the sample set:
Each spring was recorded several times. Many samples have different articulations but some are similar to another one and they can be used as alternate sample (round robin or random) in a drum sampler to avoid/minimize the machine gun effect (when 1 sample is repeated quickly multiple times).

Stretching and transposing the samples will make them sound “larger”. I have included examples to demonstrate it.

65 samples including 15 processed ones (49 MB total)

Paulieworld

Last night, we watched an outstanding documentary called “SCORE: A Film Music Documentary”. Great interviews with the likes of Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Danny Elfman, and many others. When I watch a movie, I don’t usually think about how the composers created the sounds that we take for granted. It was very cool. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it.

Ironically, the next thing we watched was a concert by Tommy Emmanuel. He does things with an acoustic guitar that defy all logic and common sense… and makes it look so easy!

zvon

@Paulieworld said:
Last night, we watched an outstanding documentary called “SCORE: A Film Music Documentary”. Great interviews with the likes of Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Danny Elfman, and many others. When I watch a movie, I don’t usually think about how the composers created the sounds that we take for granted. It was very cool. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it.

Ironically, the next thing we watched was a concert by Tommy Emmanuel. He does things with an acoustic guitar that defy all logic and common sense… and makes it look so easy!

I was not aware of that movie, certainly seems interesting!
When I was 6 or 7 years old (sometimes around 1963), I saw an interview with a foley artist and I remember thinking: what a cool job this is!

egobeats

They sound fantastic man! Was a great idea!

zvon

Thanks a lot egobeats!

I've been meaning to sample these springs for a few years, I finally did it!

egobeats

I used to love plucking the springs from my old D battery boomboxes. It never even occurred to me to sample them and I sample everything. Thanks for always inspiring me.

zvon

@egobeats said:
I used to love plucking the springs from my old D battery boomboxes. It never even occurred to me to sample them and I sample everything. Thanks for always inspiring me.

You're much welcome!