Stoner Planet T - 70s electric tape piano from Tronsonic

[cpie]

Here's the latest tape sampled instrument from Tronsonic - the Stoner Planet T electric piano.



A simple sample set from ,you guessed it, the Hohner Pianet T, but with a twist.
As always, sampled to worn tape to emulate the mellotron sound, but this time the samples have been gently overdriven with vintage valves, to bring out the hidden character of the Pianet, which without sounds very polite.

With the valves added, the Pianet comes to life, and sounds like a wurlitzer / rhodes hybrid, and more.
There are over 40 different 70s inspired instrument patches created for Kontakt 4.2.3 or later, and the wavs will also load in other samplers too (but no presets).
The kontakt patches have a theme of modulation running through most of them, from autowah to ramped lfos and delays (via the mod wheel), as well as classic phasers.

Download from Home for only £9.99 (£8.99 to members - £4.99 to students).

[SWAN808]

sounds great

[cpie]

Thanks - the aim of this is quality not quantity. Just a single set of samples, so no round robins or mega gigaflipflop sizes
(I use various subtle randomizing techniques in my presets which negate the need for round robins).


I'm very interested at the moment in creating imaginary instruments from my samples. I always thought the Pianet T was a bit lame until I fed it some overdriven tubes - then it springs to life - def wurli/rhodes hybrid sounds, and those dry stoney 70s pianos that I love.
I've also finely balanced the resonance and filter cutoff settings, to creative self oscillating harmonics that are velocity sensitive (like an autowah).

The vid only shows a few presets...I'll try and put another vid up soon.

[cpie]

Here's a demo - all the sounds apart from drums are from the Planet T.
Bit rough round the edges but you get the idea.
http://soundcloud.com/tronsonic-1/stoner-planet-t-electric-piano
Cheers.

[cpie]

Short demo within the context of a mix, showing some of the modulation possibilities within a single patch - all sounds from tronsonic samples - with a little help from some excellent plugins (Tal,Valhalla and Sknote- my goto 3 at the moment )


The high notes and main piano are from the planet T - the mid-range piano riff in the background is from the clavi d6.
Kick drum/sequence and noise from the waveform72 set.

[BodyByStarbucks]

bought it. using it. loving it.

atb,
kjb

[cpie]

Originally Posted by BodyByStarbucks

bought it. using it. loving it.

atb,
kjb

Very glad to hear thanks.

[lapsang]

Originally Posted by cpie

(I use various subtle randomizing techniques in my presets which negate the need for round robins).

What kind of techniques? I am a huge fan of round robins although I don't care much if the source is something like an analogue synth. For acoustic instruments is different, but I am curious to know, othern than the usual (fine tuning change, slow/fast changes and stuff like that)

[cpie]

Originally Posted by lapsang

What kind of techniques? I am a huge fan of round robins although I don't care much if the source is something like an analogue synth. For acoustic instruments is different, but I am curious to know, othern than the usual (fine tuning change, slow/fast changes and stuff like that)

Yes, the more subtle things would be using very sparse amounts of the random unipolar on pitch/sample start/filter/res etc, as well as an lfo (multi setting, with sin and random selected to get a smooth/randomized lfo) on the same...
If I want to make the 'tape sound' even more damaged, then this works really well on a filter and res.

The main one I suppose if I'm sampling say a rhodes or the pianet would be mapping the velocity to filter cutoff and/or res. Basic but very effective.
Of course its not exactly like the real thing, but its a tradeoff -(my samples aren't about perfect emulation - just interpretations using the characteristics of pushing the tape and valves )- I find that balancing the cutoff and res can result in very tine like harmonics, which are pressure activated depending on how hard you play, and of course give a very smooth transition ,which would be a lot of work with round robins.
Using 'invert' on the res works really well on this.
I've used this a lot in the planet t pack - great for autowah type stuff too.

Hope that answers your question - I guess I just experiment with the tools kontakt provides to try to mimic the real instrument as best as possible, and sometimes it leads to other avenues that you wouldn't normally think of.

[farjedi]

I'm certain I became a member on your site but for the life of me I can't figure out how to log in to the members area and purchase this library. On the login/members page when I click the the 'Here' button it just reloads the page. Underneath the 'Here' it says 'Please login and return to this page. I can't see where else to login..?

Confusing but I probably have no doubt forgotten some secret access protocol that members were briefed about.

