Laundronium

The idea of the washing machine as a piece of musical equipment, while not unheard of, has been fairly limited in its scope. Generally, you'll see the white cube playing a rudimentary spin cycle beat behind a mediocre guitarist who is only vaguely aware of the naturally occurring music constantly present in our modern human environment. The washing machine will play this beat dutifully, knowing that it isn't respected for musical talent like its ancestor, the washboard. We spend so much less time with the modern washing machine than the folks of previous generations did with the washboard, that we've become coldly detached from it. The washing machine happily does all the work, never complaining, and still, we complain about laundry day. If we just took a little time to talk to our washing machines, we may find out that they are treasure troves of musical potential.

The broad variety of percussion instruments we've given you represent a fair cross-section of the breadth of its acoustic capabilities, with everything from soft, gong-like, harsh, warbly, trashy, tight, muted, dreamy, bassy, to warm and sweet tones. We also bowed various edges and surfaces to produce strong resonant metallic and screeching tones as well. We've also included a huge range of our signature multilayered special effects, drones, and ambient soundscapes, with advanced tone-shaping and FX control features. The myriad sounds and textures must simply be heard to be believed.

Last, but not least, we figured we had to go the distance and cover a wide range of traditional washing machine sound effects from a full wash cycle, recording up close in wide stereo. I don't know about your washing machine, but ours is from the freakin' future. You could pretty much do up the sound design for an entire sci-fi film with this puppy alone.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing, and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass, and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, mod-wheel, expression, after-touch, key position, and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization, and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

Key Features:

• Master NKI Instrument Bank: One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format.
• Stereo Samples: 1051 stereo samples.
• Storage Requirements: 1.42 GB installed.
• Sample Quality: 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples.
• Custom FX and Ambient Presets: 20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets.
• Unlocked Presets and Samples: Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization.
• Articulations: Bowed and plucked, stringed articulations.
• Percussion: Finger and mallet tuned and untuned percussion articulations.
• User Interface Controls: Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator.
• Full FX Rack: Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments.