9 Soundware Releases Orchestral Disorder Presets for Sculpture and ES2

Orchestral Disorder is a collection of presets for Apple Logic

Pro inspired by orchestras. The concept behind the sound set was

not to closely emulate acoustic instruments, but rather to explore

the possibilities of orchestral timbres without human limitations

or purist biases. Featuring three main components, the multi-format

product includes files for the Sculpture and ES2 synthesizers, as

well as Channel Strips.

Sculpture presets

With an extremely vast range of timbres and performance interactivity,

the Sculpture component of the sound set was designed with the goal of

exploring the possibilities of the instrument beyond the type of

unique sounds that it is adept at producing. Extensive use of String

and Object parameter modulation, Morph, and Jitter, to name a few, are

all incorporated in creating impressionistic renderings of orchestral

tones crossed with elements that are chaotic, unnatural, and jarring.

The Sculpture component of the sound set comprises of 100 files.

Categories include "Violin", "Cello", "Double Bass", "Timpani", and

"Noise", each of which consists of 20 files. The string instrument

categories are further divided into subcategories "Arco" and

"Pizzicato".

ES2 presets

In contrast to the idiosyncratically organic character of Sculpture,

the ES2 presets of Orchestral Disorder harness the precision and

flexibility of the instrument. In shaping these sounds, elements such

as Digiwaves, noise LFOs, and random value modulation sources were

manipulated to simultaneously simulate the naturalistic attributes of

instruments and contort familiar timbres to abstraction.

The ES2 component of the sound set comprises of 50 files. Categories

include "Choir", "Organ", "Theremin", and "Turntable", each of which

consists of 10 files, with the exception to "Choir", which contains 20

files. The "Choir" category is further divided into subcategories

"Female" and "Male".

The "Turntable" files are noise instruments inspired by scratching.

These presets echo sonic and interactive attributes of vinyl

scratching with the advantages of MIDI control.

Channel Strip settings

Included in the form of Channel Strip settings are 25 ambiences and

textural modifiers built from Logic Pro plug-ins, which were designed

to extend the sonic range of the Sculpture and ES2 presets of

Orchestral Disorder. These files employ extreme settings and atypical

routing of effects to radically alter the source audio. The Channel

Strip component is made up of two categories, "Ambience" and

"Distortion". The "Ambience" category is further divided into

subcategories "Non-rhythmic" and "Rhythmic", both of which consist of

10 files. The ?Distortion? category contains 5 files.

Orchestral Disorder is a modular product. In addition to the full

version of the product which includes all three components, the

Sculpture and ES2 components are available as partial downloads. The

Channel Strip files are exclusive to the complete edition.

The 2 MB download includes 150 .pst files and 25 .cst files.

Orchestral Disorder is available now for $39.99 at www.9soundware.com.

The partial downloads for the Sculpture and ES2 components are

available for $24.99 and $14.99 respectively.