Camel Audio- Alchemy | FRANK Water promo

Water is overflowing with aquatic musical instruments, rippling pads, tidal soundscapes, rhythmic splashes, inventive water machines, and wave-like takes on traditional sounds - all with extensive remix variations for real-time performance.
Water features 150 presets and 530MB of samples including oceans, lakes and rivers, rain, thunderstorms, splashes, bubbles, seaweed, ice impacts, and more - resulting in a diverse collection of unique and highly musical sounds that are suited to a wide range of genres.
Pay What You Want and donate whatever proportion you like to FRANK Water, who help provide clean water in developing countries. After October 9th, the price will return to the regular price of $59 / €49 / £39.
 
http://www.camelaudio.com/Water-Sound-Sample-Library.php
 
 

FRANK Water is a charity which funds sustainable clean water projects in developing countries across the world. The small team of field workers and researchers provides communities with safe, clean water, removing both chemical and biological contaminants that cause disease. The projects are community owned and run, with a priority on community ownership, education and longevity.
In a world where more than 4,000 children die every day from a lack of clean drinking water, it’s clear that help is urgently needed. We're proud to be able to partner with FRANK Water and our customers to help be a small part of the solution.


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Number of Sounds: 150 (1200 variations)
Sound Categories: 25 Soundscapes, 22 Pads, 17 Keys, 17 Synths, 17 Bass, 14 Rhythmic, 12 Arps, 12 Sound Effects, 5 Drums, 5 Mallets, 3 Leads, 1 Guitar
Genres: Ambient, Soundtrack, Electronica, Downtempo
Sound Designer: Nick Moritz, biomechanoid, patchen preston, Ian Boddy, Chris Sciurba, Himalaya, Martin Walker, bManic, Luftrum, Corin Neff, Bryan Lee, Ole Jeppesen
Download size: 474MB (Alchemy Player version 474MB)
Requirements: Alchemy Player v1.5 (included) or Alchemy v1
 
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+1 Jeff.
 
Every once in awhile, Camel has been doing these charitable events while attaching great sounding music libraries and it certainly makes a very good impression on me. I joined Camel Audio when Planet Earth was released with a "Pay what you want" system and thought wow, "these are good sounds and to boot, a company with a good cause"........I'm in.

Jeff Evans
I like Alchemy a lot. You can do a lot with it and it has real power behind it too.
 
All their libraries are superb and the variations with the mix pads alone are ridiculous. This instrument just sounds so good all the time. It is one of the few synths you actually really need.
 
Highly recommended.
 
 

I've been thinking of getting the full Alchemy and using it exclusively as as my only synth.  It's gorgeous and these days fewer choices = more creativity and efficiency.

Jeff Evans
This is a really beautiful sound library. And it is for a great cause too. Pay what you want for this. I am going to pay them the normal price because it is just so bloody amazing.
 
Highly recommended.

One additional wrinkle here (picked up from KVR).  Evidently, if you pay at least $30 (or like amounts of pounds, euros) you get a bunch of extra water sounds - no extra presets that use them, but for use in roll-your-own presets.

I am rapidly becoming an Alchemy only type myself. I'll still use some of the older emulations (heck, I'll still use hardware if I am really motivated<G>), but Alchemy is so flexible that it is quickly replacing all the rest of my super-flexible modern software synthesizers.
 
Since every rule needs an exception, I still have not let go of Tassman... this came as a limited version with some very old version of Sonar - maybe 2 or 3. It was an awful pig, and yet you could tell there was something there... in between crashes<G>! I upgraded to the full version of Tassman 3 on a lark, and I now use Tassman 4 for a lot of sound design work.
 
The big difference, for me, is that I was able to jump in and create sounds in Alchemy almost immediately, while I still feel like a beginner with Tassman.

With respect to the Alchemy libraries, I have several, sadly I never seem to know about the sales, and it's tempting to low-ball them on this one, but I probably won't.

dmbaer
 
One additional wrinkle here (picked up from KVR).  Evidently, if you pay at least $30 (or like amounts of pounds, euros) you get a bunch of extra water sounds - no extra presets that use them, but for use in roll-your-own presets.

Unless there's another way to order the contribute amount+xtra preset info is right there in plain view when fill in your amount. 
 
Looking at the current sales figures it seems to be doing quite well.

just downloading as we speak!

I have found with the rhythmical stuff in these libraries you can also get too carried away with how these sound designers have programmed these things too. If you are holding down a key too long and just getting into how those grooves are playing then that is nice and enjoyable but it is not so much about you then anymore.
 
I find you can get into the MixPads a lot and get onto much more subtle aspects to the groove. It is nice to turn these parts into audio and use them creatively in your own manner. I find after turning anything to audio you can do things like shift a part by an eighth note for example and everything sounds completely different again.
 
There are ways to play even the grooves in a very individual way so they end up sounding quite different to when you first find them. The more interesting the playing the more interesting the grooves end up coming out.
 
The one shot patches are the real key to how to use those sounds. Create your own grooves first in mind and build them yourself. That is when it sounds the most exciting to me anyway and comes alive. And like no other in terms of what you can get Alchemy to play.
 
The full version has the power obviously to be able to engage the original programming and be able to modify it to suit your own ideas more. It is interesting to reverse engineer how these sounds are created too, you certainly find a lot out about the synth in question. I am still surviving perfectly happily with Alchemy player only but I can see the real advantages of having the full version too. The player certainly allows massive amounts of sound modification as well. It has to be one of the best players out there and you can get into it and a very nice sound library for free too. Something nice that Camel have done for us. I have certainly spent a lot more and bought many of their libraries but they have all proved worthwhile for me anyway.
The DubStep library is pretty cool too. I had to get it for a project a client hired me for and use some DubStep bass sounds in there and they are wild to say the least. The grooves in that one are interesting too.  It is pretty hard in places but also lush and smooth too in the pads etc..Steamworx is also one of my faves. They all are actually. 'Water' is very nice though I must agree with everyone on that. It is so subtle in parts too. I love how some of the grooves sound right on the very first note.

What else do you need to have in order to get water running? I listened to the demo and think it's something I need want.

Done and got the extra  youpi ....thks again for sharing ....by the way totally of topic but just discovered this golden site !!
 
 
http://boscomac.free.fr/?p=fordist
 
All free (donate if ya want) Reaktor 5 based : exellent and inspirational tools !!

Is the water by Frank water, a sound FX vst that only has water sounds or does it have sounds that i can actually make music with? I want it, but im afraid that it is only sound effects and not leads that i can actually make melodies with. please let me know.

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