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The Aphelion Sample Library · The Sample Manager

Samples

Hear it, tag it, drag it in.

2,639 sounds: drums analog, digital, acoustic and on vinyl, objects made, struck and recorded, mechanisms, the notes of three instruments, and a voice. The Sample Manager finds them by tag and by name, plays them with their waveforms, keeps your favorites, your tags and your kits, and drags any of them straight into Turbofan.

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Sample Manager · Windows 64-bit The library: 48 kHz WAVmacOS is in development.

The Sample Manager: the path Drums, Analog, snare above the tags that narrow it, the list of twenty-four snares with Snare 07 Gated Plate chosen, its waveform and tags in the player beneath, and the kit Shop Floor on the right, eight slots from a kick to a percussion sound, with the beat Straight at 100 BPM.
  • 2,639 sounds
  • 224 tags
  • 8 slots a kit
  • 5 stock beats

Hear it

Fifteen tracks, nothing but the library.

Sequenced in Turbofan from the library's sounds and no others, sixteen seconds each. Their levels are matched to one another, and a limiter takes the loudest peaks down on six of them; nothing else was done to them on the way here.

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The library

2,639 sounds, five kinds.

Every one is a 48 kHz WAV in a folder you can open without the app, and none peaks above -1 dBFS.

948

Drums

  • 192 analog, struck by Dropforge's own eight voices
  • 466 digital, from the kits of a digital drum machine, 25 of Phonon's drum modules and a drum renderer of our own
  • 199 acoustic: kicks, snares, toms, hand drums, hats, cymbals, woodblocks, claves and rhythm sticks, each through its own mics
  • 91 on vinyl: acoustic snares, hand drums, hats and a crash, each through its own mics and then a worn record

407

Objects

  • 138 synthesized: strings, bars, plates, bells and more, in wood, metal, glass, stone, ceramic and plastic, made and struck by a physics engine
  • 98 recorded: real things struck together by hand
  • 171 compiled: 88 objects, from a ceramic mug to a glass laser

144

Mechanical

  • Five mechanisms: single impacts, switches, a clock's escapement, clatters and latches
  • In plastic, metal, glass and wood, tiny to large, hollow to solid

966

Notes

  • 832 from Titanframe: 64 of its presets, each over an octave
  • 88 from Castframe: every key of the grand, without the pedal
  • 46 notes of a cello, plucked

174

A voice

  • One voice in nine sets: numbers, colors, animals, common expressions, absurd exclamations, a questionable spiritual leader's statements, fake Latin, reactions and mouth sounds

Find it

Drums, acoustic, snare, metal.

Every sound carries the library's tags, 224 of them in 17 facets: what it is, what it is made of, how it is played, which mic heard it, its note. Pick a collection, then any tag that narrows what is left, each showing how many sounds it keeps; every step comes back off on its own.

Search takes the words of a name, a tag or a collection. The list sorts by name, with notes in the order of the keyboard, by length, by collection, or shuffled.

The path All, Drums, Acoustic, snare, metal, twelve sounds, with the tags still narrowing them beneath it: center 8 and edge 4 under playing, close mic 6 and bottom mic 6 under mic, and the tag crack 2 under my tags; then the twelve steel snares, three of them starred.

The Sample Manager

From the list to the bay.

PREVIEW

Hear it as you choose it.

Choose a sound and it plays, with its waveform and a playhead. The arrow keys move and play, Space plays and stops, and a click on the waveform plays from there. One volume for everything, remembered.

DRAG IT IN

Onto the bay you want.

Drag a sound, or a whole selection, out of the list or off its waveform, and drop it on a bay of Turbofan: it lands where you drop it. Anything else that takes dropped files takes them too, and only a copy ever leaves the library.

FAVORITES

Star it once.

A star on any sound, or F, and it is in Favorites in the sidebar for good, with every other sound you starred.

YOUR TAGS

Words of your own.

Tag one sound or many at once. Your tags are searched, offered with the library's when you narrow, and listed in the sidebar to rename or take off every sound at once.

THE FILES

Any sampler opens them.

2,416 of the sounds are 48 kHz, 24-bit WAVs, and 223 of the acoustic drums are 32-bit float, as they were rendered. Mono where the sound is mono, stereo where it is not.

ON YOUR MACHINE

Nothing to sign in to.

Your favorites, your tags and your kits are one small file on your computer, and the library is a plain folder of sounds. Nothing goes online.

The kit Shop Floor, eight of eight slots filled: Kick 01 Bedrock, a maple snare, Clap 01 The Circuit, two hats, a rack and a floor tom and Escapement 01, each with its level from 0 to -10 dB, then the beat Straight at 100 BPM, the step lights, Play kit, Drag kit and Export.

Kits

Eight sounds, one bay.

A kit is eight sounds, a kick to a tom to a percussion sound, each at its own level. Drop a sound on a slot, or choose one and press K and its tags pick the slot. Play the kit over a stock beat from 60 to 200 BPM, with the closed hat cutting the open one off. Then drop the whole kit on a bay's key in Turbofan and its sounds fill that bay's empty samples in order, a lane each, or export it to a folder, every file named by its slot.

  • Kick
  • Snare
  • Clap
  • Closed Hat
  • Open Hat
  • High Tom
  • Low Tom
  • Perc
  • Straight
  • Four on the Floor
  • Boom Bap
  • Breakbeat
  • Shuffle

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Samples

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Sample Manager · Windows 64-bit The library: 48 kHz WAVmacOS is in development.