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DRIFT PREQUEL
The origins of SOUND DUST — pulled apart, rebuilt, and CROSSBRED into a modular drift playground
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20 INSTRUMENTS SNUGGLED inTO 1 Kontakt interface
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80 curated modular stacks (multis)
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220 snapshots
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4GB download
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modular DRIFT layering system FOR UNLIKELY instrumentIONAL INTERMINGLING
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tape-like pitch and tone drift engine
This instrument rewards curiosity more than discipline.
Instruments shouldn’t always behave themselves
DRIFT PREQUEL is an electro-acoustic ideas machine and a new home for some early Sound Dust instruments that are now heading into retirement*. Before they disappear, they have been lovingly dismantled, combined with new sounds and textures, and gently re-knitted into the DRIFT ecosystem.
The result is a strange modular playground where instruments can stack, crossbreed and drift into new forms.
Pitch wanders like old tape, noise percolates, tone shifts subtly, nothing stays perfectly still.
That's how we like it.
...listen below for unlikely stacked collisions
a hybrid Kontakt instrument built from retired Sound Dust classics
* These 4 beauties are undergoing this delightful change.
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Dulcitone 1884
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Dulcitone 1900
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Tiny Binaural Harpsichord
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Grand Thrift AutoHarp
They transcend and are born again - but are still true to their origins : )
a 20 instrument modular laboratory built for collision, mutation and beautiful instability
DRIFT instruments are simple machines for making complex accidents
20 TINY snapshot experiments - one for each instrument
Some are delicate
Some are broken
Some are just wrong...
DULCITONE 1884
This is where it all began
An electric piano without the electricity
This was the worlds first multi-sampled rare and beautiful 150 (ish) year old DULCITONE.
DULCITONE 1900
The lovely younger sister to Dulcitone1884, with a slightly jinglier and more even tone which really compliments the butch woody clunk of the 1884 version.
AUTOharp
Simple, small and sharply plucked
mute AUTOharp
Palm muted for extra thud
wide AUTOharp
Recorded binaurally for extra width
PLUCKED GRAND
Recorded binaurally with a head deep inside a mighty grand piano
HARPSICHORD
A small portable Alfred Dolmetsch instrument
MUTE HARPSICHORD
A small portable Alfred Dolmetsch instrument - mute switch engaged
SHIPS PIANO
A tiny clunky portable piano used for onboard singalongs
MORSE PIANO
Custom-built synced piano loops
INFINITE GUITAR
Endless guitar notes from Fernandes sustainer guitar system
BAD RECORDERS
Really bad childs recorders
NOISE STRINGS
Crafted from pure noise
MUTE STRAT
Palm muted clean Fender Stratocaster Custom - a green one
MUTE PIANET
Take the top off a Hohner Pianet and stick your thimb on each note.
MORSE FOLK
Custom-built synced 8 string Ukulele loops
SUPERSYNTH
Compound analogue synth - part Moog Voyager, part Roland MS 20
ATONAL METAL
Rusty old gubbins,untuned steel pans
kits
5 character drumkits with GM mapping
LOOPS
Character tempo syncing drum loops
the interface
Some handy controls to build your universe
What's Inside ?
1 Kontakt instrument packed with 20 instruments
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80 curated modular stacks (multis)
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220 snapshots
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5 GB uncompressed samples - 4GB download
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modular DRIFT layering system
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morph EQ knob with 100 settings
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morph ADSR knob with 100 settings
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grist knob for noisy filth
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50 custom impulse response reverbs
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space knob adds IR reverb and goes to 100% wet
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BPM synced drift control for tape like chaotic wow and flutter
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2 x BPM synced tremolo for complex throbbing
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5 effect units with presets
Compatible with all other DRIFT instruments for larger hybrid stacks.
Things can get strange quite quickly.
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GOOD WURLITZER
There has to be a proper version I suppose.
7 pristine velocity layers recorded straight into nice preamps with 'interesting' loops.
