Anomaly for Alchemy

Westgate introduces Anomaly for Alchemy...$75


http://westgatesounds.net/Alchemy/

Jeff, just listened to quite a few of the demo sounds - boy you're spot on - they do all sound very similar!
Also I'd love to know what genre of music they are aimed at and how you'd incorporate these sounds.
The new pack from Camel, Iceland, is way better than this and I've already used Iceland in the project I am working on at the moment.
Cheers
Nigel
 

I never said the Anomaly sounds were created from factory presets. What I said was if you have a bunch of their libraries already especially the atmosphersic libraries there are tons of elements in there already that will allow you to build very similar sounds to the Anomaly library without spending $75. You just have to be creative and put some time in.
 
I actually like those types of textures but not worthy of spending that sort of money and yes you need some special applications for them. And as I also said be wary of such complete textures as well. Better to construct these types of textures with more control over individual elements yourself, making them much more individual in nature.
 
I spent quite some time on the site and listened to all the demos in great detail and read all the info, no quick swiping here. Heard nothing new, have heard it all before.
 
The actual guys that are making the libraries for Alchemy are much more creative and interesting. Just listen to 'Water' and 'Iceland' as great examples of that.
 
To dnekm have you listened to ALL the demos on the Camel Audio site, maybe you should.

Very nice sound sets, from what I gathered from the demo.  I'm sure if I spent hours programming I could come up w/ something similar, but then, that is hours of work.  And Anomaly sounds more complex than many of the other libraries with the control via the pads and XY - which is right up my alley.  I love actually "playing" a drone, a synth that doesn't emulate nothing and completely changes character depending upon the pads.  It is a lot harder to program than it looks to get this right and the performances to jell.  And then play it all, both on the keyboard and finding the right X/Y & pad settings to sound like an organic performance.
 
Of course, stuff like this isn't everybody's or every style's cup of tea.  It isn't something you use harmonically.  So for more acoustic-based productions it ain't going to work probably, but in my own electronic rock stuff I use alchemy drones instead of pads and throw them in as ear candy.  Judicious cutting and eq'ing can make even the thickest sounds work w/in a song.  It provides a lot of interest and become less an FX than an texture.  That is my theory, anyway.
 
And this library looks perfect for such "pad" use, or dropping in ominous transitions and rumblings, etc.  like Biolab's stuff.
 
Of course my tastes are a bit different.  And not necessarily popular.  I'm the guy who upon seeing Madonna's first dance video (she had been an early roommate of my girlfriend) "She'll never last - a flash in the pan." Even after being so wrong I actually liked some of Madonna's later stuff in spite of myself.  So maybe my endorsement is the kiss of death.  Sorry about that ;-)
 
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One thing I do agree with and that is the use of the Mix Pads and it is hard to tell what those sounds are going to do until you play with them. They really make Alchemy sounds come alive. Recording the movements of the Mixpads is very cool.
 
Why don't you drop the price to $59 and make it more attractive and in line with the Alchemy libraries. I might jump in then and buy it. You can almost get two Alchemy libraries (on special ) for your price and you would twice get as many sounds and presets etc..
 
Do you have any sweeter or more pleasant sounding textures rather than them all being so heavy and dark. You need both in my opinion.
 
I have got the Alchemy player installed on an second computer, is your library compatible with that as well.

Forgot to add... about the Anomaly Player... I am pretty sure Camel does not allow 3rd party sounds to be played via the Alchemy Player. You could try downloading the four demo presets and see if they will load....

Okay.... You have your point of view. I can appreciate that.
 
The sounds are anything but similar, if you can bring your ears out of expecting darkness to be mixed with sweetness and light. Look at it this way. There are people who drink coffee black, and those who drink it with milk and sugar. You are obviously the milk and sugar type.
 
Not a problem, because you can get all of the coffee you want and add milk and sugar to your taste. See?
 
That is not what I do....
 
