Homegrown Sounds Cassetto v2 [KONTAKT]

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P2P | 12 November 2019 | 556 MB

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The idea behind Cassetto was to create a synthesizer which has an old and slightly faulty sound as well as a fairly fixed yet interesting architecture

The end result is a synth with it’s own character and capable of some very unique tones

Although Kontakt is often used for complex samples, Cassetto uses sampled oscillators so that it is a true synthesizer and all sounds are constructed in the same way as any other subtractive synth, it comes with 200 presets with more to come, however it is also a synth that invites you to make your own.The ProcessFirstly, I chose the Elektron Analogue Four for the Oscillators as it has a nice selection of strong analog waveforms

Each of the Raw Waveforms was then recorded note by note over 4 octaves onto a very old and well worn cassette

I have owned this cassette since at least 1987 as it had me playing guitar badly around that time, which was recorded over a Pet Shop Boys album funnily enough

It was the 3rd cassette I tried and had the most dropouts which is what I was looking for

This is the Cassette:I had been looking for a suitable cassette deck for this project for a long while, and a friend came up with this one (JVC CD-1635 MK II) which is actually a really nice machine after bit of de-oxit, I’d already tried a couple of others with auto gain inputs which was a bit too extreme, I was after subtlety

Here is what it looks like (you can see the cassetto
cassette if you look closely).These were then recorded into the computer through a focusrite OctoPre and each 4 second sample was looped manually at different lengths to provide the multisampled oscillators

I was actually surprised how lovely they sounded once tamed by Filters

This is what some of the raw unfiltered waveforms sound like with random start time (phase).It also occurred to me that it might be interesting to use some single cycle loops from clean recordings of the A4, which would add a whole other dimension to the sound possibilities, so I did this for 5 of them, and they sounded good and added a nice contrast to the tape Oscillators

I then finished off the oscillators by creating some detuned and mixed groups of the single cycles

I also tried to be a bit imprecise with the looping of the single cycles to give them a slightly detuned broken oscillator sound, although it is subtle.The Synth EngineI created a soundset for Bassline-101, and whilst working on it, I really came to appreciate the simplicity of the SH-101 design and so in my head that was the starting point for Cassetto

As you can probably see it went way beyond that simplicity, but I tried hard to keep to the idea of making it hard to make bad sounds which is the strong point of the 101

I just can’t seem to keep things that simple…My second thought was that I wanted it to be an instrument that Boards of Canada could use, I think out of any band they always seem to get sounds out of synths which is hard to describe, but to me always sound like childhood/Nostalgia

So, I had the cassette sampled oscillator, the next thing on my list was a way to warble the sound, a wow and flutter dodgy cassette sort of thing

On the synth it’s called Unstable (UNST) and it works very nicely to create that feel

Finally I wanted to get some subtle saturation and most importantly sample rate/bit rate reduction in there, which is not only great for emulating digital gear, but it can make sound take on characteristics of Mellotrons and acoustic instruments sometimes

After some experimentation I decided to place it in between the 2 filters which leaves the option of having either a Low Pass in slot 2 for grit, or a High Pass for Noise and it works really well.Initially I started with hard wired Serial Filters, but after trying out splitting the filters one to each oscillator it opened a whole new world I couldn’t ignore, I followed that up with giving the ability to use the Filter envelope to control the Volume of Oscillator 2 and/or Noise

This just makes so many new sounds possible for the sake of a couple of buttons.With the Arpeggiator I began by using the one I’d built for Multiverse, however I really wanted a Chord Mode and I ended up rebuilding it and so it does function slightly differently

It is basically a standard Arpeggiator with Sequencers grafted on, this can lead to some very complex polyrhythms

The other addition over the Multiverse ARP is the 16 note Pitch Sequencer which if you play a single Note behaves like a classic Sequencer.Highlights2 Oscillators with both multi-sampled cassette sampled sound and single cycle Waveforms (100 selections in total)Noise Oscillator sampled from TapeUnstable for warbling the oscillator pitchDual Filters with a large choice of filter typesParallel Filters or One for each Oscillator3 LFOs with 30 selectable Waveforms, LFO1/2 reset on note on, LFO3 is free runningRandom LFO for the FiltersFilter Envelope for the Cutoff, Pitch and Optional Volume of Oscillator 2VCA Envelope for Volume ControlEnvelope 3 assignable to Resonance LFO1 speed and LFO 3 levelReverb with 50 Impulse ResponsesDelayModulator with a choice from Chorus, Flanger or PhaserVersatile Arpeggiator with Sequencers for various parameters plus 6 Modulation Sequencersvarious Chord Modes for the Arpeggiatorvarious Mod Sequencer ModesPreset Browser with the ability to save presetsGlobal Randomizer and Default, with the ability to save you own Default preset.Complete Microtuner System with 300+ Scales and scala supportScale Re-Mapper with 78 ScalesSection Default and Randomizer buttons400 Presets


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