All audio files are 320kps mp3s.
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CATHERINE LEAH PALMER UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE.
All audio files are 320kps mp3s.
ALL MUSIC COPYRIGHT © CATHERINE LEAH PALMER UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE.
Files are in flac format, 16 bit @ 44.1kHz.
Short sounds such as Pianos and Vibes are their full length, others such as Organs and Violins play for a few seconds. This second group have various degrees of vibrato and sometimes pseudo-phasing effects due to the waveforms interacting with one another, so as finding loop points will be very time-consuming if not very difficult it's best to treat them as if they're Mellotron tapes with a length of 10s.
As can be seen from the full recording images, the notes decrease in volume quite significantly as they increase in pitch, and there is usually an irregular offset around the zero level. Rather than normalise every note, I deliberately left them 'as is' so they better reflect the source material.
The low notes of tones with significant vibrato play differently every time the key is pressed due to the vibrato running continuously, rather than being synced to the beginning of a note, and there are often abrupt waveform changes playing up the scale.
Drums (PCM) are very basic and often played as pairs to create composite sounds.
Contains 49 individual notes with a very basic Decent Sampler skin for playing.
| Sound | Full Recording | Waveform 48 | Waveform 96 | Preview | Download |
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| Piano |  |  |  | zip | |
| Elec Piano |  |  |  | zip | |
| Vibraphone |  |  |  | zip | |
| Elec Guitar |  |  |  | zip | |
| Jazz Organ |  |  |  | zip | |
| Pipe Organ |  |  |  | zip | |
| Violin |  |  |  | zip | |
| Human Voice |  |  |  | zip | |
| Trumpet |  |  |  | zip | |
| Flute |  |  |  | zip | |
| Funky Clavi |  |  |  | zip | |
| Synth Sound |  |  |  | zip | |
| Drums |  | zip | |||
| Sound | Full Recording | Preview | Download |
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| Drums |  | zip |
Digits 00, 0-9. Functions +, -, *, /. Operations clear, equals, percent, point. Each set at speeds 1-4.
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Random numbers in groups of five to simulate a certain type of radio station.
| Title | Controls | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Morning Chorus 01a | Give your tweeters a workout (but be careful of your ears). | |
| Morning Chorus 01b | ||
| Morning Chorus 02a | ||
| Morning Chorus 02b | ||
| Morning Chorus 03a | ||
| Morning Chorus 03b |
Play more than one for a semi-chaotic series of phase shifting ticks & tocks.
| Title | Controls | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Balloon 1m | An anonymous French Art Nouveau balloon clock, c1910. | |
| Balloon (Twice) | Offset against a 99% slowed and pitched version of itself. | |
| Carriage J&S | A J&S carriage clock. | |
| Carriage J&S (Twice) | Offset against a 99% slowed and pitched version of itself. | |
| Comitti 1m | A small Comitti wall regulator clock. | |
| Comitti (Twice) | Offset against a 99% slowed and pitched version of itself. | |
| Smiths Mayflower 1m | A vintage Smiths Mayflower (1954-1958) mantel clock (September 1954). | |
| Smiths Mayflower (Twice) | Offset against a 99% slowed and pitched version of itself. | |
| Vienna 1m | An antique Vienna wall regulator clock, c1880. | |
| Vienna (Twice) | Offset against a 99% slowed and pitched version of itself. |
Down-tempo ambient arrangements.
