WaverunnerAudio
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The Omnis Bundle includes 23 instruments; today's highlight is the pre-orders of 2 Tumpets and Solo Tuba, the follow-ups to 2 French Horns. Here are a couple of alpha-development demos:
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2 Trumpets and Solo Tuba early alpha demos
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Purchase the Omnis Bundle and receive 2 Trumpets and Solo Tuba upon their release, straight to your inbox. Following on from 2 French Horns, returning with Adaq to the SE London space, 2 Trumpets and Solo Tuba were sampled in the same detail with award-winning players often found depping for the greatest symphony orchestras in the world. Detailed legato sampling accompany short notes with special attention on sampling a broad dynamic to allow writing from pp up to ff.
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2 French Horns
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2 Trumpets and Solo Tuba will be released at £39 each, or pick them up with the limited-edition Omnis Bundle which includes Waverunner Audio's entire collection, exclusive libraries, Frozen Piano from Herman Samples and a MacBook Pro raffle
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2 Trumpets release price: £39
Solo Tuba release price: £39
Pre-orders included with the Omnis Bundle: £189
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2 Trumpets and Solo Tuba early alpha demos
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Purchase the Omnis Bundle and receive 2 Trumpets and Solo Tuba upon their release, straight to your inbox. Following on from 2 French Horns, returning with Adaq to the SE London space, 2 Trumpets and Solo Tuba were sampled in the same detail with award-winning players often found depping for the greatest symphony orchestras in the world. Detailed legato sampling accompany short notes with special attention on sampling a broad dynamic to allow writing from pp up to ff.
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2 French Horns
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2 Trumpets and Solo Tuba will be released at £39 each, or pick them up with the limited-edition Omnis Bundle which includes Waverunner Audio's entire collection, exclusive libraries, Frozen Piano from Herman Samples and a MacBook Pro raffle
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2 Trumpets release price: £39
Solo Tuba release price: £39
Pre-orders included with the Omnis Bundle: £189
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:::: What and why is Omnis? ::::
Hey vi-c, I've a lot of samples libraries in progress, a handful of which are part of the one-off, limited bundle, Omnis. Here I'll share updates and more information about what's on the horizon so there's a clear idea of what the bundle not only includes now, but will include. It's a bit of a double-edged sword as the biggest feedback I've had so far is the bundle is too good, it's just kinda how it works as I've come to learn, and with more coming to it this will obviously expand on that. It's odd, but it is what it is, a useful learning curve if nothing else. A chance for a 20% voucher here or there or a free library offering is a better way to go than the chance for a £3600 MacBook Pro. However, 224 have bought the limited-to-300 bundle with a healthy amount last month. So...
:::: Why am I giving away a MacBook Pro? ::::
By 2017 I'd spent a number of years composing for TV (BBC, Channel 4, 5, Sky, Discovery and tons more), trailers, ads helping out on films, etc all alongside travelling the world as a Lionel Messi lookalike (lols). All the while and even as as a youngster making small sample libraries for music for the projects, some of which I won nominations and awards for. It was a cool ride and one I'll get back into, but that summer I took myself out of London to the countryside to teach myself Kontakt coding (big shout out to @d.healey ) and set my sights on developing sample libraries commercially.
Off the back of some great feedback for the 2 French Horns library, in 2018 I launched Waverunner Audio with 'Seven Days' ; seven sample libraries released one-a-day for seven days. This was a fundraiser for the Hometree charity. The turnover was more than I could have imagined with 1000s of you buying. In turn we funded the planting of 100s of trees and I was super excited to have something viable at my fingertips. Two huge, huge sessions were booked in on the back of this success and things were looking kinda cool. I maybe got a bit over excited but wanted to give back, not in a kind of 'oh here's a voucher that will drive engagement and further sales' kind of way, but a huge giveway outside of the usual mould that would give someone a very cool bit of kit. The idea was to provide those that had bought a means to complete their collection and grab pre-orders and as thanks for early adoption be in for a chance to win something special.
I didn't present it in the same way as Seven Days; the initial promo wasn't very strong, but it was designed for those that had already bought, then... most impactful were some personal issues (addressed in the thread here) leading into the pandemic and then losing those sessions because of the pandemic. This meant there was no real follow up or initially planned (and booked) new libraries. I lost my way quite a bit, time passed by... (Also, my marketing skills arent particularly great, I probably shouldn't be quoting Aurora's incredible Glastonbury words in the Alder Solo Strings pre-order thread...)
:::: Horizons ::::
After false starts and restarts, I got to the bottom of the cause of personal issues, did a large amount of sampling sessions and things have had a bit of a refresh. As it stands there are 76 spaces left for this deal, after which things will go back to 'normal'. There will have to be a time limit on this bundle but I'd like to release the Alder Solo Strings before that becomes enforced.
Aside from the Alder Solo Strings addition, there's a huge update for the off-piste piano sample library Alium, and the synth sample library Synth Atlantic in the works. Also the sample library BOBA: Bowed Bass will be making an appearance not too far down the line; a new kind of electric bass sample library featuring bowed articulations including playable legato (it sounds really cool, listen below). With so much going on I thought I'd share some of the journey via some behind-the-scenes goings-on of testing and development in a dedicated thread specifically related to everything you can get in the bundle and what's on the horizon to be included, though again, everyone says what's already there is enough. Adding more isn't a great move really as I suppose it presents the idea it isn't 'finished'. It's well passed finished, it's just growing, anyway, nearly there. The giveaway will be an exciting day! More will be on instagram too.
First up is a work-in-progress demo for the Alium update. The sketch also includes early tests of the legato from BOBA Bowed Bass; this ones for @doctoremmet
The above sketch features wool piano and dulcitone from the upcoming Alium update. Rhodes '73, Kalimba, Rosehip Vibes, Alder Solo Strings, Cello and Violin Struttura, Celestial Guitar, Synth Atlantic and BOBA: Bowed Bass.
All these libraries are available in the Omnis Bundle at a large ("too good!") saving. If you're interested you can check the bundle page here. Please feel free to reach out with any questions at all.
I'm still working on the website to bring more development updates, more about who I am and my sampling approach, support pages etc as well as re-designing the product pages, alongside product design and development. One man teaming it! But please do reach out if you'd like and I'd be happy to chat through any questions you might have or indeed video chat and showcase some of the libraries and library developments.
Quite the wall of text! Thanks for reading,
Ross //
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