The example you give, to me, is padding. There is nothing to stop anyone who buys Anomaly from setting up single sound presets and exploring from there. And if I broke each of the 250 presets down into their single component parts and then made variations (8 of them) for each one I would be dead before I finished the project. And, in the end, padding what I feel is a unique and useful sound library for no reason.
 
Sure, I would have an amazing preset count, but that is not what I am about here.
 
What this is - is a compilation, specifically selected for Alchemy, out of nineteen volumes (soundsets) I have released since 2005. You may feel the price is heavy, that is your opinion.
 
I am really beginning to feel like someone pissed in your cornflakes this morning and you arbitrarily decided it was me. I assure you it was not....

Constructive criticism is one thing, but relentlessly going on about how something does not meet your expectations when it is what it is - is another.
 
Obviously we have different approaches.
 
You could always come out with your own soundset - exactly the way you want it.

PS - if you really think you can create the same thing - go for it.... and feel free to share the preset that does so...

You really do not get it....
 
There are some people, who just like to put forth what they feel, and share it with others.
 
They used to be called  musicians .....
 
 

I would use your sounds for sure but only if there were more price options like I said perhaps a smaller library for less. That would be great.
 
There is more than dark as well. And light. That is only two aspects to ambient music. There is every shade in between. That is what is so incredible about ambient music it is almost infinite in nature.
 
You should listen to Brain Eno around 'On Land Ambient 4' era. An amazing album. Those textures are all very different yet ambient in nature. (My definition of the word ambient as well is no rhythms present in any form. The term is used today but means something else now) For dark there is the likes of Stomu Yamashta 'Iroha' That is dark, bodering on death. Interesting though is that right at the end he turns it all around into the light, it is quite incredible.
 
I am not interested either in making my own libraries, far too busy for that being a creative sensiitive emotional musician.
 

It took a while to register.... But you think my story interesting.... ? You have no idea...

The Anomaly soundsets, that is the individual volumes, come with presets for Wusikstation, Dimension Pro, Rapture, Absynth and Kontakt. The .SFZ and/or .WAV files will load in any instrument that can load .SFZ and/or .WAV files.
 
Note about trying the sounds in Absynth - to get the sounds to loop you have to manually enter the loop points.

You can also get the very first Anomaly as a free soundfont file if you go to the Wraith VSTi page....

Daniel it's cool, and I may have not fully understood either what this total library is all about. What has impressed me and led me to understand it much more is that great free soundset in Sound Font format on the Wraith VSTi page.
 
This is an excellent soundset and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to get a taste of what Anomaly is all about and it is free too. I am not exactly sure if and what Cakewalk synths will load up the sound font format but Presence certainly does in Studio One. And it just installed permanently as part of its library now.
 
All of these presets (and there are many) are very playable and I like the fact that you can transpose them over a wide range and also create total multipart textures that consist of variations and combinations of them too.  I realise this is not as powerful as the Alchemy version but it does give you a very good idea of what those types of sounds are like.
 
I can see why now mixing them up with lighter or much more inside and musical presets would have been silly. The Alchemy library I imagine is specialised for sure and more powerful too but for those who really need lots of these types of things it would be good.
 
I think you can make dark textures with existing Alchemy sounds but not with just the factory presets alone. I meant using quite a few of their other libraries. These sort of sounds would only be similar in genre not the detail or individual nature of Anomaly itself. I agree you would only get those from your soundset.
 
I also really like the Wusik presets too. There are some really great sounds (dark and all ambient) and I find these go well with the free Anomaly soundset. I also checked out what Wusik libraries I did have and downloaded all the free presets that used them and there were many and those sounds are all great. Thanks again for the free Anomaly sound font and all those great Wusik presets.
 
You have sort of got me back into Wusik again. I knew I had it of course but it is also easy to forget and get caught up in using a lot of other VST's. Wusik can sound huge and detailed and very complex as well. It is quite an incredible instrument.
 
I may not jump in right now and buy Anomaly for Alchemy but if I had a job where I had to create a lot of that material I would. For now I am having lots of fun and really enjoying mixing up the free Anomaly sound font presets and blending them with your great dark Wusik sounds.