Analogue Circuits an Exclusive Samples

Analogue Circuits Exclusive Samples

Making music inside the computer gives you a perfect signal path of sample accurate ones and zeros, promising crystal clear fidelity. But not everyone believes that’s always a good thing – when it comes to getting a characterful sound, there are many who think that digital audio counts for sweet 1111 1010.

Sometimes, we need our audio to shine with the imperfections of interesting analogue hardware, rather than the sterile ‘perfection’ of a purely digital signal path; but we still want to use the benefits of modern DAWs and plugins to go about creating our music. It was with this in mind that we sought out the sample moguls at Cyclick and Groove Criminals to put together this huge pack, spiked with the sound of analogue equipment, exclusive to readers.

What you get in Analogue Circuits is a massive collection of beats, loops, basslines, FX and even multi sampled instruments, all spat through a diverse selection of analogue gear –everything from dictaphones to high-end studio processors – to rough them up and give them some personality. Throw some of these samples into your next track as some spicy ear candy, for an atmospheric intro or breakdown, or how ever else you see fit.

Cyclick We caught up with Robbie Stamp at Cyclick HQ for a cup of tea – and to see how his electric fingers have moulded this collection of proquality samples, of course.

“Everything has passed through at least two serial analogue circuits before re-entering the digital realm,” he says, pushing his way to the kitchen through a low-hanging soldering-iron chandelier. “The result is a collection of rhythm and instrument loops as well as 12 folders of drum kit hits (six kits piped through two different analogue processes).

“We created five analogue chains using gear such as the GSSL compressor, a Mooger fooger Ring Mod, an Electro-Harmonix PolyPhase and a Focusrite ISA828. The equipment in the chains was pushed to bring each into distortion, and we set up our JDK R24 EQ with nearly matching cuts and boosts at both low and high ends,leading to large phase shifts for some interesting tonality.

”Robbie connects a patch cable between a teapot and his mouth, and offers one to us. We decline.

“After setting the five chains up as external plugins in Nuendo, strapped across group bus channels, we sent the musical material through them, piping guitar riffs, basslines, keyboard and percussion loops in, and getting them out imbued with each chain’s unique analogue whiff.

“Each loop reacted differently to the five processing chains, and we’ve chosen the best two for each, marking them as ‘A’ and ‘B’ in the file names.

”Hook up with Robbie and give him a shout about these samples: @CyclickBob.
970 Exclusive Samples:

• 60 drum hits (x3 tempos)
• 41 cassette-tape beats
• 41 dictaphone beats
• 60 analogue distorted beats
• 28 guitar/synth loops (x3 tempos)
• 184 analogue drum hits
• 15 Monotron FX
• 14 bass loops (x3 tempos)
• 75 analogue synth loops
• 34 FX 
• 4 synth multi-instruments

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