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Patron Exclusive: Motor Synth Sample Library

Added 2024-10-28 02:07:37 +0000 UTC

A while back, I made a video about some electro-mechanical experiments I had been doing. Specifically, I took an electric motor, attached a piece of metal wire to it, and then used a guitar pickup to record the sound of the metal as it spun around and around. Astute viewers pointed out that I had basically reinvented the tone wheel organ. Be that as it may, the resulting sounds ranged from warm and pleasant waveforms to otherworldly drones. Venus Theory and I ended up turning the sounds into a commercial sample library, which we called Motor Lab

Anyway, unbeknownst to me, Gamechanger Audio had already been exploring this very same terrain with their fantastic Motor Synth, an instrument which uses highly-precise drone motors to generate audio. When they saw my video about Motor Lab, they immediately reached out and very generously offered me a chance to try out their Motor Synth for myself. Well, I've now had a chance to play with it, and I'm very impressed. I'm definitely going to be making a video about this amazing and very unique machine. I also immediately knew I had to capture the unique sounds of its motor-based oscillators and share them with you all. The result is this library:

In all, there are 17 presets: the first sixteen are typical synth patches (bass, pads, leads, keys) while the seventeenth is a special "patch builder" preset that treats the Motor Synth as a standard subtractive synthesizer. Each time the Motor Synth plays a note, a different motor gets used, and the timbre is slightly different. To capture this, each waveform was sampled with three round-robins.

I'm uploading the sample library below, but most of you should be able to download this sample library from right within the Decent Sampler app or plug-in – as long as you use the same email address for DecentSampler as for Patreon.

Enjoy!

– Dave