Besides the usual suspects like Mutteki, Vengeance, Loopmasters, Sonic Specialist, & P5, what libraries do the current heavyweights use for atmosphere samples/FX in their productions? Sweeps & swooshes can me made in a few seconds, but those atmospheric, ethereal, spacey, drones that seem to go deeper than the Mariana Trench take time to produce! For sake of workflow, I'd like to acquire some decent libraries w/these kinds of effects….
FOR EX. - I watched Joel produce live for nearly 14 hours his new song titled "The Veldt" (BTW I learned so frick'n much that day about workflow, & to top it off I witnessed a complete stranger land a deal with Deadmau5, congrats to Chris James!!) Any rate, about 1 1/2 cases of Coke into the stream Joel mentioned his admiration for a certain library of atmosphere effects. I really wish he would have said what collection it was from. If anyone can point me to any libraries worth their salt in atmosphere/FX samples that would be most helpful. Cheers!!!!
Songs like "Strobe" "The Veldt" ect ect. I appreciate anyone's input
PS/ Looking forward to seeing our man Duda @ Voyeur on April 14th!!!
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Spectrasonics Omnisphere, NI Absynth, NI Reaktor, Camel Audio Alchemy..
I don't know about specific sample libraries, but any of those, peppered with some additional FX, can take you pretty far out there..
In the time that you need to adjust the fx to your song you could come up with the fx by yourself.
Aside from simple stretching any sample i use
http://m-rgt.com/Ambitron.html
and
http://www.image-line.com/documents/harmor.html
for quickly transforming a sample into a unique drone or fx.
Just remember to not spend too much time on sculpting and focus on what your song needs.
I would say that synths would definitely be the way to go for atmospheric material. I don't think I have ever used a sample for atmosphere.
I would check out NI Reaktor's Prism.. Its great for drones and really airy spacelike sounds and it is my go to :)
While I don't have a specific "library" of sounds to recommend, I shoot a +1 for Alchemy's Granular processing and overall flexibility/layout. If you're looking for quick "preset" solutions, Get Luftrum's expansion for Alchemy.
Also, I just started experimenting with drones via Siren Audio's Lorelei Suite. pretty affordable package if you're considering a more custom and unique sounds. Found that guy off the Microsound email list!
J
