{"id":93707,"date":"2022-03-02T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/93707\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:03:12","slug":"hgsounds-cassetto-kontakt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/?p=93707","title":{"rendered":"Hgsounds Cassetto KONTAKT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dd-static.jd.com\/ddimg\/jfs\/t1\/147263\/40\/21787\/126600\/6217da7aE23385cb4\/ea8cbd84bb7ba4da.webp\" alt=\"1645022962-0cb4540e0f517b4\" width=\"650\" \/>\uffe5Hgsounds Cassetto KONTAKT | 437 Mb<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The idea behind Cassetto was to create a synthesizer which has an old and slightly faulty sound as well as a fairly fixed yet interesting architecture. The end result is a synth with it\u2019s own character and capable of some very unique tones.<\/p>\n<p>Although Kontakt is often used for complex samples, Cassetto uses sampled oscillators so that it is a true synthesizer and all sounds are constructed in the same way as any other subtractive synth, it comes with 200 presets with more to come, however it is also a synth that invites you to make your own.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, I chose the Elektron Analogue Four for the Oscillators as it has a nice selection of strong analog waveforms. Each of the Raw Waveforms was then recorded note by note over 4 octaves onto a very old and well worn cassette. I have owned this cassette since at least 1987 as it had me playing guitar badly around that time, which was recorded over a Pet Shop Boys album funnily enough. It was the 3rd cassette I tried and had the most dropouts which is what I was looking for. I had been looking for a suitable cassette deck for this project for a long while, and a friend came up with this one (JVC CD-1635 MK II) which is actually a really nice machine after bit of de-oxit, I\u2019d already tried a couple of others with auto gain inputs which was a bit too extreme, I was after subtlety. Here is what it looks like (you can see the cassetto! cassette if you look closely). These were then recorded into the computer through a focusrite OctoPre and each 4 second sample was looped manually at different lengths to provide the multisampled oscillators. I was actually surprised how lovely they sounded once tamed by Filters. This is what some of the raw unfiltered waveforms sound like with random start time (phase).<\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><br \/>2 Oscillators with both multi-sampled cassette sampled sound and single cycle Waveforms<br \/>Noise Oscillator sampled from Tape<br \/>Unstable for warbling the oscillator pitch<br \/>Dual Filters with a large choice of filter types<br \/>Parallel Filters or One for each Oscillator<br \/>2 LFOs with selectable Waveforms, LFO1 resets on note, LFO2 is free running<br \/>Random LFO of the Filter<br \/>Filter Envelope for the Cutoff, Pitch and Optional Volume of Oscillator 2<br \/>VCA Envelope for Volume Control<br \/>Reverb with 50 Impulse Responses<br \/>Delay<br \/>Modulator with a choice from Chorus, Flanger or Phaser<br \/>Arpeggiator with Sequencers for various parameters<br \/>Preset Browser with the ability to save presets<br \/>Global Randomizer and Default, with the ability to save you own Default preset.<br \/>Section Default and Randomizer buttons<br \/>over 200 Presets (with more to come)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\uffe5Hgsounds Cassetto KONTAKT | 437 Mb The idea behind Cas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,20],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-93707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kontakt","category-yqyy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93707"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftopic&post=93707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}