CGC Shaker
Experimental Percussion
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GC Shaker is experimental percussion sounding similar to shaker. It's made out of recordings of Camping Gas Cartridges (CGC) filled with sand (and small rocks). It's not that very predictive when in use, making similar but always different sound so we used many round robins to emulate that. There are probably out there some world instruments sounding or made in a similar way so in a way it is foley and world and experimental percussion instrument. We sampled/made instruments of 4 types of shakers, more in the manual. Formats: Kontakt (96KHz & 44.1KHz), Akai MPC software, NI Maschine, wav loops. Price is symbolic, while you can still go through payment process if you want to donate, it's free for email subscribers. How to get CGC Shaker for free: Subscribe bellow and you will receive discount code into your inbox. Note: After subscribing you should receive (very soon) the email with the discount code. If you don't receive the email (on some rare occasions it does happen) feel free to use our contact form and we'll sort it out asap. CGC Shaker has the following formats: • CGC Shaker Kontakt 96Khz (Kontakt, SFZ, wav oneshots) Software requirements: NI Kontakt full version (Not free Player version!) v5.4.1 or later and/or sfz sample player like (free) Sforzando (other sfz players might not support round robin or other opcodes). Contains Kontakt and SFZ instruments and also wav oneshots for any sampler • CGC Shaker Kontakt 44.1Khz (Kontakt, SFZ, wav oneshots) Same as above, only difference is that the samples from 96KHz version were downsampled to 44.1Khz • CGC Shaker Akai MPC (for Akai MPC software, compatible with both full and Essentials version, samples are at 44.1Khz) Software requirements: minimum MPC Essentials v1.8.2 or MPC Software v1.9.6. • CGC Shaker Maschine (samples are at 44.1Khz) Software requirements: minimum Maschine 2 v2.5.0 • (bonus) CGC Shaker Loops Organic 44.1Khz and 96Khz Over 200 wav loops ----------------------------------------- Download Help For easier download, each format is available separately or if you need more than 1 format maybe it will be easier to use premade zip combinations of all formats at the same frequency (where applicable): CGC Shaker All Formats 96Khz (where applicable): • CGC Shaker Kontakt 96Khz (Kontakt, SFZ, wav one-shots) • CGC Shaker Loops Organic 96Khz • CGC Shaker Akai MPC (44.1Khz) • CGC Shaker Maschine (44.1Khz) CGC Shaker All Formats 44.1Khz: • CGC Shaker Kontakt 44.1Khz (Kontakt, SFZ, wav one-shots) • CGC Shaker Loops Organic 44.1Khz • CGC Shaker Akai MPC (44.1Khz) • CGC Shaker Maschine (44.1Khz) -------------------------------------------- Specifics: Most instrument format versions use 880 samples each and 22 round robins per shaker type of movement. All formats use 24-bit samples. Instruments samples are unprocessed (raw) ie "dry" ready for further processing. If you don't like or have time to experiment there are bonus loops which can be used as is or processed further (they have a slight amount of applied effects but not much). ◘ Kontakt / SFZ and WAV specifics ◘ CGC Shaker Kontakt/SFZ consists of 2 patches: CGC Shaker Mono and CGC Shaker Stereo. Both use different samples made in different recording sessions. There are 4 shaker types in each, marked by color and also there is info message after pressing note (Kontakt only) Each shaker further consists of 3 notes: -the movement towards mic (2 velocity layers, 1-120 is very short hit while 121-127 is hard hit) -movement from the mic (also 2 velocity layers in the same manner as above) and -both movements (1 velocity layer). Each velocity layer has 22 round robin samples. If you forget which note triggers which sample type/shaker there is a message in the bottom left corner of kontakt instrument which will appear after you pressed the note. Turn info on (top row in Kontakt) too so you can see explanation/help (in the bottom part of Kontakt) of each gui control while mouse-hoovering over it. ◘ CGC Shaker Maschine specifics ◘ CGC Shaker Maschine contains: 1 project with all groups/shaker types loaded, with the same midi per group for quick preview 8 tagged groups, 4 that use mono samples and 4 that use stereo samples (Stereo/Mono doesn't use same samples, they use different samples made from totally different recordings) 880 tagged samples- wav, 24 bit 44.1 KHz (110 samples per group/type of shaker) We made pads in different colors for the easier association, they are also named. 1 group per shaker type, all groups share same pad layout. Since Maschine doesn't have round robin feature for samples we did a simple trick to emulate that: different velocities trigger different samples. There are up to 22 different samples on a single pad. Software requirements: minimum Maschine 2 v2.5.0 ◘ CGC Shaker Akai MPC Software specifics ◘ CGC Shaker for Akai MPC Software contains: 4 programs with mono samples and 4 programs using stereo samples. 512 24 bit 44.1 kHz samples (64 per program/shaker type) Software requirements: minimum MPC Essentials v1.8.2 or MPC Software v1.9.6. Once CGC Shaker Akai MPC archive is unzipped you´ll find 2 folders inside: • CGC Shaker Akai MPC. Contains projects for Mono and Stereo shaker, each has 4 programs for individual shakers. Just extract to HDD and open with MPC software. • CGC Shaker Akai MPC Expansion. Contains all the same programs and samples as in the above-mentioned folder but it's in a form of Aki MPC expansion. To install drag and drop CGC Shaker.xpn onto MPC software interface. There is no need to have both installed, you can use which one is more convenient for your workflow. In all programs, no effects were used. All programs contain samples on all 16 pads in pad bank A. All have 4 round robins on each pad. Slightly fewer samples were used for MPC software programs but nothing too drastic compared to other formats. ◘ Bonus Loops specifics ◘ As a bonus, we made a huge amount of loops with CGC shakers. CGC Shaker Loops Organic contains over 200 wav loops at 96 Khz and 44.1 Khz, both 24 bit. They are called organic because they weren't made with this virtual instruments but with “shakers” themselves. Loops were not quantized, they have natural swing applied. While in instruments above wav samples are very dry, so you can process them with your favorite effects, loops have eq, compression, delay and reverb applied to them but just in small amounts. Used BPMs for loops: 86 and 120. We wanted to cover a wide range, 86 bpm loops can be used at doubled bpm (172) without changing, 120 bpm loops for bpm ranges that 86 bpm loops couldn't cover (110 or 140 etc). Video and audio demos of all formats: |
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