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Patron Exclusive: Bicycle Wheel Sample Library
🕑 Added 2024-12-20 17:07:00 +0000 UTCAbout a year ago, I found this old bicycle wheel in the trash, and, being the person that I am, I saved it. Well, in my last video, I finally got to put it to some good use. I clipped on some contact microphones, and soon discovered that a whole host of sounds could be teased from its rusty spokes. Each one has a slightly different pitch and timbre. They could be plucked for a gentle, metallic instrument, which sort of sounds like a cross between a tongue drum and a marimba. This is what you'll find in the first preset of this sample library.
This is followed by two patches that feature patterned note sequences. I'm a big fan of "Pattern 2" personally, which seems to result in a lot of happy accidents in my own compositions.
The spokes can also be bowed to produce a breathy sustained sound. For some added fun, you can watch Frank Zappa do this exact thing in 1963. Anyway, you can hear my raw sounds in Patch 4. Patches 5 through 7 contain combinations of all of the sustained sounds I was able to get out of the wheel. Of course, these sounds can then be pushed through a range of effects to produce beautiful pad sounds, three examples of which you can hear in patches 8 through 10.
Finally, as many of you know, I did an experiment in my last video featuring a block of ice and seltzer water. A number of you mentioned that you would love a sample library of that. I'm including that in this pack as well. It doesn't really have anything to do with bicycle wheels, but it's a nice sound that I hope to use myself soon.
As always, this sample library can be downloaded from right within the DecentSampler plug-in, assuming you use the same email address for Patreon as you do for DecentSamples.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy these sounds, and that you are having a peaceful, perhaps even festive December. Happy Holidays!
– Dave
Comments
Shigeo Honda
I encountered a similar issue as you mentioned. Here’s my workaround. Use same login email account for both the Decent Sampler site (for the DecentSampler iOS app) and the Patron website. Then, you can download the latest Patron-only sound file directly inside the Decent Sampler app. You don’t need to download the zip file.
D. John Downs
Dave, if I download the library on iOS to iCloud, I get errors when I try to load the library. This happens even if I change the zip file suffix to dslibrary as indicated in the Using on iOS video. Any other tips?
