Idiophone [IACC Submission - Sampleset #1]

"Imagine you only had one sound to compose from! How much could you tweak this sound to become a living, breathing composition with a variety of different textures?"


This is my submission for the first sampleset (#1) for I.A.C.C.

The original source sample from which every sound you hear was drawn from is a single strike on the inner portion of a small bell . .

The bell was struck with a hard mallet and recorded with a Shure SM-57 microphone into a Focusrite Preamp. The Shure SM-57 was chosen for it's relative low-noise operation, especially crucial when the source sound may be layered over itself hundreds of times . . .

It's interesting to note that every sound you hear in this mix was processed in real-time, and the DAW and the multiple samplers running were all referencing the same 13.5 second WAV file . . playing it again and again over and over itself in extremely different ways . . .