Atelier Series - Daydream

Daydream is an intimate release that includes four instruments geared towards emotional, ethereal contexts.

For the Cozy Piano patch, we recorded an upright piano at the pianissimo range with a stereo pair of Neumann KM 184s placed behind the piano. Great patch if you’re looking for a soft, intimate piano with just enough character.

We also recorded a crossfade-able, arrhythmic soft sustains performance patch. With the modwheel down, the ebbing of notes is spacious and subtle. As you crossfade up, the ebbing grows with a touch more urgency and dynamics.

Also included is Recollections; a designed, organic, quietly percolating instrument using arrhythmic piano recordings as source material.

Finally, the Ether Violin, which utilizes recordings of real auto-panned soft tremolo performances captured "in-camera". This involved using a pair of stereo mics while the player physically leaned left/right at various speeds while performing the tremolo.

Patches

• Cozy Piano
• Ether Violin
• Recollections
• Drifting

What is the Atelier Series?

Oftentimes during the research and experimental phase of development, we’ll create instruments that don’t necessarily belong to a bigger, themed release. Instead of attempting to shoehorn them into a future release or trying to construct a comprehensive product around it, we decided to create the Atelier Series so that other composers can enjoy our explorations in sample development as well.