Sounds and patches for hard- and software synths

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Sounds, patches, soundsets for hardware and software synthesizers. From Csound UDOs to DSI Prophet-12 and Yoshimi. From synth and effect design to sound design. Very specific and personalised processing to mainstream playable sounds. This is what you can expect here. There won't be tons of the stuff, but there is stuff.

"Jeanny's Hits, version 1.0" is a sample pack of multisampled electronic drums. Drums are sourced from Csound and analogue hardware instruments, includiing the Behringer RD-8 (analogue Roland TR-808 clone), semi-modular Behringer Neutron and Arturia MiniBrute 2S and the Dave Smith Instruments (Sequential Circuits) Prophet-12. It covers different electronic genres and it packs punch.
"m_aves 1.0" is a collection of synthesized bird calls for Csound. These calls have been ported from an old work written in common Lisp/scheme.
Hexacon version 1.0 is a Csound based drone instrument. It is inspired by the 4ms SWN (Spherical Wavetable Navigator). It features six 3d wavetable oscillators and six LFOs with nine blendable waveshapes. For detailed information see the included README.
"MIDI Waitress" a small collection of Csound MIDI User Defined Opcodes to translate realtime and non-realtime MIDI into frequencies, including coarse tune, fine tune, pitchbend and an optional frequency ratio (useful for FM, PM and AM oscillators).
"Jeanny's Genius patches for Yoshimi, version 0.5" This soundbank now includes three patchsets and 68 single iinstruments, including three drumkits. All sounds are categorised and include contact information in the copyright field. The sounds have been tested with Yoshimi 2.1.2, but should be compatible with versions 1.5.x.
"Chord player 1.0" is a set of Csound UDOs being able to play 43 predefined chords with inversions and different root notes as either MIDI or frequencies, with optional microtuning support and retrieval of chord names. All names are additionally supplied as well in a separate text file for inclusion into Cabbage projects
"Scale quantiser 1.1" is a set of Csound User Defined Opcodes (UDOs) to quantise MIDI notes and pitches in Hz to musical scales. 15 scales are supplied. There is now a method to retireve scale names, a text file of names for easy Cabbage design, as well as basic versioning.
"JBSO 1.1" A Csound framework to aid in object oriented design
"Vectribution" is a set of Csound UDOs dealing with vectors of signals, including vector mixers, switchers, random distribution, summing mixer and circular shifting.
"Handpan version 3.0" this Csound instrument is made to be played live over MIDI. It has now an improved README and all scales - if not all keys - that Rav Drum lists on its website, both for the Rav Vast (tongue drums) and the more traditional handpans. New in version 3 are also some probability controls.
"The queen is dead - MIDI session" this session includes the Midish sequencer project file, the LinuxSampler configuration (LSCP script), a shell script to start LinuxSampler and everything required to run the session, as well as a printed MIDI version, without the tempo curve written in, since that was generated with the metronome klick. The tempo map is described in very simple terms in lpclas.tempo, to be recreated in your DAW/sequencer of choice.
"Happy 808Day 2021" four small loops recorded straight from my Behringer RD-8 (Roland TR-808 clone) including Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and Roxette's "(Do you get) Excited"
Four SFZ sample libraries sampled with AutoSampler and DrumSampler: Prophet Guitar DSI/Sequential Prophet-12 guitar-like patch from the Jeanny's Genius soundset (available further down on this page). Brute Bass a gritty bass patch on the Arturia MiniBrute 2s. Coast Bass a gnarly, woody "plucked" bass on the Make Noise 0-Coast semi-modular synthesizer. And finally: RD8 kit 1 one full kit of the analogue Behringer RD-8 (Roland TR-808 clone), a nice solid, but conservative 808 kit.
"AutoSampler version 3.0" is a collection of three (auto)samplers written in Csound to automatically sample a MIDI instrument (synthesizer), with velocity layers, round robins and adjustable note intervals and overall range. The samplers also generate SFZ files ready made to play with your favourite sampler. Version 3 adds two more samplers: an autosampler which can pause after a given number of notes to retune a synthesizer, especially useful for analogue instruments, which don't keytrack very well. And there's a sampler optimised for drum machines. It doesn't play the notes, the user has to do that, but it generates SFZ files with round robins. See the documentation for more info.
"Numbers 1.0 sample pack" very robotic speech samples of numbers and other calculator related words, including scripts to create numbers in more languages and voices on Linux and Mac. For a taste of this pack listen to Joy Bausch's Minus, Plus, Funktion on Youtube.
"m_vc110" version 1.2 - the VC-110 is an 11-band vocoder with variable bandwidth, formant shift and an optional internal noise source, which can also be used as a static filterbank.
"m_chorus 1.1" is a simple chorus inspired by the Roland SDD-320 and Deimension C chorus, known for the smooth sound. This is a Csound User Defined Opcode (UDO). A simple sound example is included.
Drummalogue is a collection of Csound UDOs giving you ten electronic, flexible drum instruments. Most of these can - amongst others - sound like classic, well-known drums.
"m_bell" is a set of Csound UDOs modelling and mimicking old Bell/AT&T telephones, including call progress tones, pulse dialing, network multifrequency routing tones, noise/hiss and a phone speaker sound-alike. An example is supplied, showing a complete call.
"m_samplebank" is a samplebank for Csound, implemented in UDOs. You can load samples from one folder, play them looping or oneshot, as a wavesequence and round-robin style. Find documentation in the .udo files and a comprehensive example .csd.
"m_looper: a Csound based looper/sampler" This collection of User Defined Opcodes (UDOs) allows you to sample a sound live, play it back with pitch control, looping and repitition count and even save the recorded sample to disk. See the documentation in the .udo files and the loop.csd file for more details and an example.
"m_spectrip" an additive oscillator for Csound, with stereo spread, spectrum tilt, musical comb filter and brightness. There is also a short demonstration on YouTube.
Jeanny's Genius soundset for Prophet 12, part 5 this is the fifth bank of sounds by Jeanette C. for the Sequential Prophet 12 hardware synthesizer. This bank contains acoustic-like sounds, basses, drums, (big) pads and strings, leads, plucks and stabs, rhythmic textures and a few outcastsw. The zip archive includes a README with the full list of sounds, controller mappings for performance and annotated sound colours, types/categories, genres and emplyed synthesis. If you like it and can afford it, a token of appreciation is always welcome. :) See the README for a PayPal account.
"m cubicon" version 0.5, a 3d morphing wavetable oscillator. The cubicon holds 27 waves in a cube and allows the user to morph - or step - through them in all directions. In this version eight cubes - with all their single source waves - are supplied, as well as an experimental utility to create your own waves from audio files.

