X-treme Whooshes and Lionel Messi
Our friend Geert van Gaalen used the complete XW collection to design the sounds for this great Lionel Messi video. Especially the end logo is pure XW sound design magic! Thank you for sharing Geert. Here’s the video:
X-treme Whooshes Vol.3 is released
24-10-2011 21:59 Filed in: sounds
XW3 has 3 main categories, ‘Acoustic', 'Electronic' and 'Music' which means that in 'Acoustic' all sounds are recorded with a microphone and very little effects are used on these sounds, just a little de-noising, EQ and compression. This is a collection of small and natural sounding effects ideal for 'Kinetic Typography' an Explanimation videos.
The 'Electronic' collection sounds are generated in al kinds of ways, some microphone recordings, some guitars and lots of synthesizers and samplers run through a truckload of effects. Choose this when you want big and impressive effects.
A large part of the 'Electronic' collection is dedicated to Doppler type sounds.
In the 'Music' section musical instruments were used to create the sounds and most of them are melodic.
What ever your approach; Big Hollywood impact or small type Kinetic Typography sounds, XW3 is your Broadcast Design, Radio Imaging, Game audio and Motion Graphics sound library!
Have fun and get Whooshed!
X-treme Whooshes Vol.3 Video Demo
04-09-2011 19:15 Filed in: demo
We just finished the XW3 library that went on sale in October and here is the first video demo.
The first motion graphic animation for the X-treme Whooshes Vol.3 (XW3) sound effects series.
This one is made by Frank Boxman: www.mutantworm.com
The soundtrack is done solely with sounds from the XW3 sounds collection!
X-treme Whooshes Vol.3 Audio Demo
29-08-2011 19:21 Filed in: demo
Piano Attack used in 'The Dark Night'
17-12-2009 21:22 Filed in: film
In 2007 we gave Hans Zimmer a copy of Piano Attack and now a few years later we heard it in the soundtrack of ‘The Dark Knight’. Wow, that’s quite an honor.
Demo's for Native Instruments
25-05-2008 19:35 Filed in: sounds
Native Instruments asked Renger to make 2 demo’s for their new Kontakt sound library ‘Retro Machines: ‘Nostalgia’ and ‘Beach Day 1984’
Piano Attack formats
29-02-2008 20:55 Filed in: formats
Our sample library ‘Piano Attack’ is available in the following formats:
- Logic Pro (8 & 9) EXS24 with extra channel strip features (boxed and download)
- Native Instruments Kontakt (2-4) (boxed and download)
- Cubase HALion (boxed and download)
- Propellorhead Reason ReFill (boxed and download)
- Apple GarageBand JamPack (boxed and download)
Piano Attack Artist's reviews
02-06-2007 21:22 Filed in: reviews
This is what the artist’s around the world are saying about Piano Attack:
Guess what….. I used it in a Britney Spears remix!
Junkie XL
This is f**king dope! I’d hate to see the piano’s you guys did this to….
Brian Transeau (aka BT)
I am truly speechless …..how do I put this….'Piano Attack' … UNFU**IN' BELIEVABLE!!!!
John Roome (aka Witchman)
The Orb
Enthusiastic Piano Attack user!
Jeffrey Rona
Silkscreen Music
I now have all the twisted piano sounds I could ever want plus my old Steinway is safe.
Scott Mathews
Hit or Myth Productions, Inc.
Super sound library, the only thing I want to do now is write scores for movies and create tracks where Tom Waits meets Einstürzende Neubauten.
Stefan Smite
Zuco 103
Guess what….. I used it in a Britney Spears remix!
Junkie XL
This is f**king dope! I’d hate to see the piano’s you guys did this to….
Brian Transeau (aka BT)
I am truly speechless …..how do I put this….'Piano Attack' … UNFU**IN' BELIEVABLE!!!!
John Roome (aka Witchman)
The Orb
Enthusiastic Piano Attack user!
Jeffrey Rona
Silkscreen Music
I now have all the twisted piano sounds I could ever want plus my old Steinway is safe.
Scott Mathews
Hit or Myth Productions, Inc.
Super sound library, the only thing I want to do now is write scores for movies and create tracks where Tom Waits meets Einstürzende Neubauten.
Stefan Smite
Zuco 103
Piano Attack reviews
12-09-2006 21:16 Filed in: reviews
Piano Attack got some raving reviews, here is what the magazine’s are writing:
This library contains some fabulous other-worldly sounds and textures. Some are so heavily processed as to be un-recognisable, but that’s no bad thing. The processing is skilful and creative, and gives the library a contemporary edge you can’t get from a collection of purely acoustic piano noises. To prove the point, there’s also a collection of pre-programmed rhythm loops. Arranged in 16 graded-tempi programs with half and double-speed variations, the loops play bang in time and though many of them sound bonkers in isolation, the right combination of two or three can produce a terrific groove. Enormous fun, and an unexpected bonus from this unpredictable, sacrilegious and wildly inventive library.
Dave Stewart
Sound on Sound
You get truly original textures and beats. This is not a standard piano sample library; strings are plucked, brushed, threatened, struck, thwacked, and mated with alien beings. The results range from otherworldly (as in "heaven") to otherworldly (as in "hell"). I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of this library - and if you appreciate "esoteric-yet-highly useful," you will too.
Craig Anderton
EQ Magazine
If you want to inject some truly original sounds into your music and you dont mind exploring experimental timbral materials, Piano Attack might be just what your music needs to get out of its rut.
Geary Yelton
Electronic Musician
“Gedanken in die Tat umzusetzen, soll hier mit Audiodaten versorgt werden, deren Herkunft nicht immer sofort erkennbar ist, weil man sich im Zusammenhang mit diesem Instrument immer auf die schwarzen und weißen Tasten besinnt. Das zumindest ist eine Herangehensweise an ein Piano, die hier nur selten und wenn, dann auf jede andere als die von den meisten Musikliebhabern erwartete Weise angewandt wurde.”
Plus ++++ ungewöhnliche und interessante Klänge ++ Dokumentation dabei, hat aber nur grob beschreibenden Charakter
Minus - nichts zu meckern!
Axel Jungkunst
Amazona
This library contains some fabulous other-worldly sounds and textures. Some are so heavily processed as to be un-recognisable, but that’s no bad thing. The processing is skilful and creative, and gives the library a contemporary edge you can’t get from a collection of purely acoustic piano noises. To prove the point, there’s also a collection of pre-programmed rhythm loops. Arranged in 16 graded-tempi programs with half and double-speed variations, the loops play bang in time and though many of them sound bonkers in isolation, the right combination of two or three can produce a terrific groove. Enormous fun, and an unexpected bonus from this unpredictable, sacrilegious and wildly inventive library.
Dave Stewart
Sound on Sound
You get truly original textures and beats. This is not a standard piano sample library; strings are plucked, brushed, threatened, struck, thwacked, and mated with alien beings. The results range from otherworldly (as in "heaven") to otherworldly (as in "hell"). I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of this library - and if you appreciate "esoteric-yet-highly useful," you will too.
Craig Anderton
EQ Magazine
If you want to inject some truly original sounds into your music and you dont mind exploring experimental timbral materials, Piano Attack might be just what your music needs to get out of its rut.
Geary Yelton
Electronic Musician
“Gedanken in die Tat umzusetzen, soll hier mit Audiodaten versorgt werden, deren Herkunft nicht immer sofort erkennbar ist, weil man sich im Zusammenhang mit diesem Instrument immer auf die schwarzen und weißen Tasten besinnt. Das zumindest ist eine Herangehensweise an ein Piano, die hier nur selten und wenn, dann auf jede andere als die von den meisten Musikliebhabern erwartete Weise angewandt wurde.”
Plus ++++ ungewöhnliche und interessante Klänge ++ Dokumentation dabei, hat aber nur grob beschreibenden Charakter
Minus - nichts zu meckern!
Axel Jungkunst
Amazona
Burning Piano
25-07-2006 19:29 Filed in: sounds
For the making of the Piano Attack sound library we used 3 piano’s. One night we decided to burn one of them…. sorry …. in the end we learned that we made beautiful pictures but we did not record 1 single useful sound! OK, lesson learned.