Nils Neumann
Senior Member
Hey Composers out there, this is my first attempt to create a VI, a Church Organ. This is a free Kontakt instrument, if you are not interested in the background story, just scroll down to the download Link
„Behind the VI“
A few months ago I was very curious how I can create my own sample library, most of us know the theory: rr, mic-position, scripting, seamless loops, dynamic layers, etc. So I tried to sample an acoustic guitar in my little studio. Pretty simple stuff, with only 1 note with 3 dynamic layers, 3 round-robins and 1 mic. Probably the shitiest VI which I have ever witnessed. The whole process of recording those samples and combining them with a sample player taught me a lot about professional Libraries and how to use them.
So I thought I step it up and go for the biggest Instrument I know, the Organ (yes, I was inspired by the Interstellar soundtrack).
The Recording Session:
I asked a local church for permission and we were allowed to use it for 8 hours. A good friend of mine, a studio owner, helped me out with all the equipment and the mic placing on-site. It took us 3 hours to get everything ready and realize how this organ thing works. We even found some Neumann microphones in the church, which happen to be the main mics for this library. The Important lesson I learn from the recording step is to take your time. I was so overwhelmed with all the different possibilities that I was a bit in a hurry to get everything done, but in the end, only the patches with enough recording time made it to a finished patch.
Post:
The rough samples were pretty noisy, RX5 helped me out a lot. It’s incredible how effective their denoising is. I spend endless hours cutting all the samples and naming them (2000+ samples), this process was pretty horrible and boring. But check out Reaper for sample editing, it will save you a lot of time. The Scripting stage was pretty frustrating, but I’m glad that I understand the basics now and hopefully be much quicker on my next Library. Quick side note: Nobody will be impressed if you show them, after weeks of scripting including hundreds of errors, a knob that works...^^
EvilDragon is all over the internet if you google for Kontakt script, a big thanks to you. He is one of the invaluable persons in this community!
And of course a big thanks to all the people on VI-Control, who answered my stupid little questions, you help me out a lot!
Updated Version:
This library is now renamed "Crucible" and is available for free through Orchestral Tools "Sine Factory".
It comes with a few improvements compared to the Kontakt version.
-No buggy interface, mic positions now load up correctly upon reloading a session.
-You don't need the full Kontakt version, only the freely available Sine player. Now it's truly free.
-Keyswitches are no available.
-All the samples are now Looped.
-Comes with the Sine features, like mic merging.
Here is a short walkthrough I made:
and here are some demos:
www.orchestraltools.com
Enjoy!
„Behind the VI“
A few months ago I was very curious how I can create my own sample library, most of us know the theory: rr, mic-position, scripting, seamless loops, dynamic layers, etc. So I tried to sample an acoustic guitar in my little studio. Pretty simple stuff, with only 1 note with 3 dynamic layers, 3 round-robins and 1 mic. Probably the shitiest VI which I have ever witnessed. The whole process of recording those samples and combining them with a sample player taught me a lot about professional Libraries and how to use them.
So I thought I step it up and go for the biggest Instrument I know, the Organ (yes, I was inspired by the Interstellar soundtrack).
The Recording Session:
I asked a local church for permission and we were allowed to use it for 8 hours. A good friend of mine, a studio owner, helped me out with all the equipment and the mic placing on-site. It took us 3 hours to get everything ready and realize how this organ thing works. We even found some Neumann microphones in the church, which happen to be the main mics for this library. The Important lesson I learn from the recording step is to take your time. I was so overwhelmed with all the different possibilities that I was a bit in a hurry to get everything done, but in the end, only the patches with enough recording time made it to a finished patch.
Post:
The rough samples were pretty noisy, RX5 helped me out a lot. It’s incredible how effective their denoising is. I spend endless hours cutting all the samples and naming them (2000+ samples), this process was pretty horrible and boring. But check out Reaper for sample editing, it will save you a lot of time. The Scripting stage was pretty frustrating, but I’m glad that I understand the basics now and hopefully be much quicker on my next Library. Quick side note: Nobody will be impressed if you show them, after weeks of scripting including hundreds of errors, a knob that works...^^
EvilDragon is all over the internet if you google for Kontakt script, a big thanks to you. He is one of the invaluable persons in this community!
And of course a big thanks to all the people on VI-Control, who answered my stupid little questions, you help me out a lot!
Updated Version:
This library is now renamed "Crucible" and is available for free through Orchestral Tools "Sine Factory".
It comes with a few improvements compared to the Kontakt version.
-No buggy interface, mic positions now load up correctly upon reloading a session.
-You don't need the full Kontakt version, only the freely available Sine player. Now it's truly free.
-Keyswitches are no available.
-All the samples are now Looped.
-Comes with the Sine features, like mic merging.
Here is a short walkthrough I made:
and here are some demos:
ORCHESTRAL TOOLS
Virtual instruments for your music productions - Recorded in the world's finest studios
www.orchestraltools.com
Enjoy!
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Would be great to have an nki that keyswitches shorts and sus, or put shorts on high velocity, sus on low velocity (below 110). Also adding the pedals to the bottom open octave of this combo would be nice.