[cpie]

Originally Posted by farjedi

I'm certain I became a member on your site but for the life of me I can't figure out how to log in to the members area and purchase this library. On the login/members page when I click the the 'Here' button it just reloads the page. Underneath the 'Here' it says 'Please login and return to this page. I can't see where else to login..?

Confusing but I probably have no doubt forgotten some secret access protocol that members were briefed about.

ah...you know what...the 'login' form has vanished!....I use a web-builder (moonfruit)and sometimes things like this happen - very frustrating...very sorry about that. I've thought about a diff site host for a while...might have to make some changes...

If you or anyone else were forced to buy at full price, pm me and I'll send you the difference.
cheers and sorry again about that,
Rob


edit: just been on the sitemaker forum and theres a load of irate people with the same problem on their site - hopefully it'll be back soon .

[farjedi]

No problem..on this occasion I think I can stretch the extra pound

Great libraries by the way, I really enjoy the rhodetron and there are quite a few I intend on getting, so that members area will be usefull at that point..Cheers

[cpie]

Originally Posted by farjedi

No problem..on this occasion I think I can stretch the extra pound

Great libraries by the way, I really enjoy the rhodetron and there are quite a few I intend on getting, so that members area will be usefull at that point..Cheers

Thanks - problem all fixed now - login form back.
I also have my samples over at sampleism (a much more 'together' site ):
Tronsonic - Sampleism: snacks for your samplers
It's a good place for low cost interesting packs...we'll worth a look.

[lapsang]

Originally Posted by cpie

Yes, the more subtle things would be using very sparse amounts of the random unipolar on pitch/sample start/filter/res etc, as well as an lfo (multi setting, with sin and random selected to get a smooth/randomized lfo) on the same...
If I want to make the 'tape sound' even more damaged, then this works really well on a filter and res.

The main one I suppose if I'm sampling say a rhodes or the pianet would be mapping the velocity to filter cutoff and/or res. Basic but very effective.
Of course its not exactly like the real thing, but its a tradeoff -(my samples aren't about perfect emulation - just interpretations using the characteristics of pushing the tape and valves )- I find that balancing the cutoff and res can result in very tine like harmonics, which are pressure activated depending on how hard you play, and of course give a very smooth transition ,which would be a lot of work with round robins.
Using 'invert' on the res works really well on this.
I've used this a lot in the planet t pack - great for autowah type stuff too.

Hope that answers your question - I guess I just experiment with the tools kontakt provides to try to mimic the real instrument as best as possible, and sometimes it leads to other avenues that you wouldn't normally think of.

Thank you for the reply! Nice trick with the filter

[cpie]

Originally Posted by lapsang

Thank you for the reply! Nice trick with the filter

No probs for reply- I'm a bit slow on the uptake when it comes to interpreting some posts - not quite sure of the angle of your lol...but I'll just add that yes, its a very obvious technique, but as a tool it works really well in extending the sonic possibilities of the instrument. With the style in which I sample I think round robins would be quite difficult to implement, as so much of the end result relies on carefully balancing the input levels of the pre-amp and of the tape machine to get the exact valve/tape distortion I'm after.
I like to start with a good strong sound and then subtract from there to create the instrument...for my work I think it gives a smoother more lifelike result (tape distortion/valve overdrive remains constant).

[dr_After]

It took me literally 60 seconds from pressing "play demo" to pressing "buy". Very nice sampled el-pianos - very playable, nice feeling and sound. Small library but with a soul. After couple of minutes I think I like the most those "portishead style" vibrato patches, kind like in "Roads"

[cpie]

Originally Posted by dr_After

It took me literally 60 seconds from pressing "play demo" to pressing "buy". Very nice sampled el-pianos - very playable, nice feeling and sound. Small library but with a soul. After couple of minutes I think I like the most those "portishead style" vibrato patches, kind like in "Roads"

Cheers for that...I make all these instruments primarily with my own music in mind, so I don't put out anything that I wouldn't/don't use myself

[Boogaju]

great sound and creative use of effects.
Nice one!

[cpie]

Originally Posted by Boogaju

great sound and creative use of effects.
Nice one!

Thanks Boogaju
Very busy with a new project at the moment that actually involves a gui!!! shock horror....

[drBill]

Nobody else buy or use the stonerpianet - OK??? I'm using it as a bedrock sound in the template I set up for a new CD I'm doing....

So....nobody else use it - OK? I mean, buy it cause Boogaju is talented and makes great stuff, but then forget you have it.....

I need the secret weapon...




<I mean, I'm kidding guys. Buy this thing so Boogaju makes more cool stuff....>