NEWS, April 29, 2012:  Caustic is now available for the BlackBerry PlayBook, update of the expansion packs for this new platform is coming soon.

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  Welcome to our Caustic 2 page!  Here you will find sample based instruments and kits for Caustic 2 both free and commercial.  I am not sure yet how this page and its content will evolve over time and it will be updated regularly so visit often.

  To begin with, I did 2 PCMsynth instruments that are included in the factory content of Caustic 2, Zvon 02 and Zvon Doo.  Both are made with a resynthesized looped sample, a speech synthesizer for Zvon 02 and a female voice for Zvon Doo.  They have a sound that reminds me of the Mellotron. 

 - Free pack 01: Available on Google Play.  It contains 4 PCMsynth instruments and 2 Beatbox kits.  View or download the PDF read me file HERE.  If you like the sounds in it, visit the pages of the source sample packs but note that they DO NOT contain other presets/instruments for Caustic:  Out There (Beatbox), Memory Collections (Mini MC1) and Reed Organs (Supertone LITE).   But they all include the wav files, and the Out There set soundfonts too, that can be imported in Caustic 2.

 - Free Pack 02: Available on Google Play.  It contains 2 different sets of quirky and fun sounds, the Mini MC2 kits and the Mechanical Musical Automatons for a total of 12 PCMsynths presets and 4 Beatbox kits.  View or download the PDF read me file HERE.

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 - Chromatic Hits for Caustic: 49 instruments for the PCMsynth that can be used as tuned or semi-tuned percussions.   All instruments have 4 samples per octave and most cover at least 6 octaves.  For more info, view or download the PDF HERE.  This set is divided in 3 packs to fit with the average size of the largest downloads on the Android platform.  They are available on Google Play.  

  1- Mix: 27 instruments covering a range of different timbres.
  2- Metal: 13 metallic sounding instruments.
  3- Cymbals: 9 resynthesized acoustic cymbals/hi-hats.

  Before buying you can download and try the demo pack, also on the Android market.  Note that the demo has 2 of the regular full chromatic instruments: Hard hit 02 (T) and Metal 01 (T) and 4 other files that are not chromatic instruments, for these I have instead regrouped on successive keys 2 or 3 samples of each of the 47 other chromatic instruments to allow you to preview all the sounds.  The samples of a given instrument in these 4 demo files are 2 octaves apart (but on successive keys) to give a good idea of how it sounds in the full version.  Of course this means that in the 4 demo files, the pitch heard does not correspond to the note and the octave played.  View the complete PDF of the demo HERE.

 This set is a subset of the Chromatic Hits found on our website.  The original set is available in the following formats: wav, sfz, Cakewalk Rapture, Emulator X2 and Native Instruments Kontakt 3.  It has from 101 to over 200 instruments depending of the versions.

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 - Square Wave: 13 PCMsynth presets and 2 Beatbox kits. Available on Google Play.  

  The hardware electronic keyboard sampled here is a digital square wave instrument.  I don't know exactly how old it is but my guess is that it's at least 20 years old.  It has 12 chromatic sounds, bass and 5 percussion sounds: kick, conga, snare, cymbal and hi-hat. 

  All these do not sound like the acoustic instruments they're named after but more like the Sid chip, 80's and early 90's video games.  Very good retro sounds for chip music (or chiptune).  View or download the PDF HERE.

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 - Prepared EP: The free demo pack has 16 samples, 16 PCMSynth presets and 4 Beatbox kits.  The paid pack adds 63 samples, 53 presets and 25 kits for a combined total of 79 samples, 69 PCMSynth presets and 29 Beatbox kits.  Both must be installed to have the complete content.

  View or download the PDF HERE.  Available on Google Play.

  The sampled instrument is a real Rhodes electric piano that was prepared as John Cage and others prepared an acoustic piano.  That means inserting springs, plastic tubes, pins, all kinds of objects inside the piano.  These objects when touching the strings or the tines change the sound of each key played.  All the notes can be radically different from each other and often the original sound is not even recognizable.  The result is an instrument that is much more percussive in nature.

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 - Baby Piano (toy piano): The Baby Piano is a Chinese Toy Piano. I found it at a flea market and it obviously has seen better days. There are 2 keys missing, its casing is worn out and there are loose parts in it. The sound is not even from one key to another partly because the mechanism of some keys is damaged and it's also not in tune.

 It's nonetheless lovely and its sound begged to be sampled. I did not stop there and I also made unique resynthesized sounds from the original samples.  The Caustic version is optimized for the PCMSynth from the regular computer version. The paid pack adds 9 PCMSynth presets to the 5 of the demo for a combined total of 14. All are multi-sampled.

 Both must be installed to have the complete content.

  View or download the PDF HERE.  Available on Google Play.

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 - Julie Resynth: A fun cyborg vocal sample set, half human and half robot!

This pack is based on one-shot samples of the voice of Julie, a Montreal jazz singer. But here the samples are resynthesized to create new ones that are playable chromatically across the keyboard.

  View or download the PDF HERE.  Available on Google Play.

  The more extensive computer version (wav, soundfont, sfz and Native Instruments Kontakt 3) is HERE.

 
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 Comments and questions are welcome.

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