Monday, December 16, 2019

Digital Domain Soundscapes

Another impressive scenes pack for SynthScaper / SynthScaper LE apps from Robert Dowell.

This pack contains 74 unique scenes full of strange rustlings and sudden cracklings, mysterious signals and it seems the weird sounds of communications among the old electronic devices.

These scenes use samples with unique and very impressive sounds recorded from the original Harwell Dekatron computer, also known as the WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell), from the early 1950s which is displayed at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park.

They are all ordered as follows:

NWxx = No WITCH sounds, only existing instrument and sounds in the other scenes and packs.
PWxx = Old WITCH Scene pack updated using and evolved.
Wxx = At least 2 OSC using WITCH sounds.
EW = Exclusive WITCH sounds nothing else.



You can easily use this pack with the SynthScaper LE app by downloading it and then use scenes and presets from this pack or creating new sound scenes by combining existing presets. Or you can use the samples from this pack to create your own completely new presets or modify existing presets in the advanced version of SynthScaper.

Scenes pack file: DigitalDomainSoundscapes.synthscaper

You can download this file in several ways:

1) There is the great guide "How to manage downloads in Safari on iPadOS". When this file will be downloaded to your device you can found it in "iCloud Drive - Downloads" in the system app "Files". Just click to this file and it will be open in the SynthScaper / SynthScaper LE app.

2) Download this file to desktop Mac / PC and save it to your Dropbox or iCloud account. Or use any other way to copy this file to the Dropbox or iCloud. Use the system app "Files" on your iPhone / iPad to select this file and open it, specifying the app SynthScaper or SynthScaper LE as the target. Also you can copy this file to the existing folder "SynthScaper" or "SynthScaper LE" by using the system app "Files".

3) Download this file to desktop Mac / PC and use app "iTunes" - "File sharing" to copy this file to the app SynthScaper or SynthScaper LE.

Open the scenes pack file in the SynthScaper app:

If you open this file in the system app "Files", web browser or any other app, and specify the app SynthScaper LE as the target, this file will be imported automatically. You will see the group with name "... DigitalDomainSoundscapes" in the list of scene groups on the panel "Scenes". This group contains all new scenes.

If you copy this file to the folder "SynthScaper LE" by using system app "Files" or any other app, you need to import this pack to the SynthScaper LE app. Open the panel "Scenes", tap the button "Import scenes" and select the scenes pack file from the folder "SynthScaper LE" or from any other folder.

If you open this file for the advanced version of SynthScaper, this file will be copied to the folder "SynthScaper" and will be available on the panels "File manager" and "Scenes". You need to unpack it manually. Open the panel "Scenes", select this file and tap the button "(Un) Pack" at the title of panel. The group with the name of this file will be created. This group contains all new scenes. All samples from this pack will be available on the panel "File manager" and on the panel "Samples library" - "User".

After importing / unpacking the scenes pack file, you can delete this file if you do not need it.



More presets and samples:

>>> TNMOC Samples

Over 180 high-quality samples with sounds recorded from historic computing devices at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park.

>>> The sound of WITCH

The free scenes pack for SynthScaper app contains 14 presets and 11 samples of unique and very impressive sounds of the original Harwell Dekatron computer, also known as the WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell), from the early 1950s.

>>> SynthScaper PolyTron800 presets

This scenes pack for SynthScaper / SynthScaper LE apps contains samples recorded from modded Korg Poly-800 mkII and presets based on these samples. It contains 30 unique samples and 17 very atmospheric scenes / presets.

>>> Noise scenes pack from Noise Inc

Great and totally free scenes pack for SynthScaper with 15 noise scenes and 55 samples.

Also look at the video demo about how to download and use scenes pack:

SynthScaper LE - New FREE Sound Bank - iPad Demo



SynthScaper - Soundscapes synthesizer specially designed for creating and experiments with ambient soundscapes in wide range from noises to melodic instruments and everything in between.

>>> More about SynthScaper app

>>> More about SynthScaper LE app (lightweight version with AUv3 support)


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