Last updated 5-Dec-23 – specs may change as sessions evolve and are finalized.
Next Releases:
- Pacific Solo Strings – solo string addition to the Pacific Ensemble Strings. Currently a high-priority project.
- Fluid Shorts III – based off of the shorts sampling technique from the “chamber shorts” freebie (but a larger ensemble and lots of dynamics). It’s 12-8-6-5. Recorded in the Vista I/II and Oceania I/II/III space. Intro loyalty applies to owners of any Oceania version (I, II, and III if it’s out during the FS3 intro period), any Con Moto module, any Pacific module (Ens. Strings, and any other module that comes out during the FS3 intro period), Fluid Shorts I/II, Solos of the Sea – Violins A/B, and Vista original owners.
- Pacific Brass
Releases after that (not in any particular order):
- Pacific Ensemble Strings Update – bug fixes, playability fixes, and more.
- Pacific Woodwinds
- Pacific Percussion
- Vista II Core Library – official product page here
- Vista II Chamber Expansion – it’s not fully accurate to call this an expansion as it’s a completely standalone project, but it can be used to layer on the Core Library.
- Multiple affordable expansion modules for Pacific – looking at my informal work-in-progress concept list – Marcatos Pro, Shorts Pro, Action and Mystery Longs, at some point a chamber str module, a brass module (likely with horn legatos), ww module, and percussion module. The intent with these modules is affordable additions to the base library, filling it out. I’m also hoping to throw my new mics on the rig (while of course keeping the original close and far mics available still as legacy mics, for continuity).
- Untitled cinematic ensemble percussion library with comprehensive rep sampling, lots of dynamics & mic positions, and some alternative/creative drum combos. Free for owners of Pacific Ensemble Strings (whether or not you bought during intro period). Affordably-priced for everyone else. Non-final articulation list attached below.
- Marshland Lite (or Marshland 8va) – experimental chamber film choir with up to 13 dynamics – primarily straight tone. While the focus is on extraordinarily-dynamic syllables and vowels, it branches into some quasi-aleatoric FX as well, including very dynamic gothic choir which is basically trilling the higher you push the modwheel up, “ghostly” suspenseful patches wavering in and out of key with tons of dynamics and multiple vowels, unmeasured repeating syllables (six options), percussive FX (including tongue clicks, claps, snaps, and stomps), clusters, whispers (including crescendo stuff), downers, risers, crossing/diverging FX, bonus material (that was perhaps re-recorded later) and more yet-unrecorded content including possible soloists… Content will be updated here. The library has a rather meditative, cinematic (but smaller ensemble) quality, and is up to seven dynamics with a slight (or more than slight) bias towards softer. Technically it started as a proof-of-concept for a more serious project (Marshland) that I’ve been wanting to do at some point. But it’s a fully, 100% functional proof-of-concept, designed to not just feel like a test, and as recording sessions, pick-ups, and production continues it is filling out quite significantly. It’s probably the most “different” genre-wise compared to the other libraries I’ve done. Syllables match the ones in Oceania III and there is same-note rep sampling in the style of Pacific Ensemble Strings. Loyalty intro pricing details TBA.
- Oceania III – three different choirs in one (12 men & 12 women, 5 men & 5 women, and tutti 16 [8+8] in 8va) plus extensive multi-tracking for a more dramatic sound (altering both the singer vibrato style and even singer position during takes). More syllables than Oceania II. Syllables from the 12+12, 5+5, and tutti 16 sections all match each other. They also match the syllables in Marshland Lite. As usual, normal and -s releases. Heavily trailer oriented and dramatic. Coming 2023. Planned loyalty intro pricing for Oceania I, Oceania II, and Pacific Ensemble Strings owners.
- Voyage – full orchestra project with a rougher and experimental edge. Recorded in the same space as Oceania I/I/III, Vista I/II, etc.. Loyalty intro pricing TBA.
- Hybrid projects – acoustic source material and grungy but tight pulse toolsets, repetition-based sampling, stereo double-tracking and more, built from non-traditionally performed and recorded acoustic instruments with high frequency mics.
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All details and/or pricing subject to change, at any time, for any reason, in Performance Samples LLC’s sole discretion, in each instance.
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