"m 3D Suite" version 0.8 is a set of user defined opcodes (UDO) and instruments to design binaural three dimensional scenes with Csound. Careful if your bandwidth is low, it's 9.6MB. You will additionally need the corresponding hrtf data files for your samplerate. The demo.csd requires the hrtf data files at 48kHz.

"sample_scrub.csd" is a little utility instrument to scrub through a sample to find good loop points. It offers a very basic console UI. This is an early version and thus only offered as is.
Jeanny's Genius - Prophet-12 four complete soundsets for the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet-12 hybrid analogue synthesizer.
"m_reverb" Csound reverberator UDO with freeze and shimmer.
"Aerosound" is a physical model of wind blowing past a cylinder, based on the work and code by Rod Selfridge for his PhD on "realtime synthesis of aeroacoustic sounds", at Queen Mary University of London. N.b.: a wire is nothing but a cylinder. :)
"Control Signal Quantiser": this Csound UDO allows you to quantise a control signal in three ways: in linear steps (additive), by factors (generating natural harmonic series) and quantising to a scale, so a quantised LFO will only give notes of a predefined scale. See the example CSD for more information.
"Frequency Inverter" is another UDO for Csound, mirroring frequencies around a supplied centre frequency. Can serve as an "alien voice effect" or to create interesting percussion sounds or what you imagine it to do.
"Voice Processor UDOs" for Csound. these three UDOs (or modules) for Csound provide pitch correction, repitching based on MIDI notes - a.k.a. autotune effect - and a vocoder..
"Morphable Formant Filter for Csound" This module allows to control the vowel, register and even keytracking, based on MIDI notes. Vowels can be controlled to say small "words"
"The Risset Filter" a User Defined Opcode (UDO) for Csound. A UDO can be compared to a module in a modular eurorack or similar system. The Risset filter, is a parallel bandpass filter, whose frequencies move in Risset glissandos. At low speeds it will generate the illusion of an ever rising or falling resonance (a.k.a. barberpole phaser). At higher rates it sounds like a kind of phasor.
"The JBS Salamander SFZ" is an SFZ mapping of the . For the basics it follows the General MIDI standard, which might not only help finger drummers.

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