| Title | Controls |
|---|---|
| Conductus | |
| Gombert: Musae Iovis | |
| Lilting Banshee | |
| Patapan | |
| Praetorius: Terpsichore - Gavotte 1 | |
| Queen’s Almain | |
| Si Fortune | |
| Three Ravens |
| Title | Controls | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Bell Choir | ||
| Cold Winter | [Drive The Cold Winter Away] | |
| Desert [OST] | An old ambient track I made many years ago with a couple of vintage rack synths I've owned from new. Kawai K1r: Drone, Choir, Chimes. Yamaha TX81Z: Toms, Bells, Whistle. | |
| Drifting With The Clouds | [L’Heritier: Surrexit Pastor Bonus] | |
| Evening Chill | [Bel Fiore Danca] | |
| Goddess Of The Abyss | [Goddesses] | |
| Halls Of The Ancient Ones | [Coventry Carol 2] | |
| Ice Winds | [Coventry Carol 1] | |
| Motif 01 | ||
| Morning Glory | [Boar’s Head Carol 2] | |
| Procession [OST] | An old ambient track I made many years ago with a couple of vintage rack synths I've owned from new. Kawai K1r: Choir, Chimes. Yamaha TX81Z: Trumpet, Chimes. (Casio FZ1: cymbals.) | |
| Sunrise | [La Montagnura] | |
| Sunset | [La Girometta] | |
| Winter Solstice | [Arbeau: Jouyssance Vous Donnerai] |
| Title | Controls | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| At The Threshold (v4) | “…thus we reached the far side of the cavern, to be met not by a further expanse of dark and strangely smooth rock, but a roiling curtain of smoke into which the beams from our electric torches sank without trace. The fluctuating mass seemed to conjure grotesque apparitions that resembled the hideous and unnatural forms we had seen in the carvings that lined the entrance to the cave…” [La Rotta 2] | |
| At The Threshold (v8) | The original elements re-recorded at half tempo to maintain quality. | |
| The Summoning | “…then as the ritual approached its halfway point the air above the centre of the circle began to shimmer with iridescent rainbows, as if light from some other realm was being refracted by unseen prisms made not of purest crystal, but a flowing, liquid material, and accompanying this coruscating display was a rising crescendo of pure sound that clearly indicated something was trying to break through, yet despite our determination we ultimately failed, and whatever had been partially summoned eventually returned to…” [La Rotta 1] | |
| Vienna Cathedral | The background drones were created directly inside Audacity, then a single tick of the Vienna clock was manipulated in various ways almost down to an individual waveform, and cross-faded multiple times with suitable echoes and reverb. | |
| All parts of these tracks are from a 1s sample of a Dreadbox Nyx 1 Synth from the review by SonicState. | ||
| Dreadbox Nyx 1a | ||
| Dreadbox Nyx 1a (Short) | ||
| All parts of these tracks are from a 1s sample of a Dreadbox Nyx 2 Synth from the review by SonicState. | ||
| Dreadbox Nyx 2a (Original) | ||
| Dreadbox Nyx 2a (Filtered) | ||
| Dreadbox Nyx 2b | ||
| Dreadbox Nyx 2b (Short) | ||
| Title | Controls | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Drone 01 | A pair of filtered sawtooth cross-fading 5ths, playing in parallel to a faster and slightly phased cross-faded version of itself. | |
| Noise 01 | ||
| Noise 02 | ||
| Noise 03 | ||
| Noise 04 | ||
| Noise 05 | ||
| Noise 06 | ||
| Noise 07 | ||
| Noise 07 (Clean) | This version doesn’t have the cymbal-like shimmers. | |
| Noise 08 | ||
| Noise 09 | Adjust the whisper volume by using your treble tone control. | |
| Noise 09 (No Whispers) | ||
| Noise 10 | ||
| Noise 11 | Background ambience (no clock or drums) from the Vienna Cathedral above. | |
| Noise 12 Waves (Fast) | Four sequences of wave-like sounds with no repetitions. | |
| Noise 12 Waves (Slow) | Four sequences of wave-like sounds with no repetitions. | |
| Title | Controls | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Ambient | Ambient version with two octaves at two separate tempos, this is a very dense track with a lot of things changing and is best played loud. | |
| Guitar | These two are a lot louder so be careful with the volume. | |
| Real Guitar | ||
| Real Guitar Ambient | ||
| Strings |
| Title | Controls | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| CA 1 | Start with eight 3-note chords playing against their own ascending arpeggios. Record three versions at different speeds in the ratio of 3:2:1, then duplicate & triplicate the second and third tracks to make them the same length as the first. Repeat this process for another set of sounds. Add some reverb, and mix and phase so that the left & right tracks of one sound cross-merge with the right & left tracks of the second to create a repeating series of sing-song harmonics. Then hopefully enjoy it. | |
| CA 2 | Take the first sequence, invert the main chords, have the arpeggios descending, and process as before. |
| Title | Controls | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| QS 1: Orchestral Ascent (Short) | Two sequences of ascending and descending notes that cross-fade from one octave to another to create a gradual ascent. | |
| QS 1: Orchestral Ascent (Long) | ||
| QS 1: Orchestral Ascent (Day) | ||
| QS 1: Strings Ascent (Short) | ||
| QS 1: Strings Ascent (Long) | ||
| QS 1: Strings Ascent (Day) | ||
| QS 2 (060) | Two versions of the same sequence playing against one another. Slow with strings & fast with vibes. It’s extremely self-similar but for every short sequence of notes or chords the next one will always be different. | |
| QS 2 (240) | ||
| QS 3 | An alternating sequence of ascending and descending notes played with two sounds, one attack the other decay. |