Originals Pop

Mrs Mills

Presets (5)

• Close
• Clean
• All Together
• 1968
• Distant

Signals (3)

• Close — A pair of vintage German valve microphones. These beautiful microphones that have been in the Abbey Road collection since the early 1960s were placed in front of the sound board for a full, rich spread. 
• Room — The warm acoustics of Abbey Road Studio Two were captured using a spaced pair of omni mics. These detailed and well balanced microphones are ideal for a natural sounding pick up of ambient spaces. 
• Vintage — The classic sixties Abbey Road recording chain. Now extremely rare, the D19 microphone was placed above the strings in the middle of the piano and recorded using an all valve tape machine.

Intimate Strings

Articulations (9)

• Longs
• Longs CS 
• Longs ½ Section
• Flautando 
• Harmonics 
• Short 
• Short CS
• Pizzicato 
• Short Col Legno  

Signals (3)

• Close — A trio of valve microphones placed close to the hammers for detail and intimacy.
• Tree — To keep things intimate.
• Vintage — Tape saturation, subtle spring reverb & EQ allowing users to add old-school colour to their string arrangements.

Wurli

Presets

• Classic — A standard representation of the Wurli keyboard
• Mellow — A combination of the direct input and amp with the pad signal, for a soft and warm sound
• Funky — A combination of the direct input and amp with the overdrive signal, useful in jazz and funk styles
• Stabs — Makes use of shorter recorded sample lengths, useful for percussive and rhythmic passages

Signals

• Direct — The direct input from the Wurli, for a clear representation of the keyboard
• Amp — The keyboard amplified through a Ampeg B-15 amplifier
• Speaker — The speaker output of the Wurli
• Pads — The samples time stretched and passed through an FX chain, to create an atmospheric and ambient texture
• Drive — The samples overdriven to create a crunchy and fuzzy sound

Controls

• Reverb — Controls the amount of reverb
• Attack — Controls the attack of the ADSR envelope
• Release — Controls the release of the ADSR envelope
• Tremolo: Rate — Controls the speed of the tremolo, measured in Hz
• Tremolo: Depth — Controls the size of the amplitude modulation, measured as an intensity in percentage

Abe Laboriel Jr Drums

Presets (11)

• Drum Kit
• Slow and Steady (60 BPM)
• Triple Threat (60 BPM)
• In The Pocket (90 BPM)
• Classic Backbeats (90 BPM)
• Riding Solo (90 BPM) 
• Swing It (94 BPM) 
• Funky Breaks (110 BPM)
• Play It Again (110 BPM)
• Tom Kit (120 BPM)
• Rock and Roll (120 BPM)
• Up to 8 dynamic layers and 8 RRs

Controls

• Single hits
• Expression
• Dynamics - Controls the dynamic level - at its lowest level, the user has complete control of velocity
• Reverb - A large room/medium hall sized impulse response.
• Kick Level - Controls the level of the kick
• Snare Level - Controls the level of the snare
• Hi-hat Level - Controls the level of the hi-hat
• Snare Type - Cycles between the four different snare types

Loops

• Expression
• Dynamics - Controls the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter
• Reverb - A large room/medium hall sized impulse response.
• EQ - A custom EQ preset, ranging from vintage and colourful to bright and full. (Flat at 50%).
• Compression - Controls the intensity of a custom parallel preset compression.

Signals (3)

• Close - A close mix of the spot microphones, for a clear and detailed sound.
• Room - A room mix, for a tight and punchy representation of Henson Studios.
• Hype - A hyped signal, warped via analogue processing, for a full, fat, crunchy sound — fed through Christian Henson’s Overstayer 8755DM Stereo Modular Channel.

Cinematic Pads

Presets (23)

• Glacial Marimbium
• Frosty Exhale
• Chatter Organ
• Midnight Waves
• Deep Churn
• Woodland Wind
• Roadside Crosstalk
• Slow Reeds
• Bowed Glass
• Nauseous Static
• Falling Steam
• Euphoric Sandstorm
• Pulsing Water
• Fluorescent Corridors
• Halcyon Strings
• Volcanic Beaches
• Windswept Vessel
• Trembling Tension
• Cavernous Bellowing
• Mountaintop Wind
• Chilling Forest
• Dystopian Ruin
• Celestial Stops

Signals (3)

• Mellow – a dulcet pad created from orchestral samples, perfect for creating rich underbeds.
• Bright – an ethereal pad, carefully chosen to pair with the mellow pad.
• Cinematic – a distant pad created using hardware reverbs, perfect for creating atmospheric, ambient sound worlds.